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Best photos of 2018

by The Week team
29 Nov 2018
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France floods

JANUARY: locals navigate a flooded street in a rowboat in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, after heavy rains lashed France, leaving 30 departments across the country on flood alert

Household Cavalry guardsman

FEBRUARY:

Easter procession Spain

MARCH: a penitent tied with a rope round the neck carries a cross during a traditional Maundy Thursday procession in the northern Spanish village of Sietamo 

Kim Jong Un shakes hands with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in

Korea Summit Press Pool/AFP/Getty Images

Engineered Arts robot

MAY: prosthetic expert Mike Humphrey checks on Fred, a humanoid built at the headquarters of robotics firm Engineered Arts in Penryn, Cornwall

G7 summit Trump

Jesco Denzel/AFP/Getty Images

JUNE: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders including Theresa May and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe deliberate with US President Donald Trump on the second day of the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Canada  

England World Cup

Daniel Leal-Olivas

JULY: England supporters in London’s Flat Iron Square react after watching their national team score against Croatia in the 2018 World Cup semi-final 

Moonies mass wedding

AUGUST: thousands of Unification Church members, also known as Moonies, take part in a mass wedding in Gapyeong-gun, South Korea. Founded by Sun Myung Moon, the Church has practiced mass marriage ceremonies since the early 1960s

Brett Kavanaugh protests

SEPTEMBER: protesters dressed in The Handmaid’s Tale costumes rally on Capitol Hill, in Washington DC, as Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before senators regarding a historic sexual assault allegation 

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

OCTOBER: a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying an Earth-observation satellite launches into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara, California. After delivering its payload, the rocket’s reusable first-stage booster was successfully landed back at the launch site

Russian soldiers marching in Red Square

NOVEMBER: Russian honour guards take part in a military parade at Red Square in Moscow on 7 November, the 77th anniversary of the Red Army’s march towards the front line to fight Nazi troops during the Second World War

Yellow vest protest

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