Photos of the Week: Chief Mouser, Pet Gala, Soapbox Race
Alessandra Tarantino / APVietnamese women wait for the weekly general audience with Pope Leo XIV, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, on May 20, 2026.Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Bogie, a Chihuahua dressed as the British singer-songwriter Sam Smith, poses during the 2026 Pet Gala at Cineplay in New York, on May 18, 2026. The annual canine-fashion event, created by the pet couturier Anthony Rubio, showcases dogs in elaborate, custom-made outfits inspired by the year’s Met Gala.Mario Tama / GettyA bison with molting (shedding) fur stands near a tree in Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, on May 19, 2026. National Park Week will celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with a weeklong celebration in August featuring hundreds of commemorative events at many of America’s 433 national parks under the theme “Celebrate America’s Story.”Kin Cheung / APA Chelsea Pensioner sits in the Campaign to Protect Rural England garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, in London, on May 18, 2026.Dmitri Lovetsky / APEmployees of the Museum of Urban Sculpture clean the statue of Russian Czarina Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 19, 2026.Channi Anand / APA man stands under a roadside water tap to cool himself on a hot day on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on May 19, 2026.VCG / GettyA Long March-8 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite group blasts off from the Hainan commercial-spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, Hainan province, China, on May 17, 2026. The satellite group is the ninth batch of the Spacesail Constellation, a planned 15,000-satellite communications constellation competing with SpaceX’s Starlink system.Matthias Bein / DPA / GettyVisitors walk through the illuminated Barbarossa Cave in the German state of Thuringia on May 16, 2026.Anmar Khalil / APPeople walk near the Imam Ali shrine during a heavy dust storm in Najaf, Iraq, on May 18, 2026.Josh Edelson / AFP / GettyFog rolls by the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on May 20, 2026.Caroline Brehman / A