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Mudslides. Collapsed bridges. Destroyed homes. Before and after images from the skies reveal the extent of the damage left behind by severe flooding in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

For nearly 20 years, a relic of one of the worst aviation disasters in U.S. history has been tucked away in a warehouse in Northern Virginia. The fuselage of the Boeing 747, painstakingly reassembled from nearly 1,600 pieces plucked from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, is a jigsaw puzzle of wires and burned, twisted metal. But it is all that remains of Trans World Airlines’ Flight 800, the Paris-bound jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport 25 years ago Saturday killing all 230 people onboard. The downed jetliner, one of a handful recovered and reconstructed, was decommissioned this month and will be destroyed by the end of the year.

Reuters President Michael Friedenberg and editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni described Saddiqui as “an outstanding, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a devoted husband and father, and a much-loved colleague.”

The only all Black female World War II unit were trailblazers.

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At least 46 people have died and dozens more are missing following heavy rainfall and severe flooding across western Germany and Belgium, causing houses to collapse and cars to be swept away, local media reported Thursday.

Thousands of people filled the streets in Cuba on Sunday to protest increasing poverty in the country, as well as limited access to doses of coronavirus vaccines.

Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate Tuesday burned across 10 parched Western states, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened California’s power supply.

Four states, Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah, are at the heart of yet another heat wave developing in the West that could challenge records and bring dangerously hot temperatures. It will mark the third punishing heat wave in the West this summer. This one is not likely to be as extreme as last week's event in the Pacific Northwest, but temperatures could challenge all-time highs around Las Vegas, Redding, Calif., Sacramento and a few other places between California’s Central Valley and southern Nevada.

Branson succeeds in his biggest stunt yet: a ride to the edge of space in the spaceplane his company, Virgin Galactic, developed in its pursuit of becoming, in his words, the world’s first “commercial spaceline.”

Nearly a century after it was first erected, and almost four years after it prompted a deadly weekend of violence, the statue of Robert E. Lee sitting on horseback in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia was hoisted into the air and carted away on a truck. A statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, located in Court Square Park, was also removed.

Zaila becomes the first African American to become champion.

What’s left of the Champlain South tower in Surfside, Fla. is demolished; Tropical Storm Elsa makes its way past St. Petersburg, Fla.; Zaila Avant-garde, 14, becomes the first African-American winner of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals at Walt Disney World Resort; fireworks explode behind the Washington Monument during an Independence Day celebration at the National Mall. See 15 of the week’s most interesting and gripping images from around the world, selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Elliott Erwitt publishes previously unseen images from his expansive photographic archive spanning his 60 year career as a documentary and commercial photographer.

Before? Do Not Walk On the Grass. Now? Please Do.