Photos of the week: Aug. 11-18

Here are photos from stories that happened last week. Scroll through to see if you’ve missed any.

FILE – In this June 15, 2004 file photo, singer Aretha Franklin sings the National Anthem before the start of game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Lakers in Auburn Hills, Mich. Franklin died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018 at her home in Detroit. She was 76. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)
Battling the large fire, which broke out about 3 a.m. Wednesday, proved challenging in part because of limited water sources at the scene to battle the blaze. Firefighters hope to fully extinguish the fire by Friday. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service)
A fire at a Clarksburg, Maryland, recycling facility that closed a nearby highway for several hours Wednesday morning continues to smolder and it may be days before it’s out completely, officials in Montgomery County say. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service)
Roller coaster Apocalypse: The Last Stand
If you love the Apocalypse stand-up roller coaster at Six Flags in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, you only have a couple of weeks to ride it. The roller coaster Apocalypse: The Last Stand takes you up 10 stories. (Courtesy Six Flags America)
Gobi Wan Kenobi, an endangered Przewalski's horse colt at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo celebrated the births of Przewalski’s horse colts this spring and now, thanks to a public vote, the newborns have names just as wild as they are. Gobi Wan Kenobi, an endangered Przewalski’s horse colt at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. (Roshan Patel)
Trees fell in College Park after strong storms blew through Monday evening. (Courtesy Prince George's County Fire Department)
Trees fell in College Park after strong storms blew through Monday evening. (Courtesy Prince George’s County Fire Department)
More than 400 people took part in voting for the best cardboard boat before the race even began, Alexandra Campbell, the executive director of the Reston Historic Trust & Museum said.
More than 400 people took part in voting for the best cardboard boat before the race even began, Alexandra Campbell, the executive director of the Reston Historic Trust & Museum said. (Courtesy of Reston Historic Trust & Museum)
Mourners embrace each other as they remember Heather Heyer who was killed during last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. On that day, white supremacists and counterprotesters clashed in the city streets before a car driven into a crowd struck and killed Heyer. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
White nationalists march toward Lafayette Square in Downtown D.C. (Courtesy Wilson Dizard)
White nationalists march toward Lafayette Square in Downtown D.C. (Courtesy Wilson Dizard)
In this Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, photo, a boy swims near floating trash during flood season in the floating village on the Mekong river bank on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)
In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, photo, some of the 80,000 participants in the annual City2surf fun run make their way along the 14km (8.7 miles) course in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
In this Aug. 14, 2018 photo, a woman holds a up machete during a march to the headquarters of Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to deliver a letter, in Mexico City. Residents of Atenco arrived to deliver a letter to Lopez Obrador to ask him to stop the construction of a new Mexico City airport. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Aug. 14, 2018 photo, Anthony David Tovar Ortiz, left, is embraced by a relative after arriving to La Aurora airport in Guatemala City. The 8-year-old stayed in a shelter for migrant children in Houston after his mother Elsa Ortiz Enriquez was deported in June 2018 under President Donald Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)
In this Aug. 15, 2018 photo, a girl holding her doll watches a military parade marking the 481th anniversary of the founding of Asuncion, Paraguay. Paraguay’s new President Mario Abdo Benitez was sworn-in before the parade. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Telatives take cell phone pictures of the remains of Fortunate Ventura Huamacusi, a man who was killed by the Peruvian army in 1983, before placing the coffin in its niche at the Rosaspata cemetery in Peru’s Ayacucho province on Aug. 14, 2018. Thousands of Peruvian families who have spent decades wondering about loved ones who disappeared during years of bloody conflict between the state and Maoist guerrillas have new hopes for getting the closure they have been searching for. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Residents look at janitor fish which were swept into the road from the swollen Marikina River Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 east of Manila, Philippines. Heavy rains and strong winds brought about by a tropical storm flooded Marikina city overnight, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
A dock stretches out into a sea of fog where Matthew Harrington, his wife, Krystal, and son, Cayden, fish in Casco Bay, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A man sits on a bench during sunset in the area of the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)
In this photo made with a long exposure, a plane, top right, and a meteor, bottom right, move across the night sky during a meteor shower in Wolcott, Colo., on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. At center is the Milky Way galaxy (Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily via AP)
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Battling the large fire, which broke out about 3 a.m. Wednesday, proved challenging in part because of limited water sources at the scene to battle the blaze. Firefighters hope to fully extinguish the fire by Friday. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service)
Roller coaster Apocalypse: The Last Stand
Gobi Wan Kenobi, an endangered Przewalski's horse colt at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Trees fell in College Park after strong storms blew through Monday evening. (Courtesy Prince George's County Fire Department)
More than 400 people took part in voting for the best cardboard boat before the race even began, Alexandra Campbell, the executive director of the Reston Historic Trust & Museum said.
White nationalists march toward Lafayette Square in Downtown D.C. (Courtesy Wilson Dizard)

The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

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