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World Athletics Championships, International Aviation and Space Show, financial market gyrations | August 25

World Athletics Championships, International Aviation and Space Show, financial market gyrations | August 25

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The day in photos around the world.

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A look at life in one of Europe’s least populated regions

A look at life in one of Europe’s least populated regions

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A generation after the last of the sawmills that were its economic lifeblood shut down, a vast region of Central Eastern Spain less than two hours from Madrid has become one of the biggest population deserts in Europe, rivaling parts of the Arctic. For the area’s graying inhabitants — seniors outnumber primary schoolers 4 to 1 — the daily rhythms of work and play have grown more elongated — one boy, the only boy in his village, travels 40 miles to school — or less steady — an unemployed electrician tries his hand at taxidermy to make ends meet — but beat on nonetheless, as Getty Images photographer David Ramos documents in this intimate diary.

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