A Week in World Photos
Displaced children in Yemen, farmer protests in New Delhi, and a return to Earth in Kazakhstan.
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Displaced Yemeni children from Hodeidah province shelter in a damaged house, where they have been living with other displaced families, in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz on Sept. 30. The conflict has triggered what the U.N. describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with three-quarters of the population, or 22 million people, in need of humanitarian aid.
Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty ImagesA reveler is pictured during the gay pride parade at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 30.
People drive past a washed-up boat and collapsed buildings in Palu, Indonesia, on Oct. 1 after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on Sept. 28.
Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty ImagesA member of a search and rescue team tries to calm an Indonesian woman who is awaiting news of her brother outside the badly damaged Mercure hotel in Palu in Central Sulawesi on Oct. 4 after the earthquake and tsunami there.
Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty ImagesA damaged mosque is seen by the tsunami-devastated coast in Palu on Oct. 4.
Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty ImagesIndian schoolchildren with their heads tonsured and dressed like Mohandas Gandhi assemble during a event at a school in Chennai on Oct. 1 ahead of Gandhi’s birth anniversary.
Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty ImagesProtesters unfurl a sign as they occupy the Hart Senate Office Building during a rally against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in Washington on Oct. 4.
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesSupporters cheer U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally in Johnson City, Tennessee, on Oct. 1.
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesSoldiers of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the British Army use laser-guided equipment during a joint military drill in Oyama, Japan, on Oct. 2.
Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty ImagesYachts sail in the Fife Jubilee for the Rolex Trophy race off the coast of the southern French city of Saint-Tropez on Oct. 3.
Valery Hache/AFP/Getty ImagesA pony grazes under the northern lights in Unstad, Norway, on Sept. 30.
Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty ImagesRafael Sarabia holds an American flag as he rides his horse across from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas as a tribute to the 58 people killed in last year’s mass shooting at the site on Oct. 1.
Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesBishops attend a papal Mass for the opening of the Synod of Bishops at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Oct. 3.
TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian children who fled with their families from the northern countryside town of Hama jump rope at Zuhur al-Mustaqbal (“Flowers of the Future” in Arabic), a makeshift school in the Jeneinah camp in Syria’s mostly rebel-held northern Idlib province on Oct. 1.
AAREF WATAD/AFP/Getty ImagesA Syrian child writes in a notebook in the yard of the Zuhur al-Mustaqbal school at the Jeneinah camp in Idlib on Oct. 1.
AAREF WATAD/AFP/Getty ImagesNew Delhi police use water cannons to disperse and stop farmer activists of the Bhartiya Kisan Union at the border with Ghazipur during their march to New Delhi on Oct. 2.
PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty ImagesBritish Prime Minister Theresa May dances as she walks out onto the stage to deliver her leader’s speech during the final day of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, England, on Oct. 3.
Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty ImagesU.S. first lady Melania Trump waves to children as she visits Chipala Primary School in Lilongwe, Malawi, on Oct. 4, as part of her weeklong, four-country trip to Africa to promote her “Be Best” campaign.
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Duchess of Cambridge sits with schoolchildren during her visit to Sayers Croft Forest School and Wildlife Garden in London on Oct. 2.
PETER NICHOLLS/AFP/Getty ImagesModels wait backstage prior to the Junko Shimada Spring/Summer 2018 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show in Paris on Oct. 2.
-/AFP/Getty ImagesA dog does its best catwalk prior to the Chanel Spring/Summer 2018 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show at the Grand Palais in Paris on Oct. 2.
-/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo piles of ivory burn during a ceremony attended by Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who ignited 1 ton of ivory and pangolin scales to draw attention to the problem of poaching in Kinshasa on Sept. 30.
JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty ImagesSupporters of Catalonia′s independence march during a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the independence referendum in Barcelona on Oct. 1.
David Ramos/Getty ImagesHooded demonstrators vandalize a shop window in Mexico City on the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre on Oct. 2. Fifty years ago, Mexican troops opened fire on student demonstrators, killing hundreds just days before Mexico City hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics—one of the darkest episodes in a year of global turbulence.
RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty ImagesThe sun rises behind a bank of clouds on the Greek island of Sifnos on Oct. 4.
LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty ImagesA Syrian rebel fighter reads the Quran as he sits in a fortified position in Zahraa, a suburb on the outskirts of Aleppo, on Oct. 3.
AMER ALHAMWE/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Soyuz MS-08 space capsule carrying the International Space Station crew of astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev lands in a remote area outside Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 4. The trio wrapped up a six-month mission as tensions between Washington and Moscow threaten a rare area of cooperation.
MAXIM SHIPENKOV/AFP/Getty ImagesAn officer directs traffic at a market in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on Oct. 1.
MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty ImagesYemeni children attend class in a house turned into a makeshift school in the southwestern city of Taiz on Oct. 3.
AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP/Getty ImagesCongregants bring their pets to be blessed at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, whose feast marks World Animal Day in Mezquitán, Mexico, on Oct. 4.
A Week in World Photos
Testimony in Washington, a tsunami in Indonesia, and a rainbow surfer in the Arctic.
Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in Washington on Sept. 27.
Win McNamee/APA surfer rides a wave under a rainbow during a free surf session of the Lofoten Masters in Flakstad, northern Norway, on Sept. 26. The event, the most northern surfing contest, is held within the Arctic Circle.
OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty ImagesA staff member places nameplates in a committee room on Capitol Hill on Sept. 26, the day before the hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty ImagesA survivor walks under a vehicle stuck on a building in Palu, Indonesia's Central Sulawesi, on Oct. 1, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on Sept. 28. Indonesian volunteers expected the death toll to rise past 1,000 after swaths of Sulawesi were devastated, leaving authorities stuggling to deal with the scale of the disaster.
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty ImagesPerformers carry an ornate straw-stuffed dragon stuck with hundreds of incense sticks as part of a midautumn festival celebration in Pok Fu Lam village in Hong Kong on Sept. 24.
ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty ImagesEarly morning mist lingers below Glastonbury Tor as the sun rises in Somerset, England, on Sept. 27.
Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesA worker monitors a spinning machine at a textile factory in Pathum Thani, Thailand, on Sept. 23.
LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,600 birds, seen in their cages, took part in a bird-singing competition in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat on Sept. 25.
MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/Getty ImagesRiot police hold shields covered in heart-shaped graffiti made by activists during protest clashes against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government in Managua on Sept. 23.
INTI OCON/AFP/Getty ImagesBuddhist monks pray for President Tran Dai Quang, who died on Sept. 21 at age 61, at the Viet Nam Quoc Tu Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City on Sept. 23.
KAO NGUYEN/AFP/Getty ImagesA man dressed in traditional Voortrekker attire fires a flintlock gun at the Voortrekker Monument on Heritage Day in Pretoria, South Africa, on Sept. 24.
FLORIAN CHOBLET/AFP/Getty ImagesA gallery assistant sits among the stainless steel spheres that make up Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama during a preview for the Space Shifters exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London on Sept. 25.
Jack Taylor/Getty ImagesVisitors take selfies in a pink ball bath at the Supercandy Pop-Up Museum in Cologne, western Germany, on Sept. 27.
ROLF VENNENBERND/AFP/Getty ImagesSouth Koreans hang ribbons wishing for reunification on the wire fence at the Imjingak pavilion near the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas during Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving, on Sept. 24.
Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesFighters from the Nour al-Din al-Zenki unit, a moderate Syrian opposition faction affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, rest in a rebel-held part of Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 23.
NAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP/Getty ImagesA child sleeps in a cart during the traditional costume and riflemen parade on the second day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 23. The world’s biggest beer festival runs until Oct. 7.
CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty ImagesIndian laborers rest during a 12-hour statewide strike called by the Bharatiya Janata Party to protest the deaths of two students allegedly killed by police in Kolkata on Sept. 26.
DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty ImagesPalestinian students protest in front of a school administered by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Sept. 25. This year, the United States, by far the biggest contributor to UNRWA, announced it was halting funding to the agency.
JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty ImagesSt.Peter’s Basilica is reflected in musical instruments during the pope’s weekly general audience at the Vatican on Sept. 26.
TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty ImagesA snake keeper shows off a python at an agriculture fair in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Sept. 25.
JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty ImagesA man rests as crypts are adapted for hundreds of unidentified bodies at the municipal pantheon in El Salto, in Mexico’s Jalisco state, on Sept. 25. Amid a wave of violence linked to drug cartels, dozens of Mexicans searching for missing relatives traveled to Guadalajara, where a scandal has erupted over a truck full of unidentified bodies that overflowed local morgues.
ULISES RUIZ/AFP/Getty ImagesInmates play basketball in the Quezon City jail in suburban Manila, Philippines, on Sept. 25.
NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty ImagesWorkers test electronic ballots that will be used in the Oct. 7 first-round elections at the Regional Electoral Court in Belo Horizonte, in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, on Sept. 27.
DOUGLAS MAGNO/AFP/Getty ImagesAn Indian commuter walks amid air pollution in New Delhi on Sept. 26.
CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty ImagesVenezuelan migrants sleep as they wait to attend the second Job Fair for Venezuelans in Colombia on Sept. 27.
JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP/Getty ImagesA Congolese man carries a sack in Kinshasa, a port along the Congo River, on Sept. 25.
JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty ImagesFarmers pose with a Chinese national flag made from chili peppers and corn on Longquan Mountain in Lishui in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on Sept. 26.
-/AFP/Getty ImagesVisitors wearing traditional Korean hanbok pose for photos at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul on Sept. 26.
ED JONES/AFP/Getty ImagesA demonstrator’s dog is seen during the March for the Many, an anti-Brexit march, in Liverpool, England, on Sept. 23.
Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty ImagesVisitors wearing traditional Korean hanbok pose for photos at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul on Sept. 26.
ED JONES/AFP/Getty ImagesA demonstrator’s dog is seen during the March for the Many, an anti-Brexit march, in Liverpool, England, on Sept. 23.
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