Athens, Greece
The aftermath of floods in the town of Mandra, west of Athens. Fire rescue crews are searching for six people still missing after flash flooding that killed least 14 people.
Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP
Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh
Rohingya Muslims on a raft made with plastic containers after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh. UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said it was ‘an absolutely essential priority’ to stop violence against the Rohingya, allow them to return home and grant them legal status.
Photograph: A M Ahad/AP
Ukhia, Bangladesh
Rohingya boys play football at the Hakimpara refugee camp. More than 600,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since the military crackdown in Myanmar in August triggered an exodus, straining resources in the impoverished country.
Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images
Rio de Janeiro
A dead whale on the shore of Ipanema beach. Beachings are common along Brazil’s coast as whales migrate between their feeding and breeding grounds, but this year has seen more than usual.
Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters
Harare
Young women walk past an armoured personnel carrier as Zimbabwean soldiers regulate the traffic in Harare. The military said that it had temporarily taken control of the country to ‘target criminals’ around the president, Robert Mugabe.
Photograph: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images
Douma, Syria
The aftermath of shelling by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held town of Douma.
Photograph: Hamza Al-Ajweh/AFP/Getty Images
Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran
A vehicle flattened by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Iran’s Kermanshah province. At least 530 people were killed and more than 7,000 injured when the earthquake shook the mountainous Iran-Iraq border.
Photograph: Pouria Pakizeh/AFP/Getty Images
Pyongyang
In a photograph taken through the window of a car, pedestrians illuminated by a public TV screen walk past the central station in the North Korean capital.
Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Khanbogd Soum, Mongolia
A photographer casts his shadow near a coal truck which flipped over near the border with China in the Gobi desert. Reaching the border can be a harrowing ordeal, as vehicles speed towards China and back down the one-lane road. With no street lamps to guide the way and drink-driving a constant problem, danger levels increase at night, drivers say.
Photograph: Rentsendorj Bazarsukh/Reuters
Athens
Protesters walk past a burning barricade after clashes with riot police. Hundreds of youths attacked police following large and peaceful marches to mark the anniversary of the 1973 crackdown on a student uprising against the military dictatorship then ruling Greece.
Photograph: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
Nairobi
The aftermath of a demonstration by supporters of the Kenyan opposition party, the National Super Alliance.
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Karo, Indonesia
Farmers work in a field as the Mount Sinabung volcano spews thick smoke.
Photograph: Ivan Damanik/AFP/Getty Images
Barcelona
An independence flag is waved as demonstrators take part in a protest calling for the release of jailed politicians in Barcelona. Eight members of the now-defunct Catalan government remain in jail. Former regional president Carles Puigdemont and four other ex-cabinet members fled to Belgium where they are fighting extradition.
Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP
Milan
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is consoled by teammate Leonardo Bonucci after Italy were eliminated by Sweden in the World Cup qualifying play-off match.
Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP
Sofia
Dmitry Ushakov and Andrey Yudin of Russia compete in the men’s synchronised trampoline final in the Bulgarian capital.
Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
Blackpool
A ballroom dancer practises before competing in the British national dance championships in the Empress ballroom of the Winter Gardens.
Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images
Sutherland Springs, Texas
Mourners in the First Baptist church, where 26 people were killed in a shooting attack.
Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
Rio de Janerio
Children living in the Pantanal favela search for frogs in polluted water.
Photograph: Fabio Teixeira/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Santiago, Chile
A balloon seller passes people on their way to the closing rally for presidential candidate Alejandro Guillier from the Nueva Mayoria coalition.
Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP
London
The Old Vic theatre in London whose executive director, Kate Varah, ‘wholeheartedly’ apologised for not creating an environment where people could raise concerns about Kevin Spacey. She was speaking after 20 individual complaints of inappropriate behaviour by Spacey, its former actor-director.
Photograph: Mary Turner/Reuters