AFP / GettyDrivers merge into expressway lanes after passing through the 36-lane Wuzhuang toll station at Chuzhou, in China’s Anhui province, as they make their way back home near the end of an eight-day National Day holiday, on October 7, 2025.Chen Kun / VCG / GettyTourists ride camels at Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring scenic spot during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday on October 6, 2025, in Dunhuang, Jiuquan City, Gansu province, China.Yawar Nazir / GettyA flock of sheep grazes on green grass on October 5, 2025 in Aru, Pahalgam, south of Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Pahalgam, known as the "Valley of Shepherds," is a popular base for treks to Lidderwat and the Kolahoi Glacier.Alexandra Beier / AFP / GettyA visitor raises a beer mug as waitresses, waiters, and visitors in the Hacker Pschorr tent celebrate the last day of Oktoberfest with sparklers, on October 5, 2025, in Munich, Germany.He Penglei / China News Service / VCG / GettyTourists take photos and video of the Hongya Cave building complex at night in Chongqing, China, on October 3, 2025.Mario Anzuoni / ReutersA visitor takes a picture of an installation called Pumpkin Forest, part of “Carved,” a Halloween-themed exhibit at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge, California, on October 3, 2025.James D. Morgan / GettyA view of the iconic Ballina Prawn sculpture, seen behind a house in Ballina, Australia, on October 8, 2025.Chen Fuping / VCG / GettyA double-exposure image of a full moon in the sky in Ji’an, Jiangxi province, China, on October 6, 2025.Juni Kriswanto / AFP / GettyA man receives cupping therapy using cow horns, provided by volunteers in a temporary tent set up to accommodate the families of students who were missing in a collapsed prayer hall at a boarding school, in Surabaya, Indonesia, on October 5, 2025.Stephen Lam / San Francisco Chronicle / GettyA protester in a frog costume stands in front of a line of federal law-enforcement officers outside a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, on October 6, 2025.Amr Nabil / APEgyptian wrestler Ashraf Mahrous, also known as Kabonga, pulls a heavy weight with his teeth during a training session at his gym in Cairo, Egypt, on July 15, 2025. Photo released on October 7.Alessandra Tarantino / APA pro-Palestinian demonstrator takes part in a national general strike called by different unions to protest against the situation in Gaza two days after Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, in Rome, on October 3, 2025.Chris McGrath / GettyIsraelis celebrate as they react to the news of a Gaza peace deal at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 9, 2025. Overnight, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a cease-fire plan that would see the release of hostages—held in Gaza since their capture on October 7, 2023—in the coming days.Ebrahim Hajjaj / ReutersPalestinian emergency personnel celebrate, after hearing that Israel and Hamas had agreed on the first phase of a Gaza cease-fire, in Gaza City, on October 9, 2025.Hassan Jedi / Anadolu / GettyPalestinians wait with their empty pots to receive hot meals distributed by charity organizations in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, as people continue to struggle with hunger in Gaza City, Gaza, on October 9, 2025.Mostafa Alkharouf / Anadolu / GettySmoke rises after Israeli air strikes targeted areas in the Gaza Strip despite the announcement of a cease-fire agreement, as seen from the Israeli city of Sderot, on October 9, 2025.Ali Jadallah / Anadolu / GettyDaily life continues in war-torn Gaza as Palestinians wait for the agreed-on cease-fire to take effect, in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on October 9, 2025.Simon Woodley / Cover Images / ReutersThe sun rises over Coquet Island off the coast of Northumberland, England, on October 8, 2025.Kyodo / ReutersSun conures, or sun parakeets, feed at Kakegawa Kachouen bird and flower park in Kakegawa in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka on September 24, 2025. Photo released on October 9.Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP / GettyThis photograph taken on October 5, 2025, shows an archery target bearing the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Old Fortress in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine’s Khmelnytsky region, amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.Luis Tato / AFP / GettyA protester kicks a burning tire amid clashes with Malagasy security forces during a rally calling for constitutional reforms in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on October 7, 2025. President Andry Rajoelina’s appointment of an army general as new prime minister was met with little enthusiasm in Madagascar, and was dismissed by the youth-led movement behind two weeks of protests as a diversion.Adam Pretty / GettyAelan Vaast of French Polynesia performs a layback hack during a private surf-training session at 02 Surftown MUC in Hallbergmoos, Germany, on October 7, 2025. Seven surfers from France and French Polynesia traveled to Munich for some intensive surf-training sessions at the Surftown MUC wave pool.Liu Zheng / VCG / GettyTourists ride on bamboo rafts, touring the Yulong River on October 3, 2025, in Yangshuo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.Yu Xiangquan / VCG / GettyFarmers pick tea leaves at a plantation during harvest season on October 8, 2025, in Zhaoping County, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.Cai Kuanyuan / VCG / GettyTourists challenge themselves on a “Via Ferrata” route, or protected climbing route, at Taping Peak in Yueqing, Zhejiang province, China, on October 4, 2025.Chi Shiyong / VCG / GettyA bearded reedling perches between two reeds at Longfeng Wetland Nature Reserve on October 5, 2025, in Heilongjiang province, China.Vasilisa Stepanenko / APA Ukrainian serviceman with the Safari Unit of the Liut Brigade launches a reconnaissance drone at the frontline in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on September 6, 2025. Photo released on October 7.Gregory Bull / APA surfer comes out of the water as the sun sets behind Ocean Beach’s dog beach, in San Diego, California, on October 7, 2025.