The Week in Pictures: October 24, 2015
From 50,000 Chinese practicing taichi for the Guinness Book to John Kerry’s new guitar, the most compelling images from the past seven days.
Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
October 23, 2015
Glasgow, Scotland
Japan’s Sakura Yumoto performs during her beam routine as she takes part in the women's qualification competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics championships.
Matthias Schrader/AP
Ballabhgarh, India
October 21, 2015
Relatives and villagers mourn as they sit next to the bodies of two children wrapped in white shrouds, during a protest in which people block a national highway in the northern state of Haryana. Police have arrested four men over allegations that they burned alive two low-caste children. Authorities ruled out caste violence as a motive for the crime but India has a long history of such incidents, and the attack will feed concerns over rising intolerance after the rumor-fueled killing of a Muslim man by a Hindu mob recently.
Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Colon, the Philippines
October 17, 2015
A young girl covers herself from the rain with a banana leaf next to a man in the sea.
Carlos Jasso / Reuters
Bhaktapur, Nepal
October 22, 2015
A devotee offers oil lamps on top of his body as part of a ritual during the Dashain religious festival. Hindus in Nepal celebrate victory over evil during the festival by flying kites, feasting, playing swings, sacrificing animals, and worshipping the Goddess Durga as well as other gods and goddesses.
Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
Quetta, Pakistan
October 19, 2015
A man who was injured in a bus blast lies in a hospital. A bomb killed at least 11 people on a crowded commuter bus bound for the suburbs, police said.
Naseer Ahmed / Reuters
Jiaozuo, China
October 18, 2015
A Chinese national flag flies as students practice taichi on a playground of a high school, during a Guinness World Record attempt of the largest martial arts display, on a hazy day in Henan province, China. The city set the record by organizing more than 50,000 residents to practise shadow boxing simultaneously at 15 different locations.
China Stringer Network / Reuters
Madrid
October 18, 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry (L) poses with a guitar, given as a present by Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry.
Reuters
Manchester, England
October 21, 2015
Sevilla's Adil Rami deflects an effort from Manchester City's Wilfried Bony into his own net for an own goal and Manchester City's first.
Reuters
Washington, D.C.
October 22, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts to reporters' questions as she exits the hearing room for a lunch break from testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Gary Cameron / Reuters
Baghdad, Iraq
October 18, 2015
Students play in their school yard on the first day of the new school term at a primary school.
Ahmed Saad / Reuters
Lesbos, Greece
October 20, 2015
An Afghan boy dries his shoes at a open fire outside a temporary UNHCR camp. Thousands of refugees—mostly fleeing war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq— attempt daily to cross the Aegean Sea from nearby Turkey, a short trip but a perilous one in the inflatable boats the migrants use, often in rough seas.
Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
Rizhao, China
October 18, 2015
Buildings in construction are seen among mist during a hazy day in Shandong province.
China Stringer Network / Reuters
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