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Photos of the week: Deer in rutting season and al-Baghdadi’s death
The death of Islamic state chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world's most wanted terrorist, chased by US special forces in raid on his compound in Syria's Idlib province and sparring among deer during rutting season --photos of the week from across the world.
Updated on: Nov 02, 2019 5:33 PM IST
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Deer clash as they fight during the rutting season in Richmond Park, west London, England. (Toby Melville / REUTERS)
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A woman offers prayers to a cow during a religious ceremony celebrating the Tihar festival, in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar / REUTERS)
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University students wearing Guy Fawkes masks pose for a photoshoot of a graduation ceremony to support anti-government protests at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in Hong Kong. (Tyrone Siu / REUTERS)
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Iraqi protesters gather at Tahrir square during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in the capital Baghdad. Iraqs president vowed to hold early elections in response to a month of deadly protests, but demonstrators said the move fell far short of their demands for a political overhaul. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)
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A long exposure photograph shows a tree burning during the Kincade fire off Highway 128, east of Healdsburg, California. The state braced on October 29 for the most powerful winds this season that threatened to spread destructive fires raging in the state and spark new blazes. (Philip Pacheco / AFP)
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Spain’s Rafael Nadal makes his entrance before his round of 16 match against Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka at the ATP 1000 - Paris Masters in Paris, France. (Christian Hartmann / REUTERS)
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Lightning strikes a building during a thunderstorm in Bangkok, Thailand. (Mladen Antonov / AFP)
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A Port Authority bus sticks out of a large sinkhole on 10th Street near Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Andrew Rush / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hand out Halloween candy to visiting schoolchildren in advance of Halloween at the White House in Washington. (Tom Brenner / REUTERS)
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Residents gather beside the burnt-out train carriages after a passenger train near Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. At least 74 people were killed in a fire that engulfed three carriages of the train after a gas canister passengers were using to cook breakfast exploded, triggering the worst disaster on Pakistan’s railway system in nearly 15 years. (Pakistan’s Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 / AFP)
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A Mexican asylum-seeking woman sleeps in a hammock in an encampment where she lives as she waits for her turn to seek asylum in the US in Matamoros, Mexico. (Veronica G. Cardenas / REUTERS)
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A wild elephant stops a car on a road at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province. The driver escaped unhurt with his car slightly damaged. (Pratya Chutipaskul / AFP)
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Great white pelicans are pictured at a reservoir in Mishmar HaSharon, north of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Thousands of migrant Pelicans pass though Israel on their way to Africa then again when they return to Europe in the summer. (Jack Guez / AFP)
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson signs a book of condolence for the 39 dead found in lorry, during a visit to Thurrock Council Offices in Grays, England. (Stefan Rousseau / Pool via REUTERS)
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Supporters of the Islamist Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) wave party flags atop a vehicle as they take part in an anti-government “Azadi (Freedom) March” towards Islamabad, from Peshawar, Pakistan. (Abdul Majeed / AFP)
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Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja (2nd L), who became the fastest climber of the world’s 14 highest peaks, waves to the gathering as he arrives with his team at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. Purja scaled the 8,027-metre Mount Shishapangma in China on Tuesday, which was the last of the 14 peaks that are more than 8,000 metres (26,240 feet) in height. (Niranjan Shrestha / AP)
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Iraqi youth watch the news of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s in a US raid death, in Najaf, Iraq. (Alaa al-Marjani / REUTERS)
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A three-year-old girl smokes a cigar during the Saint Simon celebrations in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala. Popular belief holds that the saint helps people find work, solves family problems and cures illnesses. (Orlando Estrada / AFP)
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Petion-Ville’s Police chief Paul Menard (L) has a discussion with a protester as police officers and their supporters protest for better salaries for law enforcement, as anti-government marchers also took to the streets in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP)
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