World in pictures this week, October 29, 2025
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The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors
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The wreckage of a cargo aircraft that skidded off a runway at the Hong Kong International Airport is prepared for removal.Credit:AP Photo/Vernon Yuen
2/15
Environmental workers collect the bodies of birds that have died from bird flu in a lake in Linum, Brandenburg, Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi
3/15
A Palestinian woman carrying her child walks past a destroyed mosque in Gaza City.Credit:AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi
4/15
Security personnel take position just before the arrival of President Donald Trump in Air Force One at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo.Credit:AP Photo/Louise Delmotte
5/15
President of Argentina Javier Milei walks among supporters during his arrival to a closing campaign rally ahead the mid-term election in Rosario, Argentina.Credit:Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images
6/15
A devotee prays to the sun standing from the banks of the river Yamuna during the Chhath festival, which is celebrated for the well-being and prosperity of one’s family, in New Delhi, India.Credit:AP Photo/Manish Swarup
7/15
Employees of Mwani Zanzibar, a boutique seaweed farm and factory, harvest eucheuma spinosum seaweed in the waters off of Paje, Zanzibar, Tanzania.Credit:AP Photo/Jack Denton
8/15
Presidential guards walk on the ancient Acropolis hill after the lowering of the Greek flag, as the city of Athens is seen in the background.Credit:AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
9/15
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators block a highway to protest fossil subsidies and new fossil fuel projects one day before the Oct. 29 general election, in The Hague, Netherlands.Credit:AP Photo/Peter Dejong
10/15
Gallery staff oversee The Elephant Man: An Original Production Reference Bust of John Merrick (estimate £6000 – £8000) and Dune: A Second Stage Guild Navigator Head (estimate (£1500 – £2000) on display at “The Uncanny Sale” at Bonhams in London, England.Credit:Ben Montgomery/Getty Images
11/15
An Oriental Shorthair cat waits to be evaluated by a judge during the FIFe World Show Romania 2025, the world’s largest cat event, held in a different country every year, which brought together more than 1000 cats from over 30 countries, in Bucharest, RomaniaCredit:AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru
12/15
People attend a Halloween rave in Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit:AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson
13/15
Manuel Gallegos carries a cooler and a large umbrella while leaving a sugarcane field in Niland, California.Credit:AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
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Jonathan Allen competes in the men’s senior open during the National Hillclimb Championships in Matlock, England.Credit:Michael Steele/Getty Images
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Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers is tagged out at home by Alejandro Kirk of the Toronto Blue Jays during the 2025 World Series at Dodger Stadium.Credit:Harry How/Getty Images
