A cat meows while looking out from its carrier as animals and their owners gather at Our Ladies of Remedies Parish in the Malate area of Manila on October 6, 2019, for an annual pet-blessing ceremony. #

Police remove a giant sculpture from Lambeth Bridge on October 7, 2019, in London. Climate-change activists are gathering to block access to various government departments as they start a two-week protest in central London. #

A youth plays on a swing, popularly known as the "Dashain Ping," during the Hindu festival of Dashain in Changu Naryan on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 6, 2019. #

The Israeli acrobat Tel Karassin performs on a car-free highway during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 9, 2019. Israelis marked Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, the holiest of Jewish holidays, when observant Jews atone for the sins of the past year and the Israeli nation comes to almost a complete standstill. Many residents take bicycles onto the streets as no traffic is permitted on the roads. #

China's Sun Wei in action during the men's team final for the horizontal bar at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany, on October 9, 2019. #

Police motorcycles lead a procession ahead of the casket carrying New York City Police Department officer Brian Mulkeen from his funeral service at the Sacred Heart Church in Monroe, New York, on October 4, 2019. Mulkeen was killed while making an arrest, when another police officer inadvertently shot him. #

Riot police take cover behind their paint-covered shields during clashes with university students demanding better funding for education in Bogotá, Colombia, on October 10, 2019. #

A creation titled "Tulips Bouquet" by the U.S. artist Jeff Koons is displayed next to the Petit Palais on October 4, 2019, in Paris. "Bouquet of Tulips" is a monumental work in bronze, stainless steel, and aluminum polychrome, 10 meters high and eight meters wide, weighing 27 tons, offered to France by Koons to pay respect to the victims of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. #

A child's shoe is discarded among thousands of life jackets and rubber boats, abandoned by migrants who have made the crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos. The mass of life preservers has been dubbed "The Life Jacket Graveyard" by locals in Skala Sikamineas, Greece, photographed on October 8, 2019. Authorities have begun to relocate refugees and migrants from the overcrowded Moria Camp on the island of Lesbos to facilities on the mainland in a bid to ease pressure on the island camp, as the flow of new arrivals from neighboring Turkey continues. #

A grizzly bear known to researchers as "Bear 775 Lefty" looks for migrating salmon to help fatten it up for the winter hibernation, in Katmai National Park, Alaska, on September 21, 2019. Picture released by Reuters on October 6. #

Wensleydale sheep rest in their pen prior to being judged at the annual Masham Sheep Fair in Masham, England, on October 5, 2019. The sheep fair was founded more than 30 years ago to commemorate Masham's historic sheep market in the town's market square, where as many as 70,000 sheep were sold each year. #

One of the snow-leopard cubs born at the Highland Wildlife Park is pictured in its enclosure, near Kincraig, Scotland, on September 25, 2019. Photo released by Reuters on October 4. #

A dog dressed as a crowned Miss Universe is photographed at a pet fashion show celebrating World Animal Day in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, on October 6, 2019. #

A bull rider is thrown from his bull at the 2019 Deni Ute Muster on October 5, 2019, in Deniliquin, Australia. The annual Deniliquin Ute Muster is the largest in Australia, attracting more than 18,000 people to the rural town of Deniliquin to celebrate all things Australian and the icon of the ute (an Australian term for a utility vehicle) in a weekend of music, competitions, and camping. #

A young man holds a pair of seabirds, known locally as "fou," that he and other boys caught for food in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 9, 2019. Residents of Cite Soleil say access to basic services, jobs, and security has been declining, and many are participating in protests calling for the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse. #

Zeba Masood, an animal-rights activist, sits amid a group of dogs after they were rescued from the streets at the Lucky Animal Protection Shelter, a nonprofit organization providing temporary shelter to stray and abandoned dogs in Peshawar, Pakistan, on October 9, 2019. #

Environmental activists affiliated with the Extinction Rebellion stage a sit-down protest outside government buildings as Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe unveils the country's 2020 budget on October 8, 2019, in Dublin, Ireland. #

A boy wearing a Spider-Man costume stands on Hanoi's popular train street on October 10, 2019, following a municipal-authority order to deal with cafés and "ensure safety" on the railway track. #

A woman sits next to riot police during a rally of supporters of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, on October 6, 2019. Hundreds marched Sunday in different parts of Colombia and in Miami in support of Uribe, summoned by the Supreme Court of Justice for alleged witness tampering. #

On October 6, 2019, a U.S. armored vehicle passes by during a demonstration by Syrian Kurds against Turkish threats next to a base for the U.S.-led international coalition on the outskirts of Ras al-Ain town in Syria's Hasakeh province, near the Turkish border. U.S. forces in Syria started pulling back from Turkish border areas, opening the way for Ankara's threatened military invasion and heightening fears of a jihadist resurgence. #

A photo taken from Turkey's Sanliurfa province on October 9, 2019, shows smoke rising at the site of Syria's Ras al-Ayn city as Turkish troops, along with the Syrian National Army, began "Operation Peace Spring," in northern Syria. #

An effigy of the mythological demon king Ravana goes up in flames, marking the end of the Dussehra festival in New Delhi, India, on October 8, 2019. Dussehra commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil. #

Protesters are seen on Russell Street on October 7, 2019, in Melbourne, Australia. The event was organized as part of Extinction Rebellion's global "Week of Action" in 60 cities across the world to bring attention to climate change and push governments to declare a climate emergency. #

Poland's Iga Baumgart-Witan, Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz, Malgorzata Holub-Kowalik, and Justyna Swiety-Ersetic celebrate winning silver in the Women's 4x400 Meter Relay Final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, on October 6, 2019. #