Tymofii Lifyrynko, 11, leans on his hockey stick while waiting out an air raid alarm in an underground shelter in Shostka, Ukraine, October 16, 2025. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)





Tiebele village stands out with its earthen houses adorned with geometric patterns and its unique architecture recognized by UNESCO as part of the cultural heritage list in Nahouri, southern Burkina Faso on October 8, 2025. Reflecting the traditional lifestyle of the Kassena tribe the village captivates visitors with its artistic character. The houses called sukhala, are built by the men of the village using a mixture of mud and straw, after which the women decorate the walls with geometric patterns symbolizing fertility, protection and communal identity in black, red, and white using natural pigments. (Photo by Mehmet Aslan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A medic tends to a girl wounded in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat, Gaza on October 29, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A kindergarten employee serves food on a table to feed children inside a bomb shelter during ongoing air alert and power outage, as Russia targeted critical civil infrastructure amid ongoing attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv, Ukraine on October 10, 2025. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





A girl walks through an installation of flowers at the site of the Nova festival where partygoers were killed and kidnapped, on the two-year anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza, in Reim, southern Israel, on October 7, 2025. (Photo by Itay Cohen/Reuters)





Kids in fancy dress eat for free at Asda Cafés in Leeds, UK on Halloween on 31st October, 2025 – a real treat for families this spooky season. (Photo by Doug Jackson/PinPep





A child looks at a manta ray at Lisbon Oceanarium in Lisbon on October 9, 2025. Lisbon Oceanarium was built for the Expo98 by the architect Peter Chermayeff, it has nearly 500 marine species that inhabit it. (Photo by Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP Photo)





Riders in the Mini Wheelers category prepare to race during the 2025 GWM BMX Racing National Championships on October 11, 2025 in Camden, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe Photography/Getty Images)





A Palestinian boy stands amid the rubble of destroyed buildings during a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas under the first phase of the Gaza peace plan, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 10 October 2025. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced on 09 October that the Israeli government had approved the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release plan. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA)





Demonstrators attend a protest march to mark the first anniversary of last year's deadly floods and demand accountability in Valencia on October 25, 2025. The protest comes nearly one year since torrential rain on October 29, 2024 caused flooding in towns near Valencia, killing 229 people, Spain's deadliest natural disaster in decades. (Photo by Manaure Quintero/AFP Photo)





A woman poses as her daughter plays with a huge pumpkin during the festival “Hello, pumpkin” in Kyiv on October 19, 2025, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Visitors of the festival could visit a pumpkin museum with descriptions of pumpkin varieties and recipes for cooking with them, and food courts with pumpkin dishes, drinks and desserts, including pumpkin ale, lattes, brownies and pumpkin buns. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





An Indonesian student eats a free meal at an elementary school in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 30 October 2025. The Director of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), Dadan Hindayana, stated that the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program has reached approximately 38.5 million beneficiaries, who are served by 13,514 Nutrition Fulfillment Service Units (SPPG) or MBG kitchens throughout Indonesia. (Photo by Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA)





German Chancellor Friedrich Merz observes an experiment with children during his visit of a kindergarten in Potsdam, Germany, Tuesday, October 14, 2025. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)





6 year old Holly plays in the fallen autumn leaves this morning at Temple Newsam park in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK on October 19, 2025. (Photo by Andrew McCaren/London News Pictures)





Fable Jarvis, 10, from East Sussex, picks up a pumpkin at Tulleys farm ahead of Halloween on October 28, 2025 in Crawley, England. Tulleys Farm's annual “Pick Your Own Pumpkins” event takes place over 60 acres of land throughout the month of October, with approximately 450,000 pumpkins available. Hot and dry conditions across the UK this year led to an early bumper crop of pumpkins. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





A boy walks among red crabs during their annual migration in Christmas Island, Australia in the last decade of October 2025. (Photo by Parks Australia/AP Photo)





Smoke rises following explosions amid the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, on October 6, 2025. (Photo by Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)





A child watches as a crowd walks past during a nationwide youth-led protest over frequent power outages and water shortages, in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on October 6, 2025. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





A child touches an oil lamp used to decorate the temple grounds during Diwali celebrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on October 20, 2025. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)