A local young girl releases food onto a pond as she gathers for a traditional ceremony to send ancestors back after the celebration of Pchum Ben, or Ancestors' Day in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday morning, October 3, 2024. (Photo by Heng Sinith/AP Photo)





Palestinian students attend a class in a tent set up on the ruins of the house of teacher Israa Abu Mustafa, as war disrupts a new school year, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)





A young Israeli girl stands next to a “sukkah”, a temporary hut used for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, as settlers attend an event called “Preparing to Settle Gaza” near the Netzarim Corridor that splits the Gaza Strip into a southern zone and a northern zone, near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, 21 October 2024. A number of Israeli settlers organizations received permission from the army to hold the event for one day close to the Netzarim Corridor near the Gaza border, as they are calling on the government to resettle Gaza with Jewish settlements. The Feast of Tabernacles, “Sukkot”, which commemorates the exodus of Jews from Egypt, began on 16 October at sunset and ends on 23 October. (Photo by Abir Sultan/EPA/EFE)





South Korean woman Park Soo-mi takes part in a Korean calligraphy contest as part of events to celebrate the 578th anniversary of the creation of the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, October 9, 2024. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A Turkish military person carries a child on board of a Turkish military ship as he and hundreds of people, mostly Turkish citizens, are evacuated from Lebanon to Turkey, in Beirut port, on Thursday, October 10, 2024. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his daughter's head in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, October 10, 2024, as part of the Kaparot ritual a day before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)





A young visitor gets spooky on the new Halloween light trail at Kew Gardens in London on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Guy Bell/Alamy Live News)





Pupils at Brighton Girls Pre-Prep School, UK go wild in a weekly outdoor education lesson on October 10, 2024 aimed at tackling development delays due to the Covid lockdown. (Photo by Brighton Pictures)





10-year-old Mabel Swalley, of Bainbridge Island, starts to buckle under the weight of hefty pumpkin that she was attempting to carry out of the field at the Bainbridge Island/Suyematsu Farms Pumpkin Patch on Wednesday, October 9, 2024. (Photo by Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun/USA Today Network via Reuters)





A young boy sleeps on chairs in the school where his family are sheltering after being displaced by Israeli airstrikes, on October 12, 2024 in Sidon also known as Saida, Lebanon. At this displaced persons camp here, the charity Action for Humanity provides shelter, meals and other aid to over 700 people who have fled from other parts of Lebanon that are bearing the brunt of Israel's escalating war with Hezbollah. The war has displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, according to the UN migration agency, with many fleeing southern areas to cities like Sidon. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)





Five-year-old Jeda takes a close look at “Sharnana” by artist Drew McDonald at the Sculpture by The Sea on October 18, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Jessica Hromas/The Guardian)





Samantha Dubberly consoles her daughter Alexa Haight as medics takes her grandfather into care after he got injured by a reported tornado that hit his house in Fort Myers, Florida on October 9, 2024, as Hurricane Milton approaches. Florida residents fled or just hunkered down in the final hours October 9 before Milton pummels the state, as government emergency relief efforts were dragged to the center of the US election. (Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP Photo)





Palestinian children queue to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 16, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)





A displaced child sits on a pavement in the centre of the city amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Beirut, Lebanon on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters)





Twins pose for a photograph during the Igboora World Twins Festival 2024, in Igbo-Ora on October 12, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFPPhoto)





A displaced boy looks on at a makeshift encampment on the street at Beirut's central Martyrs' Square, where many families spend the night fleeing the overnight Israeli strikes in southern Beirut, in Lebanon on October 9, 2024. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





Boys wear Security and Make America Great Again hats during Donald Trump's Make America Great Again Rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on October 19, 2024. (Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)





Six-year-old Rose Allen poses with the target she shot with a juvenile BB rifle at the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival, in Greeley, Pennsylvania, on October 12, 2024. (Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)





Students attend an Islamic school in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria, on Saturday, October 12, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





US Rep. Zach Nunn holds his daughter Aliya as he casts an early ballot in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. (Photo by Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo)