Theopiste Maloko, 42, a local health official, and a nurse collect skin samples from Angelika Lifafu, 6, to test for monkeypox, at the Yalolia health centre, in Tshopo, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 3, 2022. Without treatment, Angelika can only wait for the illness to run its course. Ahead of her lies a myriad of possible outcomes including recovery, blindness, or, as was the case with a family member in August, death. “These children have a disease that makes them suffer so much”, said Angelika's grandfather Litumbe Lifafu. “We demand the government provides medicines for us poor farmers, and the vaccine to fight this disease”. (Photo by Arlette Bashizi /Reuters)





A Romanian school girl walks along a group of Orthodox nuns that carry yellow fresh chrysanthemum flowers while accompanying the relics of Saint Dimitrie Basarabov, the patron saint of Romania's capital, durnig a procession in front of Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, 24 October 2022. Romanians will celebrate Saint Dimitrie Basarabov on 27 October 2022. Thousands of pilgrims from all over the country are expected in Bucharest to worship the relics of the patron Saint of Bucharest the next few days. (Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA/EFE)





A student plays as they go back to class at a public school in Quezon City, Philippines on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. Millions of students trooped back to public schools across the Philippines on Wednesday as the government enforced the mandatory resumption of in-person classes after more than two years of coronavirus pandemic lockdowns. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A Syrian refugee girl stands on a pickup next to her mother, as they wait at a gathering point to cross the border back home to Syria, in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon, Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Several hundred Syrian refugees boarded a convoy of trucks laden with mattresses, water and fuel tanks, bicycles – and, in one case, a goat – Wednesday morning in the remote Lebanese mountain town of Arsal in preparation to return back across the nearby border.(Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Children play at a playgroup class, on Peng Chau island, in Hong Kong, China on September 19, 2022. Newcomers drawn by an idyllic lifestyle and low rents in one of the world's priciest property markets are rejuvenating Peng Chau, reversing an exodus in the 1970s as fortunes waned in the area, once home to Hong Kong's biggest matchstick factory. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





A girl poses with a rangoli, mural made out of coloured powders, outside her home during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Karachi, Pakistan on October 24, 2022. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A little girl walks a through water in a flooded St. Mark's Square during seasonal high water in Venice, Italy on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)





Children react during the funeral of Palestinian Ramzi Zbarah, who was killed by Israeli forces, in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on October 28, 2022. (Photo by Raneen Sawafta/Reuters)





A girl dressed as a “Catrina” sits on a grave during the Day of the Dead at a cemetery in the Purepecha indigenous community of Cucuchuchu, Michoacan state, Mexico on November 2, 2022. (Photo by Raquel Cunha/Reuters)





Forensic technicians work at a crime scene where police officers were killed in response to prisoner transfers from overcrowded prisons, prompting President Guillermo Lasso to declare a state of emergency in two provinces, in Guayaquil, Ecuador on November 1, 2022. (Photo by Santiago Arcos/Reuters)





A child dressed as an Ewok character participates in a Star Wars parade in Mexico City, Saturday, October 15, 2022. (Photo by Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)





Children cheers once the announcement is made about Guinness World Record for Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Astronauts broken with 940 students at the Repton – Fry Campus Abu Dhabi, Al Reem Island on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Khushnum Bhandari/The National)





Participants cry while listening to a speech by a victim of domestic violence during a protest aiming to raise awareness to the violence and prejudice against women in Romanian society in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, October 23, 2022. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





Boys play amid destroyed buildings at the Yarmuk refugee camp in the southern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on November 2, 2022. The regime of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has recaptured vast territory from rebels and jihadists in the conflict that began in 2011, including retaking the Palestinian camp and adjacent suburbs in May 2018, after a pulverising assault that lasted nearly a month. (Photo by Louai Beshara/AFP Photo)





Boys swing on bars in a play park next to a life-size replica of a Soviet-era Sukhoi Su-15 fighter jet on October 19, 2022 in Shostakivka, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Russia's president Vladimir Putin today imposed martial law on the four Ukrainian regions occupied by Russian forces as large numbers of civilians were being moved out of the Kherson area ahead of a Ukrainian offensive. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)





Batoul al-Hassan, a four-year-old displaced Syrian from Deir Ezzor, poses for a picture at the Sahlah al-Banat camp in the countryside of Raqa on October 17, 2022. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP Photo)





Children dismantle a vehicle belonging to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) in Kanyaruchinya, part of Nyiragongo territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 2, 2022, after it was set on fire overnight by angry residents. (Photo by Aubin Mukoni/AFP Photo)





Young BMX riders in Walthamstow, United Kingdom dress as Elliott to celebrate 40 years since ET: The Extra-Terrestrial was released and the launch of the new game ET: The Extra-Terrestrial Light Years From Home on October 21, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Moore/The Times)





Kids seem to have their own “golden boots” as they have a kickabout in a field of mud. The boys were spotted getting caked in mud by Erwin Gucci, 46 when he visited the village of Rumpin in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia in October 2022. (Photo by Erwin Gucci/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Artist Mick O’Dea puts the finishing touches to his painting of Esmee Dolan Okeke (8) from Sligo as part of a series of live sittings taking place at The Model until Sunday, November 6, 2022. (Photo by Brian Farrell /The Irish Times)