In a photo taken on October 8, 2017 participants described as 'working people, youth, and students of Pyongyang' perform during a mass gala event marking the 20 th anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il' s election as general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on Kim Il- Sung square in central Pyongyang Meanwhile North Korean leader Kim Jong- Un has promoted his sister to a senior ruling party post, state media said, and praised the country' s nuclear weapons programme which has sparked international alarm. (Photo by Kim Won-Jin/AFP Photo)





A Russian emergency service helicopter carries water past billows of smoke as fire fighters battle the blaze in Sindika, a shopping mall selling construction materials, at MKAD Moscow Ring Road on the western outskirts of Moscow, Russia on October 8, 2017. (Photo by Maxim Grigoryev/TASS)





A supporter of the opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) wears oranges during a protest calling for the sacking of election board officials involved in August's cancelled presidential vote, in Nairobi, Kenya October 9, 2017. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





Maria Chiclano, who has no running water or power in her home, washes clothes with her sons in the Espiritu Santo river during heavy rains more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island, on October 8, 2017 in Palmer, Puerto Rico. Only 11.7 percent of Puerto Rico's electricity has been restored and some residents are going to the river to wash clothes, gather water, cool off, or bathe. The area borders the El Yunque National Forest, the United States' only tropical rainforest, which was heavily damaged by the hurricane. Puerto Rico experienced widespread damage including most of the electrical, gas and water grid as well as agriculture after Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane, swept through. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)





Sailors assigned to the “Blackhawks” of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 15, attached to the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), transfer supplies off an MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter as part of relief efforts in Puerto Rico on October 5, 2017. The Department of Defense is supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the lead federal agency, in helping those affected by Hurricane Maria to minimize suffering and is one component of the overall whole-of-government response effort. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Molina/U.S. Navy)





A man dives into the Espiritu Santo river from a rope swing before heavy afternoon rains more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island, on October 8, 2017 in Palmer, Puerto Rico. Only 11.7 percent of Puerto Rico's electricity has been restored and some residents are going to the river to cool off and relax while others go to bathe, wash clothes, or gather water. The area borders the El Yunque National Forest, the United States' only tropical rainforest, which was heavily damaged by the hurricane. Puerto Rico experienced widespread damage including most of the electrical, gas and water grid as well as agriculture after Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane, swept through. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)





A model waits backstage before participating in a plus-size fashion show in Nairobi, Kenya on October 8, 2017. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





A resident rushes to save his home as an out of control wildfire moves through the area on October 9, 2017 in Glen Ellen, California. Tens of thousands of acres and dozens of homes and businesses have burned in widespread wildfires that are burning in Napa and Sonoma counties. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)





Flames consume a home as an out of control wildfire move through the area on October 9, 2017 in Glen Ellen, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)





A participant gets ready to dance at the Indigenous Peoples’ Day festival, held to promote Native American culture and history in New York, US on October 8, 2017. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)





Bodies of Rohingya Muslim, who died after their boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal as they were crossing over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, lay on the local morgue in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh's southern coastal district of Cox's Bazar, Monday, October 9, 2017. (Photo by Rishabh Jain/AP Photo)





This photo taken on October 8, 2017 shows dancers posing in formation to celebrate the upcoming Party Congress, in Rongan in China' s southern Guangxi region. China will convene its 19 th Party Congress on October 18, state media said, a key meeting held every five years where President Xi Jinping is expected to receive a second term as the ruling Communist Party' s top leader. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)