A shaggy, brown, and possibly pregnant mother bear known as 409 Beadnose, crowned on Tuesday as "Fattest Bear of 2018," is seen on the bank of Brooks River in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve on September 30, 2018. #

An inflatable sculpture entitled "Sea Monsters HERE" extends from a rusting warehouse called Building 61 at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia on October 9, 2018. The installation was created by the U.K.-based artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas. The former military base is free and open to the public. #

An F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft flies over spectators during the annual live-fire event of the Swiss Air Force at the Axalp, over Brienz, in the Bernese Alps, on October 10, 2018. #

Members of the "Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls" complete their human tower during the 27th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain, on October 7, 2018. The tradition of building human towers or "castells" dates back to the 18th century and takes place during festivals in Catalonia, where "colles" or teams compete to build the tallest and most complicated towers. #

An aerial view of a man lying on the cracked ground of Lake Van, the largest lake in Turkey, after a fall in water levels due to seasonal conditions, in the Enginsu neighborhood of Turkey's eastern Van province on October 8, 2018. #

Elise Mertens of Belgium hits a return against Andrea Sestini Hlavackova and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic with her teammate Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands, during their Women's Doubles Semifinal match in the 2018 China Open at the China National Tennis Center in Beijing on October 6, 2018. #

A life-size bronze statue of the late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell stands outside the Museum of Pop Culture a day after its unveiling, on October 8, 2018, in Seattle. Cornell's wife, Vicky Cornell, commissioned the piece by the artist Nick Marra and donated it to the museum at the Seattle Center. #

A protester screams from the lap of "Lady Justice" on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building as demonstrators storm the steps and doors of the Supreme Court while Judge Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as an associate justice of the Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on October 6, 2018. #

The social humanoid robot Sophia, by Hanson Robotics, attends a news conference after a meeting with young inventors and officials in Kiev, Ukraine, on October 11, 2018. #

Kathy Coy stands among what is left of her home after Hurricane Michael destroyed it in Panama City, Florida, on October 11, 2018. She said she was in the home when it was blown apart and is thankful to be alive. #

The interior of a Family Dollar Store that had the storefront ripped off, photographed in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, in Millville, Florida, on October 11, 2018. #

The northern lights illuminate the sky along the Ring Road in southeastern Iceland, between the Jokullsarlon glacier lagoon and the town of Hofn, on October 7, 2018. #

The exhaust plume of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, after it launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on October 7, 2018, carrying an Argentinian communication satellite. The plume was visible over a large part of California, Nevada, and Arizona. #

Mourners attend a candlelight vigil for the victims of the fatal limousine crash in Amsterdam, New York, on October 8, 2018. 20 people died in the crash, including the driver of the limo, 17 passengers, and two pedestrians. #

Peter Weiss, the director of the space department of COMEX, tests a pressurized suit identical to those used in space expeditions in the lava tunnel "Caverne Gendarme" in Saint-Philippe, a commune in the French overseas island of Reunion, on October 12, 2018. #

An aerial view of the luxury hotel InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, built inside a deserted quarry pit in southwestern Shanghai, China, on October 10, 2018. The building has 18 floors, 16 of which are below ground, including two submerged underwater. After multiple delays, the hotel, designed by the British firm Atkins, will finally open later this year. #

An aerial view shows Malian workers loading sand collected from the Niger River bed into a truck at the port of Bamako on October 7, 2018. Increasing construction in the Malian capital has boosted the demand for bricks made out of high-quality Niger River sand. Diggers can travel more than 60 miles (100 km) from Bamako to reach an extraction site, sometimes exposed to harsh weather conditions that endanger their fragile convoys. Once there, sand collectors dive down to the river bed to fill up buckets. They then tip their contents into a boat that can reportedly carry up to 10 tons of sand at a value of 50,000 CFA (around $80). While men usually collect the sand from river beds far from the capital for a total of 9,000 to 13,000 CFA (around $16 to $23) for three days of work, women unload it in Bamako for a rate of 1,000 CFA (around $1.75) per shipment. #

People walk past destroyed cars in Sant Llorenc des Cardassar, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on October 10, 2018. At least nine people were killed and nine were missing after a river burst its banks following heavy rain in the town. #

Firefighters work the scene of an accident in Prescott, Arizona, on October 7, 2018. Firefighters in Prescott said nobody was hurt after a pickup truck was hit by another car, went flying through the air, and then landed on top of a third vehicle. #