A view of the new Katara Towers in the Qatari coastal city of Lusail, seen on October 1, 2022, ahead of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. Fifty days before the World Cup kicks off in Qatar, workers are pouring concrete and hammering through the night to ready luxury hotels and bargain apartments for a million or more football fans. #

Farmers transport their cattle with a boat as they return from mountain pastures, during the traditional "Almabtrieb" (cattle drive), on the lake Königssee, near Schoenau in the German Alps, on October 2, 2022. #

Blooming flowers cover the Atacama Desert near Copiapo, Chile, on October 4, 2022. The phenomenon typically happens only once every five to seven years when rare heavy rains cause the flowers to bloom. #

A cruise ship makes its way through Gastineau Channel toward downtown Juneau, Alaska, on October 3, 2022, as a layer of fog begins to lift. The cruise-ship season in Alaska is nearing its end, with the last large boats of the year expected in Juneau later this month. #

Two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, Eduardo Tocuya carries a dog he recovered in hopes of reuniting it with its owners, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on September 30, 2022. #

The 12-foot-tall puppet known as Little Amal sails under the Brooklyn Bridge as she says goodbye to New York City on the last day of her New York City tour on October 2, 2022. #

An electricity pylon is pulled down near Martinstown, in Winterbourne, England, on September 30, 2022. The National Grid has started to remove 22 pylons and 8.8 kilometers of overhead cable to transform views of the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Going Underground project is one of the first schemes in the world to remove high-voltage electricity-transmission infrastructure solely to enhance the landscape. #

Plants grow in the waiting area at the Cross Border Shuttle Bus San Tin Terminus in the Lok Ma Chau area on October 5, 2022, in Hong Kong, China. The terminus served the only 24-hour border crossing between Hong Kong Lok Ma Chau and Huanggang, Shenzhen. As Beijing's ongoing stringent curbs keep mainland Chinese visitors away, the terminus has been shut down for more than two years. #

Officers stand guard as a group of women gathered to protest femicide in Ecuador in front of the police headquarters in Quito, on October 1, 2022. The demonstration followed the recent murder of a woman named María Belén Bernal, who disappeared after entering a police training facility, and whose suspected killer—Bernal's husband, police lieutenant Germán Fernando Cáceres—remains at large. #

A protester wearing face-paint depicting France's iconic "Marianne" attends a demonstration in support of the Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on Place de la Republique in Paris, on October 2, 2022, following her death in Iran. Amini, 22, died in custody on September 16, three days after her arrest by the notorious morality police in Tehran for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women. #

Reporters are reflected in the sunglasses of President Joe Biden as he speaks to the press before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on October 6, 2022. #

Fireworks explode as an effigy of Meghnad, son of demon king Ravana, burns during Vijayadashmi, or Dussehra, festival celebrations in the old quarters of Delhi, India, on October 5, 2022. #

A Taoist devotee pours gasoline into the fire on the final day of the Chinese Nine Emperor Gods festival at a temple in Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia, on October 4, 2022. #

Model Bella Hadid is dressed by a crew spraying Fabrican spray-on fabric during the Coperni Spring-Summer 2023 fashion show as part of the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week, in Paris, on September 30, 2022. Dr. Manel Torres (right), is the inventor of the spray-on fabric, which was used to create a minimalist Coperni slip dress, sprayed directly on Hadid's body. #

A priest sprinkles holy water on a pair of dogs at a drive-through pet blessing, ahead of World Animal Day, at a mall in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, on October 2, 2022. #

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern-day humans evolved from extinct ancestors, reacts after being thrown into the water by co-workers, at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, on October 3, 2022. #

People and supporters of Arema FC light candles as they mourn outside Kanjuruhan Stadium on October 3, 2022, in Malang, Indonesia. A riot and stampede broke out at a football stadium in East Java on Saturday. Police fired tear gas to disperse fans who had invaded the pitch and began fighting after the match ended. A stampede for the exits resulted in at least 130 deaths, local media reports said, with many people still injured in hospitals. #