Hurricane Melissa, Sikh warriors and more from the world

Nihang Sikh warriors ride on horses as they display their skills on the occasion of Fateh Divas in Amritsar on 22 October 2025.

A woman and a child stand along the Kingston waterfront as Hurricane Melissa approaches, in Kingston, Jamaica, on 27 October 2025.

A fireworks show orchestrated by artist Cai Guo-Qiang with AI assistance, at the Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg) to mark its closing for a five-year renovation project, in Paris on 22 October 2025.

Cows eat pomegranates at a farm in the town of Tebourba, about 30 kilometres west of Tunis, on 23 October 2025.

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station on the first day of early voting for the mayoral election in Brooklyn, New York City, US, on 25 October 2025.

An Iraqi firefighter looks on as smoke and fire billow at the Zubair oil field in southern Iraq on 26 October 2025.

A child with a painted face looks on as revellers gather to witness the annual Catrinas Day parade, ahead of the Day of the Dead, in Mexico City on October 26, 2025.

A Hindu woman with "sindhur", or vermilion powder, on her forehead stands in water as she worships the Sun god at the bank of the river Yamuna during the Hindu religious festival of Chhath Puja in Noida, India, on 28 October 2025.

This photograph shows trees with autumnal foliage reflected in the Bethmale lake in the Pyrenees Mountains, Bethmale, southwestern France, on 24 October 2025.

Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a fire at the site of a food warehouse following a Russian missile strike in Kyiv early on 25 October 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.