Fireworks, UN walkouts and floods

A performer holds a stick with fireworks during the traditional "Correfoc" (fire run) as part of the La Mercè festival, which celebrates Barcelona's patron saint, in Barcelona, Spain, on 26 September 2026.

Displaced Palestinians gather to receive hot meals distributed by a charity kitchen in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 25 September 2026.

Several attendees and delegation members walk out as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to speak at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 24 September 2026.

Palestinians share coffee as they dig caves to live in after Israeli forces demolished their houses, in Masafer Yatta near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 23 September 2026.

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping view portraits of former US presidents at the White House, Washington, DC, on 24 September 2026.

A resident stands at the site of a private house hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 28 September 2026.

People navigate through a flooded market in Bangkok, Thailand, on 28 September 2026.

Newly born cheetah cubs and their mother Daenerys sit in their enclosure at Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, on 25 September 2026.

Devotees carry an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha for immersion in the Arabian Sea during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai on 25 September 2026.

A French Air Force Dassault Rafale C fighter jet is seen through a window of the aircraft carrying Pope Leo XIV from Lourdes to Metz on the last day of his four-day visit to France, on 28 September 2026.