Student protests in France, Albania and more

French riot police walk past burning objects in a street amid clashes with protesters in Paris as part of nationwide protests against the cost of living and rising fuel prices on 17 October 2026.

Demonstrators, seen through broken glass, gather during clashes with police amid an anti-government protest by students, in Tirana, Albania, on 15 October 2026.

Riot police officers take cover as protesters throw a Molotov cocktail during an anti-government demonstration in central Tirana, Albania, on 18 October 2026.

A boy jumps into the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, on 17 October 2026.

A girl hops across a water puddle at a camp for people displaced by war in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on 19 October 2026.

A tourist stands on a walkway overlooking Iguazu Falls in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, on 16 October 2026.

A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Bryson Fire, a wind-driven wildfire, burns in the hills east of Malibu, California, US, on 15 October 2026.

A car-shaped river taxi cruises along the Nile River in central Cairo on 15 October 2026.

Palestinians receive food donated by the World Food Programme at a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on18 October 2026.

A New Zealand fur seal pup swims in coastal waters at the Kaikoura seal colony in Kaikoura on 18 October 2026.