Student protests in France and Albania and more

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

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.

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

A New Zealand fur seal pup swims in coastal waters at the Kaikoura seal colony in Kaikoura on 18 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 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 boy jumps into the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, on 17 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.