Week in pictures: 21-27 October 2023


A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

Friends and family take cover as rocket sirens sound during the funeral of Sagiv Ben Zvi

A woman looks out over the flooded beer garden of the Boat Inn after the River Severn burst its banks near Ironbridge

A person dressed in a costume participates in the Catrinas procession

India, of the Netherlands, competes against Mono, of South Korea

Some of the South African mine workers who have been underground since Sunday night chant slogans after emerging at Gold One's Modder East mine

A fan places a scarf around a statute of Bobby Charlton outside Old Trafford

Police officers remove an Extinction Rebellion (XR) activist

Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin attend a see-off ceremony at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China

Sir Ben Okri is made a Knight Bachelor by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, London


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