World in pictures this week, October 15, 2026

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editorsOctober 14, 2026 — 4:17pm1/17People walk past an installation marking the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, on the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel.Credit:AP Photo/Oded Balilty2/17Love locks are seen near salt storage buildings that were built between 1579 and 1745 in Luebeck, northern Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Michael Probst3/17A critically endangered Philippine crocodile, considered the rarest in the world, looks out from its newly opened enclosure at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Martin Meissner4/17A young child looks through a truck’s windshield as displaced families prepare to leave al-Talayi camp in Hassakeh, Syria. Around 450 families are returning to the Ras al-Ayn countryside, seven years after a Turkish military offensive forced them to flee.Credit:AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad5/17Fishermen are silhouetted aboard a boat as the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon.Credit:AP Photo/Hassan Ammar6/17Waves from post-tropical cyclone Rachel crash into beachfront homes in Long Beach, California.Credit:AP Photo/Jae C. Hong7/17A handler pets a cow as they show their cattle at the 129th Highland Cattle Society autumn show and sale in Oban, Scotland.Credit:Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images8/17People watch as Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia arrive at Sidi Embarek Cemetery, where people who died at sea on July 30 and 31 are buried, during their visit to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.Credit:AP Photo/Manu Fernandez9/17A kite flies over rescue boats moored next to a police building as water from the overflowing River Gomti floods the Faizullaganj residential area in Lucknow, India.Credit:AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh10/17 A flooded street of Las Condes with wrecked cars after heavy rains hit Chile’s capital in Santiago, Chile.Credit:Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images11/17A performer from the French company Gratte Ciel presents the open-air aerial circus show “RoZéo” as part of the Festival CulturaUNAM program in Mexico City.Credit:AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo12/17A vehicle lies crushed beneath a collapsed building after an earthquake struck Penonome in Panama.Credit:AP Photo/Aris Mariota13/17Green sea turtles wait for their release back into the ocean after they were found on an empty boat seemingly abandoned by poachers fleeing a police raid, in Serangan, Bali island, Indonesia.Credit:AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati14/17A protester stands amidst tear gas during demonstrations in Central Paris, France. The French high school protests and riots have entered a new phase this week as student and teacher unions mobilise for a massive nationwide day of action aimed at forcing systemic changes after rejecting the government’s emergency offer of 3,000 substitute teachers.Credit:Tom Nicholson/Getty Images15/17Flamingos feed at Lake Duden near the town of Kulu, in Konya province, Turkey.Credit:AP Photo/Emrah Gurel16/17A painting by David Hockney called ‘Dog Painting 17’ is displayed at Christie’s auction rooms in London, estimated at 1,500,000-2,500,00 UK pounds.Credit:AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth17/17The U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly during the San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show in San Francisco.Credit:AP Photo/Jeff Chiu