This week in pictures: From Liz Truss’ resignation to ISRO’s historic satellite launch

Liz Truss announced her resignation from the post of the British Prime Minister on Thursday, amid a political crisis, making her 45-day tenure, the shortest in Britain's history. Her brief term was marred by economic policies that roiled financial markets, pushed up living costs for voters & enraged much of her own party. (AP Photo)

Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze, tearing a hole in one of them and sending people scurrying for cover or trying to shoot them down in what the president said was Russia’s attempt to terrorise civilians. (AP Photo)

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday created history, becoming the first leader of the ruling Communist Party after party founder Mao Zedong to get re-elected for an unprecedented third term in power with the prospect of ruling China for life. (Reuters)

Opposition Congress party declared veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge its new chief on Wednesday, the first person from outside the influential Nehru-Gandhi family to hold the beleaguered party's presidency in 24 years. (Reuters)

A demonstrator reacts as he is detained in a police van during a rally on the second anniversary of anti-police brutality protests that investigators said ended when security forces fired live rounds into the crowd at the Lekki toll gate, in Lagos, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Real Madrid's Karim Benzema celebrates after winning the 2022 Ballon d'Or trophy during the 66th Ballon d'Or ceremony at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. (AP Photo)

An explosion at a state-run mine in Turkey on Friday, October 14, killed 41 workers, stirring memories of the country's worst mining disaster eight years ago  which had killed 301 miners and raised similar safety concerns. In Pic: Relatives of one of the miners killed in a coal mine explosion mourn during his funeral. (AP Photo)

Activists from the group Just Stop Oil hold banners as they march outside Parliament in London on Wednesday. The Just Stop Oil group defines itself as a coalition of working to "ensure that the government commits to ending all new licenses and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK." (AP Photo)

A sledge driver pulls a tourist on a sledge during season's first snowfall at Gulmarg in Baramulla district of North Kashmir, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir, including popular tourist destinations like Gulmarg and Sonamarg, and rains in plains brought wintry conditions earlier than usual in the valley. (PTI)

Decorative lights adorn a bustling commercial street ahead of the 'Diwali' festival in Bengaluru, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. (PTI)

Anti-government demonstrators set a barricade on fire during clashes in N'Djamena, Chad, Thursday Oct. 20, 2022. Chadian security forces have opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the country's two largest cities killing at least 60 people, the government spokesman and a morgue official said. Authorities imposed a curfew after Thursday's violence, which came amid protests in the central African nation against interim leader Mahamat Idriss Deby's two-year extension of power. (AP Photo)

This photograph released by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shows India's heaviest rocket prepared ahead of the launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, Saturday, Oct. 15. (Indian Space Research Organization via AP)