Dussehra in Delhi to mourning in Thailand: Top photos from around the world this week

A woman attends a protest at Catalunya square in support of Iranian women against the death of Mahsa Amini, in Barcelona. (Reuters)

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors, holds on to a life-saver after being thrown into the water by co-workers, at the Max-Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. (Reuters)

A teacher dries out books at a school that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian in La Coloma, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Hurricane Ian tore through the island nation causing country-wide blackouts, flattening homes and destroying agricultural fields. (AP Photo)

Huts made of branches and cloth provide shelter to Somalis displaced by drought on the outskirts outskirts of Dollow, Somalia. Somalia is in the midst of the worst drought anyone there can remember. A rare famine declaration could be made within weeks. Climate change and fallout from the war in Ukraine are in part to blame. (AP Photo)

Members of "Vella de Xiquets de Valls" form a human tower during the 28th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain. (AP Photo)

Destroyed Russian equipment is seen placed in an area at the recaptured town of Lyman, Ukraine. Ukraine claimed full control of Russia’s eastern logistics hub Lyman, its most significant battlefield gain in weeks, setting the stage for further advances aimed at cutting Moscow’s supply lines to its battered troops to a single route. (AP Photo)

A woman touches a photo of the victims of a mass killing attack outside Wat Rat Samakee temple in Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand. A former police officer burst into a day care center in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers before shooting more people as he fled. (AP Photo)

Supporters of soccer club Arema FC pray for the victims of soccer match stampede outside the Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, Indonesia. (AP Photo)

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for office again, greets supporters as they campaign in Campinas in the greater Sao Paulo area of Brazil. Da Silva will face Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in a presidential runoff on October 30. (AP Photo)

Effigy of Ravana burns during Dussehra celebrations in New Delhi. (PTI)

A protester carries a piece of wood simulating a weapon during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in the Petion-Ville area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Thousands of protesters marched in the streets of the capital against Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s government and its handling of crippling fuel shortages and soaring prices on Monday. (AP Photo)

A woman is baptized during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in Batavia on Friday. In the version of America laid out at the ReAwaken tour, Christianity is at the center of American life and institutions, it's under attack, and attendees need to fight to restore and protect the nation's Christian roots. It's a message repeated over and over at ReAwaken — one that upends the constitutional ideal of a pluralist democracy. (AP Photo)

A dead whale is towed away from the shore near Puerto Madryn, Argentina, Tuesday. Argentine scientists are determining the reason for at least 13 whales dying in the area in the past few days. (AP Photo)