Bolshevik anniversary
Children attend a flower-laying ceremony at Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow on Oct. 29.
The event is part of the upcoming anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution during which Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Communist government came to power.
— Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images
In the Situation Room
President Donald Trump monitors developments in the Situation Room as U.S. Special Operations forces close in on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's compound in Syria on Oct. 26.
Trump is joined by, from left, National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley, and Brig. Gen. Marcus Evans, Deputy Director for Special Operations on the Joint Staff.
— Shealah Craighead / The White House via Getty Images
Raid's aftermath
The site hit by helicopter gunfire following an American-led raid targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Barisha, Syria, on Oct. 27.
The Islamic State militant group named a new leader Abu Ibrahim Hashimi al-Quraishi Thursday to succeed al-Baghdadi, the first time ISIS acknowledged his death.
— Omar Haj Kadour / AFP - Getty Images
Mourning from afar
Le Minh Tuan, father of 30-year old Le Van Ha, feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain, cries while holding Ha's son outside their house in Vietnam's Nghe An province on Oct. 27.
U.K. police charged truck driver Maurice Robinson, 25, of Northern Ireland, with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people. In addition to manslaughter and trafficking, he also faces charges for conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering.
— Nhac Nguyen / AFP - Getty Images
Last climb up Ayers Rock
Tourists climb Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory, Australia, on Oct. 25.
Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians' demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday when high winds threatened to prematurely end the generations-old tradition of climbing the sandstone monolith.
The ascent was permanently closed to climbers late in the afternoon, while those already on the rock had until sunset to find their way down.
— Lukas Coch / AAP via Reuters
Young smoker
A three-year-old girl smokes a cigar during the Saint Simon celebrations in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala, on Oct. 28.
— Orlando Estrada / AFP - Getty Images
Bangkok strike
Lightning hits a building in Bangkok on Oct. 27.
— Mladen Antonov / AFP - Getty Images
Pumpkin hideout
Meerkats inspect a pumpkin in their enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, Germany, on Oct. 24.
— Sina Schuldt / AFP - Getty Images
Scottish foliage
People walk on the bridge over the river Garry, in Pitlochry, Scotland, Britain on Oct. 26.
— Russell Cheyne / Reuters
Burning tree
Embers fly off a tree as the Kincade fire burns in Kellogg, Calif., on Oct. 29.
— Paul Kitagaki Jr. / Zuma Press |