News photos of the day

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Kandahar, Afghanistan
Pupils leave their classrooms at a school in the city
Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images
 

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Missouri, US
Mick Jagger, Steve Jordan, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood perform during the Rolling Stones No Filter 2021 North American tour at the Dome, at America’s Center stadium, St Louis
Photograph: Kamil Krzaczyński/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Acandí, Colombia
A group of Haitians cross the jungle on their way to Panama as they attempt to reach the US. From Acandí they embarked on foot – carrying lanterns, machetes and tents – on the dangerous five-day trek to Panama through the Darien jungle, battling snakes, steep ravines, swollen rivers, tropical downpours and criminals often linked to drug trafficking
Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
 

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CENTRE-RIGHT WIN: From left are Franziska Giffey, top Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate for mayor of Berlin; Olaf Scholz, top SPD candidate for chancellor, and Manuela Schwesig, SPD member and governor of the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, at the party HQ in Berlin, Germany. The centre-left party won the biggest share of votes in Germany's election. Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP Photo
 
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been called hypocrites for attending a concert urging action on climate change before leaving on a private jet. The Sussexes were photographed after landing in a Dassault Falcon 2000 as they returned to their £11 million mansion in Montecito, California. They have previously been criticized for “devaluing” their status as environmental role models by using private jets. Source: The Times
 
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John Hinckley was suffering from acute psychosis when he tried to assassinate the US president. (AP: Evan Vucci

A US judge, Paul Friedman says he will grant "unconditional release" to John Hinckley, who wounded former US President Ronald Reagan and three other people in a 1981 assassination attempt. In 2016, Friedman allowed Hinckley to move out of a Washington DC psychiatric hospital, where he had lived for three decades, but imposed restrictions on his travel and internet usage.
 
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Milan, Italy
The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is surrounded by members of the media as she arrives for a three-day Youth for Climate summit
Photograph: Claudio Furlan/AP
 
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TIME TO SHINE: English actor Daniel Craig walks on the red carpet at the much-delayed world premiere of the latest James Bond 007 film No Time to Die at the Royal Albert Hall in London 28 September 2021. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty
 
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A patient in Beilinson Hospital's COVID ward in Petah Tikva, last week. Credit: Moti Milrod

Covid in Israel: The 17 percent of eligible Israelis who have not received the vaccine account for 85 coronavirus deaths in the past week
 
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A health worker walks past an ambulance at Moscow's Novomoskovsky medical center for Covid-19 patients on September 23.

Russia reported its highest Coivid-19 death toll in a single day yesterday (Tuesday) with 852 coronavirus related deaths recorded in the past 24 hours. The head of Russia's public health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said last week it was hard to determine when cases would slow, with less than 50 million Russians having received a first dose of a vaccine.
 
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Visitors look at the Chinese military’s J-16D electronic warfare airplane during the 13th China International Aviation and Aerospece Exhibitin, also known as Airshow China 2021 in Zhuhai, Guangdong.
 
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Britney Spears supporters demonstrate outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse.CREDIT:AP PHOTO/CHRIS PIZZELLO

A judge on Wednesday suspended Britney Spears’ father from the conservatorship that has controlled the singer’s life and money for 13 years.
 
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Windsor, UK
Staff at Windsor Castle clean the 19th-century gilt bronze candelabra in the Crimson Drawing Room in preparation for the opening later this week of the Semi-State Rooms to the public
Photograph: Royal Collection Trust/PA
 
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Prime Minister Justine Trudeau escorts Inuk survivor Elder Levinia Brown on the eve of Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honouring the lost children and survivors of Indigenous residential schools, their families and communities on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, 29 September 2021
 
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Guangzhou, China
A 5,000-room quarantine facility for incoming travellers set to open in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou in the coming days. Comprised of rows of three-story buildings topped with gray roofs in traditional Chinese style, the massive complex spans an area the size of 46 football fields and took less than three months to be build from scratch on the outskirts of the city.
 
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Presiding Judge Dominik Gross and others pose for a picture after arriving for the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, at the Landgericht Itzehoe court in Itzehoe, Germany on September 30, 2021 [Markus Schreiber/Pool via Reuters]

A former secretary for the Schutzstaffel (SS) commander of the Stutthof concentration camp skipped the planned start Thursday of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder, officials said. She was picked up several hours later after the court issued an arrest warrant.
 
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The captain of Afghanistan's national women football team Farkhunda Muhtaj (C) poses for a portrait with teammates at the Belem Tower in Lisbon, Portugal, Picture taken September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Rodrigo Antunes

Portugal has granted asylum to the young footballers.
 
A Palestinian protester smashes an Israeli drone that reportedly fell because of a technical failure, during a demonstration against settlements in the West Bank village of Beita.

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Dublin, Ireland
Melissa Jeuken, a goat herder, looks at Norma from her herd of old Irish goats, a breed introduced to Howth Hills in an attempt to reduce wildfires and to protect species from going extinct
Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
 
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London, UK
Judges use their phones as they wait outside the west door of Westminster Abbey, ahead of the annual Judges Service, which marks the start of the new legal year
Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
 
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St. Petersburg, Russia
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Rebecca (Victoria) Bettarini of Italy pose for photos after their wedding at St Isaac’s Cathedral
Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/TASS
 
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Credit: Tobin Jones
A Dinka tribesman sings to his cattle as the sun sets over his cattle camp next to the Nile river in the Jonglei state of South Sudan. As the sun fell over the camp, fires were lit in order to create smoke to prevent mosquitoes from biting the cows.
 
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Taliban fighters pose where the sixth-century Shahmama Buddha statue once stood in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province. It was destroyed by the militant group in 2001. AFP
 
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The discovery of a chamber at least 40,000 years old in a Gibraltar cave previously inhabited by Neanderthals could lead to groundbreaking new finds about their lifestyles, according to researchers
 

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