The weekend in pictures
Steampunks in Haworth and a red deer in Durham: the weekend in pictures
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
by Matt Fidler · the GuardianLondon, UK
Lupita Nyong’o attends The Wild Robot Headline Gala during the 68th BFI London film festival at the Royal Festival Hall
Photograph: Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images for BFI
Quezon City, Philippines
Filipino Catholic devotees participate in the annual procession of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary La Naval de Manila
Photograph: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters
West Yorkshire, UK
Steampunks attend the Haworth Steampunk Weekend, in the village of Haworth in the Pennine hills
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
Trieste, Italy
A view of the Barcolana, the largest sailing regatta in the world
Photograph: Claudia Greco/Reuters
Grabovica, Bosnia
Aerial view of waste stuck at the dam on the Neretva river, caused by landslides, torrential rain and flash floods
Photograph: Armin Durgut/AP
Minya, Egypt
Emergency teams respond after a train collision that caused two carriages to plunge into the Ibrahimiyah canal. Twenty people were injured in the accident, authorities reported
Photograph: Ahmed Sayed/Anadolu/Getty Images
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hindu women take part in the sindoor khela ritual, in which married women anoint each other using vermilion powder
Photograph: Abdul Goni/AFP/Getty Images
Darlington, UK
A red deer stag stands in woodland in the grounds of Raby Castle. The herds at Raby Castle include descendants of deer that have been there since Norman times
Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
Tokyo, Japan
A person in a cat-themed costume attends the bakeneko or supernatural cat festival, a pre-Halloween event in the Kagurazaka district of the capital
Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
North Yorkshire, UK
Autumn colours outside the Craven Arms pub at Appletreewick, upstream from Bolton Abbey in the Wharfe Valley
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Boekelo, Netherlands
Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meier riding Formidable 62 competes in a cross country event at Military Boekelo-Enschede
Photograph: ANP/AFP/Getty Images
Lerm-et-Musset, France
Demonstrators dismantle a French gendarmerie vehicle stuck in sand during a protest called by an environmental collective against a high-speed rail link
Photograph: Thibaud Moritz/AFP/Getty Images
Lake Endine, Italy
A pack of riders on the ascent of Forcellino di Bianzano, near Lake Endine, during the Tour of Lombardy
Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images
Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières, France
Residents walk through the flooded centre of the town after Hurricane Kirk swept across western Europe
Photograph: Jean-François Monier/AFP/Getty Images
Madrid, Spain
People attend a rally to demand rent reductions
Photograph: Chema Moya/EPA
New Jersey, US
People in witch costumes on paddleboards in a Halloween event at Spring Lake
Photograph: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu/Getty Images
London, UK
Darrel Blake hands out pieces of sugar cane to people on a tour outside the Royal Exchange. Founded in 2020 by Blake, a Black historian and researcher, the City of London: Slave Trade Money Trail Tour explores the historical ties between London’s financial institutions and the plantation economy, exposing how wealth from the slave trade helped shape the city
Photograph: Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images
Nabatiyeh, Lebanon
A rescuer searches for survivors at the site of an Israeli airstrike
Photograph: Abbas Fakih/AFP/Getty Images
São Paulo state, Brazil
People visit the new 50-metre steel statue of Our Lady of Aparecida, the national patroness of Brazil, designed by the artist Gilmar Pinna, in Aparecida
Photograph: Miguel Schincariol/AFP/Getty Images
Igbo-Ora, Nigeria
Twins attend the Igbo-Ora World Twins festival. Nigeria’s self-proclaimed ‘twins capital of the world’, Igbo-Ora holds its annual festival to celebrate the town’s unusually high incidence of multiple births
Photograph: Olympia de Maismont/AFP/Getty Images
Donbas, Ukraine
Miners enter lifts to go underground at a coalmine in the western part of Donbas
Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images
Texas, US
Visitors look at the SpaceX Starship as it sits on a launchpad at Starbase near Boca Chica before a test flight
Photograph: Sergio Flores/AFP/Getty Images
Maryland, US
Kamala Harris speaks to the press before boarding Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews
Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images