Here is the top news photograpy from the past week: 

HUNTINGTON BEACH: Workers with Patriot Environmental Services clean up oil Monday, October 4, at the Talbert Marsh in Huntington Beach, California. "The oil has infiltrated the entirety of the (Talbert) wetlands," Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley said Sunday. "There's significant impacts to wildlife there” (Kyle Grillot for CNN)

TOKYO: Fumio Kishida, the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is applauded at the country's lower house of parliament after being elected as Prime Minister on Monday, October 4. Kishida succeeds Yoshihide Suga, who announced in September that he would not run in his party's leadership election (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

KAZAKHSTAN: Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild board a Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan before launching into space on Tuesday, October 5. They traveled to the International Space Station, where they will be filming segments for the movie "Challenge" – the first feature film set in space (Andrey Shelepin/GCTC/Roscosmos/Reuters)

LYON: Olivier de Germay, the Archbishop of Lyon, talks to journalists in Lyon, France, on Tuesday, October 5, after a damning report found that more than 200,000 children had been sexually abused by French Catholic clergy over the past seven decades. Tuesday's report, the most complete account of sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church to date, was compiled by an independent commission at the request of Church officials (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)