Week in pictures 19 October 2024
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST: The aurora borealis illuminates the sky over Arizona’s Tonto National Forest on Thursday, October 10 (Michael Chow/The Republic/USA Today Network/Imagn Images)
POENARI: A young man sits in The Colored Forest, a local artists project in Poenari, Romania, on Saturday, October 12. The project is meant to raise awareness of large-scale deforestation (Vadim Ghirda/AP)
CHICAGO: Ruth Chepngetich runs with the Kenyan flag after finishing the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, October 13. Chepngetich obliterated the women’s marathon world record, finishing in 2:09:56 — nearly two minutes better than the previous record (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images)
BUENOS AIRES: Economics students hold class in front of the University of Buenos Aires on Wednesday, October 16, as part of a protest against Argentine President Javier Milei, who vetoed higher funding for public universities (Victor R. Caivano/AP)
TYBEE ISLAND: A recently discovered comet known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS can be seen in the sky as two men fish off a pier in Tybee Island, Georgia, on Sunday, October 13 (Sam Wolfe/Reuters)
SYDNEY: A full moon rises in front of people near Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Thursday, October 17 (David Gray/AFP/Getty Images)
BOCA CHICA: SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket booster, which had just launched the uncrewed Starship spacecraft, successfully returns to the launch site near Boca Chica, Texas, on Sunday, October 13. The booster was caught midair with a pair of massive metal pincers that SpaceX calls “chopsticks” (Sergio Flores/AFP/Getty Images)
ISTANBUL: The sun rises behind the Grand Çamlıca Mosque as the Bosphorus Bridge is covered in fog in Istanbul on Wednesday, October 16 (Murad Sezer/Reuters)
CHENGDU: A woman visits a bookstore in Chengdu, China, on Sunday, October 13 (AFP/Getty Images)
TOKYO: People sit at a Tokyo cafe during the Kagurazaka Bakeneko Festival on Sunday, October 13. The annual festival invites participants to embrace their feline side by dressing up as cats and showcasing their playful spirit (Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images)