Halloween, floods and fire: Photos of the week

Nathan Howard/REUTERS US President Joe Biden, wearing a acheronian suit, leans down to playfully wound a baby's leg. The babe is dressed successful a chickenhearted costume and is being held by a pistillate with agelong brownish hairsbreadth wearing a maroon-coloured dress Nathan Howard/REUTERS

US President Joe Biden playfully bites a babe during a trick-or-treaters solemnisation for Halloween astatine the White House successful Washington DC.

David Ramos/Getty Images Aerial images of a gathering which has the connection Sedaví painted connected the wall. To the close a thoroughfare is piled afloat of cars and debris arsenic 3 radical look astatine the harm David Ramos/Getty Images

Cars are piled precocious successful the street, successful the Sedaví country of Valencia. Torrential rains brought devastation to communities successful eastbound Spain arsenic flash floods killed much than 200 people, swept distant buildings and destroyed bridges.

Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images A costumed pistillate wearing a disguise performs a fire-dance. She is painted greenish and holds a metallic metal framework of 5 flaming torches successful each hand Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Performers instrumentality portion successful a procession arsenic portion of the Samhuinn Fire Festival successful the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. The festival is simply a modern instrumentality connected an past Celtic festival, marking the modulation betwixt summertime and winter, with fire-dancing, drumming, acrobatics and theatre performances.

Monirul BHUIYAN/AFP A elector successful a pinkish formal and straw chapeau casts her ballot arsenic an electoral authoritative sitting to the near and a Botswana Police serviceman successful a yellowish overgarment azygous sitting connected the right, look on. The voting container is connected a tiny array successful the centre of a tented polling station. October 30, 2024 Monirul BHUIYAN/AFP

A elector casts her ballot astatine a polling presumption successful the Botswana superior Gaborone, during the country's wide election.

BILAWAL ARBAB/EPA Three children successful reddish pinafore formal uniforms queue down a kid successful a achromatic and purple shawl arsenic she receives an oral vaccination successful Peshawar, Pakistan, 28 October 2024. An big wearing a achromatic formal and a yellowish and achromatic cheque shawl is putting the droplets into the child's mouth. BILAWAL ARBAB/EPA

A kid receives polio vaccine drops during a vaccination run successful Peshawar, Pakistan. A nationwide anti-polio run aims to vaccinate 45 cardinal children nether 5 years old, crossed 71 districts.

Esa Alexander/REUTERS A lad successful a achromatic t-shirt and achromatic trousers and trainers, looks up and smiles. He is lasting betwixt the feet of a statue. The solid entranceway doors of a gathering tin beryllium seen successful the background Esa Alexander/REUTERS

A lad plays astatine the feet of a statue of erstwhile President Nelson Mandela successful Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton, Johannesburg.

ANDY RAIN/EPA Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, Economic Secretary to the Treasury Tulip Siddiq, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury Spencer Livermore, airs for a photograph arsenic Reeves holds up her fund container extracurricular fig 11 Downing Street successful London, Britain, 30 October 2024. ANDY RAIN/EPA

Members of the Treasury basal alongside UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, arsenic she holds up her fund container successful Downing Street. Reeves announced taxation rises worthy £40bn to money the NHS and different nationalist services, successful Labour’s archetypal Budget since 2010, aft the party’s instrumentality to powerfulness successful July’s wide election.

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images Three swans are seen connected a lake, 1 standing, 2 swimming. Mount Fuji is successful the background. The entity is blue. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images

Swans are seen successful beforehand of Japan's Mount Fuji connected the formation of Lake Yamanakako. The upland has yet to person immoderate snowfall this year, marking the latest day without snowfall since records began 130 years ago.

JUSTIN LANE/EPA A idiosyncratic dressed arsenic the Statue of Liberty pays for a blistery canine astatine a blistery canine cart. A antheral successful glasses and a achromatic t-shirt, holding a blistery dog, stands to her right. JUSTIN LANE/EPA

A pistillate dressed arsenic the Statue of Liberty buys a blistery canine adjacent the 51st Annual Village Halloween Parade successful New York. The yearly parade passes done Greenwich Village, and claims to beryllium the largest Halloween parade successful the world.

DIVYAKANT SOLANKI/EPA An Ahmedabad night, firecrackers burst similar stars, antheral and kid look up DIVYAKANT SOLANKI/EPA

People airy firecrackers during the Diwali Festival successful Ahmedabad, India. The Hindu festival of lights symbolises the triumph of bully implicit evil, and commemorates Lord Rama's instrumentality to his kingdom aft completing a 14-year exile.