Festivals, volcanic eruptions and religious holidays — see pictures of some of the past week's more notable events in the following gallery.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has his photo taken together with the prize winners of the II Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. Olympic champion Daria Anenkova is to his right. October 9, 2014.
A wrecked civilian aircraft at Donetsk International Airport. In many ways, this airport symbolizes the plight of modern Ukraine: a new seven-story terminal with a capacity of 3,100 passengers per hour was opened there in May, 2012, prior to the Euro 2012 association football championship. However, this year the airport has been a gambit in the struggle between Ukraine’s “Maidan” government in Kiev and separatists fighting for Donetsk’s independence. This struggle has continued despite an official ceasefire.
Residents of Grozny during the City Day celebration, October 5, 2014. A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up in the Chechen capital, killing five police officers and wounding at least 12 others.
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman on a spacewalk outside the ISS.
Natalia Poklonskaya, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Crimea, during a session of the Crimean State Council in Simferopol. Poklonskaya's anime-like face and uniform have earned her a cult following in Japan, which has nonetheless placed her on a sanctions list of forty officials due to her role in Crimea's unification with Russia.
