Best photos of October 3: Earthquake in the Philippines to a sun sculpture in England


  • People look at the damaged century-old Daanbantayan Church following the magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Cebu, Philippines. Reuters
    People look at the damaged century-old Daanbantayan Church following the magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Cebu, Philippines. Reuters
  • Damaged gardens in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, due to land subsidence. AFP
    Damaged gardens in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, due to land subsidence. AFP
  • Demonstrators in Istanbul wave Palestinian flags as they take part in a rally in solidarity with Palestinians. AFP
    Demonstrators in Istanbul wave Palestinian flags as they take part in a rally in solidarity with Palestinians. AFP
  • South Korea’s Joo Cheon-hui serves to South Korea’s Shin Yu-bin during their quarter final match at the China Smash table tennis tournament in Beijing. AFP
    South Korea’s Joo Cheon-hui serves to South Korea’s Shin Yu-bin during their quarter final match at the China Smash table tennis tournament in Beijing. AFP
  • A protester reacts after getting sprayed by a Department of Homeland Security officer outside a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland. AP
    A protester reacts after getting sprayed by a Department of Homeland Security officer outside a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland. AP
  • Firefighters work to contain a fire that broke out at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo, California. Reuters
    Firefighters work to contain a fire that broke out at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo, California. Reuters
  • Panatere metallurgical engineer Jean-Francois Dionne wears a thermal protective suit before a presentation of a solar furnace designed to melt steel from production waste and recirculate it into industry, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, western Switzerland. AFP
    Panatere metallurgical engineer Jean-Francois Dionne wears a thermal protective suit before a presentation of a solar furnace designed to melt steel from production waste and recirculate it into industry, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, western Switzerland. AFP
  • Helios, a seven-metre sun sculpture and soundscape by Luke Jerram, is suspended in the nave of the floodlit abbey ruins of Fountains Abbey, near Aldfield, Ripon in North Yorkshire. PA
    Helios, a seven-metre sun sculpture and soundscape by Luke Jerram, is suspended in the nave of the floodlit abbey ruins of Fountains Abbey, near Aldfield, Ripon in North Yorkshire. PA