World in focus - best photos for October 14, 2019

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

A Buddhist monk lights up an earthen lamp while worshiping at the Botataung Pagoda on the Thadinkyut full moon day in Yangon, Myanmar. EPA

Gold medalist Arthur Mariano of Brazil celebrates after the horizontal bear exercise in the men's apparatus finals at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. AP

Soldiers stand on a street by El Arbolito park during a military curfew in Quito, Ecuador. AP

Surrounded trees displaying autumn colors as a horse grazes in a field near the village of Gorodechno, 150 kilometers west of the Belarus capital Minsk. AP

A vendor places his hand on acai berries at the Ver-o-Peso riverside market in Belém, Brazil. Belém is the epicenter for the trade of the oily purple acai that is a staple of native Amazon cuisine and a superfood. AP

Four of the iconic cooling towers at the Ferrybridge C Power station are demolished in Knottingley, England. More than 140 people were evacuated from their homes during the demolition. Getty

People take photographs with mourning wreaths during a ceremony to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the death of the late Thai King Bhumibol in front of the Grand Palace in Bangkok. AFP

An employee gathers olives on a tarpaulin during the olive picking season in Antequera. AFP

People walk in an area affected by a fuel tanker that overturned and caught fire damaging infrastructure, vehicles and houses, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Reuters

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