• Actress Rosamund Pike attends the ‘A United Kingdom’ Opening Night Gala screening during the 60th BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square in London. The image has been digitally altered. Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images
    Actress Rosamund Pike attends the ‘A United Kingdom’ Opening Night Gala screening during the 60th BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square in London. The image has been digitally altered. Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images
  • Australian badminton player Wendy Chen poses for a photograph during a media event on Surfers Paradise beach on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia,. The Gold Coast will host the prestigious BWF Sudirman Cup next year from May, the first time the BWF has selected an Oceanic destination to host the global event since it’s founding in 1989. Dave Hunt / EPA
    Australian badminton player Wendy Chen poses for a photograph during a media event on Surfers Paradise beach on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia,. The Gold Coast will host the prestigious BWF Sudirman Cup next year from May, the first time the BWF has selected an Oceanic destination to host the global event since it’s founding in 1989. Dave Hunt / EPA
  • People enjoy a day at the beach on Hollywood Beach as Hurricane Matthew approaches the coast, in Hollywood, Florida. People boarded up beach homes, schools closed and officials ordered evacuations along the East Coast as Hurricane Matthew tore through the Bahamas and took aim at Florida. Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP
    People enjoy a day at the beach on Hollywood Beach as Hurricane Matthew approaches the coast, in Hollywood, Florida. People boarded up beach homes, schools closed and officials ordered evacuations along the East Coast as Hurricane Matthew tore through the Bahamas and took aim at Florida. Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP
  • The sun sets as a sailboat cruises along Lake Michigan off the shores of St Joseph, Michigan.Don Campbell / The Herald-Palladium via AP
    The sun sets as a sailboat cruises along Lake Michigan off the shores of St Joseph, Michigan.Don Campbell / The Herald-Palladium via AP
  • Visitors look at artwork during the opening of the Art in Motion exhibition in Beirut, Lebanon. Wael Hamzeh / EPA
    Visitors look at artwork during the opening of the Art in Motion exhibition in Beirut, Lebanon. Wael Hamzeh / EPA
  • A couture intern sews last minute touches onto a bridal gown backstage before the start of the Marchesa bridal collection show, in New York. Mary Altaffer / AP
    A couture intern sews last minute touches onto a bridal gown backstage before the start of the Marchesa bridal collection show, in New York. Mary Altaffer / AP
  • Indonesia soldiers jump from a Hercules C-130 military transport plane during an exercise at Ranai military airbase in Natuna Island, Riau Islands province, Indonesia. Beawiharta / Reuters
    Indonesia soldiers jump from a Hercules C-130 military transport plane during an exercise at Ranai military airbase in Natuna Island, Riau Islands province, Indonesia. Beawiharta / Reuters
  • A Ferrari samurai during previews ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka. Clive Rose / Getty Images
    A Ferrari samurai during previews ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka. Clive Rose / Getty Images
  • Afghan women and children weave a carpet at their house on the outskirts of Herat. Aref Karimi / AFP
    Afghan women and children weave a carpet at their house on the outskirts of Herat. Aref Karimi / AFP
  • An artwork featuring the image of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with the letters D U and the number 3, a word play on the President’s surname “DU30”, is seen on a rice paddy in Los Banos city, Laguna province, south of Manila. Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
    An artwork featuring the image of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with the letters D U and the number 3, a word play on the President’s surname “DU30”, is seen on a rice paddy in Los Banos city, Laguna province, south of Manila. Romeo Ranoco / Reuters

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World in focus – best photos for October 6, 2016

Fatima Al Marzouqi

October 06, 2016

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A look at the best photos from around the world today.

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