World in focus – best photos for September 26, 2018

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

A youngster plays with Elasti Plasti at the launch of Hamleys top Christmas toys, in London, UK. Peter Nicholls/Reuters

A deer stag barks in the early morning light during the rutting season in Richmond Park, London, UK. Toby Melville/Reuters

'Quantum' by Annabelle Widmann of Australia is modelled in the Under The Microscope Section during the World of Wearable Art Preview 2018 at TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, New Zealand. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

Palestinian cadets demonstrate their skills at a police college run by the Hamas-led interior ministry, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Salem/Reuters

The sun sets over the skyline in Madrid, Spain. Gabriel Bouys/AFP

Farmers make a Chinese national flag from chilli peppers and corn on Longquan mountain in Lishui to mark the upcoming National Day. AFP

Foreign tourists wearing traditional Korean costumes at the Gyeongbok palace during the Chuseok holidays in Seoul, South Korea. Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA

Vietnamese soldiers salute after raising the national flag draped with a black cloth to pay their respect to late President Tran Dai Quang in Hanoi. Manan Vatsyayana/AFP

A man rests as crypts are adapted for hundreds of unidentified bodies at the municipal pantheon in El Salto, Jalisco State, Mexico. A wave of violence linked to powerful drug cartels has sent the number of missing persons in the country soaring to more than 36,000. Ulises Ruiz/AFP

Iraqi Kurds wave flags and a poster of Massud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, during a rally at the Franco Hariri Stadium, in Arbil. Safin Hamed/AFP

People walk by the River Thames across from the financial district of London in the UK. Henry Nicholls/Reuters

Sports reporters walk on the course at sunrise before players take part in a practice session ahead of the 42nd Ryder Cup at Le Golf National Course at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Franck Fife/AFP

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