Daily life in October | Pictures in the news
Sometimes, the best photos don’t come from photo stories, but are just slices of every day life found by photographers or taken on daily assignments.
- Tourists watch soap bubbles along the Thames river, London, backdropped by St. Paul’s Cathedral, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
- An Indian woman farmer dries the maize crop at Aloli village, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Ajmer, Indiaís western state of Rajasthan, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Maize is an important cereal crop in the world after wheat and rice. (AP Photo/Deepak Sharma)
- A man takes a nap on the back of his cart on a polluted day in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. Air quality readings in the city on Tuesday were at levels considered hazardous by international measuring standards. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
- Kyle McDowell, a kindergarten student at O’Hara Catholic School, emulates the face of a Jack O’Lantern created from a 800 pound pumpkin by carver Scott Cully in Eugene, Ore., according to the Register-Guard on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. (Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard via AP)
- A Filipino man prepares his sleeping area inside a huge water pipe while others sleep in other pipes in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. Several homeless people have made the pipes as their temporary shelter. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
- A newly wedded couple pass the wall of St. Michael’s Cathedral in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
- Motorcyclists wait at a major intersection through heavy rain in central Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. Thailand’s rainy season typically runs from July to October. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
- Dawn breaks over Pyongyang, North Korea, as buildings poke through the midst and the Juche Tower, left, stands by the Taedong riverbank on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
- CORRECTS NAME OF THE SHRINE FROM AHMED AL- RIFA’I TO AHMED EZZ ELDIN AL-RIFA’I: A man prays in front of the shrine of Ahmed Ezz Eldin al-Rifa’i, one of the grandchildren of late Iraqi Muslim Sufi Saint Ahmed al-Rifa’i, inside the Al-Rifa’i Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The mosque was named after Al-Rifa’i who was the founder of the Sufi Rifai order. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
- A man reads a newspaper inside of Tanger Bar while the sun set illuminates his face, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015.(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
- People jog and pause to enjoy the view at the Debod Temple park in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. The park is frequented mostly by locals but also attracts tourists due to its view at sunset. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
- A man rides a bicycle as the sun sets at the Oriente square in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. The square is a novel area of the Spanish capital flanked by the Royal Palace and the Opera house. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
- A group of paddlers makes their way along the Arga River as the sun sets on a Autumn day, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 13 2015. As the temperature drifts towards winter it is still warm enough to attract people into the open air for a little exercise. (AP Photo / Alvaro Barrientos)
- Two ponies eat on arable land as the sun sets on an autumn afternoon, in La Magdalena, near to Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
- A couple sit by the Temple of Debod as the sun sets in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. The ancient temple, which was originally built in Egypt, was dismantled and relocated in Madrid as a donation from the Egyptian state to Spain in 1968. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
- Jonatan Jimenez carries his dead dog Roco, for the sea to take his body away in La Herradura beach in Chorrillos, Lima Peru, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. According to Jimenez he used to always walk on the beach with Roco, so he wanted it to be his final resting place. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
- A performer who reenacts the Monk’s Dive or “El Salto del Fraile,” prepares to jump into the Pacific Ocean for clients dining at the restaurant of the same name, in the Chorillos district of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. The performer dives daily for tourists and visitors reenacting the legend of the diving monk, who as legend goes, jumped to his death off these neighboring cliffs in despair over an unrequited love. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
- A man carries his board after surfing in La Herradura beach in Chorrillos, Lima Peru, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
- Gary Szilagyi casts his line while standing in the Susquehanna River where it meets with Fishing Creek, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, in Bloomsburg, Pa. (Jimmy May/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise via AP)
- Men hold cockerels at a weekly pet market in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. Hundreds of pet lovers visit the market to buy birds. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
- A Pakistani camel owner looks for customers as people visit Karachi beach suffering from warm weather, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
- Pakistan’s Waseem Akram takes a break while working at coal depot in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
- North Korean women wearing traditional dresses gather for rehearsals, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea in preparation for the 70th anniversary of the founding of their country’s ruling party on Oct. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
- The Corning Tower at the Empire State Plaza in Albany is shrouded in autumn colors and morning fog from the Hudson River as seen from East Greenbush, N.Y., on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
- Buddhist monks travel in a rickshaw to collect alms in the rain following a clerics rule of no footwear nor use of umbrellas in Hlaing Tharyar, suburbs of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. Downpours during the monsoon season are intense, and often more than 100 millimeters (3.9 inches) of rain falls in an hour resulting in flash floods and traffic jams. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
- A herder walks with cows on a Naypyitaw highway, in the capital Naypytaw, Myanmar, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015.(AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
- Two novice Buddhist monks walk alongside a basket seller to collect alms following a clerics rule of no footwear nor use of umbrellas in Mandalay, Myanmar, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Hkun Lat)
- A fisherman throws a net to catch fish in the shallow waters of Ngapali beach in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State at dusk, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. Myanmar’s general elections are scheduled for Nov. 8, the first since a nominally civilian government was installed in 2011. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
- Men travel in a rickshaw in rain in Hlaing Tharyar, suburbs of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. Downpours during the monsoon season are intense, and often more than 100 millimeters (3.9 inches) of rain falls in an hour resulting in flash floods and traffic jams. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
- A Lebanese man fishes along the Beirut coastline, as the sun rises over the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
- A flock of migrating birds fly over the capital Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
- A Lebanese angler casts his fishing pole from a rocky coastal area along the Beirut coastline as the sun rises over the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
- Syrian refugee Fatima Jassim, 40, plays with her 7-month-old daughter Marwa while sitting on a pile of wood to be used for cooking, outside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
- Syrian refugee Ghaziyya Alsaad, 58, offers evening prayers, known as Maghrib, inside a tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
- Syrian refugee children attend a class at a makeshift school set up in a tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
- Syrian refugee boys play in an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
- The sun sets as Egyptians walk on the beach of Alexandria, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
- A man opens the doors of Egypt’s late King Farouk’s tomb, at the Al-Rifa’i Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The mosque is filled with numerous tombs of Egypt’s late royal family and Iran’s late Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
- Men pray at the Al-Rifa’i Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
- The sunset illuminates clouds over Boston harbor and the city skyline Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
- Visitors enjoy strolling through a field of pink and white cosmos in full bloom at Showa Kinen Park in Tokyo Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
- A village woman followed by a child crosses the River Daya to get to the other side of the bank on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. The nearest bridge across the river being some distance away, villagers opt to wade across the river to get to their village when the water levels are low. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
- A cyclist rides past a sandcastle built for a record attempt for the tallest sandcastle, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, on Virginia Key Beach in Miami. The castle was commissioned by Turkish Airlines to highlight their new nonstop service from Miami to Istanbul. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
- Youths attend a Capoeira lesson on a street in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. Capoeira is a 400-year-old martial art disguised as dance, created by African slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazilís first capital. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
- Youths hang from the rear bumper of a vintage American car as they play in a flooded street, after a heavy rain in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
- Haze envelops the Forbidden City as seen from nearby hilltop park on a polluted day in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. Wednesday is the last day of China’s weeklong National Day holiday, traditionally a peak time of the year for tourist travel, but for the second day in a row air quality readings in Chinese capital were at levels considered hazardous by international measuring standards. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
- A Chinese model in traditional costumes promotes a photography service at a shopping mall in Yinchuan in northwestern China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. China’s leaders have sought to reassure the world that China’s economy will continue to expand, despite signs that the country’s economic growth appears to be slowing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
- Shoppers walk past a row of mannequins at a shopping mall in Yinchuan in northwestern China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. China’s leaders have sought to reassure the world that China’s economy will continue to expand, despite signs that the country’s economic growth appears to be slowing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
- Sheeps graze on a grass land near a cement plant on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
- Window washers use cables to lower themselves from a skyscraper while working on a polluted day in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. Air quality readings in the city on Tuesday were at levels considered hazardous by international measuring standards. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
- Visitors walk inside a tunnel at Sutro Baths, a popular tourist spot, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
- A man walks as sunlight reflects off the windows of an office building Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, 2015, in downtown Calgary, Alberta. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
- Children run near the sculpture “Wonderland” by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, 2015, in downtown Calgary, Alberta. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
- A seagull passes by as the sun sets beside Big Ben’s clock tower, in London, Monday, Oct. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
- Pedestrians are reflected in the glass as they cross over the Millennium Bridge in front of St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
- People exercise on the Morro Dois Irmaos or Two Brothers Mountain, atop the Vidigal slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. Despite the recent wave of violence in other pacified favelas, Vidigal has been peaceful and is today a popular tourist spot. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
- A man carries children on a bicycle cart on their way out of Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
- People walk at dusk in Arpoador beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
- Homeless Bangladeshi boys sleep on an overpass early morning in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. Despite the government’s banning of several radical Islamic groups, intelligence sources have confirmed that several hard-line groups are active in Bangladesh where almost 90 percent of its 160 million people are Muslim. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad)
- A Bangladeshi laborer carries a basket on his head and enters an underpass in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. Despite the government’s banning of several radical Islamic groups, intelligence sources have confirmed that several hard-line groups are active in Bangladesh where almost 90 percent of its 160 million people are Muslim. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad)
- Miley Eady, 7, of Birmingham, lays down her super hero mask while she waits for the super hero window washers at the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
- Students in a lineman class hold their positions atop poles during a climbing session at Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Ala., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. The prospective lineman were learning pole climbing skills using belts and strap on climbing spikes. (Gary Cosby Jr./The Decatur Dailyvia AP)
- Landon Fox, 5, of Birmingham, looks up to see his favorite superhero, Captain America, a window washer dressed as a superhero at Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)