Felix Hörhager / Picture-Alliance via Getty / Picture-Alliance / dpaGuests celebrate at the Hofbräu-Festzelt tent at Oktoberfest after the first keg is tapped in Munich, Germany, on September 19, 2026.Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert / dpa / GettyAndre (left) and Anna Laue from the Elbaue Horse Farm swap out pumpkins at the top of their pumpkin pyramid in Schönebeck, Germany, on September 22, 2026. The pyramid is visible from afar and marks the pick-your-own field and the farm stand run by the farmer and the teacher.Ian Forsyth / GettyGraham Haswell, from Billingham, poses for a picture with his 80.3-pound (36.43-kilogram) prize-winning marrow during the 50th Harrogate Autumn Flower Show on September 18, 2026 in Ripon, England.Eduardo Parra / Europa Press / GettyPeople view the immersive exhibition titled “Human Universe” at Espacio Delicias in Madrid, Spain, on September 18, 2026.Lindsey Wasson / APLas Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson reacts after a Seattle Storm foul against the Aces during the second half of a WNBA basketball game on September 17, 2026, in Seattle.Bilal Hussein / APA boy plays soccer as the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 18, 2026.David Gray / AFP / GettyThailand’s Tanaphon Sapyen kicks the ball during the men’s team sepak takraw match between Thailand and Indonesia at Nagoya City Mizuho Park Gymnasium in Nagoya, Japan, on September 21, 2026.Wojtek Radwanski / AFP / GettyThe tram of the Turkish team from Istanbul competes during the 12th European Tram Driver Championship in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland’s downtown, on September 19, 2026. Twenty-six teams from 25 cities and 24 European countries, plus one guest team from Melbourne, Australia, gathered to show off their driving skills in a series of competitions that tested their precision, concentration, feel for the vehicle, and control of the tram.Felipe Dana / APClimbers take photos while standing atop the Cavall Bernat monolith, as the moon rises behind, at Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac Natural Park in Matadepera, Spain, September 20, 2026.AFP / GettySolar panels cover the ground at the Yinchuan No. 4 Photovoltaic Power Station in the Gobi desert in China’s northern Ningxia region, on September 22, 2026Qin Gang / VCG / GettyRice grows in terraced fields in Yunding Village, in China’s Guizhou province, on September 19, 2026.Matthias Bein / DPA / GettyGeese walk through a pasture in the northern Harz Mountains near Veckenstedt, Germany, on September 24, 2026.Raul Bravo / AFP / GettyMembers of the Chilean Carabineros hold police-dog puppies during the annual military parade at the O’Higgins Park ellipse, held as part of celebrations marking the anniversary of Chile’s independence, in Santiago, on September 19, 2026.Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / GettyAlpacas are loaded onto a livestock truck during the traditional Alpabzug, in German, or désalpe, in French, a Swiss festival to mark herds coming in from mountain pastures, in the Griesalp area above Kiental, Switzerland, on September 22, 2026.Omer Ahu / Anadolu / GettyA red deer bellows in woodlands east of Mount Uludağ in northwestern Turkey, on September 19, 2026.Zhao Xiaogang / VCG / GettyTourists visit the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River as the water volume significantly increased due to sediment discharge and flood release from upstream reservoirs on September 20, 2026, in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, China.Guillaume Saligot / AFP / GettyMigrants aboard a smuggler’s boat attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Merville-Franceville-Plage, France, on September 21, 2026. As crossings of the English Channel become more and more difficult from northern French beaches, migrants are trying new routes to reach England from southern regions such as the Calvados department, where the channel is wider than along the northern French coast.Jeff Pachoud / AFP / GettyTwo people wade through the shallow water of Lak Annecy, far from the shore, after the water level dropped significantly because of an ongoing drought, in Annecy, France, on September 24, 2026.Dario Belingheri / GettyMatisse Van Kerckhove competes in a time trial at the 99th UCI Road World Championships on September 21, 2026, in Montreal, Quebec.Buddhika Weerasinghe / GettyVisitors pose next to monsters named “Kappa” sitting on a cart in Japan’s “Monster Town,” Fukusaki, on September 23, 2026, near Himeji, Japan. Fukusaki has installed statues of whimsical and spooky monsters and mythical creatures from Japanese folklore in various locations to attract tourists.Buddhika Weerasinghe / GettyA monster named “Demon” sits on a bench outside a restaurant in Fukusaki on September 23, 2026.Luis Lizarazo / AFP / GettyA volunteer looks on as a forest fire burns on San Marcos Hill in the municipality of Villa de Leyva, Boyacá department, Colombia, on September 20, 2026.Kateryna Klochko / APA rescue worker puts out a fire at the Intrade shopping center after a Russian drone strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on September 21, 2026.Heather Khalifa / APUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives to speak during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York on September 23, 2026.AFP / GettyA woman holding an umbrella poses during a visit to the Shanghai International Light Festival in a park in Shanghai, China, on September 17, 2026.Eugene Hoshiko / APJapan’s Shinnosuke Oka falls from the horizontal bar at the men’s-team artistic-gymnastics final at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, on September 23, 2026.Lorena Sopena Lopez / Anadolu / GettyMembers of Barcelona’s eight human-tower groups (castellers) perform during the traditional La Mercè human-tower display at Plaça de Sant Jaume in Barcelona, Spain, on September 24, 2026.Petros Karadjias / APGirls are silhouetted against a salt lake as the sun sets in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, on September 23, 2026.
