From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery features compelling images from around the world published by The Associated Press in October.
Supporters surround Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado in Valencia, Venezuela, following her return to the country after months abroad, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Pedro Mattey)
A member of the Yesha community attends military training during the simulation of a militant attack, under the direction of volunteers from a group called Magen48, in southern Israel along the border with Gaza, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive for a visit to The Community Recording Studio in Nottingham, England, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Maja Smiejkowska)
Rescue workers pull a family from the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Notes are seen outside the office of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at the Longworth House Office Building, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
A vehicle lies crushed beneath a collapsed building after an earthquake struck Penonome, Panama, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Aris Mariota)
The Golden State Valkyries celebrate their win over the Atlanta Dream in Game 7 of the WNBA basketball finals on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
A Kenya Defence Forces officer speaks with a member of the China-based Blue Sky Rescue Team at the scene of a collapsed multistory building in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Erbin Dela Cruz, right, is greeted by his mother Ana Dela Cruz after the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returned to Naval Air Station North Island after deployment Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Coronado, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Prisoners sit inside cells at the prison known as the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, during a tour for Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Israeli soldiers stand beside a wounded Palestinian man lying on a road after soldiers shot him following a settler attack on Palestinians harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank village of Abu Falah, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at Sioux Gateway Airport, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, in Sioux City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Residents walk on debris of their homes at Seina district in Taiz, Yemen, after a missile strike, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Marzouq Al Jabri)
Ryosuke Doi, of Japan, competes in the rings during the men's qualifications at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
People wade through a flooded street after heavy rain in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Rescue workers carry an injured boy after rescuing him from the rubble of a roof collapse at a private school, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Muhammad Zubair)
Pope Leo XIV, followed by, from left, surgeon Stefano Margaritora, Archbishop Petar Rajič, prefect of the Papal Household, and Commander of the Vatican Gendarmerie Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti, leaves Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, after Tuesday's surgery to remove lung cancer. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Palestinian women and children watch the Palestine Strongman Championship from among the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Visual artist Lina Jouni holds an artwork depicting a face wearing glasses, created from shrapnel collected from Israeli military munitions, over her face at her home in the village of Roumin, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A protester wrapped in an Albanian flag stands in front of a burning car during an anti-government demonstration outside the prime minister's office, in Tirana, Albania, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Hameraldi Agolli)
People carrying Israeli flags walk through an installation marking the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, on the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds his child as he casts his ballot at a school serving as a polling station during Israel's general election in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A woman is detained by police during a protest demanding the resignation of the country's election chief, Gyanesh Kumar, in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is seeking reelection, wears glasses given to him by a supporter after voting in the presidential runoff in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Police officers spray students with pepper spray near Sciences Po university as they protest against under-resourced schools, in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
A person holds a French national flag during a protest against under-resourced schools in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
President Donald Trump speaks to the reporters as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Washington, as White House press secretary Katie Zacharia looks on. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Waves from post-tropical cyclone Rachel crash into beachfront homes in Long Beach, Calif., Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Supporters surround Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado in Valencia, Venezuela, following her return to the country after months abroad, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Pedro Mattey)
A member of the Yesha community attends military training during the simulation of a militant attack, under the direction of volunteers from a group called Magen48, in southern Israel along the border with Gaza, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive for a visit to The Community Recording Studio in Nottingham, England, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Maja Smiejkowska)
Rescue workers pull a family from the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Notes are seen outside the office of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at the Longworth House Office Building, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
A vehicle lies crushed beneath a collapsed building after an earthquake struck Penonome, Panama, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Aris Mariota)
The Golden State Valkyries celebrate their win over the Atlanta Dream in Game 7 of the WNBA basketball finals on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
A Kenya Defence Forces officer speaks with a member of the China-based Blue Sky Rescue Team at the scene of a collapsed multistory building in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Erbin Dela Cruz, right, is greeted by his mother Ana Dela Cruz after the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returned to Naval Air Station North Island after deployment Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Coronado, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Prisoners sit inside cells at the prison known as the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, during a tour for Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Israeli soldiers stand beside a wounded Palestinian man lying on a road after soldiers shot him following a settler attack on Palestinians harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank village of Abu Falah, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at Sioux Gateway Airport, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, in Sioux City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Residents walk on debris of their homes at Seina district in Taiz, Yemen, after a missile strike, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Marzouq Al Jabri)
Ryosuke Doi, of Japan, competes in the rings during the men's qualifications at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
People wade through a flooded street after heavy rain in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Rescue workers carry an injured boy after rescuing him from the rubble of a roof collapse at a private school, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Muhammad Zubair)
Pope Leo XIV, followed by, from left, surgeon Stefano Margaritora, Archbishop Petar Rajič, prefect of the Papal Household, and Commander of the Vatican Gendarmerie Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti, leaves Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, after Tuesday's surgery to remove lung cancer. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Palestinian women and children watch the Palestine Strongman Championship from among the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Visual artist Lina Jouni holds an artwork depicting a face wearing glasses, created from shrapnel collected from Israeli military munitions, over her face at her home in the village of Roumin, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A protester wrapped in an Albanian flag stands in front of a burning car during an anti-government demonstration outside the prime minister's office, in Tirana, Albania, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Hameraldi Agolli)
People carrying Israeli flags walk through an installation marking the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, on the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds his child as he casts his ballot at a school serving as a polling station during Israel's general election in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A woman is detained by police during a protest demanding the resignation of the country's election chief, Gyanesh Kumar, in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is seeking reelection, wears glasses given to him by a supporter after voting in the presidential runoff in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Police officers spray students with pepper spray near Sciences Po university as they protest against under-resourced schools, in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
A person holds a French national flag during a protest against under-resourced schools in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
President Donald Trump speaks to the reporters as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Washington, as White House press secretary Katie Zacharia looks on. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
