South Korean Marine's amphibious assault vehicles sail to shore in a smoke screen for landing during media day for the 73rd anniversary of the Armed Forces Day, which falls on October 1, in Pohang, South Korea, September 30, 2021. Picture taken September 30, 2021. Lee Jin-man/Pool via REUTERS
German scientist Benjamin List, who shares the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with David MacMillan for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis, celebrates with well-wishers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, October 6, 2021.
A lake in a shape of a heart is seen surrounded by autumn-coloured trees outside Balashikha, Moscow region, Russia October 4, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Adrian James, 2, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), breathes with the help of a ventilator at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., October 5, 2021.
A woman wearing a niqab enters a beauty salon where the ads of women have been defaced by a shopkeeper in Kabul, Afghanistan October 6, 2021.
A woman climbs a hill with a child to see the Cumbre Vieja volcano as it continues to erupt in Tacande de Arriba on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, October 2, 2021.
A protester, who identified herself as a New York City school teacher, demonstrates against the mandate that teachers and staff in the New York City Schools system be vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), outside the Department of Education headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 4, 2021.
The International Space Station (ISS) crew member Russian actor Yulia Peresild looks at a mirror after donning space suit shortly before the launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan October 5, 2021. Andrey Shelepin/GCTC/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS
People eat food at a flooded restaurant, where patrons stand up from their tables every time the waves come in, on a river bank in Nonthaburi near Bangkok, Thailand, October 7, 2021.
People pray outside the Penitenciaria del Litoral prison, where a deadly riot broke out, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, September 30, 2021.
U.S. President Joe Biden looks down before delivering remarks on infrastructure investments at the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 324 training facility in Howell, Michigan, U.S. October 5, 2021.
The Cumbre Vieja volcano continues to erupt on the Canary Island of La Palma, as seen from Tacande de Arriba, Spain, October 2, 2021.
People eating at a restaurant cheer on supporters of reproductive choice taking part in the nationwide Women's March, held after Texas rolled out a near-total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion-inducing medications, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., October 2, 2021.
Police forces detain a man during a protest by activists of the youth wing of India's main opposition Congress party outside UP Bhawan, after people were killed when violence broke out in Uttar Pradesh state on Sunday, when a car linked to a federal minister ran over farmers taking part in a protest against controversial farm laws, in New Delhi, India, October 4, 2021. REUTERS
Models present creations by designer Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski as part of a Spring/Summer 2022 women's ready-to-wear collection show for fashion house Hermes during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, October 2, 2021. REUTERS
An Afghan female journalist attends a Taliban officials news conference where they announced they will start issuing passports to its citizens again following months of delays that hampered attempts by those trying to flee the country after the Taliban seized control, in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021.
Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled 'Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower' on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., October 5, 2021. Jabin Botsford/Pool via REUTERS
A 100-year-old former security guard of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp has his face covered by his lawyer, Stefan Waterkamp, as he appears in the courtroom before his trial at the Landgericht Neuruppin court in Brandenburg, Germany, October 7, 2021.
Volunteer Sandra Hoeser plays frisbee with Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy U.S. Army base, in Wisconsin, U.S., September 30, 2021. Barbara Davidson/Pool via REUTERS
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