It’s never been easier to keep up with what’s going on in the world. The news is everywhere – in our Facebook feeds, on the morning commute, during that lazy half hour before you switch off the TV and go to bed. But the tide of global affairs is often more upsetting than uplifting and it can be tempting to bury our heads in the sand. As the saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words, so to offer a different perspective we've rounded up some of the most memorable images of the week's events, captured by the best photojournalists on the planet.
Ten giant panda cubs born in 2017 meet the public at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on 29th September 2017 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. Eleven giant panda cubs were successfully born at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in 2017, including three sets of twins.
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Women's activists march for pro-choice rights past street art displayed on a wall on 28th September 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilian law currently only allows abortion in cases of rape, incest, or dire health threats endangering the life of the mother. A new UN study shows only one in four abortions are safe in Latin America, which generally has strict abortion laws.
Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, while performing the 'Tashlich' ritual on 28th September 2017, during which 'sins are cast into the water to the fish'. The 'Tashlich' ritual is performed before the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar, which in 2017 starts at sunset on 29th September.
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People photograph and film with their smartphones the lowering of the Chinese flag on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 28th September 2017. China will convene its 19th Party Congress on 18th October, state media said, a key meeting held every five years where President Xi Jinping is expected to receive a second term as the ruling Communist Party's top leader.
Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images
A destroyed boat is seen washed up on a beach after it sunk in rough seas off the coast of Bangladesh carrying over 100 people on 28th September close to Patuwartek, Inani beach, Bangladesh. Seventeen survivors were found along with the bodies of 15 women and children. Over 500 Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Rakhine state. This week, Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi downplayed the crisis during a speech in Myanmar and defended the security forces, as criticism of her handling of the Rohingya crisis grows. Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, spoke at the United Nations General Assembly last week, focusing on the humanitarian challenges of hosting the minority Muslim group who currently lack food, medical services, and toilets, while new satellite images from Myanmar's Rakhine state continue to show smoke rising from Rohingya villages.
Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
Villagers transport a mattress back to their home in Kubu village near the base of Mount Agung volcano (in background), in Karangasem Regency on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on 27th September 2017. Indonesian authorities are ready to divert flights to and from the holiday island of Bali as increasingly frequent tremors from a rumbling volcano stoke fears an eruption could be imminent.
Photo: BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images
Irma Maldanado stands with Sussury her parrot and her dog in what is left of her home, which was destroyed when Hurricane Maria hit on 27th September 2017 in Corozal, Puerto Rico. The island experienced widespread damage, including to most of the electrical, gas and water grid as well as agriculture, after Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane, passed through.
Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Palestinian demonstrators clash with Israeli security forces following a protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land in the village of Tamun, near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 27th September 2017.
Photo: JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images
General view of Burj Khalifa during a heavy fog on 27th September 2017 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over 20 minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after 10 o'clock in the morning on 26th September 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.
Photo: Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty Images
Yemeni scouts take part in a parade to mark the anniversary of the 1962 revolution, in the country's capital Sanaa, on 25th September 2017.
Photo: MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images
Flamingos fly over the Aegean Sea during their migration period in Izmir, Turkey on 25th September 2017. Izmir hosts various species of birds such as flamingos, pelicans and seagulls due to the feasibility of its marine climate. They have a chance to live their natural life in peace within reed fields close to residential areas.
Photo: Cem Oksuz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Naked bathers enter the water as they take part in the North East Skinny Dip at Druridge Bay on 25th September 2017 in Druridge, England. The popular annual event takes place around the autumn equinox at Druridge Bay as the sun rises. Participant registration fees have been pledged to the mental health charity MIND.
Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Women hanging on wires perform yoga next to the cliff of Qingyao Mountain on 23rd September 2017 in Luoyang, Henan Province of China.
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Residents of South Darfur gather in the village of Shattaya on 22nd September 2017 to attend a speech given by the Sudanese president. President Omar al-Bashir is touring the region ahead of a US decision next month on whether to permanently lift a decades-old trade embargo on Sudan.
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