Photos of the Week: Mermaid Dance, Medieval Village, Alpaca Café

Pavel Bednyakov / APA model wears a creation inspired by Russian fairy tales on September 29, 2026, during Moscow Fashion Week.Lou Benoist / AFP / GettyRiot police officers remove protesting students who were blockading the area outside the Le Corbusier secondary school in Aubervilliers, Paris, on October 1, 2026. Since late September, students have staged protests outside schools over grievances including timetables, class sizes, a shortage of teachers, and overheated classrooms during this year’s heat waves. The protests started in the Ile-de-France region around Paris but have now spread to other cities nationwide.Denes Erdos / APA woman yodels during a public event in an underground garage in Graz, Austria, on September 23, 2026. A group of yodeling fans in Graz moved their practice sessions to an underground parking garage because of its excellent acoustic conditions.Robert F. Bukaty / APBrenda Malloy enjoys a nor'easter storm in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on September 25, 2026.Sebastien Kitsa Musayi / APA health-care worker in protective clothing is disinfected by a colleague inside a treatment center for Ebola patients in Beni, North Kivu province, eastern Congo, on September 26, 2026.Victor Fidelis Sentosa / ReutersA drone view of an orangutan hanging from a tree inside a High Conservation Value concession area of a palm-oil plantation affected by wildfires, before being rescued in Laman Satong village, Ketapang regency, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on September 30, 2026.Kylie Cooper / ReutersA squirrel leaps across the red carpet at the National Archives ahead of the arrival of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Washington, D.C., on September 25, 2026.Luis Robayo / AFP / GettyAn aerial view of buildings in São Paulo, Brazil, on September 29, 2026Christian Ruano / ReutersA drone view of high waves caused by Hurricane Polo battering a small island with houses off the coast of San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, on September 26, 2026.Valentyn Ogirenko / ReutersSmoke and flames rise from an administrative building hit by a Russian-jet-powered-drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 28, 2026.Michael Sohn / APPeople visit the “Tiger and Turtle—Magic Mountain” walkable roller-coaster sculpture in Duisburg, Germany, on September 27, 2026.Davide Elias / ZUMA Press Wire / ReutersVisitors view a miniature city scene at the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, on September 30, 2026.Darko Vojinovic / APA car passes through a tree-lined street in the village of Belo Blato, Serbia, on September 30, 2026.Bernd von Jutrczenka / DPA / GettyDeer pass through an apple orchard in Hüll, in Drochtersen, Germany, on September 28, 2026.Petr David Josek / APFour newly born cheetah quintuplets rest in their enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 25, 2026.Dan Kitwood / GettyJudges gather for a service to mark the start of the legal year at Westminster Abbey on October 1, 2026 in London, England. The beginning of the legal year is marked with a procession of judges from Temple Bar to Westminster Abbey, where the Judges Service takes place. The annual tradition dates back to 1897.Pavel Bednyakov / APA model waits backstage ahead of a runway show during Moscow Fashion Week on September 30, 2026.Fred Lee / GettyA dancer performs the dance of the goddess scattering flowers to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 25, 2026, in Beijing, China.Pratik Chorge / AFP / GettyDevotees carry an idol of the Hindu deity Ganesha for immersion in the Arabian sea, during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai on September 25, 2026.Ernesto Benavides / AFP / GettyRafael Gutierrez, a sculptor who graduated from Peru’s school of fine arts, poses next to the head of a sculpture of Pope Leo XIV during its making at a workshop in the Carabayllo district, on the northern outskirts of Lima, on September 25, 2026.Darko Vojinovic / APAlpacas roam among the tables in the Alpaca Café, interacting with the guests in the village of Stajicevo, Serbia, on September 30, 2026.Philip Fong / AFP / GettyForeign tourists in traditional Hanbok outfits visit Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea, on October 1, 2026.Yang Bo / China News Service / GettyA performer dressed as a mermaid dances underwater at Nanjing Underwater World on September 29, 2026, in China’s Jiangsu province.Hiro Komae / APMalaysia’s Elvis Priestly Clement competes in the men’s 10-meter platform final at the Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan, on September 30, 2026.Emrah Gurel / APThe full moon rises behind people walking in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 26, 2026.Sean Gallup / GettyAn aerial view of the GICON high-altitude wind turbine, standing tall above a field of standard wind turbines on October 1, 2026, near Schipkau, Germany. The turbine, with a nacelle 300 meters aboveground and rotor blades that give it a total height of 365 meters, is the tallest in the world. It is designed to take advantage of stronger wind flows at higher altitude and will deliver twice the power of a conventional wind turbine.Simone Risoluti / Vatican Media / GettyPope Leo XIV prays at the Grotto of the Apparitions in Massabielle on the second day of his apostolic journey to France on September 26, 2026.Sean Gallup / GettyThe medieval village of Apricale stands perched on a hill in Italy’s Liguria region, pictured on September 26, 2026