Photos Of The Week #41

The night sky over Russky Island near Vladivostok during the Draconid meteor shower. (TASS/Yuri Smityuk)

An Afghan woman holds a poster of Afghan journalist Saleha Soadat, candidate for the parliamentary elections, and poses for a photograph in an internal displacement camp in the outskirt of Kabul on October 11. (EPA-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)

A firefighter is covered with Aqueous Film Forming Foam as he tries to control a fire that broke out in a thinner manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters/Amit Dave)

A search-and-rescue team works at the landing site on the desolate Kazakh steppes of the Soyuz MS-10 space capsule after a launch to the International Space Station (ISS) was aborted due to a problem with a booster rocket. The crew of two landed safely after what is called a "ballistic descent." (TASS)

Waves crash against houses built on stilts along the shore as Hurricane Michael struck Alligator Point in Franklin County, Florida, on October 10. Michael was the third-most-powerful storm to ever strike the U.S. mainland. (Reuters/Steve Nesius)

Winds in Hurricane Michael, which struck the Florida Panhandle on October 10, reached 250 kilometers per hour, strong enough to derail boxcars in Panama City. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

A visitor attends an annual exhibition of weaponry and military equipment in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

A participant dances during Kosovo's Pride Parade in Pristina. The second such parade celebrated the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Kosovo. (EPA-EFE/Valdrin Xhemaj)

Young boys look at an installation of Skopje Art District in the old Turkish Bazaar in Skopje, Macedonia. (EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski)

Children play at a park in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, near the Russian-leased cosmodrome. (EPA-EFE/Yury Kochetkov)

A woman carries a children's balloon with a tank inside during an autumn festival held in central Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)

Ingush protesters take part in a sit-in rally against the new land-swap deal between Ingushetia and Chechnya in the capital, Magas, on October 7. (AFP/Vasily Maksimov)

A Kashmiri flower vendor paddles his boat along Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. (AFP/Sajjad Hussain)

A Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11. (AP/BIll Ingalls)

A woman walks by a business in Moscow featuring a stuffed bear in its entrance offering vodka. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)

A car is left abandoned on a road near the scene of explosions at a Defense Ministry munitions depot in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, northeast of Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

Israelis enjoy a day at the beach on the Israel-Gaza border as black smoke rises in the background from tires set on fire by Palestinian protesters. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Autumnal trees soak up the sunshine in a forest in Nyiregyhaza, east of Budapest, Hungary. (epa-EFE/Zsolt Czegledi)