Photos Of The Week No. 40

Medical personnel provide assistance to a Covid-19 patient inside a mobile intensive-care unit in Bucharest amid a surge in coronavirus cases in Romania. 

A girl sits with women wearing burqas outside a hospital in Kabul.

A mannequin depicting Superman is placed upside down next to the door of Romania's parliamentary chamber during a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Florin Citu's government in Bucharest on October 5. 

Russian actress Yulia Peresild gestures in a bus as she departs to board a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, which was being launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome to take a film crew to shoot part of a movie on the International Space Station. 

A woman brings her dog to a pet exhibition held as part of celebrations to mark the 613th anniversary of the town of Bender in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region. 

A Pakistani health worker inoculates a student against Covid-19 at a school in Lahore amid a government drive to vaccinate children aged 12 and older.

A bakery is lit up on an evening in Kabul.

Commuters ride along a road under smog and fog conditions in Lahore, Pakistan.

Geno Petriashvili (right) of Georgia in action against Amir Hossein Zare of Iran in their men's 125-kilogram category gold-medal bout during the Wrestling World Championships 2021 in Oslo. Zare won the gold.

A Taliban fighter prays at the Abdul Rahman Mosque in Kabul.

People gather to protest against the arrest of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in front of the prison where he is being held in Rustavi, Georgia.

A rabbi prays at the Minora memorial in Kyiv on October 3 to mark the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre, one of the largest mass slaughters of Jews during World War II.

A woman takes part in Osh's 'City Day' celebrations in Kyrgyzstan on October 5. 

Afghan ethnic Hazara children stand in their cave on a cliff pockmarked by caves, where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan.

A lake in the shape of a heart is seen surrounded by autumn-colored trees near Balashikha, outside Moscow.

A visitor takes pictures inside the Russian Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.