Ebola may be the only news you paid attention to this week (how could you not), but photo journalists all over the world captured everything from airstrikes to circus elephants. Check out some of their best work, and catch up on this week’s news in the 18 photos below.
Remember ISIS? A U.S.-led coalition is still carrying out airstrikes against the terrorists.
A Turkish army investigator in the border area of Turkey, several miles away from Kobane, Syria. Airstrikes against ISIS continued in the southern part of Syrian. (Photo: Newscom)
Smoke rises after a U.S.-led coalition airstrike on Kobane, Syria. (Photo: Tolga Bozoglu/Newscom)
Pumpkin patches opened, and are in full swing!
Annlie Nelson, 4, and friend Elizabeth Entzminger, 3, climb through the available pumpkins at the annual pumpkin patch at Bates Nut Farm in Valley Center, Calif. (Photo: Charlie Neuman/ZUMA Wire/Newscom)
Apple revealed a new iPad, just in time for the holidays.
Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller introduces the new Apple iPad Air 2 during an event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., on Oct. 16. (Photo: Xinhua/Newscom)
A weird prop caused what may be the most awkward debate moment ever.
Former Democratic Gov. Charlie Crist, left, and incumbent Florida Gov. Rick Scott debate at Broward College in Davie, Fla., on Oct. 15. (Photo: Gary I. Rothstein/Newscom)
Swiss circus elephants probably had the most magical bath of their life.
Elephants of the Swiss national circus “Knie” take a bath in Lake Geneva at the Bellerive beach near Lausanne, Switzerland. The circus is staging its show as part of a tour in Lausanne. (Photo: Valentin Flauraud/Newscom)
News (and hysteria) on Ebola dominated headlines this week.
President Obama addresses the media from the Oval Office. With him, from left, are Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell and CDC Director Thomas Frieden. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Newscom)
An estimated 4,500 people have died since the first cases of Ebola were detected in West Africa.
A woman looks at an Ebola sensitization mural in Monrovia, Liberia. (Photo: Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA/Newscom)
Meanwhile, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., debated a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken countries. In the United States, two nurses who contracted Ebola in Dallas were hospitalized in Atlanta and Bethesda, Md.
A team of volunteers help train airport workers how to avoid contamination from possible exposure to the Ebola virus in a hotel basement near LaGuardia Airport. (Photo: Robert Stolarik/Polaris/Newscom)
This happened Sunday…
St. Louis Cardinals’ Kolten Wong reacts as he rounds first base after hitting a walk-off home run in the ninth inning during Game 2 of the National League Championship Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants. (Photo: Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Newscom)
…but then this happened Thursday night:
San Francisco Giants outfielder Travis Ishikawa screams as he rounds first base after hitting a walk-off home run in the ninth inning in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series on Oct. 16. (Photo: UPI/Terry Schmitt/Newscom)
And now the San Francisco Giants are headed to the World Series for the third time in five years.
San Francisco Giants storm the field in celebration after beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-3. (Photo: Newscom)
For three weeks, pro-democracy activists have flooded the streets of Hong Kong, hoping to bring attention to the Hong Kong’s desperate need for democracy. Scenes from this week proved they aren’t backing down.
A pro-democracy protester sleeps on an occupied road in Hong Kong. (Photo: Mast Irham/Newscom)
Police failed to stop the pro-democracy protesters with tear gas and pepper spray. This week, things turned violent. Watch the shockingly brutal beating of one protester.
A pro-democracy protester in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong. (Photo: Guillaume Payen/NurPhoto/Newscom)
Back in America, some Ferguson, Mo., residents who took to streets in late summer, are still rallying for the black teenager who was killed by police.
Nigel Jones-Mack, 3, waits for protesters to catch up during a Ferguson march in downtown St. Louis. He was there with family and had been trying to encourage the marchers with a whistle and an exaggerated marching step. He stopped after getting ahead of his grandmother, Beverly Jones, who called for him to wait. (Photo: Koran Addo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT)
For 50 days from early July through most of August, Hamas launched nearly 4,500 rockets against Israel. The two countries still haven’t found peace.
Palestinian children are driven by their father through a bomb-damaged area of Beit Hanoun in their car with no roof. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Newscom)
This athlete was found not guilty of murder.
Judge Thokozile Masipa found South African sprint runner Oscar Pistorius not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but convicted him of culpable homicide. (Photo: Newscom)
Russian President Vladimir Putin proved he isn’t afraid of a little rain.
Greeted by enthusiastic chants of “Ò Putin,” Russia’s Vladimir Putin attended a military parade celebrating 70 years since the city’s liberation by the Red Army in Belgrade, Serbia. (Photo: Newscom)