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.
Early morning mist lingers in fields as the autumn sun rises over the Somerset Levels as viewed from Glastonbury Tor near Glastonbury on September 22, 2017 in Somerset, England. Today marks the start of the astronomical autumn, which is defined by the Earth's axis and orbit around the sun. The transition from summer to autumn is defined by the autumn equinox, when day and night are of roughly equal length, but also signals that the nights will become increasingly longer than the days until the spring equinox, when the pattern is reversed.
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A boy walks on a garbage filled creek to get his ball in Manila on September 22, 2017. Giant Western consumer products brands led by Nestle, Unilever and Procter & Gamble cause serious ocean pollution by packaging products sold in the Philippines in cheap and disposable plastics, Greenpeace alleged on September 22. The environmental watchdog group ranked the Philippines as the 'third worst polluter into the world's oceans' behind China and Indonesia in a report released in Manila.
Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images
A demonstrator wearing hood holds a road sign as a shield during a rally in Paris on September 21, 2017, held to protest French government's proposed reforms in labour laws. The banner reads 'In Macron land all shots are allowed'.
Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images
Aerial view of a collapsed school at Coapa neighborhood after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake jolted central Mexico damaging buildings, knocking out power and causing alarm throughout the capital on September 19, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico. The earthquake comes 32 years after a magnitude-8.0 earthquake hit on September 20, 1985.
Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images
An image of Chinese traditional beauty created using different varieties of rice is seen in a paddy during the harvest season in Shenyang in China's northeast Liaoning province on September 20, 2017. The design aims to promote tourism in the area and boosts the income of local farmers.
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Fishermen pull up a live 2.5 metre crocodile in their net in the Western Amazon region, Brazil on September 20, 2017. The fishermen were fishing for a large river fish called Arapaima but sometimes crocodiles become stuck in the nets as well.
Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images
Yousef Al-Bahtini, a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy invited to attempt the record attempt for 'fastest time to travel 20 metres in a contortion roll' by Guinness World Records, shows off his acrobatic skills as he contorts his body at the seaport in Gaza City on September 20, 2017. Al-Bahtini currently awaits permission to travel to Jordan where he is to perform the attempt.
Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images
The 'Boxing Gogos' (Grannies) stretch as they take part in a session hosted by the A Team Gym in Cosmo City in Johannesburg on September 19, 2017. The grandmothers, many of whom are over 70 have been training with coach Claude Maphosa and claim that they no longer suffer from the ailments they had before, and are stronger than ever. The grannies travel from all over Cosmo City for the twice weekly sessions. Coach Maphosa is in the process of planning events in other areas for grannies who have been inspired by the story, to join in.
Photo by GULSHAN KHAN/AFP/Getty Images
A general view of the dutch-style cabins of Yue Tuo Island Resort near Laoting on September 18, 2017 in Tangshan, China.
Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
Syrian schoolchildren walk past destroyed buildings in a rebel-held area of the southern city of Daraa on September 17, 2017.
Photo by MOHAMAD ABAZEED/AFP/Getty Images.
A man stands on a damage pier days after this Caribbean island sustained extensive damage in the wake of Hurricane Irma, Friday, September 15, 2017 in St. Martin.
Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images
This September 15, 2017 photo shows Rohingya refugees from Myanmar gathering around a truck delivering clothes in Ukhia. The United Nations said this week there was an urgent need for a coordinated response to the massive influx of desperate people fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh, most of whom have still had no assistance from aid agencies or the state.
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