The week's best photos

A row of birds, a solar-powered car, and more

A beach

People on a beach near the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon near plumes of smoke from Israeli airstrikes

(Image credit: Hasan Fneich / AFP / Getty Images)

Birds

A line-up of white-crested helmetshrikes in South Africa

(Image credit: Gary Collyer / Bird Photographer of the Year)

Cricket

Bangladesh's Nahid Rana runs between the wickets during a game of Cricket in Chennai, India

(Image credit: R.Satish Babu / AFP via Getty Images)

Dancers

Dancers pose during the Five Mountains Folk Festival in Magelang, Indonesia

(Image credit: Devi Rahman / Getty Images)

A beer mug

People reach for a beer mug on the opening day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany

(Image credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev / Getty Images)

People

A couple seeks shelter from the rain while joining farmers in a protest for agrarian reforms in Indonesia

(Image credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba / Getty Images)

Teddy bears

Teddy bears are displayed as a tribute to children killed in Gaza during a charity event in Doha, Qatar

(Image credit: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters)

Astronauts

Two astronauts train in lunar surface simulations in Cologne, Germany

(Image credit: Martin Meissner / AP)

A man

A man joins a protest advocating for shorter working hours in Madrid, Spain

(Image credit: Violeta Santos Moura / Reuters)

A car

The Brunel Solar Team's solar-powered car competes on the final day of the Sasol Solar Challenge near Franschhoek, South Africa

(Image credit: Rodger Bosch / Getty Images)

A student

A student joins a ten-year anniversary protest demanding justice for the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students in Mexico City

(Image credit: Rodrigo Oropeza / Getty Images)

A bee

A bee flies towards a cosmos flower in Seoul, South Korea

(Image credit: Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters)

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Anahi Valenzuela, The Week US

Anahi Valenzuela has worked as an editorial assistant at The Week since 2022, where she assists with magazine content and covers the week's best photos. She started her career as a media producer at The Daily Californian and a writer for College Magazine.