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Thousand words in single frames: Best of last week’s news in pictures

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WORLD (SW) – The first picture – feature photo – by Phil Noble, Reuters, shows that Pat McFadden, Labour MP for Wolverhampton South East, prepares to attend an interview at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool, England.

A vehicle is submerged in flood water in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. Parts of central and southern England experienced more than a month’s worth of rain in a few hours, causing roads and schools to close, and leaving transport plans in chaos. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA Media
AFC Wimbledon had to cancel its football match against Newcastle United in south London, after its stadium was affected by the extensive floods. A sinkhole appeared on the pitch, making it unplayable. Photograph: Hannah McKay/REUTERS
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), known as the comet of the century, appears in the sky over Arinaga, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain. Photograph: Borja Suarez/REUTERS
US Coast Guard Air Station crew rescue a man and his dog during Hurricane Helene after his sailboat started taking on water off Sanibel Island, Florida. The storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, with wind gust speeds of 225km/h. Photograph: US Coast Guard via REUTERS
A motorcyclist avoids flames as a wildfire burns in Quito. Ecuador is suffering its worst drought in 60 years, with no significant rainfall in more than two months. Photograph: Karen Toro/REUTERS
Fans of Uruguay’s Peñarol cheer for their team before the Copa Libertadores quarter-final second leg against Brazil’s Flamengo in Montevideo. The game ended 0-0, with Peñarol securing a spot in the semi-finals, having won the first leg 1-0. Photograph: Dante Fernandez/AFP
Two unknown Scottish soldiers killed in World War One have been laid to rest in northern France, after their bodies were found during work to build a hospital. Soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland carried the coffins during a service at the Loos British Cemetery of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP
A girl checks the weather as a boy runs to get out of the rain in Toubab Dialaw on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/REUTERS
Gaza: People cry after an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians near the Jabalia refugee camp. Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images
Jabal Al-Rehan, Lebanon: Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike in Jabal Al-Rehan, in the southern Lebanese district of Jezzine. Optimism that a three-week ceasefire could be reached between Hezbollah and Israel appeared to recede as Benjamin Netanyahu issued a pair of contradictory statements on the proposal within hours of each other. Photograph: Rabih Daher/AFP/Getty Images
Sidon, Lebanon: Lebanese citizens who fled Israeli airstrikes in southern towns and villages sit in heavy traffic in the southern port city of Sidon. Tens of thousands of people fled towards the capital, Beirut, in Israel’s most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes. Photograph: Mohammad Zaatari/AP
Wajima, Japan: A scooter lies in mud at temporary housing that was built for people who lost their homes during the earthquake at the start of the year. At least six people died and 10 others were missing after heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides along a peninsula in Japan. Photograph: Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP/Getty Images
Florida, United States: An American flag sits in floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in the Shore Acres neighbourhood of St Petersburg. Helene has reportedly killed at least 20 people and inflicted more than 4m power outages across the south-eastern US after crashing ashore in north-western Florida late on Thursday as a potent category 4 hurricane, according to officials. Photograph: Mike Carlson/AP
Helsinki, Finland: The pillars on Parliament House splattered with red paint in Helsinki. Environmental protesters sprayed the pillars to draw attention to the use of ‘disastrous’ peat mines in Sweden run by the Finnish state-owned company Neova. Photograph: Kimmo Brandt/EPA
Lianyungang, China: Sunlight shines through the morning mist above residential buildings in Lianyungang. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
SOURCE: BBC and GURDIAN 
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