Today's best photos: from the Princess of Wales to Sebastian Sosa's tattoo

'The National' picks the most striking images from around the world

Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales reacts as she is presented with a posy of flowers by four-year-old Theo Crompton during a visit to the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) Holyhead Lifeboat Station in Anglesey, north west Wales on September 27, 2022. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / POOL / AFP)

A man rides a motorbike in a flooded street following the passage of Typhoon Noru in Hoi An city, Vietnam. AFP

Glaciologist Matthias Huss during a visit with his team on the Gries glacier, Switzerland, to take readings. Swiss glaciers smashed all records for melting in 2022. AFP

Security forces block a road during demonstrations in Baghdad's Tahrir Square as anti-government protesters try to enter the Iraqi capital's fortified Green Zone. EPA

Piled logs from a forest hit by recent wildfires, near La Teste-de-Buch, south-west France. AFP

People carry torches made out of wineskins in flames during the El Vitor torch procession in Mayorga, Spain. AFP

A policeman jumps off a makeshift raft after wading through a flooded area of a slum on the banks of the river Yamuna in New Delhi, India. Reuters

Kate Moss attends the Saint Laurent Womenswear Spring/Summer 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week. Getty

An aerial view of the border crossing at Verkhny Lars between Georgia, bottom, and Russia. Long lines of vehicles have formed at a the crossing after Moscow announced a partial military mobilisation for the war in Ukraine. AP

Yasser Khila, 4, is comforted with a lollipop after a dressing was applied to his wounds from spilt hot stew, at a clinic in Gaza city. The harsh living conditions and unsafe energy supplies in the Palestinian enclave blockaded by Israel since 2007 are contributing to the thousands of burns requiring treatment there each year. AFP

Uruguayan footballer Sebastian Sosa during the warm up for an international friendly against Canada in Slovakia. Reuters

People use an illegal border crossing, known as a 'tocha', to cross from Venezuela to Colombia. AP

President of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, leaves the party's headquarters in Rome. The right-wing party, which won the general election held on September 25, saw their vote rise almost five-fold since the last election in 2018. EPA

People cross a Ukrainian reservoir by boat next to a bridge that was destroyed by shelling in the settlement of Staryi Saltiv in the country's Kharkiv region. EPA

Elementary pupils colouring pictures before National Day in Handan, in China's northern Hebei province. AFP

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