From Moscow's Circle of Light festival and Milan Fashion Week, to the German federal election and aftermath of the Mexico earthquake — take a look at this week's events in Sputnik's photo gallery.
Syrian Kurdish girls take a selfie while celebrating in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on September 25, 2017, in support of the independence referendum in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region.
A cargo ship sails on the Mediterranean Sea during a thunderstorm some 20 nautical miles from Malta on September 24, 2017.
A man balances on a line stretched over the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 25, 2017.
Smoke and flames rise over a warehouse storing ammunition for multiple rocket launcher systems at a military base in the town of Kalynivka in Vinnytsia region, Ukraine, on September 27, 2017.
Models display creations from the Dolce&Gabbana Spring/Summer 2018 show at Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, on September 24, 2017.
Kadri Gursel kisses his wife after his release from Silivri prison on September 26, 2017 in Istanbul, following a Turkish court order to free the columnist and editorial director of Turkey's opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet.
In this photo taken on September 23, 2017, in Roseau on the Caribbean island of Dominica, a man walks along the street amid the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria.
A billboard featuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, on a Berlin street on September 23, 2017, the eve of the German federal election.
Bolshoye Imeretinskoye Lake in the Shaposhnikov Caucasus State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Russia's Karachay-Cherkess Republic on September 25, 2017.
El Salvador National University students perform during a protest against government, which uses military to control crime in San Salvador, El Salvador, on September 25, 2017.
An ostrich inside an enclosure at an ostrich farm near the town of Chekhov, Moscow Region, Russia, on September 23, 2017.
Members of a Japanese rescue team hold a dog found underneath the rubble of a collapsed multi-family residential building after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 24, 2017.
A competitor drives his hand-made vehicle without an engine during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on September 24, 2017.
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/ A Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber and missile carrier during in-flight refueling while on its mission to strike terrorist facilities in Syria with KhA-101 cruise missiles on September 26, 2017.
Rohingya refugees wait to receive aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on September 24, 2017.
A demonstrator is detained during a rally to request the change in the education system in Santiago, Chile, on September 27, 2017.
A municipal worker washes the Lenin monument by sculptor Anikushin on Moskovskaya Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 28, 2017, ahead of the centenary of the October Revolution.
Yemeni scouts take part in a parade to celebrate the anniversary of the 1962 revolution, in the country's capital Sanaa, on September 25, 2017.
Sweden's Maria Petersson poses for a photo on September 24, 2017, after she won the Lofoten Masters 2017, the world's most northerly surf competition in Unstad's bay in the Arctic Circle, with water and air temperatures at around 11°C, which is unusually warm for the season.
The opening ceremony of the 7th international festival Circle of Light held on the Ostankino pond in Moscow, Russia, on September 23, 2017.
A protester attempts to flee from anti-riot police in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 26, 2017, during a demonstration to demand the removal of electoral commission officials accused of bungling the August 8 presidential election.
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A vintage coal-fired steam engine pushes a passenger car up the Cog Railway on a 3.8-mile journey to the summit of 6,288-foot Mount Washington in New Hampshire, US, on September 24, 2017.
Workers make a vat at a porcelain factory in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, on September 23, 2017.
A propaganda troupe performs a flag-waving routine outside the central railway station in Pyongyang, North Korea, on September 27, 2017.
Lingerie brand Etam presents its latest Paris fashion show with live music at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, France, on September 26, 2017.
An Israeli soldier runs after a Palestinian protester during clashes at a protest near the West Bank town of Tubas on September 27, 2017.
