Week in pictures: 12-18 October 2024

The full October moon, known as the Hunter’s Moon, sets behind Edinburgh Castle. A supermoon occurs when the Moon, which follows an elliptical (oval) orbit around Earth, is at its closest point to our planet.

A 16-foot-tall (4.9m) pigeon sculpture, titled Dinosaur, by Colombian artist Ivan Argote, is seen on the High Line in New York City.

A seven-year-old boy and a man in his thirties died following an explosion which destroyed three houses in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England. Emergency services searched the scene as part of an investigation into how the explosion happened.

The Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) streaks across the sky over the Dazhuangke section of the Great Wall in Beijing. Comet A3 was first spotted in January 2023 at the Tsuchinshan Observatory in China. Since 12 October, it has become more visible for stargazers, and can now be seen with the naked eye.

A keeper holds a two-month-old giant panda cub, one of the twin cubs of giant panda Meng Meng, at an enclosure in Berlin Zoo.

FC Twente’s Lieske Carlee attempts to tackle Chelsea’s Mayra Ramirez during the Women’s Champions League match in Enschede, Netherlands. English champions Chelsea maintained their 100% start to the season by beating the Dutch 3-1, to move three points clear at the top of Group B.

Hot air balloons fly over Nevsehir, Cappadocia, a Unesco World Heritage Site in Turkey.

Twins pose for a photograph during the Igbo-Ora World Twins Festival 2024. Nigeria’s self-proclaimed “twins capital of the world”, Igbo-Ora, holds its annual festival to celebrate the town’s unusually high incidence of multiple births.

Britain’s Queen Camilla at Sydney Airport. She arrived with King Charles III on a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft, following a torrential rainstorm, to begin their six-day tour of the country.

A group of young people light phones as they pay tribute to the British singer Liam Payne at the Revolucion monument in Mexico City. The former One Direction star died aged 31 in Argentina, after falling from the third floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.