Chad Rowley, with his wife, Susan, on his back, races during the 22nd North American Wife Carrying Championship at Sunday River Resort in Newry, Maine, on October 9, 2021. Couples compete on a 278-yard (254-meter) obstacle course for a prize of the wife's weight in beer and five times her weight in money. Winners are invited to the world championship in Finland, where the sport originated. #

The view south to the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center, seen from a mirrored room at the Summit observation deck at One Vanderbilt on October 8, 2021, in New York City. #

People visit the Chai Wan cemetery during the annual Chung Yeung Festival to pay respect to departed relatives, clean the gravesites, and leave offerings in remembrance, in Hong Kong, China, on October 14, 2021. #

Pilgrims light candles and pray at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, as they pay homage to Brazil's patron saint, in the city of Aparecida, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on October 12, 2021. #

Police officers load an oil-stained statue, depicting Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, into a van, after it was placed by Greenpeace climate activists outside 10 Downing Street in London, England, on October 11, 2021. #

The Brazilian artist and activist Mundano works on the mural "The Forest Brigade," using paint made with ashes collected and brought from fires in the Amazon, Pantanal, and other biomes, in São Paulo, Brazil, on October 14, 2021. #

A gallery assistant poses by a sculpture entitled "Dark Place" by Australian artist Ron Mueck displayed at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London, England, on October 11, 2021. #

Two astronauts with a team from Europe and Israel walk in spacesuits during a training mission for planet Mars at a site in the Ramon Crater in Mitzpe Ramon, in Israel's southern Negev desert, on October 10, 2021. Six astronauts from Portugal, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Israel will be cut off from the world for a month, from October 4 to October 31, able to leave their habitat only in spacesuits, as if they were on Mars. Their mission, the AMADEE-20 Mars simulation, will be carried out in a Martian terrestrial analogue and directed by a dedicated Mission Support Center in Austria, to conduct experiments ahead of future human and robotic Mars exploration missions. #

Soldiers of the Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces, bear torches as they arrive in front of the Reichstag for an evening taps ceremony to honor veterans of Germany's 20-year military mission in Afghanistan, on October 13, 2021, in Berlin, Germany. #

Followers of the cult of Maria Lionza practice a ritual at Sorte Mountain in Venezuela's Yaracuy state on October 12, 2021, one year after the annual pilgrimage was canceled because of COVID-19 restrictions. Venezuela is home to Santeriá and other folk religions, such as this sect surrounding the Indian goddess Maria Lionza, an indigenous woman who, according to tradition, was born on Sorte Mountain, and whose cult has spread to Colombia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and parts of Central America. #

Tatanka Gibson of the Haliwa-Saponi/Nansemond Tribal Nations leads attendees in song and dance during a gathering marking Indigenous Peoples' Day at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia on October 11, 2021. #

This aerial picture taken on October 13, 2021, shows two visitors walking among soy sauce containers at a pickle factory in Yunlin County, an agricultural zone in the central west of Taiwan. #

French street artist Mahn Kloix paints a mural depicting Tursunay Ziawudum, a former Uyghur detainee who left China and has spoken publicly about her experience in internment, in Marseille, France, on October 7, 2021. #

Shiite fighters from Hezbollah and Amal movements take aim with an assault rifle and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher amid clashes in the area of Tayouneh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, on October 14, 2021. Gunfire killed several people and wounded dozens at a Beirut rally organized by Hezbollah and Amal to demand the dismissal of the Beirut blast lead investigator. The violence centered around Tayouneh, an area that lies at the crossroads of Shiite and Christian militia bastions that were battlegrounds in the civil conflict that ended three decades ago. #

Motocross riders compete on the beach on October 10, 2021, in Weymouth, England. The motocross event, which first came to the town in 1984, sees 269 riders compete over a course along Weymouth Beach. #

Flowers bloom in the Atacama Desert, roughly 600 km north of Santiago, Chile, on October 13, 2021. In years of very heavy seasonal rains, a natural phenomenon known as the "desert in bloom" occurs, making the seeds of some 200 desert plants germinate suddenly about two months after the rainfall. #