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Photos of the Week: Pumpkin Patch, Witch Paddle, Giant Labubu

The aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, the festival of Chhath Puja in India, a bird-flu outbreak in Germany, armored-battle re-creations in Moscow, and much more

By Alan Taylor
A child smiles while lifting a heavy pumpkin by its stem in a pumpkin patch.
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Fable Jarvis picks up a pumpkin at Tulleys Farm ahead of Halloween, on October 28, 2025, in Crawley, England. The farm’s annual Pick Your Own Pumpkins event takes place across 60 acres of land throughout the month of October, and it makes approximately 450,000 pumpkins available.
A parade of people dressed as traditional skull-faced Catrinas.
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A woman dressed as a Catrina takes part in the Catrinas Parade, ahead of the Day of the Dead, in Mexico City, on October 26, 2025.
A man stands beside a large pumpkin carved to look like a baseball with
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Doug Parker stands beside a giant pumpkin he carved in honor of the Los Angeles Dodgers for Halloween at his home in Sierra Madre, California, on October 29, 2025.
A performer, seen lit from below by an illuminated drum, with a splash of water rising from the drum, after it was struck.
Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters
A performer in costume beats an illuminated drum covered with water, as part of the street-theatre group Macnas’s Halloween parade, An Treun: The Summoning of the Lost, in Galway, Ireland, on October 26, 2025.
A giant inflatable sculpture of a Labubu floats in a harbor.
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People take photos of a giant, inflated sculpture of a Labubu, part of the Water Parade in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, on October 25, 2025. The parade also features sculptures of Doraemon, Elmo, and McDonald’s Grimace.
A close view of a cat with unusually large ears.
Andreea Alexandru / AP
An Oriental shorthair cat waits to be evaluated by a judge during the FIFe World Show Romania 2025, billed as the world’s largest cat event, which brought together more than 1,000 cats from more than 30 countries, in Bucharest, Romania, on October 25, 2025.
A person in frightening makeup smiles while holding a candle near their face.
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A woman dressed in a costume and frightening makeup poses as she participates in a costume competition ahead of Halloween in Kolkata, India, on October 30, 2025.
A firefighter looks on as large clouds of smoke and fire billow in the background.
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A firefighter looks on as smoke and fire billow at the Zubair Oil Field in southern Iraq on October 26, 2025. One person was killed and at least nine others were injured in the fire, caused by a gas leak in one of the systems at an oil field, according to an initial report announced by authorities.
A satellite view of a large and intense hurricane
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A satellite view shows Hurricane Melissa over the Caribbean Sea on October 27, 2025.
A view from an airplane of the interior of the eye of a hurricane—an empty space surrounded by massive curved walls of swirling clouds
Lt. Col. Mark Withee / U.S. Air Force / Getty
In this handout image, a A U.S. Air Force Reserve crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters, flies into the eye of Hurricane Melissa on October 27, 2025, over the Caribbean Sea. The crew was making a pass through the storm to collect vital weather data for the National Hurricane Center.
A badly storm-damaged church, its entire roof collapsed, seen among other storm debris.
Matias Delacroix / AP
The Lacovia St. Thomas Anglican church sits damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, on October 29, 2025. The storm made landfall in Jamaica the day before, as a Category 5 hurricane.
An aid convoy picks its way along a storm-damaged road, past many downed trees.
Matias Delacroix / AP
Downed trees and debris partially block a road where a convoy passes through Holland Bamboo, Jamaica, as it carries aid to Black River, which was hit by Hurricane Melissa, on October 29, 2025.
A car drives along a road covered with anti-drone netting, supported by tall poles on either side of the road.
Sofiia Gatilova / Reuters
A car drives along a road covered with antidrone netting, amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, near the town of Sloviansk, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on October 27, 2025.
An aerial view of a very twisty mountain road
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An aerial view of the winding road to the Yellow River Stone Forest national geological park in Baiyin, Gansu province, China, on October 26, 2025
A person walks on a pathe through a forest filled with autumn-colored leaves.
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A woman goes for a walk on a sunny morning in a park in Berlin on October 26, 2025.
A worker hangs persimmons to dry on tall racks inside a warehouse.
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A villager hangs persimmons to dry at a processing factory in Xuchang, Henan province, China, on October 29, 2025.
An aerial view of two children walking through a pumpkin patch
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Families pick pumpkins at Tulleys Farm on October 28, 2025, in Crawley, England.
Several people gather on a viewing stand set up in a field of trees that have been pruned into rounded shapes.
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Tourists view Osmanthus trees that have been trimmed into rounded shapes in a garden in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on October 28, 2025.
A woman looks out over a valley toward many steep hills.
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A woman looks out toward the steep hills outside Yangshuo, Guangxi province, China, on October 26, 2025.
An aerial view of a partly-flooded village and debris from a landslide, mostly covered in recently-fallen snow
Michael Probst / AP
The village of Blatten, Switzerland, is partly flooded after recent snowfall, on October 28, 2025, five months after a landslide destroyed the village.
People in witch costumes navigate on stand-up paddle boards in a harbor.
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People dressed in costumes participate in the annual Witches and Warlocks Paddle in Morro Bay, California, on October 25, 2025.
At least five people wearing armor stage a battle on a basketball court.
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People participate in the Tushino Maneuvers in Moscow, on October 25, 2025. Friendly interclub battles are designed to recreate medieval street fights and pass the tradition to future generations.
A farmer harvests silkworm cocoons, standing among many hanging wooden racks.
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A farmer harvests silkworm cocoons on October 26, 2025, in Neijiang, Sichuan province, China.
Several people in protective gear wade through waist-deep water
Ebrahim Noroozi / AP
Environmental workers collect the bodies of birds that died from the bird flu in a lake in Linum, Brandenburg, Germany, on October 27, 2025.
Groups of women stand in shallow river water to worship.
Bhawika Chhabra / Reuters
A Hindu woman with sindhoor, or “vermilion powder,” on her forehead stands in water as she worships the sun god on the banks of the Yamuna River during the Hindu festival of Chhath Puja in Noida, India, on October 28, 2025.
Football fans in a stadium burn flares and display huge banners.
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Bayern Munich fans burn flares and display banners prior to the German Division I Bundesliga football match between Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Bayern Munich in Mönchengladbach, Germany, on October 25, 2025.
A car drives on a curved road through fall-colored woods.
Michael Probst / AP
A car drives along the fall-colored woods of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, on October 27, 2025.
An elevated view of the smiling face of a student, surrounded by nearly two dozen painted hands, all sporting messages promoting animal welfare.
Ravi Kumar / Hindustan Times / Getty
Students from the Center for Social Work painted their hands for animal welfare to mark the International Day of Care and Support at Panjab University on October 29, 2025, in Chandigarh, India.

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Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.