Week in Photos: Falun Gong Parade, Star Wars Exhibit, and Oktoberfest

Week in Photos: Falun Gong Parade, Star Wars Exhibit, and Oktoberfest

A glimpse into the world through the lens of photography.

Banners with photos of Iranian protesters slain by state security forces are displayed outside the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22, 2026. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Nkosikhona Ndabandaba (C), popularly known as Phakel’umthakathi, takes part in a protest in Kempton Park, South Africa, on Sept. 19, 2026, following the recovery of a ninth slain woman in two months east of Johannesburg. Mzingenkosi Sibanda/AFP via Getty Images

Air Force One, with President Donald Trump onboard, flies over a river en route to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sept. 21, 2026. The president traveled to New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Residents from coastal Filipino communities burn an effigy depicting a politician as a crocodile as they protest corruption in government flood control projects in Calumpit, Bulacan province, the Philippines, on Sept. 20, 2026. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

People pass the national flag fluttering over a damaged house covered with debris and sludge at Trishuli in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Sept. 22, 2026, nearly a month after tsunami-like floodwaters tore through mountain districts, destroying roads, bridges and hydropower dams, and killing at least 1,446 people. More than 6,500 remain missing across Nepal and China. Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images

The faces and names of political prisoners held in China are projected on the National Gallery of Art in Washington on Sept. 23, 2026, as Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits the United States. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

A U.S.–Israeli flag flies in the northern Israeli Kibbutz of Misgav Am, in Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border on Sept. 20, 2026. Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images

The Chinese Moon Festival celebration at Deerpark, New York, on Sept. 19, 2026. Mark Zou/The Epoch Times

A Tilcayo tiger cat at the Senda Verde wildlife sanctuary near Coroico in Bolivia's Yungas region on Sept. 22, 2026. The Tilcayo is the first new species of wild cat discovered in more than a century, a Bolivian researcher told Agence France-Presse. Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in conjunction with the 81st session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 22, 2026. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A swing ride at the Sindbad Amusement Park in eastern Baghdad near sunset on Sept. 21, 2026. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

Members of the Chilean Carabineros hold police dog puppies during the Army Day military parade at the O'Higgins Park ellipse, part of celebrations marking the anniversary of Chile's independence, in Santiago on Sept. 19, 2026. Raul Bravo/AFP via Getty Images

Flares go off in a ceremony to launch the Royal Daffodil, the first new Mersey Ferry in more than 60 years, before it sets off on its maiden voyage across the River Mersey from Liverpool, England, on Sept. 22, 2026. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images

Protesters and members of affected families lie on symbolic funeral pyres placed in the water to protest the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, near the Majhgawan Dam on the Ken River in India's Madhya Pradesh state on Sept. 20, 2026. Uma Shankar Mishra/AFP via Getty Images

A protester dressed as a clown wears a hat bearing the message `Stand at Attention for the Homeland` during a demonstration against Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella's proposal to cut the Ministry of Culture's budget, in Bogota on Sept. 21, 2026. Esteban Vega La-Rotta/AFP via Getty Images

Migrants try to board a smuggler's boat off the beach in Equihen-Plage, France, on Sept. 23, 2026. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images

Flames and smoke rise after an airstrike in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sept. 24, 2026. Pakistan's minister of information said its forces had struck 10 targets in Afghanistan, without specifying where, accusing its neighbor of allowing "terrorist sanctuaries" on its soil. AFP via Getty Images

Alpacas belonging to breeders are moved to the valley at sunrise during the traditional "alpabzug," a Swiss festival to mark herds coming in from mountain pastures, in the Griesalp area above Kiental, Switzerland, on Sept. 22, 2026. Around seventy alpacas were herded down to the valley before being loaded onto a livestock truck and transported to their winter farm in the Swiss Bernese Oberland. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

People visit the Star Wars in Motion exhibit during the sold-out opening day of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a 300,000-square-foot structure in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, on Sept. 22, 2026. Founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, and designed by architect Ma Yansong, it is billed as the "first museum dedicated to the universal human tradition of visual storytelling." Mario Tama/Getty Images

The KL Tower and other buildings are shrouded by haze in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Sept. 21, 2026. Malaysia stepped up efforts to combat the toxic haze as huge forest fires rage in neighboring Indonesia. Arif Kartono/AFP via Getty Images