Today’s top pics: India Diwali Festival and more
Top photos of the day as selected by the Associated Press.
Houston Astros relief pitcher Ryan Pressly (55) reacts as he makes the play at first for the final out of Game 4 of an American League Championship baseball series against the New York Yankees , Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Houston Astros Jeremy Pena reacts after hitting a three-run home run against the New York Yankees during the third inning of Game 4 of an American League Championship baseball series, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Rishi Sunak, centre, gestures as conservative MPs greet him after arriving at the Conservative Party leadership contest at the Conservative party Headquarters in London, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Rishi Sunak will become the next Prime Minister after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest.(AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)
Number 10 Downing Street is seen through the lens of a television camera waiting outside the office in London, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is frontrunner in the Conservative Party's race to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Rishi Sunak, centre, waves after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest at the Conservative party Headquarters in London, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is frontrunner in the Conservative Party's race to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)
Conservative Party leadership candidate Rishi Sunak leaves the campaign office in London, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is frontrunner in the Conservative Party's race to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)
West Ham's Kurt Zouma, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring his sides first goal during the English Premier League soccer match between West Ham United and Bournemouth at the London Stadium in London, England, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ian Walton)
Residents wear masks wait at a bus stop near skyscrapers in the Central Business District in Beijing, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. China's economic growth picked up in the latest quarter but still was among the weakest in decades as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a slump while enforcing anti-virus controls and a crackdown on debt in its vast real estate industry. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Team Red Bull members celebrate after winning the constructor's title after the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at Circuit of the Americas, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
The coffin of 12-year-old schoolgirl, known as Lola, is carried inside the church of Lillers for her funeral ceremony, in Lillers, northern France, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. France has been "profoundly shaken" by the murder of a 12-year-old schoolgirl, whose body was found in a plastic box, dumped in a courtyard of a building in northeastern Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
Destroyed homes are seen after a tornado struck the area in Bihucourt, northern France, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Tornado-like storms that tore through northern France sheared off part of a church roof, felled trees and power lines and left scores of people without a safe place to live, authorities said Monday. One person suffered light injuries in the storms Sunday and some 150 people were evacuated, according to the regional administration for the Pas-de-Calais region.(AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, seventh from left, and others lay down flowers at the memorial to the victims of the Sinti and Roma communities killed during the holocaust, to mark the 10th anniversary of the inauguration of the memorial in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A Swaminarayan saint performs rituals on a laptop during Chopda Pujan, a prayer ceremony dedicated to the worship of account books, on the occasion of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, at the Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. On this day ledgers and new account books are opened by the mercantile community following a special prayer. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
First lady Jill Biden is reflected in a mirror as she speaks during an event to launch the American Cancer Society's national roundtables on breast and cervical cancer in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A woman jumps in the air as she poses in front of a maple tree in full fall color, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Jessica McCome cries while sitting near the remains of her home on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022 in Wooldridge, Mo. McCome, her husband Emmanuel, and children, Malachi, 13, Titus, 9 and Amira, 7, have lived in Wooldridge for 18 months. The fire destroyed most of the town. (Sam Koeppel/Missourian via AP)
A Nepalese policeman applies vermillion on the forehead of a police dog during Kukkur Tihar dog festival at their kennel division in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Dogs are worshipped to acknowledge their role in providing security during Kukkur Tihar which falls on the second day of Tihar festival, one of the most important Hindu festivals of this Himalayan nation. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A Nepalese policeman pats his dog before performing rituals during Kukkur Tihar dog festival at their kennel division in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Dogs are worshipped to acknowledge their role in providing security during Kukkur Tihar which falls on the second day of Tihar festival, one of the most important Hindu festivals of this Himalayan nation. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Philadelphia Phillies designated hitter Bryce Harper celebrates with the trophy after winning the baseball NL Championship Series in Game 5 against the San Diego Padres on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper hits a two-run home run during the eighth inning in Game 5 of the baseball NL Championship Series between the San Diego Padres and the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
People queue up to wait a ration food from World Central Kitchen organisation in the center of Mykolaiv, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. As Ukraine crosses the mark of eight months anniversary since the start of full-scale war, the residents of southern Mykolaiv, who suffer shelling almost every night, are determined to fight as long as it takes to liberate all the regions. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
People queuing up hold plastic bottles to refill drinking water from a tank in the center of Mykolaiv, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Since mid-April, citizens of Mykolaiv, with a pre-war population of half a million people, have lived without a centralized drinking water supply. Russian Forces cut off the pipeline through which the city received drinking water for the last 40 years. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Catherine, 75, pushes her walker loaded with plastic bottles after refilling them in a tank, in the center of Mykolaiv, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Since mid-April, citizens of Mykolaiv, with a pre-war population of half a million people, have lived without a centralized drinking water supply. Russian Forces cut off the pipeline through which the city received drinking water for the last 40 years. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Students stand in a parking lot near the Central Visual & Performing Arts High School after a reported shooting at the school in St. Louis on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker dunks against the Los Angeles Clippers during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)
French President Emmanuel Macron, center, and his wife Brigitte, left, arrive at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)