A look at the best news photos from around the world.
1. Flood-affected people, along with their belongings, move to a safer place in a boat after the rise in the water level of river Ganges following heavy rains, in Patna, India.
2. A man watches rescuers sift through the rubble as they search for people still missing at the site of Friday's Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon.
3. Rockets are launched from Lebanon towards Israel amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel as seen from northern Israel.
4. Buddhist monks chant religious hymns as they bless Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake after he took his oath of office at the Presidential Secretariat, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Sri Lanka President Media/Handout via Reuters)
5. Participants stand on the beach while waiting for the start of the Ohara Hadaka Festival, which is held as part of the autumn celebration and prayers for a good harvest, in Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
6. A person cycles through floodwater as heavy rain combines with water spilling over the river bank of the tidal River Thames on a road in west London, Britain.
7. Supporters of the Congress party attend an election campaign rally of Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader of India's main opposition, the Congress party, ahead of the second phase of the assembly election, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.
8. Debris washed away from flooding is seen piled by a house along the Tsukada River following heavy rain in Wajima city, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan.
9. A boy reacts near placards depicting dead Ukrainian servicemen of the Azov Brigade at an open air exhibition in Kyiv, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine.
10. A pedestrian walks near a French gendarmerie roadblock in Saint Louis on the way to Mont-Dore, in France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia. French authorities on September 19 grappled with a new spike in violence in the country's overseas territories with security forces killing two men in New Caledonia and officials ordering a curfew after rioting in Martinique.
11. Argentina's President Javier Milei poses for pictures after ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in New York.
12. A Muslim veiled supporter of India's opposition Congress party looks on during an election rally on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.