Workers strike across Belarus

University students in Minsk taking part in the strike yesterday. GETTY IMAGES. Workers across Belarus downed tools yesterday as part of a nationwide strike aimed at toppling President Lukashenko after a day of mass arrests and violence on the streets. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the exiled opposition leader, called for the strike after a “People’s Ultimatum” for Mr Lukashenko to resign expired at midnight. “Our main task is to show that no one will work for the regime,” she said.

Peshawar, Pakistan

Reuters / Monday, October 26, 2020. People chant slogans as they set fire to a banner with a crossed-out France's flag during a protest against the publications of the cartoon of Prophet Mohammad in France and comments by the French President Emmanuel Macron, in Peshawar, Pakistan. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

Saype's artwork on floating barge

Reuters / Monday, October 26, 2020. French-Swiss street artist Saype poses as he works on his artwork on a floating barge over the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of the "Beyond Walls" project to create a spray-painted "human chain" across the world to encourage humanity and equality. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

An aerial view of artwork on a floating barge over the Golden Horn in Istanbul

Rudy Giuliani caught up in protest

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani drives by a protest organized by supporters of President Trump in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan. REUTERS/Yuki Iwamura. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was attacked by a crowd of Antifa members during a pro-Trump rally in Manhattan on Sunday. Members of the left-wing Antifa movement gathered on the corner of 5th Avenue and 59th Street to protest the "Jews for Trump" caravan that was passing through Manhattan.

Birds return to Lake Cowal

At approximately 21km long, Lake Cowal is the largest natural inland lake in New South Wales. After years of drought it began filling in March this year, and native and migratory waterbirds started returning to its wetlands. Above-average rainfall throughout the winter months have now filled the ephemeral lake to 40% of its surface area

Red-necked Avocets in flight showing their unusual curved beaks. Photograph: Mal Carnegie/Lake Cowal Conservation Centre

Border Wall Project

Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto. The US-Mexico border region is a delicate ecosystem located between two biomes, with regular animal and bird migrations moving between the north and south of the American continent. It is home to a diverse population of mammals, reptiles, birds and plants,at least 800 species of wildlife will be adversely affected by President Trump’s planned 2,000-mile border wall with Mexico. Border infrastructure not only blocks the movement of wildlife, but destroys and fragments the habitats and the connectivity that these animals use to move from one place to another.

Bonn, Germany

A schoolgirl wears a winter coat against the cold as school resumes with open windows and face masks to protect against the spread of Covid-19.

Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters