Today in Pictures, Oct 17, 2024
Former One Direction member Liam Payne found dead in Argentina, BTS member J-Hope completing his military service in South Korea, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Palestinian Ahmed Mosran, whose son Yamen got his first polio vaccine in September and was killed in an Israeli strike before taking his second dose, viewing the damage at his in-laws' house in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, on Oct 15, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
An ambulance transporting the body of Liam Payne, former One Direction member, who was found dead at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct 16.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A section of the road and rail linking North Korea to South Korea being destroyed, according to North Korea's state media, at an undisclosed location along North Korea's southern border area on Oct 15.
PHOTO: REUTERS
BTS member J-Hope leaving from the army's 36th Infantry Division after completing his 18 months of mandatory military service in Wonju-city in South Korea on Oct 17.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A member of the press walking past a wall presenting works by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama during the media preview of the exhibition I Would Overcome Death And Go On Living at Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo on Oct 16.
PHOTO: AFP
An Afghan balloon vendor riding past a blast wall along a street in Kabul on Oct 16.
PHOTO: AFP
Visitors admiring an exhibit depicting the logo of the Rolling Stones at a pumpkin exhibition themed around music at Krewelshof near Mechernich, Germany, on Oct 16.
PHOTO: AFP
Pedestrians using the skywalk bridge between shopping malls as trains pass above them in Bangkok on Oct 16.
PHOTO: AFP
Chinese martial arts teacher Liu Wei in a training session with students of the Fourah Bay College Secondary School at the Confucius Institute at the University of Sierra Leone on Oct 15. Chinese language and martial arts are becoming more popular in Freetown., the capital city.
PHOTO: AFP
Models presenting creations from Normando during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Oct 16.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Afghan youth playing volleyball during sunset in Chimtal district of Balkh province on Oct 16.
PHOTO: AFP


