Today in Pictures, Oct 18, 2019

Counterfeit goods worth over a million dollars destroyed in Manila, Philippines, Harry Potter concept store opens in Melbourne, Australia, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Oct 18, 2019, 03:16 PM

Government workers cut up counterfeit bags during a ceremonial destruction of fake consumer goods worth 80.2 million pesos (1.4 million euro) at Camp Crame police headquarters in Quezon City, east of Manila, Philippines October 18, 2019. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Harry Potter fans gather outside the Harry Potter Concept store in Melbourne, Australia, October 18, 2019. Warner Brothers has teamed up with Myer to unveil the country's largest Harry Potter concept shop. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

This picture taken early on October 16, 2019 shows an Indonesian ranger treating an injured baby elephant left behind by the herd in Siak, Riau. PHOTO: AFP

A photo issued on Oct 18, 2019, shows French comic book illustrator Phil Briones working in his home office in Los Angeles, California on September 18, 2019. Two US authors have found a novel way to address the mass shootings that regularly plunge their country into mourning -- comic-book superheroes. PHOTO: AFP

A worker prepares gunpowder to make firecrackers at a factory ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, October 17, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

Zorica Rebernik, obsessed with the color red, stands in the kitchen inside her house in the village of Breze near Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina October 16, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

Israelis sit by as a man jumps into the pool of the natural water spring of Ein Farah (Ein Prat) in the Nahal Prat Nature Reserve of the Judean Desert in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank, East of Jerusalem, during the Jewish religious holiday of Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles) on October 17, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

An artist performs "Picasso 2019", a creation by Sharon Gombosh and Meytal Jelinek during the Akko (Acre in Hebrew) Fringe Theatre Festival in Acre on October 16, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

This photo taken on October 17, 2019 shows China's Bayi Aerobatic Team performing in the sky during the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force Aviation Open Day in Changchun in China's northeastern Jilin province, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force. PHOTO: AFP

Australian surfer Keely Andrew in action during the first heat of the World Surfing Championship that takes place in Praia dos Supertubos in Peniche, Portugal, 17 October 2019. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

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