A look at the best news photos from around the world.
October 10, 2021

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Soldiers carry the national flag-wrapped casket of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan following his funeral prayer, in Islamabad. Khan, a controversial figure known as the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, died Sunday of COVID-19 following a lengthy illness, his family said. He was 85.

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Lava burns buildings following the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in Tacande, Spain, Oct. 9, 2021.

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People offer annual congregational prayers called "Khoja Digar" on the 3rd of Rabi-ul-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar, outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Khawaja Naqashband on his death anniversary, in Srinagar, India.

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A passenger on a canoe photographs the brilliant fall foliage on South Pond, Oct. 9, 2021, in Bryant Point, Maine.