October 18, 2013

1
Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai gives a copy of her book "I am Malala", to Britain's Queen Elizabeth during a Reception for youth, education and the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace in London.

2
A Japanese Coast Guard marine rescue unit searches for missing persons off Oshima island, 120 km south of Tokyo. A painstaking search through tons of mud and splintered houses entered its second night on a typhoon-battered Japanese island, where the death toll from landslides rose to 21.

3
A burnt out car sits at the front of a house destroyed by bushfires in Winmalee in Sydney's Blue Mountains. Bushfires ravaged communities and destroyed hundreds of homes in southeastern Australia with dozens of blazes still burning out of control.

4
Surfers ride the waves in the Atlantic Ocean during unseasonably warm weather in Anglet, southwestern France.