From protesters attending the COP26 Climate Summit to the celebration of Halloween amidst the COVID pandemic, these are the best photos from around the world in the past week, as chosen by The Age's photo editors.

Australia’s neighbour has a bold new coal goal with a significant caveat. It will cost a bomb and Indonesia can’t afford to pay for it.

The WHO says 500,000 more people could die of COVID-19 in Europe in the next three months.

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In sentencing, the New Zealand High Court judge considered the pressure the mother was under and the pain she suffered.

Sound judgement, prudent decision-making and adherence to required procedures, “could have prevented the incident”, the US Navy said.

The hotly anticipated rule is one of the White House’s most strenuous attempts to increase vaccination rates. It’s already being fought by Republicans.

In the weeks since its discovery on August 30, the potato has become something of a celebrity near Hamilton.

Governments have made pledges on deforestation, methane, net-zero emissions goal, and financing.

OECD chief calls for the phase-out, as the COP26 climate summit shifts focus on how to eliminate coal.

Igor Danchenko is the third person to face charges in special counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the Russia investigation.

“It is with a sad face that I have to tell you ... that my prostate biopsy’s came back with an aggressive cancer,” Joe Exotic said.

The drug has been closely watched since data last month showed it could halve the chances of dying or being hospitalised for those most at risk of developing severe COVID-19 when given early in the illness.

The lawyers for the two white men accused of shooting down an unarmed black jogger only allowed one black juror to be seated.

During last year’s festival of lights, pollution emissions from the firecrackers alone contributed to the Indian capital recording its worst air quality in years.

“There are many parallels between COVID conspiracies around Bill Gates and theories about witches in the past,” said one researcher.

The agreement would attempt to build consensus between wealthier and poorer nations around overseas financial support to stop backing fossil fuel projects.

In North America, all three countries reported drops in weekly cases and deaths, and there has been a notable decline in hospitalisations in the US and Canada.

Her social media post was removed within minutes, but the allegations, fuelled by the fame of the accuser and the accused kept the Great Firewall censors scrambling.

QAnon believers had forecast that John F Kennedy jnr, who has been dead for 20 years, would appear at that spot. The prophecy foretold online, of course, did not come true.

A US judge said Britain’s Prince Andrew should be prepared for a civil trial late next year on accusations that he sexually abused a woman when she was under 18.

The approval means 5 billion doses could be added to the global COVID-19 vaccine supply by the end of next year.

On November 4, 1995, Israeli prime minister and peacemaker, Yitzhak Rabin, was fatally shot by a 25-year-old gunman during a government rally in Tel Aviv.

“He doesn’t get what’s happening,” say lawyers for the convicted drug trafficker, who will be the first executed prisoner since 2019.

The government has declared a state of emergency and urged the capital 5 million residents to register their weapons and defend their neighbourhoods.

A former private equity executive who has never held elected office, Youngkin sold himself as a political outsider. His win is not the only one worrying Democrats.

The US-China relationship is at its lowest ebb since Trump left office. Climate change is no longer the salve that once brought the countries together.

The saying is spreading quickly. An airline has even opened an internal investigation after a pilot used it onboard.

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Salah Abdeslam, who discarded a malfunctioning explosive vest and fled, is one of 20 men on trial for the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015.

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a bullet discharged from a gun Baldwin was using to rehearse a scene on the Rust set in New Mexico.

Methane reduction has been called the lowest-hanging fruit of climate solutions but Barnaby Joyce argues it isn’t possible without “shooting your cattle”.

On Friday, astronauts harvested the station’s first round of Hatch chile capsicum and added it their tacos as a part of a larger study on growing food in space.

Networking platform LinkedIn said last month it would shutter its Chinese site, as Western tech companies confront more restrictions in the country.

Suggesting that luciferase is related to Lucifer is like suggesting a bibliography is religious. But none of this matters to Emerald Robinson.

In his final speech to the climate summit, Biden said Xi Jinping had “lost the ability to influence people around the world” by not coming to Glasgow.

Johnson also apologised to Israel’s energy minister after she complained that a lack of wheelchair access had stopped her from attending the event.

In Glasgow, world leaders are only a small slice of a climate carnival best described as part-trade fair and part-public relations opportunity.

Nikolai Patrushev, a longtime close associate of Putin’s, is considered one of Russia’s most influential officials.

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site, officials said.

The Chinese President told his colleagues in Rome and Glasgow that he was “delivering concrete actions”, while trying to put out a fire in his own backyard.

Hun Sen has questioned when Australia will deliver on a pledge of 2 million Pfizer doses, saying he will buy more from China if they don’t turn up.

Notwithstanding the bad feeling over the cancelled submarine deal with France, Australia now finds itself at the centre of a geopolitical row which is testing our PM’s diplomatic skills.

Developers promised buyers of the soon-to-be ready upmarket apartments a “stress-free lifestyle”.

It said it had been active for five years, was primarily operated by staff of the country’s telecoms watchdog, out of the postal service headquarters.

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At the heart of the collapse of Emmanuel Macron and Scott Morrison’s relationship are two questions.

A Constitutional Tribunal, under the sway of Poland’s conservative ruling party, ruled last year that abortions for congenital defects were not constitutional.

“Bond is strapped to a doomsday device as a red digital clock ticks down remorselessly to a destination that will end human life as we know it,” the British PM told delegates.

The Queen has delivered an emotionally charged and highly political call to arms to world leaders on climate change, invoking her own mortality to send a warning about the need to protect future generations.