A week in the top photo

American actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger poses with participants during the annual contest "The Arnold Classic Europe" in Madrid.





Japanese soldiers and firefighters are looking for people after the eruption of the volcano Ontake. At the time of the eruption on the slopes were about 250 people, of whom more than 45 were killed.



An attacker with a gun in his hand is on the balcony of the 13th floor at St. Peter's in Brasilia, threatening to undermine the vest alleged bomb, which he put on one of the hotel staff. After the talks, he surrendered to the police. As it turned out, he was armed with a toy gun model.



Protesters blocked the main street of the financial center in Hong Kong. Opposition require in 2017 in Hong Kong direct free election of the mayor.



Northern Lights in the mountains near the village Mestervik, in northern Norway.



A man on a pier fishing in the Mediterranean Sea in Barcelona, ​​Spain.



Art installation "Couple" with a view of the North Sea in the north-east coast of England.



Japanese rescuers climb the slope of the volcano Ontake in Japan.



NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman took this picture of the Milky Way with the International Space Station.



Fields and trees are covered with a layer of crushed limestone in the area Klafmils (Northern Ireland) to correct PH levels in the soil.



A man walks down a deserted street in the financial center of Hong Kong, where tens of thousands of pro-democracy activists hold protest actions.



Chinese believer drilled their cheeks during the annual Festival of vegetarians in Phuket, Thailand.



Aerial view of a river in Peru.



Beysdzhamper jumping from a platform, located at 300 meters altitude on the television tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This year participated more than 100 adventurers from 20 countries.



The photograph shows a slow shutter vehicular traffic on the roads at rush hour, on the eve of National Day in Shanghai.



Muslim pilgrims walk around the Kaaba counterclockwise during the Hajj. (



British Prime Minister David Cameron is preparing a keynote speech in his hotel room in Birmingham during the Conservative Party conference.



Climber on a mountain ridge Gamsberg (2385 m above sea level) in Switzerland.



A giant portrait titled "One of the many" who painted American artist of Cuban origin Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada on the National Mall in the heart of Washington. To create a portrait of the artist took photos 30 Washington residents aged 18 to 25 years and with the help of Photoshop combines them into one person. Gerada used about 2,000 tons of sand, 800 tons of earth, 10,000 wooden pegs, a few kilometers of ropes and GPS-navigator for precise placement of materials.



Installation "Mission to Mars" during a religious festival Durga Puja, Calcutta, India.



Volcanic smoke over the mountain Ontake, Japan.



Woman in a wheelchair dance during a beauty contest "Miss Independence" in Moscow on September 30. The competition is organized in order to change society's attitude to women with disabilities.



Ailina Tsarnaeva sister Tsarnaeva Johar, who is suspected of organizing terrorist attacks in Boston on 30 September appeared in court in New York. Ailinu accused that she allegedly threatened to kill the woman who gave birth to a child by her boyfriend.



Terek Cossacks stands with swords during the XVII regional youth games in the Stavropol Cossack Zheleznovodsk. In games involving more than 20 teams Cossack societies of the North Caucasian Federal District.



Jumping off a bridge with a bungee 44-meter height near Krasnoyarsk.



Pupils play a ball during a break next to a copy of the Moscow Kremlin in the schoolyard with. Taseevo Krasnoyarsk Territory. The Kremlin has built a former physical education teacher Taseevsk high school Vladimir Chernyak.



Festival "Human Tower Tarragona" in the Catalan city of Tarragona, 90 kilometers south of Barcelona.



Member of International Marathon on K42 Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.



The American tanker aircraft McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender runs multirole fighter F-22 Raptor in front of a military operation in Syria.



Source: bigpicture.ru