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The week’s best photos

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A man

A protester shouts at riot police in a demonstration against rising crime and extortion in Lima (Image credit: Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images)

Elvis Presley

An Elvis Presley effigy made entirely of pumpkins is seen at a festival near Mechernich, Germany (Image credit: Ina Fassbender / Getty Images)

A monkey

A monkey sits outside the Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple in Dambulla, Sri Lanka (Image credit: Ishara S. Kodikara / Getty Images)

A race

A man carries his wife while competing in the North American Wife Carrying Championship in Newry, Maine (Image credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP )

A landslide

A landslide in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Image credit: Mohd Rasfan / Getty Images)

A panda

A newborn panda cub greets visitors at a zoo in Berlin, Germany (Image credit: Ebrahim Noroozi / AP)

A man

Jackson Vargas holds his daughter after fleeing Venezuela in Necoclí, Colombia (Image credit: Matias Delacroix / AP)

Animal costume

A costumed participant drinks in a cafe during the “bakeneko” (supernatural cat) festival in Tokyo, Japan (Image credit: Philip Fong / Getty Images)

Cyclists

Cyclists await the start of the Giro di Lombardia in Italy (Image credit: Marco Bertorello / Getty Images)

A pumpkin

Travis Gienger poses with his 2,471-pound pumpkin after winning the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California (Image credit: Jeff Chiu / AP )

An elephant

Kenya Wildlife Service rangers lift an elephant during a translocation exercise in Embu County, Kenya (Image credit: Thomas Mukoya / Reuters)

A woman

A woman takes part in a protest against violence toward women in Istanbul, Turkey (Image credit: Francisco Seco / AP )

A rowdy protest, a wife carrying contest, and more