Stephen Purvis kisses his prize onion after it won the title of Heaviest Onion at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Ripon, northern England (Image credit: Oli Scarff / Getty Images)
Men on stilts wait to compete in the Golden Stilt tournament in Namur, Belgium (Image credit: John Thys / Getty Images)
Photographer Jade Hoksbergen captures a tiny candy crab perched on coral in the Philippines’ Tañon Strait (Image credit: Jade Hoksbergen / Ocean Photographer of the Year)
A performer jumps over another during the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany (Image credit: Michaela Stache / Getty Images)
Bike riders line up for the start of the Normandy Beach Race in Ouistreham, France (Image credit: Lou Benoist / Getty Images)
A group of Palestinians look out at the rubble of a bombed building in Gaza (Image credit: Mahmoud Abu Hamda)
A man stands in water as he partakes in a ritual during the Mahalaya festival in Mumbai, India (Image credit: Rafiq Maqbool / AP)
US’ Bryce Deadmon and Kenya’s George Mutinda wait to be passed the baton during the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo (Image credit: Getty Images)
Residents shovel mud from their property after Super Typhoon Ragasa caused a barrier lake to burst its banks in Hualien, Taiwan (Image credit: Johnson Liu / Getty Images)
The Internacional soccer team celebrates after scoring a goal in Porto Alegre, Brazil (Image credit: Diego Vara / Reuters)
A sinkhole opens up in the middle of a street in Bangkok, Thailand (Image credit: Chanakarn Laosarakham / Getty Images)
Magellanic penguins waddle toward the ocean after being released following rehabilitation in Punta del Este, Uruguay (Image credit: Matilde Campodonico / AP)