A Gandhi portrait and Cate Blanchett at the UN: Monday's best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world

Main image: Cate Blanchett at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland. Photograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP

  • Goodlettsville, US

    Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Tyson Foods plant manager Doug Griffin stand together during the vice president’s visit to Tyson Foods
    Goodlettsville, USTennessee Gov. Bill Lee, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Tyson Foods plant manager Doug Griffin stand together during the vice president’s visit to Tyson Foods

  • Billingshurst, UK

    A view of Cretaceous Tetrapod, part of a collection of fossilised ‘Jurassic Park-style’ amber containing preserved flying dinosaur skeletons, which are set to sell for six figure sums at Summers Place Auctions in West Sussex to be held on November 19.
    Billingshurst, UKA view of Cretaceous Tetrapod, part of a collection of fossilised ‘Jurassic Park-style’ amber containing preserved flying dinosaur skeletons, which are set to sell for six figure sums at Summers Place Auctions in West Sussex to be held on November 19.

  • London, UK

    Police remove protest infrastructure on Lambeth Bridge. Extinction Rebellion occupied several sites around Westminster in protest and direct action against climate change
    London, UKPolice remove protest infrastructure on Lambeth Bridge. Extinction Rebellion occupied several sites around Westminster in protest and direct action against climate change

  • Bhaktapur, Nepal

    Nepali bystanders watch as other devotees splash water on a buffalo to be sacrificed during the ninth day of the Hindu Dashain festival. It is the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepali calendar and celebrates the triumph of good over evil
    Bhaktapur, NepalNepali bystanders watch as other devotees splash water on a buffalo to be sacrificed during the ninth day of the Hindu Dashain festival. It is the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepali calendar and celebrates the triumph of good over evil

  • Arbil, Iraq

    Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ahead of their meeting in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region
    Arbil, IraqMasoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ahead of their meeting in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region

  • Calderon, Ecuador

    People set a barricade on fire as they block a road during protests after President Lenin Moreno’s government ended four-decade-old fuel subsidies
    Calderon, Ecuador People set a barricade on fire as they block a road during protests after President Lenin Moreno’s government ended four-decade-old fuel subsidies

  • London, England

    Police remove Extinction Rebellion protesters chained across the seats of a car on Embankment
    An Extinction Rebellion protest in London, England

  • Hong Kong

    Riot police clash with anti-government protesters in the Causeway Bay district
    Riot police clash with anti-government protesters in Hong Kong

  • Piraeus, Greece

    A migrant girl sits wearing a blanket to keep warm after arriving from Lesbos at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, as part of a mass transfer to mainland Greece to ease overcrowding at island camps
    A migrant girl in a blanket at the port of Piraeus in Greece

  • Lisbon, Portugal

    The prime minister, Antonio Costa, reacts to preliminary results in the general election
    Prime minister Antonio Costa at an election night event in Lisbon, Portugal

  • Cotopaxi, Ecuador

    Indigenous protesters clash with security forces on a fourth day of demonstrations against austerity measures.
    Indigenous protesters clash with security forces in Cotopaxi, Ecuador

  • Pekanbaru, Indonesia

    A firefighter battles a forest blaze
    A firefighter battles a forest blaze in Pekanbaru, Indonesia

  • Beirut, Lebanon

    A mural by the street art group Ashekman and Greenpeace covers the wall of a building in the highly polluted area of Karantina on the outskirts of Beirut
    A Greenpeace mural in Beirut, Lebanon

  • Geneva, Switzerland

    Cate Blanchett addresses a meeting of the UNHCR executive committee
    Cate Blanchett at a UNHCR meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

  • West Java, Indonesia

    Schoolchildren wave Dutch flags to welcome the prime minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, at the presidential palace in Bogor
    Schoolchildren welcome the Dutch prime minister in West Java, Indonesia

  • Seoul, South Korea

    Visitors wearing traditional hanbok dresses pose for photos during a night opening at Gyeongbokgung Palace
    People in traditional dresses at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea

  • Gandhinagar, India

    Thousands of Hindus hold oil lamps to compose a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth
    People hold oil lamps to compose a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhinagar, India

  • Tokyo, Japan

    A wall decorated with plaques dedicated to pets in Aoyama cemetery
    A wall decorated with plaques dedicated to pets in Aoyama cemetery, Tokyo, Japan

  • Hull, England

    A reproduction of Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment is installed before the opening of an exhibition at Hull Minster
    A reproduction of Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment at Hull Minster, England

  • Pokrent, Germany

    Hoarfrost on a faded sunflower on a sunny morning
    Hoarfrost on a faded sunflower in Pokrent, Germany
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