Here are some of the most striking images taken from around the world over the past week.
A photo taken on Sept 22, 2020 shows a COVID-19 sniffer dog at a press conference held at Helsinki Vantaa International Airport in Finland. Four specially trained dogs demonstrated their ability to sniff COVID-19 in people even before showing symptoms during a press conference held at Helsinki Vantaa International Airport on Tuesday. [Photo/Xinhua]
A man gets his photograph taken in front of Taj Mahal after authorities reopened the monument to visitors, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Agra, India, September 21, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
Customers visit a Chinese supermarket selling mooncakes ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Toronto on Sept 24, 2020. The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Oct 1 this year. [Photo/Xinhua]
Workers on a cherry picker perform maintenance work at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay on Sept 24, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
US national flags representing 200,000 lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States are placed on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Sept 22, 2020. US COVID-19 deaths surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. [Photo/Xinhua]
A man wearing a face mask walks on the street in Paris on Sept 22, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the General Debate of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on Sept 22, 2020. The General Debate opened on Tuesday with the theme of "The future we want, the United Nations we need: reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism -- confronting COVID-19 through effective multilateral action." [Photo/Xinhua]
Lao girls, in their traditional festive dresses, pose for photos at the drill-through ceremony of the Ban Phoukeu Tunnel held at the tunnel exit in Muang Nga of Oudomxay province, Laos on Sept 22, 2020. A Chinese railway engineering company on Tuesday drilled through the Ban Phoukeu Tunnel, the last major long tunnel of nearly 9,000 meters along the China-Laos Railway. It marked an important milestone in the construction of the cross-border railway, and laid a solid foundation for the timely completion of the mega project. [Photo/Xinhua]
Bah N'Daw (right) is saluted by the military after being sworn in as Mali's transitional president in Bamako, Mali on Sept 25, 2020. Mali's transitional president Bah N'Daw and vice-president Colonel Assimi Goita were sworn in on Friday following a military action in August. [Photo/Xinhua]
A humpback whale springs out of water in Jervis Bay south of Sydney on Sept 23, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
