Week in pictures: 28 September - 4 October 2019 - BBC News

源济

HOW HWEE YOUNG/EPA

China has held large military and civilian parades to mark 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. As many as 15,000 military personnel and about 100,000 civilians took part, with some 600 pieces of military equipment on display.

ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China with mass demonstrations across the city.

CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/EPA

French President Emmanuel Macron pays tribute in front of the flag-draped coffin of the late former French President Jacques Chirac at the National Invalides Hotel during a military ceremony following his death.

ANN WANG/REUTERS

Ayeyar Sein, a four-month-old baby elephant who lost her parents to poachers, is fed by a member of staff at the Wingabaw Elephant Camp in Bago, Myanmar.

TIZIANA FABI/AFP

A gust of wind lifts the cassock of Pope Francis during the weekly general audience at St Peter's square in the Vatican.

RICHARD HEATHCOTE/GETTY IMAGES

Katarina Johnson-Thompson of Great Britain competes in the Women's Heptathlon Javelin during the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha. Johnson-Thompson ended her wait for her first global outdoor title by powering to gold medal spot with a British record 6,981 points.

HAIDAR HAMDANI/AFP

Pupils attend a class on their first day of school in Najaf in central Iraq.

GEOFF ROBINSON/SHUTTERSTOCK

Gardener David Brown trims the largest wall of Boston Ivy in the UK at St John's College, Cambridge.

ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP

A surfer flips into the water as he crashes over the top of a wave in the ocean at Omaezaki, Japan.

GARETH CATTERMOLE

Elvis tribute artist Niclas Hemley, 48, a landscape gardener from Frankfurt, Germany, poses during a portrait session at "The Elvies" - an annual gathering of Elvis fans and tribute artists - in Porthcawl, Wales.