October 4 - October 10

PowerPoint Show by Andrew

This week we have images of human towers going up in Catalonia, eruptions of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia, a witch in flight above California, a serene Swiss meadow, the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Kurdish peshmerga fighters in Iraq, a surfer in Morocco, an infinite sculpture in Mexico, and more.

Japan's H-2A rocket, which carries the Himawari-8 weather satellite, leaves the launching pad at the Tanegashima Space Center, in a bid to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts related to natural disasters.

Israeli Airsoft teams in action during a combat simulation session, on October 7, 2014 in Kfar Saba, Israel. Originating in Japan, Airsoft is similar to the sport of paintball, but utilizes replica weaponry in strategic battlefield scenarios.

A farmer leads a decorated buffalo as he arrives for Chonburi's annual buffalo race festival, east of Bangkok, on October 7, 2014.

Mount Sinabung volcano erupts, as seen from Tiga Pancur village, Karo Regency in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, on October 8, 2014.

Castellers Colla Vella Xiquets de Valls form a human tower, called "castell", during a biannual competition in Tarragona city on October 5, 2014.

Indonesian Air Force helicopters fly in formation over the fleet of military ships in a show of force during a ceremony commemorating the 69th anniversary of Indonesian Armed Forces in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, on October 7, 2014.

An Indonesian Marine tank fires in mid-air during The 69th Republic of Indonesian Military Anniversary on October 7, 2014 in Surabaya, Indonesia.

A girl runs past an art installation depicting a shark at the Museum of Optical Illusions in St. Petersburg, Russia on October 7, 2014.

Cows stand in a meadow on a mountain in front of Mount Saentis during sunny autumn weather near the eastern Swiss town of Wattwill on October 9.

A part of the al-Dukhaneya neighborhood near Damascus, Syria, after soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad took control of it from rebel fighters, on October 6, 2014.

A pro-democracy student protester sleeps on an occupied roadway surrounding the government complex in Hong Kong on October 7, 2014.

Russian Interior Ministry members stand guard as Muslims attend an Eid al-Adha mass prayer in Moscow on October 4, 2014.

A dog of the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola, barks from her balcony in Madrid, Spain, on October 8, 2014. Authorities captured the dog and euthanized it, drawing protests from some who asked that the dog be quarantined rather than destroyed.

An approaching storm looms over the French Riviera city of Nice, southeastern France, on October 5, 2014.

A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken, walks through undergrowth in Richmond Park in south west London on October 3, 2014.

Sydney locals line up along the waters edge dressed in fluro costumes in an attempt to create Bondi's largest fluro wave stretching from South Bondi to North Bondi at Bondi Beach on October 10, 2014 in Sydney, Australia.

This long exposure photograph taken late on October 9, 2014 shows scorching lava flow and giant ash clouds released from the crater during an eruption of Mount Sinabung as seen from Karo district located on Sumatra island.

One of the two hyenas who were rescued by animals right group Animals Lebanon, inside a cage in Aley, Lebanon, on October 8, 2014.

A radio-controlled flying witch makes a test flight past a moon setting into clouds along the pacific ocean in Carlsbad, California, on October 8, 2014.

A Palestinian man stands on the balcony of his destroyed house as he waits for the visit of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to Gaza's neighborhood of Shijaeyih on October 9, 2014.

Muslim pilgrims arrive to cast stones at pillars symbolizing Satan, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on October 4, 2014.

Smoke rises from the impact of an airstrike next to a hill where ISIS militants had placed their flag in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobani by the Kurds.

Kurdish peshmerga fighters fire a mortar during clashes with ISIS militants near Tikrit city, in Salahuddin province of Iraq, on October 8, 2014.

People walk through a tunnel on the main road in the occupied areas in Hong Kong's Central District on October 9, 2014.