Around the world in photos: October 6 - 12

Team TOI
15 October 2013, 04:34 PM IST

Every week, we bring you a roundup of the best photos from around the world. Let us know which is your favorite in the the comments section and check again next week for new images.

A family of elephants walks after cooling themselves in a pond during a census at the Amboseli National Park, 290 km (188 miles) southeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi. (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)

Brazil's 'Super Window Cleaners': A young patient inside the Sabara Children's Hospital reaches through a small opening of the window to greet a window cleaner wearing a Captain America costume, as another dressed as Superman looks on in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The hospital had their regular window washers to dress up in costumes to commemorate Children's Day, celebrated in Brazil. A nurse briefly opened the window to allow the boys to greet them. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

An Egyptian boy in an army costume salutes while posing next to army soldiers, from atop an armored vehicle guarding an entrance to Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

A student leaves Malala Yousafzai's old school, Khushal girls high School, in Mingora, Pakistan's Swat Valley. (REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood)

A Sikh youth performs an act of fire as he displays martial art skills during a religious procession on the eve of birth anniversary of Guru Ram Das in Amritsar. (AP Photo/Sanjeev Syal)

A devotee of the Chinese Bang Neow Shrine with two pistols pierced through his cheeks takes part in a street procession during the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket. (REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha)