Waiting for a haircut and Mont-Saint-Michel: Monday's best photos

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

Main image: People look at the monastery from the partially submerged road at Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, during high tide Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images

  • London, UK

    Ocean Rebellion protesters demonstrate outside the Albert Embankment on the first day of the International Maritime Organization climate conference
    Ocean Rebellion protesters demonstrate outside the Albert Embankment in London, UK

  • London, UK

    A gallery assistant poses in front of Untitled, 1987 by Peter Schuyff, which has a guide price of £6,000 to £8,000, at Bonhams in central London ahead of the auction house’s forthcoming postwar and contemporary art sale
    A gallery assistant poses in front of Untitled, 1987 by Peter Schuyff at Bonhams auction house in London, UK

  • Melbourne, Australia

    Men queue for a haircut outside a barber shop after some of the city’s three-month-old stay-at-home Covid restrictions were further eased
    Men queue for a haircut outside a barber shop in Melbourne, Australia

  • Phnom Penh, Cambodia

    Garment workers gather clothes from a flooded factory. According to media reports, at least 22 people were killed and more than 20,000 were evacuated after heavy flooding
    Garment workers gather clothes from a flooded factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

  • Manchester, UK

    A man is seen wearing a face mask as a row over Greater Manchester’s coronavirus status continues. The area’s leaders have resisted moving into tier 3, which would mean pubs and bars would have to close as part of a package of strict measures
    A man is seen wearing a face mask in Manchester, UK

  • Atlit, Israel

    A flamingo flies over a reservoir north of Tel Aviv. Flamingos pass through Israel on their way to Africa, and then again when they return to Europe in the summer
    A flamingo flies over a reservoir in Atlit, Israel

  • Santiago, Chile

    A demonstrator flies a Chilean flag outside the burning church of Asuncion, set on fire by protesters, on the commemoration of the first anniversary of the social uprising. The protest comes just a week before Chileans vote in a referendum on whether to replace the dictatorship-era constitution
    A demonstrator flies a Chilean flag outside the burning church of Asuncion, set on fire by protesters in Santiago, Chile

  • Santiago, Chile

    Protesters react as police use water cannon to disperse them on the first anniversary of the start of mass anti-government protests over inequality
    Protesters react as police use water cannon to disperse them in Santiago, Chile

  • Siheung, South Korea

    A surfer falls in a pool at Wave Park near Incheon
    A surfer falls in a pool at Wave Park in Siheung, South Korea

  • Codroipo, Italy

    Cyclists wait as the Italian air force acrobatic unit Frecce Tricolori (Tricolour Arrows) perform during the 15th stage of the Giro d’Italia cycling race
    Cyclists wait as the Italian air force acrobatic unit Frecce Tricolori (Tricolour Arrows) perform during the 15th stage of the Giro d’Italia cycling race in Codroipo, Italy

  • Ihsim, Syria

    People collect scrap steel rods from the rubble and destruction after an aerial bombardment of the town in rebel-held Idlib province
    People collect scrap steel rods from the rubble after an aerial bombardment in Ihsim, Syria

  • Mont-Saint-Michel, France

    People look at the monastery from the partially submerged road in Normandy during high tide. Mont-Saint-Michel and its bay have been a Unesco world heritage site since 1979
    People look at the monastery from the partially submerged road at Mont-Saint-Michel in France

  • Nanjing, China

    Visitors enjoy a chrysanthemum garden in Jiangsu province
    Visitors enjoy a chrysanthemum garden in Nanjing, China

  • Phuket, Thailand

    Devotees are possessed by spirits and pierced with long needles during a vegetarian ritual at the Sapam Shrine. Phuket’s annual vegetarian festival, also known as the Nine Emperor Gods festival, began on 17 October and will run until 25 October. Known for its extreme displays of ritualistic mutilation by spirit mediums known as mah song, the festival is derived from Chinese Taoist beliefs
    Thai devotees are possessed by spirits and pierced with long needles during a vegetarian ritual at the Sapam Shrine in Phuket, Thailand

  • Atme, Syria

    Displaced Syrians are seen near their makeshift tents at the village in Idlib province. Civilians who fled the Assad regime’s airstrikes and settled in Idlib’s border with Turkey live in tents in unhealthy conditions
    Displaced Syrians are seen near their makeshift tents in Atme, Syria

  • Melbourne, Australia

    A young man rides his bike at a skatepark after they reopened due to an easing of coronavirus restrictions
    A young man rides his bike at a skatepark in Melbourne, Australia

  • Bethlehem, US

    A pedestrian crosses a street in Northampton County in Pennsylvania. The county, a longtime bellwether district that voted for Barack Obama in 2012 before swinging to Donald Trump in 2016, has been hit hard by Covid-19, with a death rate well above the US average and an unemployment rate that has more than doubled in the last year
    A pedestrian crosses a street in Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, US

  • Frankfurt, Germany

    A face mask left behind near the Euro sculpture
    A face mask left behind near the Euro sculpture in Frankfurt, Germany
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