The top photos of the day by AP’s photojournalists
A girl looks out a rain-splattered bus window as she is evacuated before the arrival of Hurricane Melissa in Canizo, a community in Santiago de Cuba, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramón Espinosa)
Original Publication Date: October 28, 2025 1:10PM
Publication Updated: October 28, 2025 6:28PM
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
A couple jokes around on the coast in Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa approaches, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)Environmental workers collect the bodies of birds that have died from bird flu in a lake in Linum, Brandenburg, Germany, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)Hamas militants carry a white bag believed to contain a body, after retrieving it from a tunnel during a search for the remains of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Kenyan officials inspect the scene of a plane crash near Diani, Kenya, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo)A protestor’s hands are covered in oil during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration blocking a highway to protest fossil subsidies and new fossil fuel projects one day before the Oct. 29 general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)Pope Leo XIV attends an inter-religious meeting to pray for peace inside the Colosseum in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)A girl rides a rocking horse as her grandmother looks o inside Luna y Cielo Play Cafe in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)U.S. soldiers wave and take smartphones photos of President Donald Trump as he arrives to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington at the U.S. Navy’s Yokosuka base, in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani is introduced before Game 3 of baseball’s World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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