Runners compete in a men's 1,500 meters heat at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
The top photos of the week by AP’s photojournalists
Sept. 12-18, 2025
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Eloy Martin, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
Two Yemeni men inspect the rubble of a house that was destroyed in Wednesday’s Israeli airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend their visit to St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, Wednesday Sept. 17, 2025. (Aaron Chown/Pool Photo via AP)President Donald Trump gestures next to Britain’s King Charles III before leaving Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City by foot and vehicles, carrying their belongings along the coastal road toward southern Gaza, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Scientists and veterinarians capture a pink river dolphin in the Amazon River to perform health checks in Puerto Narino, Colombia, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)Ryan Shaw holds American flags during a vigil for Charlie Kirk on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in Provo, Utah. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Children bathe at a makeshift shelter for people displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)Participants dressed in historic armored suits compete in jousting at The St. George’s Tournament at Tsaritsyno Park in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)Greenlandic young firefighters participate in the Arctic basic training course supervised by the Danish army in Sisimiut, Greenland, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)Dancers wear photo of detainees disappeared during Chile’s military dictatorship, in a tunnel at the National Stadium, which served as a detention center in the early years of the regime, during an event marking the anniversary of the 1973 military coup, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)Naim Domi, 50, an Albanian worker who has lived in Greece for 17 years, paints the rooftop of the Panagia Faneromeni family-owned chapel overlooking the Aegean Sea near the village of Pyrgos, on the island of Tinos, Greece, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Palestinians run for cover during an Israeli military strike on a building in Gaza City, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Hannah Einbinder, winner of the award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for “Hacks,” left, and Jean Smart, winner of the award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for “Hacks,” pose in the press room during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)A protester waves a Palestinian flag on top of fences used as barricades to block the street to disrupt the twenty-first stage of the Spanish cycling race La Vuelta, from Alalpardo to Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernández)A model presents a creation from Lafaveur by Sharon Guan during the SS2026 China Fashion Week, in Beijing, China, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)A resident stands in front of the police station in El Carmelo, Colombia, a day after a deadly attack that authorities blame on a dissident faction of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)Macaws fly past a family on a scooter during a training session in a field in Depok, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)Election volunteers count ballots in Blantyre, Malawi, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)Danish military forces participate in an exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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