NURGAL, AFGHANISTAN: Volunteers and Taliban security personnel move injured people after an earthquake in the Mazar Dara village of Nurgal. The death toll from the earthquake this week has jumped to more than 2,200, just as another magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit the south-east region of the country on Thursday night. Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images

MARIENTAL, NAMIBIA: President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah led members of the Cabinet in remembering the 16 people who died in a road accident near Mariental about two weeks. Twelve of them were correctional service officers, two were police officers, and two were civilians. Photo: State House

MARIENTAL, NAMIBIA: President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah led members of the Cabinet in remembering the 16 people who died in a road accident near Mariental about two weeks. Twelve of them were correctional service officers, two were police officers, and two were civilians. Photo: State House

GAZA CITY, GAZA: Palestinians run for cover during an Israeli airstrike on a high-rise building. Only one in four people detained in Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons. Photo: Yousef Al Zanoun/AP

BEIJING, CHINA: President Xi Jinping prepares to review troops from a limousine during a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Xi said the world was facing a choice between peace and war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, joined by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in a show of defiance to the West. Photo: Wang Ye/AP

GAZA CITY, GAZA: A boy climbs out of the rubble of a collapsed building that was hit by a bombardment in the Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees. A potential UN-endorsed reconstruction plan for Gaza, including a one-year technocratic government, an international stabilisation force, disarmament of Hamas and a rejection of mass deportation of Palestinians, is being discussed with the US to prevent the UN General Assembly descending into a bitter row about the symbolic recognition of Palestine as a state. Photo: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images

BRASILIA, BRAZIL: The partial eclipse in Brasília, Brazil. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters