Pictures of the day

• 1/25 Toxic election?

  Campaigners hold placards during a demonstration urging US citizens to vote in the upcoming Presidential election in Parliament Square, London

  EPA

• 2/25 No, he'll want the more expensive one...

  Kids rehearse for the Tesco Toy Tester Hotline, a dedicated phone service manned by children to help stressed out parents pick the most loved toys for their kids this Christmas

  Adrian Brooks/Imagewise

• 3/25 Twins

  Giant Panda twin cubs which were born at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria

  Daniel Zupanc/Schoenbrunn Zoo/Reuters

• 4/25 108 years of hurt gone...

  Chicago Cubs players celebrate in the locker room after winning the World Series over the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in Ohio. The Cubs had been waiting 108 years to be baseball's world champions

  David Maxwell/EPA

• 5/25 Clear skies finally

  After several foggy mornings, it was a stunning sunrise today

  Jeremy Selwyn

• 6/25 Bolt from the blue

  A photograph nemed 'Main Strike' taken at the Grand Canyon, is the Classic View adult category winner of the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards for 2016

  James Menzies/USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards

• 7/25 Loadsamoney

  Qui Nguyen of Las Vegas poses with his championship bracelet after defeating Gordon Vayo of San Francisco in the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas

  Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters

• 8/25 High kickin

  Competitors warm up backstage during the All Ireland Irish Dancing Championships in Belfast

  Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

• 9/25 Heading south

  Migrating cranes fly during sunset near Straussfurt, central Germany. The cranes rest in central Germany on their way from breeding places in the north to their wintering grounds in the south

  Jens Meyer/AP

• 10/25 It's like he's still here

  A gallery assistant poses with "Beautiful, Hallo, Space-Boy Painting" by Damien Hurst with David Bowie (est. £250,000-350,000) at the "Bowie/Collector" auction at Sotheby's, with an over sized side-on portrait of the singer seemingly watching over her

  Leon Neal/Getty Images

• 11/25 Colourful skies

  China's J-10 fighter jets perform during an air show, the 11th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, in Zhuhai, China

  Reuters

• 12/25 Lighting up Big Ben

  A model showcase designs on the runway during Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2017 in front of a electrified backdrop of Big Ben

  Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

• 13/25 Have a monster night

  A member of street performance troupe Macnas participates in their 30th anniversary during Halloween parade called Savage Grace in Galway, Ireland

  Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

• 14/25 Tribute to the fallen

  Ex Colour Sergeant 2 para Martin Wilson looks at 'Lost Armies' on display at Jubilee Park in Canary Wharf, as part of the UK's first Remembrance Art Trail in association with The Royal British Legion. It opens free to the public on Tuesday, November 1 for two weeks

  Matt Alexander/PA

• 15/25 Head in the clouds

  It was foggy for most of us today, but here was the view from the Shard - 800 feet in the air - of a carpet of cloud and a clear sky above

  The View From The Shard

• 16/25 Now that is a turban

  Indian Sikh 'Nihang' (traditional Sikh warrior) Baba 'Avtar' Singh wears an oversized 650 metre-long turban during a Fateh Divas celebration which takes place the day after the Diwali festival, in Amritsar

  Nurinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images

• 17/25 At least it is not a Killer Clown

  A Barbary macaque gets into the Halloween spirit at the Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling

  PA

• 18/25 His Royal HIGHness

  The Duke of Edinburgh surveys the Brighton skyline during his visit to the i360 attraction, the world's first vertical cable car

  PA

• 19/25 Mourning in mosaic

  1,250 students practice flipping boards with photos to reveal a full-mosaic portrait of the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej at Assumption College in Bangkok. King Bhumibol died on October 13 after reigning for 70 years, plunging the country into grief and extended mourning. The official mourning period is one year

  AP

• 20/25 Getting bronzed

  A Goethe bronze statue receives the finishing touches in Berlin

  EPA

• 21/25 We will remember

  A soldier walks through the eye-catching display in Paternoster Square set up to launch this year's Poppy Appeal

  Alex Lentati

• 22/25 Star to shine again

  A crowd gathers to watch as Donald Trump's vandalized Star along the Hollywood Walk of Fame being replaced after the original was vandalised

  AFP/Getty Images

• 23/25 Misty mornings

  It's been getting colder and mistier in the mornings - here the sun rises over the New Forest in Hampshire

  PA

• 24/25 Nursing back to health

  One of three kittens that were found dumped in a bin bag at the side of a road in Essex is fed by a vet for the RSPCA

  PA

• 25/25 Lighting up Halloween

  Visitors walking past a pumpkin lantern show in front of a shopping mall to mark the Halloween in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province

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