Pictures of the Week:

 

 

 

Pictures of the week: 

From a royal visit to autumnal meerkats 

Here's the pick of the pics from around the world this week.

1. A group of adorable meerkats have fun in a pile of autumnal leaves at Blair Drummond Safari Park 

near Stirling, where staff have added foliage to the animals' enclosure .(Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

2. Royal approval: The Duke of Cambridge jokes with members of the England football team at the 

FA's newly-opened Staffordshire training facility, St George's Park. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson/Pool)

3. Pakistani students in Peshawar pray for the recovery of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, 

who was shot on Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women. 

(AP Photo/Mohammed Sajjad)

4. An electrical storm lights up the night sky behind the business district in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday evening. 

(AP Photo/Alberto Di Lolli)

5. Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic celebrates winning the China Open by breaking into 'Gangnam Style' before accepting the trophy. 

(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

6. Lazy new dad Colin Furze demonstrates his new invention - the world's fastest motorised pram which, 

thanks to a powerful engine, has an incredible top speed of 50mph. (Rex)

7. Riot police extinguish burning tyres set alight by Bahraini anti-government protesters, 

who demonstrate to highlight their demands for the release of political prisoners. 

(AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

8. A women arranges books on a shelf at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which opened on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

9. Wellwishers light candles at a beach during a memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorists attacks, in Bali. 

A decade after twin bombs killed scores of tourists partying at two beachfront nightclubs on the Indonesian resort island, survivors 

and victims' families braved a fresh terrorism threat to remember those lost to the tragedy. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

10. A spectacular sunrise over the giant sculpture by internationally renowned artist Sean Henry of a man and woman 

situated 300 yards out to sea off the coast of Northumberland at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. (Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)