Photographs Of The Day

A beautician applies make-up to a customer at a beauty salon in Kabul. It is one of the last places in Kabul where women can meet outside their households, a bubble of freedom and even frivolity away from the gaze of men.

A health worker inoculates a man with a dose of the Covaxin vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a health centre in New Delhi. India administered its billionth Covid-19 vaccine dose on October 21, according to the health ministry, half a year after a devastating surge in cases brought the health system close to collapse.

Head of the Taliban delegation, deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi (L) speaks with acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Taliban official Amir Khan Muttaqi during an international conference on Afghanistan in Moscow.

Commuters wade through a flooded national highway after river Kosi overflowed following heavy rains near Rampur in Uttar Pradesh.

Former US President Donald Trump announced plans to launch his own social network, in the latest push to reclaim his internet dominance after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook in the wake of the violent Capitol insurrection.