Each month The Associated Press management honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment. The winners for the October 2015 AP Staff Photo Contest are Petr David Josek, Darko Bandic, Santi Palacios, Darko Vojinovic, Matthias Schrader, Muhammed Muheisen, Marko Drobnjakovic and Petros Giannakouris in News Photography for "Migrants," Ramon Espinosa in Feature Photography for "Cuba Trains," and Andy Wong in Sports Photography for "China Open Tennis."

Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month's winning images are featured below.

News Photography | Migrants by Petr David Josek, Darko Bandic, Santi Palacios, Darko Vojinovic, Matthias Schrader, Muhammed Muheisen, Marko Drobnjakovic and Petros Giannakouris

A doll lies in the mud after being left behind close the border with Croatia near the village of Zakany, Hungary, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

In this aerial view photo, a column of migrants moves through fields after crossing from Croatia, in Rigonce, Slovenia, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

German federal police officers guide a group of migrants on their way after crossing the border between Austria and Germany in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Migrants move through field after crossing from Croatia, in Rigonce, Slovenia, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

A woman carries a child as she moves on foot towards a registration center in Opatovac, Croatia, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

A child looks out from a window of a bus upon arriving by a ferry from the Greek island of Lesbos at the Athens' port of Piraeus on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. The international Organization for Migration said than more than 593,000 people have crossed into Europe this year — of which 453,000 traveled from Turkey to Greece, which has faced a massive influx of people from Syria.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

An Afghan refugee wrapped, in a thermal blanket faces the sea after he and others arrived late in the night on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, early Thursday, Oct. 8 , 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Paramedics and doctors try to revive a baby after a boat with refugees and migrants sunk while was crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. The condition of the child is not known. A 7-year-old boy died off Lesbos, where most migrants land, while a 12-month-old girl was in critical condition in hospital from the same boat accident. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

A local resident cries as she holds the body of a dead baby in Petra village on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. The deaths occurred amid a surge of crossings to Greek islands involving migrants and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and other countries ahead of winter and as European governments weight taking tougher measures to try and limit the number of arrivals in Europe. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

Afghan migrant uses a knife to puncture the dinghy in which he crossed with others from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

A page form the Quran lies on the beach in the Greek island of Lesbos, where hundreds of refugees are arriving every day from the Turkish coast, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

A migrant swims as he arrives on the island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey to Greece on an overcrowded inflatable boat , Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

A migrant child is muffled up in blankets while resting on the road near a borderline between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Migrants scuffle as they wait to cross to Austria, in Sentilj, Slovenia, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. Asylum-seekers hoping to reach Western Europe turned to crossing Slovenia after Hungary closed its border with Croatia with a barbed-wire fence. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Feature Photography | Cuba Trains by Ramon Espinosa

In this March 23, 2015 photo, a train passenger looks out at the countryside between Ciego de Avila and Santa Clara, Cuba. While the island is slowly modernizing its rail system, it remains the slowest way to get around already slow-moving Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Aug. 28, 2015 photo, a train that departed Santiago de Cuba arrives at sunrise to Havana, Cuba. Cubans pay a little more than $1 to shuttle goods or visit faraway family, between the capital and Santiago. Visiting foreigners are charged $30 for the same trip. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Aug. 26, 2015 photo, a boy rides next to the engineer of an electric Hershey train in the Casablanca municipality of Havana, Cuba. The conductor slowed the train down to avoid hitting a shepherd's flock of goats grazing along the tracks. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Oct. 12, 2015 photo, a family on a horse-drawn carriage crosses the train tracks that connect Trinidad with the "Valle de los Ingenios," or Valley of the Sugar Mills, in Cuba. After decades of neglect due to the fall of the sugar industry, dozens of empty mills remain standing in this valley that was once part of the booming sugar industry in the 19th century, when plantation owners used slave labor. In 1988 the area became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this March 23, 2015 photo, a working cowboy travels by train to Santa Clara to participate in a rodeo, as the train moves through the province of Holguin, Cuba. From east to the west, trains offer a fine-grained, slow-moving view of Cuba that few foreigners ever see. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this March 23, 2015 photo, a man looks at a tank being transported on a paused cargo train, as he travels by train through the province of Holguin, Cuba. The train system suffered along with much of the country’s infrastructure when the Soviet Union’s collapse cut Cuba off from the subsidies that Moscow had pumped into its economy. Currently, a longstanding U.S. trade embargo makes it hard to get parts. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Aug. 26, 2015 photo, a young man boards the electric Hershey train with two live goats at the Hershey train station in Cuba. He's traveling to Casablanca, a municipality in Havana where he'll sell his livestock. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this March 23, 2015 photo, an off-duty police officer travels with his family to Santa Clara during a long trip through the province of Holguin in Cuba. From east to the west, trains offer a fine-grained, slow-moving view of Cuba that few foreigners ever see. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Oct. 11, 2015 photo, a train wagon made to look like a bus, moves along the tracks on the outskirts of Trinidad, Cuba. This train, known as a "train auto motor," moves passengers to and from the outskirts of the city. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this March 23, 2015 photo, passengers pass the time chatting on the landing of a train car as a farmer rides his horse alongside the tracks in the province of Holguin in Cuba. Cuba became the first Latin American country with a train system in the mid-19th century when colonial Spain began connecting Havana with the sugar-growing regions outside the capital. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this March 23, 2015 photo, a commuter puts his feet up in a train traveling from Santiago de Cuba to Santa Clara, in the province of Holguin, Cuba. The trip from Havana to Santiago, 475 miles (765 kilometers) to the east, takes an average of 15 hours, if the train doesn’t break down. A slightly more reliable train with air conditioning currently is not running while it undergoes repairs. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this March 23, 2015 photo, a woman who just got off the train uses the tracks to cross a bridge after arriving to her destination in the province of Holguin, Cuba. Cuba became the first Latin American country with a train system in the mid-19th century, with the network growing to 5,600 miles of rails crisscrossing the island before the system fell into disrepair. Currently, a longstanding U.S. trade embargo makes it hard to get parts. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Sports Photography | China Open Tennis by Andy Wong

In this Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015 photo, Camila Giorgi of Italy returns a ball against Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland during the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Flavia Pennetta of Italy reacts after missing a point to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia during their women's singles match of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia returns a ball against Flavia Pennetta of Italy during their women's singles match of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Flavia Pennetta of Italy hits a return shot against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia during their women's singles match of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a return shot against Jack Sock of the United States during their men's singles quarterfinal match of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Flavia Pennetta of Italy reacts after missing a point to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia during their women's singles match of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A woman watches Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays at a charity promotion activity event for the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015 (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Spectators wearing masks to protect themselves from pollutants as they watch the men's singles match between Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic and Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay in the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia, bottom, takes a selfie with spectators after winning his men's singles final match against Rafael Nadal of Spain in the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia takes a selfie with spectators after winning his men's singles quarterfinal match against John Isner of the United States in the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia gestures with his winner's trophy after he defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in the final match of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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