A selection of some of the top AP photos taken over the past 24 hours.
Gordon Easter and finance Gail Hale embrace as they return to their home on Hopper Lane in Coffey Park, Friday Oct. 20, 2017 in Santa Rosa, Calif. Northern California residents who fled a wildfire in the dead of night with only minutes to spare returned to their neighborhoods Friday for the first time in nearly two weeks to see if anything was standing. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP)
In this Oct. 20, 2017, photo, members of the U.S. backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walk inside the stadium that was the site of Islamic State fighters' last stand in the city of Raqqa, Syria. Losing real estate in the Middle East will not sharply affect Islamic State militants’ ability to inspire attacks against the West or burrow footholds from the Philippines to Africa, which has forced the U.S. to spread its resources thinly around the world, the nation’s top counterterrorism official said Friday. (AP Photo/Asmaa Waguih)
A Rohingya Muslim woman feeds her daughter inside a classroom where a group of refugees wait to be registered after which they will be allowed to proceed to build a shelter in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. UNICEF says the children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar are seeing a "hell on earth" in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Dusk light fades behind the warmly illuminated royal crematorium and funeral complex for the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Thai artists and craftsmen have put the finishing touches on the elaborate crematorium complex ahead of the funeral of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who reigned for 70 years before his death on Oct. 13, 2016. Bhumibol will be honored in an elaborate royal cremation ceremony from Oct. 25 to 29. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Runner-up Andres Velasquez, opposition gubernatorial candidate for the Bolivar State, shows a strip from a voting machine counting ballot register, during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. The opposition coalition say that the results for the race between Velasquez and his opponent reported on the National Electoral Council's website don't match the tallies from 11 ballot boxes certified by poll workers representing multiple political parties. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
German Chancellor and chairwomen of the German Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), Angela Merkel, 2nd right, and Horst Seehofer, chairman of the Christian Social Union party (CSU), right, address the media as they arrive for a meeting at a Reichstag building prior to exploratory talks on a coalition in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
British Prime Minister Theresa May waits for the arrival of European Council President Donald Tusk prior to a bilateral meeting with European Council President Donald Tusk during an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. European Union leaders gathered Friday to weigh progress in negotiations on Britain's departure from their club as they look for new ways to speed up the painfully slow moving process. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)
People wait to withdraw money from ATMs at a brach of CaixaBank, in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Bank customers in Catalonia are withdrawing money from financial institutions as CaixaBank and Banco Sabadell, that have moved their official headquarters to other locations in Spain amid a political crisis over the region's independence bid. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Australian director of photography Christopher Doyle, front, hugs Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai during the Lumiere Award ceremony of the 9th Lumiere Festival, in Lyon, central France, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
A child walks past the 1574' Pieta statue by German sculptor Wilhelm Theodor Achtermann which adorns the Borghese chapel of the Trinita' Dei Monti church at Rome's Spanish steps, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
New York Yankees starting pitcher Luis Severino leaves the game after giving up a two-run scoring single to Houston Astros' Jose Altuve during the fifth inning of Game 6 of baseball's American League Championship Series Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Spain's Moto2 rider Iker Lecuona flies though the gravel after falling from his Kalex during the third practice session for the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island near Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
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