Week in pictures: 21-27 October

LAST UPDATED AT 20:15 ON Fri 26 Oct 2012
BBC Director-General George Entwistle
Credits: 
Carl Court

LONDON, TUESDAY: BBC Director-General George Entwistle leaves a Commons culture committee meeting. The head of the BBC admitted that a Newsnight story on the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal should not have been shelved. 

BBC Director-General George Entwistle
China fashion week
Malala Yousafzai sits up in her hospital bed
Usain Bolt poses in Rio de Janeiro
Bond stars Javier Bardem, Berenice Marlohe and Daniel Craig and director Sam Mendes
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan
Muslim pilgrims wait for the start of prayers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca during the hajj
A satellite image of Hurricane Sandy
Campaigners dressed as suffragettes call for equal rights for men and women during a rally outside Westminster
Students at Lynn University relax in the pool