Photos of the week: Saudi gears up for haj, Oman reopens Al Hoota cave, Mother Teresa now a saint

A landing module of the Russian Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft carrying crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) – Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and US NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams – lands some 150 kms to the east of the city of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. The ISS space laboratory has been orbiting Earth at about 28,000 kilometres per hour (17,400 miles per hour) since 1998. Photo credit: Getty Images.

US President Barack Obama drinks from a coconut as he makes a surprise stop for a drink alonside the Mekong River in Luang Prabang on September 7, 2016. Obama became the first US president to visit Laos in office, touching down in Vientiane late on September 5 for a summit of East and South East Asian leaders. Photo credit: Getty Images.

For the first time in three years, the Al Hoota natural caves has been re-opened to the public near the ancient city of Jizwa in Oman, the first tourist cave to ever open in the GCC. The cave has undergone significant improvements and opened to visitors ahead of the Eid Al Adha holiday.

Lightning in the sky during the cyclone Morgana on the outskirts of Rome. The effects of the cyclone will last about a week and will especially affect central and southern Italy. Photo credit: Getty Images.

Nuns during a mass organised for the canonisation of Mother Teresa at Blessed Mother Teresa Church on September 4, 2016 in Virar near Mumbai, India. Photo credit: Getty Images

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