Here are highlights from the 2019 Word Series featuring the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals

The Israel Antiquities Authority showcases the remains of a Byzantine church from 1,500 years ago in Ramat Beit Shemesh. The three-year excavation revealed the church, Greek inscriptions, mosaics, a baptismal font and a crypt of an unknown "glorious martyr." The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem is exhibiting some of the historic treasures beginning October 23, 2019.

The Radio City Rockettes kick off rehearsals for the 2019 production of the Christmas Spectacular on October 22, 2019, in New York City. The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, presented by Chase, will run from November 8, 2019, to January 5, 2020.

These are some of the exciting plays from the 2019 National Football League season.

Winners, nominees and artists participate in the fifth annual Latin American Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on October 17, 2019. The annual event honors outstanding achievements for artists in the Latin music industry.

Golfing great Tiger Woods holds workshop in Tokyo before tour events.

Exciting hitting, fielding and pitching marked the 2019 Major League Baseball playoffs.

President Donald Trump meets with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the White House. The Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues visit. And officials testify in the impeachment inquiry into Trump's actions in Ukraine. Those are among the highlights from Washington, D.C., for the week of October 14, 2019.

U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, Actor Peter Fonda, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Broadway legend Carol Channing are among the famous people who have died in 2019.

Stars pose for photographers during a photocall of the Chanel Mademoiselle Prive Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan, on October 17, 2019.

Bruce Springsteen, his band and his family attend the New York special screening of "Western Stars" at Metrograph in New York City on October 16, 2019.

Participants welcome fall at the annual pumpkin weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on October 14, 2019, and pumpkin sales in Belleville, Ill., on October 9.

The stars of "The Irishman," "Official Secrets," "The Aeronaut," "The Report" and "Jojo Rabbit' attend premieres at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival from October 5 through 13, 2019.

Cast members attend the premiere of "Motherless Brooklyn" at the 57th New York Film Festival on October 11, 2019.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish people prepare to celebrate Sukkot, the Feast of Tablernacles, in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, on Oct. 11. The Sukkot feast is a week long holiday that commemorates the Israelites 40 years of wandering in the desert after their exodus from Egypt. Sukkot begins Oct.13.

Cast members attend the premiere of "Zombieland: Double Tap" at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on Oct. 10, 2019.

The newly renovated Museum of Modern Art holds an open house press preview on Oct. 10, 2019 in New York City.

The cast of "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" attends the London premiere of the film at Odeon Imax Waterloo on October 9, 2019.

President Donald Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and demonstrators rally for LGBT rights outside the Supreme Court among the highlights of the week in Washington, D.C., for the week of October 7, 2019.

Photos from the Kaparot ceremony in the Mea Shearim neighborhood, in Jerusalem, October 7, 2019. The Jewish ritual of Kaparot symbolically transfers the sin from the past year to a chicken and is performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year. Yom Kippur begins at sunset on October 8, when Jews will refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, bathing or having sex for nearly 26 hours.