- Pope Benedict XVI descended to the grotto of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Thursday to view the crypt of Pius XII on the 50th anniversary of his death. Pope Benedict said he hoped his Nazi-era predecessor Pius XII, who some Jews have accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust, can proceed on the road to Roman Catholic sainthood. (Osservatore Romano/Reuters)
Friends and relatives of an assassinated anti-U.S. Iraqi lawmaker wept as they awaited his coffin outside the family’s Sadr City home Thursday. Saleh al-Okaili was assassinated in a bomb attack. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Kenny Pens, 4, inspected an Owl butterfly, which are found in Central and South America, during a preview of “The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter” at the American Museum of Natural History Thursday in New York. The exhibition opens Oct. 11 and runs through May 25. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press)
The National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a temporary fix, the dollar sign has been switched to a figure. The clock pegs the current national debt at $10.2 trillion. (Kathy Willens/Associated Press)
A shopper at an Englewood, Ohio, Goodwill waded through the racks Wednesday. Ohio Goodwill stores said they’ve seen an 8% sales jump compared to the same time last year. However, mainstream retailers haven’t fared as well. (Jim Noelker/Dayton Daily News via Associated Press)
Sen. Barack Obama supporter Dickson Waudo (left) and a Sen. John McCain supporter argued before the Republican nominee arrived at a Strongsville, Ohio, rally Wednesday. (Tony Dejak/Associated Press)
A female Basij militia member attended a riot control training session Friday at a Revolutionary Guards base near Tehran. In addition to learning how to handle firearms, the class also included instruction on how to administer first aid. (Reuters)
Emergency response services inspected the site of an explosion in Islamabad, Pakistan, after an explosives-laden vehicle blew up an anti-terrorist squad building Thursday. (Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press)
A 25-acre brush fire burned at Camp Pendleton Marine Base in Oceanside, Calif., Wednesday. Homes near the base’s entrance are visible in the foreground. (Bill Wechter/North County Times via Associated Press)
Teachers tried to bring down barriers Wednesday set up by riot police to defend the perimeter along the Interior Ministry building in Mexico City. Demonstrators also blocked highways. Thousands of educators, who previously rallied against pension changes, protested against a new educational initiative. (Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)
A farmer stacked vegetables at a field in China’s Shandong province Wednesday. China’s Communist Party is meeting to discuss agricultural reforms as the global economic crisis crosses the country. The four-day meeting, which started Thursday, is expected to give farmers formal permission to lease or transfer their land. (Associated Press)
Hindu women applied ’sindhur,’ or vermillion powder, on each other during the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, Thursday. In Hindu mythology, the goddess Durga symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil. (Jayanta Shaw/Reuters)
A child carried the head of Mahisasura Friday in Siliguir, India. According to Hindu mythology, the goddess Durga killed Mahisasura. (Diptendu Dutta/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Young supporters watched Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as she and Sen. John McCain made a campaign stop in Allentown, Pa., Wednesday. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)
Magdalana Domingo Ramirez Lopez, 29, of Guatemala, sat with one of her sons while wearing an ankle monitor Wednesday, one day after federal agents arrested her during an immigration raid at a Greenville, S.C., chicken plant. (Mary Ann Chastain/Associated Press)
A woman waited for the main branch of Landsbankinn bank to open in Reykjavik, Iceland, Wednesday. Iceland took over the bank Tuesday to help tackle a financial crisis threatening to overwhelm the island nation. (Bob Strong/Reuters)
A trader worked on floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. U.S. stocks ended lower on the day, as losses accelerated in the final minutes of a see-saw session. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
Brokers looked solemn Wednesday morning at the stock market in Frankfurt. European markets tumbled amid ongoing fears about the state of credit markets. Back in the U.S., the Federal Reserve issued a half-point interest rate cut Wednesday morning in an attempt to repair short-term lending markets. (Michael Probst/Associated Press)
Audience member Oliver Clark asked presidential nominees Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama a question Tuesday during a town hall-style debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. One of the more interesting points came when Sen. McCain briefly talked about a mortgage rescue plan. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)
Locals gathered around the rubble of a Yeti Airlines passenger plane Wednesday at Lukla Airport near Mount Everest in Nepal. The small plane crashed and caught fire as it tried to land in foggy weather, killing 18 people, including German and Australian tourists. Nepal officials said only the pilot survived. (Suraj Kunwar/Associated Press)
An Iraqi woman and man looked at U.S. soldiers from their car at a checkpoint near Baqouba, Iraq, Wednesday. Also in Baqouba, a female suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest, killing 11 people and wounding 19, Iraqi officials said. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
People barbecued chorizo sausage on an improvised Buenos Aires roadside grill Tuesday, which was the fifth day of a strike against the Argentine government’s agricultural policies. (Daniel Garcia/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A woman stopped to check her bag Wednesday as she walked past graffiti depicting Argentine-born revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Havana. Cuba marked the 41st anniversary of Mr. Guevara’s death Wednesday, although he was killed on Oct. 9, 1967 in La Higuera, Bolivia. (Javier Galeano/Associated Press)
Albany Fire Department, Schenectady Fire Department and New York State Fire firefighters rolled up an American flag after an Albany, N.Y., ceremony honoring fallen comrades Tuesday. (Mike Groll/Associated Press )
Jewish people prayed at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, in Jerusalem Tuesday. The prayers are performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, which starts at sundown Wednesday. Jewish people all over the world traditionally observe the day with a 25-hour period of fasting and prayer. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
Men who live and work in a garbage dump challenged each other to a volleyball game at the end of the day in Manila, Philippines, Wednesday. (John Javellana/Reuters)
The White House was illuminated by pink lights Tuesday in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A man displayed a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama at a Nairobi, Kenya, workshop Tuesday. Immigration authorities arrested and prepared to deport on Tuesday the U.S. author of a book critical of Sen. Obama, witnesses said.
In the U.S. Sen. Obama prepared to debate Republican rival Sen. John McCain in Nashville, Tenn. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)
Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.) prepared to speak before a Newton, Mass., news conference Monday. Rep. Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, called Republican criticism of Democrats over the housing crisis a veiled, racially motivated attack on the poor. (Bill Greene/The Boston Globe via Associated Press)
Iraqi security forces carried dozens of empty coffins through the streets of the Shiite holy city of Najaf Tuesday to commemorate those buried in mass graves. The ceremony came one day ahead of a conference on the effects of mass graves on society. (Qassem Zein/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A Palestinian smuggler prepared his gear Sunday inside a tunnel used to import goods from Egypt to the Gaza Strip. According to officials, hundreds of tunnel owners are going “legit.” They’ve registered with Hamas, pledged to pay workers and hooked up their underground operations to electricity. (Khalil Hamra/Associated Press)
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva waved a national flag next to his wife, Marisa Leticia, while posing for a photo Tuesday with shipyard workers who built the Petrobras oil platform P-51, the first semi-submersible platform built entirely in Brazil. (Ho/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Supporters of Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom canvassed Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s presidential election. About 200,000 Maldivians are expected to vote. (Pedro Ugarte/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Spain’s Infanta Cristina, the daughter of King Juan Carlos, inspected the troops during an official function Tuesday in Seville. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men prayed on the banks of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv during Tashlikh Tuesday. The ritual, which precedes Yom Kippur, involves casting away last year’s sins in a body of water. (Jonathan Nackstrand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Tokyo-born American citizen Yoichiro Nambu, of the University of Chicago, gave a phone interview Tuesday about his joint physics Nobel Prize win. The Nobel committee praised Mr. Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for separate work that explains why the universe is made up mostly of matter and not anti-matter. (John Gress/Reuters)
Workers held banners as they demonstrated Tuesday in Marseille, France, to defend their purchasing power. European Union finance ministers, seeing concern among the work force, on Tuesday agreed to a set of principles that will guide potential bailouts of banks and insurance companies. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
A welder worked at a Beijing construction site Tuesday. Concerns are increasing about a slowdown in China’s economy, as evidenced by a 65% fall in China’s benchmark stock index from its peak last October. (David Gray/Reuters)
An injured anti-government protester was aided in front of the parliament building in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday. (Wason Wanitchakorn/Associated Press)
Iraqi firefighters extinguished an exploded car bomb at a parking lot near the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad Tuesday. Two powerful bombs exploded outside the area’s tightly guarded Green Zone as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was due to address reporters. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/Agence France-Press — Getty Images)
Civilians and medical personnel carried a wounded man in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday after mortar shells slammed into a busy market, killing at least 17 people. (Mohamed Sheikh Nor/Associated Press)
Firefighters helped a woman into an ambulance Tuesday after her release in Guatemala City. She was among more than 40 people taken hostage at a call center in a five-hour police standoff with a gunman. The suspect turned himself in and released the hostages unharmed, officials said. (Eitan Abramovich/Agence France-Press — Getty Images)
Men protected their faces on a dusty day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
Russian peacekeepers sat at the Kvenatkosa checkpoint Tuesday. Russia has accused forces in Georgia of seeking to provoke a new conflict over the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia, but vowed to complete a withdrawal after the August fighting. (Vano Shlamov/Agence France-Press — Getty Images)
A priest led a Mass Tuesday in Sofia, Bulgaria, in commemoration of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Ms. Politkovskaya, who was a critics of former Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shot in the head in her Moscow apartment two years ago. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)
From left, Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu gave a joint news conference in Pristina, Kosovo, Tuesday. Mr. Gates is the most senior U.S. official to visit the country since it declared independence from Serbia this year. About 1,500 American troops are deployed in Kosovo. (Armend Nimani/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Two Ukrainian officials argued near empty parliament seats in Kiev Tuesday. On Monday, President Viktor Yushchenko extended “by a few days” a deadline for completing talks aimed at restoring the country’s pro-Western government coalition. President Yushchenko has threatened to dissolve parliament unless the three major parties reach an agreement. (Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse Getty Images)
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Richard Fuld Jr. was heckled by protesters as he left Capitol Hill Monday. Mr. Fuld testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Lehman’s collapse. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)
Thi Hoan Tran stood with others in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on the first day of the court’s new term Monday in Washington. Ms. Tran, who was born in 1986, suffers from birth defects as a result of her parents being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam. Victims presented the court with a petition to consider their case against American companies that produced the chemical. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A pregnant pro-life demonstrator and her daughter knelt before the Supreme Court in Washington Monday. The court began its new term Monday with cases about tobacco company lawsuits, protecting whales from Navy sonar and a government crackdown on dirty words on television. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters )
U.S. Army soldiers from Dog Company, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, were seen through the haze of burning trash as they patrolled Baqouba, Iraq, Monday. (Maya Alleruzzo/Associated Press)
A synchronized series of explosives were used to demolish part of the Liberty Memorial Bridge in Bismark, N.D., Monday. (Tom Stromme/The Tribune via Associated Press)
French Sen. and former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua arrived at a Paris courthouse Monday for the opening trial of the arms-to-Angola scandal. Mr. Pasqua, late French President Francois Mitterand’s son, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and others are among the 42 accused. (Martin Bureau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A Roman Catholic priest blessed 50 new machine guns during a ceremony Monday in the Mindanao, Philippines, to help the military in its operation against Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels. MILF has been waging a campaign to set up an Islamic state, attacking Christian communities in the process. (Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
An American soldier photographed two rockets discovered while on a routine patrol in the district of Dora in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (Loay Hameed/Associated Press )
An election official registered Afghan men for their voter identity cards Monday in Parwan province. The voter-registration drive is in preparation for next year’s presidential election, which is likely to be the country’s most challenging election since the Taliban was ousted from power in 2001. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press)
A tour bus crashed on a rural two-lane road near Williams, Calif., Sunday, killing at least 10 people before coming to rest in a water-filled ditch. The bus was en route to casino near Sacramento, Calif. (Steve Yeater/Associated Press)
Hungarian firefighters saved victims from a wrecked train near Budapest Monday. At least three people were killed and more than 30 injured when two trains collided. (Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
People protested outside National Bank of Belgium in Brussels Monday. Belgians across the nation protested rising inflation, disrupting public transportation. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
Truck drivers rested between their vehicles Monday on the Jammu-Srinagar highway near Jammu, India, on the second day of a curfew. Troops in Kashmir, India, sealed off residential areas using metal barricades and barbed wire to thwart planned pro-separatists rallies. (Amit Gupta/Reuters )
A Palestinian woman held a picture of her son, who is jailed in Israel, during a protest Monday at the Gaza City International Red Cross office. According to the Palestinian Authority, more than 11,000 Palestinians are imprisoned in Israel, including 11 who are seriously ill. (Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Palestinian Mariam Al-Mazloum, 60, sorted olives Monday during the harvest in Janiya, West Bank. Olives are a staple for many local farmers. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
An Afghan girl walked with her donkey carrying hay in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Monday. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
A priest performed rituals during the Durga Puja festival in Siliguri, India, Monday. The festival celebrates victory over evil. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
Women peeled onions at a vegetable market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday. (Dadang Tri/Reuters)
An art installation made of edible dog chews called ‘Love It Bite It’ by artist Liu Wei sat on display Monday at London’s Saatchi Gallery. The contemporary art is on display until Thursday, Oct. 9. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
President George W. Bush signed a Wall Street bailout bill in the Oval Office Friday. Hours earlier, the House passed the Economic Stabilization Act of 2008; members previously defeated the measure. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
Happy traders Stephen Holden (left) and Bradley Bailey watched the news about the bailout passing from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday. (Richard Drew/Associated Press)
Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama purchased white roses Friday in Glenside, Pa., for his wife, Michelle, on their 16th wedding anniversary. Sen. Obama planned to fly home to Chicago to be with his wife after a campaign rally in Abington, Pa. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
A homeowner shoveled mud from what used to be his bedroom after floods caused by heavy rains swamped Ghardaia, Algeria, Friday. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
A groomer flat-ironed an Afghan dog’s mane during the European Dog Show in Budapest Friday. Around 20,000 dogs gathered at the show — the biggest event of its kind in Europe. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
Decommissioned New York City subway cars were loaded onto a barge Friday for transportation to the Atlantic Ocean off Delaware, where they will be dumped. Officials said the train cars will provide a structure for the growth of underwater plant and animal life. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
Washington University students looked on at punching robots with the faces of vice presidential foes Sen. Joe Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Thursday. The candidates took the stage at the St. Louis school in their first and only debate. (Jim Young/Reuters)
It was business as usual for a San Francisco woman who folded her clothes at a Laundromat as she watched the highly anticipated vice presidential debate Thursday night. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
An Indian army officer pointed at a mountainous area of Chhamar Sar, India, where soldiers fought a deadly weeklong gunbattle with separatists. Military officials said Friday the firefight was the longest in recent years. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)
Sukhdev Singh, 95, a refugee from a 1947 India-Pakistan partition plan, rested during Friday’s demonstration in Jammu, India. Demonstrators demanded compensation for property left behind. The partition plan split India into a Hindu area and the newly created Muslim region of Pakistan. The deal caused many people to flee their homelands. (Channi Anand/Associated Press)
An Israeli Jewish settler (right) argued with a Palestinian woman who was filming peace activists as they assisted a Palestinian family who were harvesting their olives in Hebron, West Bank, Friday. Some Jewish settlers clashed with the activists who were protecting Palestinians. (Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters)
Donning dark colors, demonstrators held up a large black banner reading “Hart Backbord!,” which means “hard to port” in English, as they protested against German Unification Day festivities Friday in Hamburg. They criticized the expanding role of capitalism. (Nigel Treblin/Agence France-Presse Getty Images)
A protester blew smoke in a police officer’s face in Mexico City Thursday during a march to mark the 1968 Tlatelolco Plaza massacre. Ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics, soldiers and gunmen killed hundreds of student demonstrators there. (Alexandre Meneghini/Associated Press)
A devotee of the Chinese Shrine Ban Tha Rue walked with swords piercing her cheeks during a procession Friday at the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand. The festival celebrates vegetarianism and calls on devotees to purify themselves through similar acts. (David Longstreath/Associated Press)
Artist Richard Serra’s sculpture ‘TTI London’ was displayed Friday at the unveiling of his new exhibition at London’s Gagosian Gallery. (Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters)
A technician assembled computers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research Friday in Geneva. The “Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid” combines the power of more than 140 computer centers in 33 countries that process more than 15 million gigabytes of data every year. (Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse Getty Images)
Football Club Timisoara fans set off flares and waved flags during their team’s soccer match against Partizan in the Union of European Football Associations Cup first round Thursday in Belgrade, Serbia. (Srdjan Ilic/Associated Press)
Coffee tasters smelled ground aromatic beans Thursday in Lima, Peru, during a nation-wide coffee contest. Peru is the world’s largest exporter of organic coffee. The country is working to boost its production of the bean, focusing on quality and edging into niche markets. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters)
Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy arrived at London’s High Court Thursday to ask the court to clarify an assisted suicide law. Mrs. Purdy wants to ensure that her husband is not prosecuted if he helps her visit a Swiss euthanasia facility in the event that her pain becomes unbearable. (Shaun Curry/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A man held an altered U.S. flag that displayed corporate logos rather than stars on Wall Street in New York Thursday in protest of a $700 billion bailout plan. The Senate passed the bank rescue package, which now awaits approval from the House. (Mark Lennihan/Associated Press)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was pictured through a camera viewfinder as he delivered a speech to local media at a business and financial outlook event Thursday in Paris. (Philippe Wojazer/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A chaplain from Victim Relief Ministries consoled a Hurricane Ike evacuee Wednesday at a Galveston, Texas, elementary school. (Nick de la Torre/The Houston Chronicle via Associated Press)
A girl stood on posters during an anti-abortion rally Thursday in Hyderabad, India. (Krishnendu Halder/Reuters)
Hibba Adnan, 5, was comforted by her mother Thursday at a Baghdad, Iraq, hospital. Hibba was wounded in a blast that targeted Shiite worshipers leaving a mosque. (Adil al-Khazali/Associated Press)
Relatives cried over the body of a youth who was killed along with other family members when gunmen opened fire on a minibus Thursday in Iraq. The victims were en route to an Eid al-Fitr celebration, which marks the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (Helmiy al-Azawi/Reuters)
Muslim schoolchildren joined Roman Catholic priests in a peace march from Saint Joseph Church to the Blue Mosque in a Manila, Philippines, suburb Thursday. They called for an end to a war in the southern region, where government troops are pursuing Muslim separatists who allegedly pillaged Christian villages. The fighting has displaced 500,000 people. (Jay Directo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
An employee removed Nestle milk powder from the shelves of a Taipei, Taiwan, supermarket Thursday on orders from local health officials. Authorities said tests found traces of melamine contamination linked to Chinese manufacturers. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)
Buffaloes fought during a bullfighting festival Thursday in Guizhou, China. The country is celebrating its weeklong National Day holiday, which started Monday. (Reuters)
Kwon Won-tae walked a tightrope Thursday for the World High Wire Championships in Seoul, South Korea, as the sun blazed in the sky. Twenty-seven people from 14 countries tried to walk across the tightrope, which was a little more than 1 inch wide. (Lee Jin-man/Associated Press)
Artist Ron Mueck’s “Mask II” was displayed at the British Museum’s Statuefilia exhibition Thursday in London. The exhibit opens to the public Oct. 4 and runs until Jan. 25. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
A stunned bomb blast victim was taken to a hospital in Agartala, India, Wednesday. Police said three bombs exploded there. (Jayanta Dey/Reuters)
Army soldiers patrolled at the Complexo de Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday. Brazil’s military has been called in to help quell violence and voter intimidation ahead of local elections Oct. 5. (Andre Mourao/Associated Press)
Voters waited in line Wednesday to cast their absentee ballots during early voting in Toledo, Ohio. “No fault” absentee voting allows any registered Ohioan to vote in the presidential election between Oct. 1 and the close of polls on Nov. 4. In the past, voters could only cast early ballots if they were disabled, out of town on election day, an emergency response worker, a senior citizen or in prison awaiting possible conviction for a felony. (J.D. Pooley/Getty Images)
Members of CODEPINK held a “die-in” at the Capitol Hill office of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama during a taxpayer revolt protest Wednesday. (Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
NHL Tampa Bay Lightning hockey players challenged patients at Prague’s Jedlickuv Institute for the handicapped to a friendly game Wednesday. (David W. Cerny/Reuters)
Girls danced as part of Navratri festivities in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday. The annual Hindu festival began Tuesday. (Ajit Solanki/Associated Press)
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak hit a huge traditional drum during a ceremony Wednesday marking the 60th anniversary of Armed Forces Day in Seoul. President Lee called for strong defenses amid heightened tensions over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. (Jo Yong-Hak/Associated Press )
Members of the South Korean Marine Corps listened to President Lee Myung-bak’s speech during a ceremony marking the country’s Armed Forces Day in Seoul Wednesday. (Jo Yong-Hak/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Troops stood upright in armored vehicles during the annual Cyprus Independence Day military parade in the capital of Nicosia Wednesday. Prior to the parade, President Dimitris Christofias urged the United Nations and Turkish Cyprus leaders to support his call to demilitarize Cyprus’s divided capital. (Petros Karadjias/Associated Press)
Police kept watch over crowds as they emerged from an underpass below Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on China’s National Day Wednesday. Thousands crowded the square on the 59th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in 1949. (Greg Baker/Associated Press)
Men worked in the debris of a partially collapsed school in Belyayevka, Russia, Wednesday. A staircase collapsed at the school, killing several children. (Dmitry Nemaltsev/Reuters)
Firefighters looked up at the side of a garage in Beaver Township, Pa., after part of the garage collapsed on a car that crashed into the structure Tuesday. (Jimmy May/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise via Associated Press)
Demonstrators held pictures of children affected by contaminated milk products during a demonstration against the Chinese government at the Chinese consulate in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)
A Muslim girl offered prayers on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr in Jammu, India, Wednesday. Muslims attended special prayers to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Amit Gupta/Reuters)
A Jewish woman practiced Tashlikh on the first day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, Tuesday at the ocean in Ashdod, Israel. Tashlikh involves symbolically casting off the previous year’s sins by throwing food items into a natural body of water. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
Ultra Orthodox Jews prayed at a lake in Uman, Ukraine, Tuesday. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive every year on Rosh Hashana. (Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)
Security guard Casey Miller kept traffic moving as customers exited an Exxon gas station in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday. A hurricane-induced gas shortage has left many residents scrambling to find gas. (Davis Turner/Getty Images)
Voter Tim Murray filled out his absentee ballot Tuesday at a Columbus, Ohio, polling place. Voters in this crucial swing state began casting absentee ballots a day after the Ohio Supreme Court and two separate federal judges cleared the way for a disputed early voting law. (David Smith/Associated Press)
Zimbabweans lined up to withdraw cash from the Central African Building Society in the capital of Harare Tuesday. Zimbabwe’s central bank introduced higher denomination banknotes Monday in another sign of the hyperinflation that has shown no sign of abating. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott (left), Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov (center) and U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke (right) posed after trying on space suits Tuesday in Kazakhstan. Space Adventures, based in Vienna, Va., is sending its new clients to the International Space Station Oct. 12. Mr. Garriott is the son of National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut Owen Garriott. (Associated Press)
U.S. soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, folded a U.S. flag after handing over their patrol base to the Iraqi army in Yusufiya, south of Baghdad, Tuesday. (Bassim Shati/Reuters)
An Abkhazian tank rolled through Sukhumi, the capital of the autonomous region in Georgia, Tuesday during a military parade to mark the 15th anniversary of the victory over Georgian forces. Revelers called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev a hero for Moscow recognizing Abkhazia as an independent state. (Mikhail Voskresensky/Reuters)
A man used power cables to maneuver on a homemade raft on a flooded Nanning, China, street Tuesday. Floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 17 people and left six others missing. (Reuters)
A Rolls-Royce limousine was parked nearby as people looked at a display showing stock prices at the Swiss bank UBS in Zurich Tuesday. European shares were little changed the day after the U.S. House failed to pass a $700 billion financial bailout package. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)
Would-be immigrants wrapped up in warm blankets and rested after arriving at Los Cristianos port on Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife Tuesday. Some 229 Africans were intercepted by Spanish rescue workers. (Santiago Ferrero/Reuters)
Israeli border police patrolled Jerusalem’s Old City Tuesday as Palestinian children played with toy guns that they received as presents for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A child watched Saudi men praying at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque during Eid al-Fitr morning prayers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday. (Hassan Ammar/Associated Press)
North Korean troops looked through binoculars Tuesday at the demilitarized “truce” village of Panmunjom, which sits in between the two Koreas. U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill has accepted an invitation to visit Pyongyang, North Korea, this week to discuss ways to salvage the country’s disarmament process. (Kim Jae-Hwan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
The bodies of people who died in a Hindu temple stampede were laid out Tuesday in Jodhpur, India. (Reuters)
Conservation officer Ron Tietsort herded bison Monday at an annual event at South Dakota’s Custer State Park. The park’s 1,500 bison were rounded up, placed into corrals, vaccinated and branded for auction. (Elisha Page/Argus Leader via Associated Press)
Fans cheered a member of Chinese rock band Super VC Tuesday during Beijing’s Modern Sky Music Festival as security tried to pull him down from a barricade. (Andy Wong/Associated Press)
Children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi waited their turn to perform Tuesday in Siliguri, India, during a dress competition ahead of Mr. Gandhi’s 139th birth anniversary. The political and spiritual leader of India was assassinated in 1948. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
A trader stood outside the New York Stock Exchange Monday after the House downed a $700 billion bailout plan that lawmakers spent the weekend hammering out. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Rescued foreign and Egyptian hostages boarded a military helicopter Monday after arriving in Cairo. Egyptian and Sudanese troops rescued 19 members of a European tour group that was kidnapped near Sudan’s border with Chad. (Nasser Nasser/Associated Press)
A Maasai woman got her face painted during a fertility ceremony in Kisokon, Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters)
A woman protected a flame from the wind after placing it at the Babiy Yar monument in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday. (Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) waited before being interviewed on Capitol Hill Monday. The House was scheduled to vote on the bailout legislation. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
President George Bush walked back to the Oval Office after speaking about the financial rescue legislation Monday on the White House South Lawn. (Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Michael Fischl, party manager of Bavaria, Germany’s, Freie Waehler (Free Voters) Party, was pleasantly shocked when polls showed his party crossing the 5% threshold in the Bavarian state elections Sunday. The rival Christian Social Union, the sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats Union, watched the majority it held for 46 years slip away a year before a national vote. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)
The bodies of an Ethiopian woman and a Somali man washed up on Rada Beach Monday in Sabwa, Yemen. At least four people drowned and 87 survived after smugglers forced passengers of an overcrowded boat overboard, Yemen Coast Guard officers said. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
An Iraqi boy walked through his kitchen, which was damaged Sunday in a deadly Shurta Rabaa car bombing. (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)
A woman, who was pictured Sunday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, blames her disfigured face on toxic waste dumping. The trial of 12 people charged with dumping 500 tons of toxic waste at rubbish piles is scheduled to begin Monday. (Issouf Sanogo/Agence France-Presse – Getty Images)
Passengers tried to catch an overcrowded train Monday on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Muslims will be traveling to their hometowns to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Pavel Rahman/Associated Press)
A woman crossed the Abkhazia, Georgia, border Saturday. Georgian police officers are awaiting a pullback of Russian troops. (Vano Shlamov/Agence France-Presse – Getty Images)
South Korean soldiers marched during parade rehearsal Monday in Seoul. The parade, which marks the 60th anniversary of Armed Forces Day, falls on Oct. 1 this year. (Jung Yeon-Je/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A boy stood near placards during Monday’s protest against recent New Delhi bombings and the government’s response to catching the perpetrators. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
Croatian journalists stood with their mouths taped shut in protest of deteriorating security and mob-style assaults in the capital of Zagreb. They sent the message that they will not be silenced. (Nikola Solic/Reuters)
A man held his daughter as a big wave caused by Typhoon Jangmi came crashing in at Dongtou island in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sunday. More than 200,000 residents sought higher ground as the typhoon, which battered Taiwan, approached Monday. (Reuters/China Daily)
More than 77,000 coffee cups were arranged on the ground next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Monday as part of a promotion for a German television documentary on coffee consumption. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
Seasonal workers harvested grapes at a Bensheim, Germany, vineyard Sunday. Sunny skies and chilly nights over the past few weeks allowed the grapes to be perfectly ripened. (Thomas Lohnes/Agence France-Presse – Getty Images)
A man used a Washington Mutual ATM Friday in Seattle. The Federal Deposit Insurance Company seized WaMu and sold it to JPMorgan Chase & Co., marking the biggest U.S. bank failure in history. (Robert Giroux/Getty Images)
O.J. Simpson and his attorneys viewed evidence Friday during testimony from a coroner in a Las Vegas courtroom. Mr. Simpson and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart are charged with felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy related to a 2007 confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers. (Steve Marcus-Pool/Getty Images)
Boys waited to be circumcised at Beni Messous Hospital in Algiers, Algeria, Friday. Circumcision is required for Muslim boys under the Sharia law. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
Muslim women prayed outside Jamia Masjid, or Grand Mosque, in Srinagar, India, Friday. Muslims in India will celebrate Eid-al Fitr, the end of Ramadan, Oct. 2 or Oct. 3, depending on the appearance of moon. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)
Fortis CEO Herman Verwilst spoke at a news conference Friday in Brussels. Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis said it would sell assets worth up to 10 billion euros ($14.5 billion) as its shares plummeted amid fears of a liquidity crisis. (Dominique Faget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
A cheese maker took a round of cheese out of storage for the annual “Chaesteilet” in the Bernese Oberland area of Switzerland Friday. Every September, landowners and their farmers gather on the Spycher mountain, where the cheese is stored. (Ruben Sprich/Reuters)
Workers labored at a Changzhi, China, steel and iron factory Friday. (Reuters)
Student protesters shouted slogans during a demonstration against the India-U.S. nuclear deal during a demonstration Friday in Chandigarh. A U.S. Senate panel voted Tuesday to approve the deal. (Ajay Verma/Reuters)
An activist dumped powdered milk outside a health office Friday during a protest demanding the Indonesian government take action to protect people from tainted milk. Indonesia has stepped up food-import testing after China’s melamine milk scandal. (Dita Alangkara/Associated Press)
Iranian protesters burned U.S. and Israeli flags Friday during a parade marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran. Some Iranians chanted “Death to Israel.” (Atta Kenare/Agence France-Press — Getty Images)
Current Moto GP World Championship leader Valentino Rossi, of Italy, rode his Yamaha during a practice for Sunday’s Japanese motorcycling Grand Prix near Tokyo. (Shuji Kajiyama/Associated Press)
Christians attended a protest Friday against the recent killings and atrocities against Christians in New Delhi and other parts of India. The government deployed hundreds more federal police to eastern India Friday after one person was killed and several injured in fresh clashes between Hindus and Christians. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
A schoolgirl adjusted her beret, part of the uniform of Russian Emergencies Ministry workers, as she looked at her reflection in her mobile phone Friday in Saint Petersburg. (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters)
Myanmar student monks held placards at a protest held Friday to commemorate the annual memorial of the Saffron Revolution in front of the Myanmar embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Reuters)
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