Oct. 3: Mary Jacobson, a 55 year old, cancer survivor and strong woman, pulls a 180 thousand pound jet with the help of a volunteers at the annual Plane Pull at the Washington Metro area's Dulles Airport.
Richard A. Lipski-The Washington Post
Oct. 3: Reuben Frias shows off his 1,467-pound pumpkin at the Giant Pumpkin Festival in Elk Grove, Calif. Frias won the first -place prize of $6 a pound. The pumpkin was so big that the transmission on his truck was wrecked during the 2-hour drive from Napa to Elk Grove.
Kevin Ma-AP
Oct. 3: Lingerie is displayed at the Erotica Dream exhibition in Nice, France.
Eric Gaillard-Reuters
Oct. 4: Men stand on a crane beside a 550,000-piece Lego tower in the world in Munich, Germany. The 98.3-foot tower took four days to build.
Christof Stache-AP
Oct. 3: Actors dressed as medieval Bulgarian soldiers fight in the old quarters of Plovdiv. Several groups took part in the Festival of Ancient Heritage, a two day event featuring re-enactments of life in Bulgaria in the 13 - 14 centuries.
Oleg Popov-Reuters
Oct. 4: Athletes pose during the Bulgarian National bodybuilding championship in Sofia.
Nikolay Doychinov-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 3: A laborer sits at an automobile junk market in New Delhi.
Parth Sanyal-Reuters
Oct. 4: Attendees form the word "peace" on Australia's Bondi Beach to promote the world march for peace and non-violence.
Krystle Wright-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 1: Adele Hoe of Kailua, Hawaii comforts Mary Jo Brostrom at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Hoe's son, Nainoa Hoe, won a bronze star in Afghanistan and is buried in the same area.
Lucy Pemoni-AP
Oct. 4: U.S. soldiers fire their 155 mm Howitzer in Cop Cherokee base in Kherwar, Afghanistan.
Nikola Solic-Reuters
Oct. 3: U.S. Marines play cards at Camp Delhi in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
Asmaa Waguih-Reuters
Oct. 4: A man has his beard trimmed by a roadside barber in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Altaf Qadri-AP
Oct. 3: US Army team members move the transfer case of Sgt. Aaron M. Smith during a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del. Smith who was from Manhattan, Kansas, was killed in Afghanistan.
Mark Wilson-Getty Images
Oct. 4: Residents flee a landslide area following an earthquake in Jumanak, Indonesia.
Daniel Berehulak-Getty Images
Oct. 4: Damaged houses sit at the edge of an earthquake-triggered landslide in Limo Koto Timur, Indonesia.
Dita Alangkara-AP
Oct. 5: A man sells blended chili in a market damaged by an earthquake in Padang, Indonesia.
Enny Nuraheni-Reuters
Oct. 3: Recovered Santa decorations stand in a pile as people continue clearing rubble from the 8.3-magnitude earthquake in Pago Pago, American Samoa.
Phil Walter-Getty Images
Oct. 3: A man helps a scavenger collecting recyclable items from a pile of garbage in the bay in Manila, Philippines.
Romeo Ranoco-Reuters
Oct. 4: Catholic priest, Father Robert Reyes, uses a tree branch to sprinkle holy water at the typhoon-damaged town of Bagong Silangan, Philippines.
Aaron Favila-AP
Oct. 5: Men wait out the storm as their house is flooded by rain from typhoon Parma, in Tungshan, Taiwan.
Sam Yeh-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 3: Indigenous Bolivians prepare to perform in South America's indigenous Aymara cultural gathering in Tiwanaku, Bolivia.
Pilar Olivares-Reuters
Oct. 4: Heavy fire races over a ridge top as a fire engine makes its way along Lone Pine Canyon road in the San Gabriel mountains east of Los Angeles, Calif.
Mike Meadows-AP
Oct. 5: Farmers block a road with their tractors at EU headquarters in Brussels. Hundreds of dairy farmers protested to push EU farm ministers for more funding to survive the milk price crisis.
Virginia Mayo-AP
Oct. 2: Bill Clinton, U.N. special envoy to Haiti and former U.S. president, shakes hands at a private port that will be used by a new free-trade zone in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Clinton and a trade delegation of at least 200 businessmen are in the country to encourage trade and investment.
Ramon Espinosa-AP
Oct. 5: An activist pretends to hit fellow demonstrators wearing masks of U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a demonstration outside the U.N. building in Bangkok, where talks on climate change are being held.
Chaiwat Subprasom-Reuters
Oct. 3: A resident photographs the remains of his house while rescuers search amid debris and mud following torrential rains near Messina, Sicily.
Marcello Paternostro-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 2: A hay man stands at a farm in Ipswich, Mass.
Lisa Poole-AP
Oct. 3: Mediums dressed as the deities Singhini (L) and Baghini rest after a religious dance during the Navadurga festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Navesh Chitrakar -Reuters
Oct. 4: A dog dressed as 'Little Red Riding Hood' participates in a dog parade for Animal World Day in Managua, Nicaragua.
Elmer Martinez-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 4: A chimpanzee looks at visitors in the Bratislava Zoo in Slovakia.
Samuel Kubani-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 3: Pastor Hans van Bemmel blesses a dog on the eve ov World Animal Day in Delft, Holland.
Rick Nederstigt-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 4: Sgt. Don Francisco runs while playing a pipe flute in the army 10-miler at the Pentagon in Washington.
Susan Biddle-for The Washington Post
Oct. 3: Sheep gather around an illuminated telecommunications tower on Rigi mountain in central Switzerland.
Alessandro Della Bella-AP
Oct. 2 (release date): Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with participation from NASA. The image is a composite of light captured simultaneously by two of Herschel's three instruments -- the photodetector array camera and spectrometer, and its spectral and photometric imaging receiver.
NASA-AP
Gallery Credits:
Producer, Photo and Text Editor Dan Murano
