Oct. 12: People stroll through a cosmos field in Tokyo.
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Oct. 11: Visitors look at an exhibit of clocks during the October Art Salon in Belgrade.
Djordje Kojadinovic-Reuters
Oct. 12: A portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from balloons hangs on display at the Balloon Art World challenge event in Bangkok.
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Oct. 11: A dancer participates in the Miami-Broward One Carnival celebration of Caribbean culture in Miami, Fla.
Wilfredo Lee-AP
Oct. 12: Local outdoor theater group members perform atop fifteen-foot poles at the International Arts Festival in Melbourne.
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Oct. 12: A woman walks through the snow in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Dmitry Lovetsky-AP
Oct. 11: A child casts a shadow on an umbrella while playing in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Ilya Naymushin-Reuters
Oct. 12: An artisan applies finishing touches to an idol of Hindu Goddess Kali at a workshop in Kolkata.
Jayanta Shaw-Reuters
Oct. 12: Japanese musician Kitaro attends a news conference in Hong Kong, one day before performing at the Silk Road Festival.
Bobby Yip-Reuters
Oct. 12: A deer bellows while foraging for food in Altrincham, England.
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Oct. 10: Eliot the chihuahua takes part in the World Dog Show in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Petr Josek-Reuters
Oct. 11: Swimmers rest in a pool during while training in Moscow.
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Oct. 11: Gay rights supporters and activists take part in the National Equality March in Washington.
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Oct. 11: Runners take at the starting point of the Chicago Marathon.
Nam Y. Huh-AP
Oct. 11: Lisa Evans competes in the paddleboat competition at the Pumpkinfest Regatta in Damariscotta, Maine.
Robert F. Bukaty-AP
Oct. 11: A rider on a self-made, non-motorized three-wheeler competes in the Red Bull Box Cart Race in Tokyo.
Itsuo Inouye-AP
Oct. 12: Female bodybuilders compete in the Japan Bodybuilding Championships in Tokyo.
Yuriko Nakao-Reuters
Oct. 12: A man poses for judges during the Japan Bodybuilding Championships in Tokyo.
Yuriko Nakao-Reuters
Oct. 10: Workers clean the exterior of the "Sun Valley" at the 2010 World Expo site in Shanghai.
China Daily-Reuters
Oct. 12: Veterinarian Nguyen Viet Hai plays with a moon bear at a zoo in Hanoi.
Kham-Reuters
Oct. 12: Workers transport goods along a cable at the site of a massive landslide while stranded commuters walk a foot path below a collapsed highway in Tuba, Philippines.
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Oct. 11: U.S. navy Lieutenant Elisa Roth conducts a dental check up on a child during a medical and relief operation by a U.S. marines expeditionary unit in Rosales, Philippines.
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Oct. 11: Children receive the polio vaccine during an eradication campaign in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Around 7.7 million children will be vaccinated in the three-day drive launched by the Afghan health ministry, with the cooperation of the World Health Organization and the U.N. Children's Fund.
Allauddin Khan-AP
Oct. 11: A man works on an artificial leg at the Mirwais hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Allauddin Khan-AP
Oct. 11: Space tourist, Canadian billionaire, and clown Guy Laliberte walks near the Soyuz TMA-14 capsule shortly after landing in Kazakhstan with two other members of the Expedition 20 mission to the International space station.
Yuri Kochetkov-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 10: A resident of Selbo in Burkina Faso divides up the ground with a fence made of stalks in an effort to stop the advance of the Sahara desert. The desert advance is a result of world climate change. Residents of the country are successfully fighting the advance by planting shrubs within the fenced areas.
Issouf Sanogo-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 11: Winegrower Leopold Kerbl (L) and his family harvest Chardonnay grapes in their vineyard in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
Heinz-Peter Bader-Reuters
Oct. 11: An anti-government demonstrator wears a replica of the Democracy Monument during a protest in Bangkok. Thousands of supporters of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, all in red shirts, rallied to demand the government step down and call new elections.
David Longstreath-AP
Oct. 11: Pope Benedict XVI waves at the end of a canonization mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
Max Rossi-Reuters
Oct. 11: A tapestry of Belgian missionary Father Damien hangs behind a Flemish flag in St. Peter's Basilica during a canonization mass by Pope Benedict . Father Damien, who died in 1889, devoted his life by helping lepers on a remote island in Hawaii.
Francois Lenoir-Reuters
Oct. 10: The statue of Our Lady of Nazareth is transported aboard a Brazilian Navy vessel, followed by hundreds of boats, during the annual pilgrimage through Brazil's Guajara Bay at the mouth of the Amazon River.
Paulo Santos-Reuters
Oct. 11: Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Ramadi.
AP
Oct. 12: A picture of a Pakistan army commando sits among flower tributes for those killed during a weekend attack by Taliban militants on army headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Anjum Naveed-AP
Oct. 12: Palestinian women sit on the rubble of their house after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers in the Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. According to the Israeli B'Tselem human rights organization, Israeli authorities have demolished some 420 houses in east Jerusalem since 2004, saying that they were built without permits.
Ahmad Gharabli-AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 12: Metro Rail employees work inside a tunnel under construction between stations in New Delhi.
Parth Sanyal-Reuters
Oct. 12: The moon passes behind trees during early morning light in Bath, England.
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Gallery Credits:
Photo and Text Editor Dan Murano