Luxembourg's Grand Duke Henri (L) and Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong talk under a statue of late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh at the party's office in Hanoi. (Reuters)

Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, wearing rubber boots, speaks to officials on a truck during her visit to a flooded area in Bangkok. (Reuters)

Russian servicemen in historical uniforms take part in a military parade in Moscow's Red Square to mark the 70th anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square towards the front lines during World War II. (Reuters)

Naga tribesman perform a traditional folk dance during the Tokhu Emong, a post harvest festival of the Lotha tribe in Dimapur, India's northeastern state of Nagaland. (AFP)

Hundreds of Muslims around the country visit Dar al-hajar, a rock palace built in the 1930s, near Sana'a, Yemen, during Eid al-Adha. (Reuters)

Men change a flat tire of their car on Havana's seafront boulevard as a wave crashes. (Reuters)

Lady Gaga performs at the MTV Europe Music Awards show in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Reuters)

Miss Venezuela Ivian Sarcos reacts as she is crowned winner at the Miss World competition held at Earls Court in London, Britain, November 6, 2011. (AP)

A camel is seen shillouted against setting sun at the Pushkar fair, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Pushkar, located on the banks of Pushkar Lake, is a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot that is also frequented by foreign tourists for its annual cattle fair and camel races. (AP)

Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims pray inside the Grand Mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (AP)

Somali fishermen carry a Hammerhead shark from the shores of the Indian ocean in Hamarweyne district, Somalia's capital Mogadishu. (Reuters)

The coffins carrying the remains of 77 unknown German soldiers from WWII are seen during a reburial ceremony at Germany's largest military cemetery in the east German town of Halbe. (AFP)

An Israeli soldier fires a gas canister towards protesting Palestinians during clashes following a weekly demonstration against Israeli settlement expansion, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. (AFP)

Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of Canada compete during the pairs short program at the Cup of China ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Shanghai. (Reuters)

A murmuration of starlings is seen in the sky as the sunset sets above Gretna, Scotland. (AP)

The sun rises over lake Walchensee in southern Germany. (AP)

Occupy LA protesters march through the downtown financial district, to show solidarity with Occupy Oakland protesters, in Los Angeles, California. (AP)

Activists of the Occupy Frankfurt movement have set up a fireplace near the Euro sculpture in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP))

Russian servicemen in historical uniforms take part in a military parade rehearsal in Moscow's Red Square. The parade will take place on November 7 to mark the 70th anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square, towards the front lines during World War II. (Reuters)

A fireman holds a flare during a protest against the reform notably changing the methods of recruitment in Paris, France. (AFP)

Britain's Duchess of Cornwall tries on a Zulu hat during a tour of Soweto, South Africa, with her husband, Prince Charles. (AP)

A man and his decorated horse on Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan (Reuters)

A laborer installs an attachment to an electricity pylon in Anqing, Anhui province, China. (Reuters)

Officials survey damage at the site of a freight train derailment in Bartlett, Illinois, USA. Bartlett police say three derailed freight cars that caught fire in the western Chicago suburb were carrying fiberboard and scrap metal. (AP)

Dogs take refuge atop a motorcycle next to a flooded street at Don Muang district in Bangkok, Thailand. Authorities in the Thai capital repaired a damaged flood gate that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government battling the country's worst floods in decades. (Reuters)

Workers walk near a lantern in the shape of traditional Korean warrior on display as part of the Seoul Lantern Festival, which will be held from November 4-20, in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

Visitors to the Tokyo Stock Exchange look at a monitor displaying Japan's Nikkei share average (top R) and various market indices in Tokyo, Japan. The Nikkei share average fell as much as 2 percent after overseas shares skidded on Greece's surprise call for a referendum on an European bailout plan. (Reuters)

The Hotel das Nacoes collapses during a controlled implosion in Brasilia, Brazil. (Reuters)

Afghan women buy bangles for the upcoming Eid al Adha festival in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

Jolene Neill holds an umbrella as she knocks the heavy snow from the branches of trees in her front yard after last night's snow storm in Louisville, Colorado, USA. (Reuters)

Deer stay on higher ground of a partially flooded wildlife park Safari World in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)

A zookeeper holds a leopard cat kitten during a feeding session in the wildlife rescue center at the Phnom Tamao zoo near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Local media reported that three female leopard cat kittens were discovered by a fisherman in a flooded area of Kandal province three weeks ago. (Reuters)

Saudi special forces display some of their skills and equipment during a ceremony as they prepare for the influx of people to participate in the annual Hajj, in Arafat, 15 kms outside of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (AP)

Nepal police detain a Tibetan woman, who is shouting anti-China slogans in tribute to the Tibetans, who died in the recent self-immolation, in Katmandu. Police has detained more than 100 Tibetans exiles who were protesting against Chinese rule over their homeland. (AP)

A Pakistani man sells toys in Peshawar. (AP)

Aerial view of crops destroyed by the floodwaters are seen in the outskirts of northern Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)

Horses stand in the shadows of a gigantic wooden table and two chairs during nice autumnal weather at a meadow near Doellstaedt, central Germany. (AP)

Autumnal leaves are reflected in Loch Dunmore in Perthshire, Scotland. (Reuters)

A model presents a creation for MGPIN make-up styling show during China Fashion Week in Beijing. (Reuters)

A hippo cub touches its mother Nicole during the first public presentation at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany. (AP)

A Delta II rocket launches with the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft payload from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Muslim pilgrims attend Friday prayers around the Kaaba, a black cube, inside the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)

Afghan youths play atop a destroyed bus in front of the palace of former Afghan King Darul Aman, which was destroyed during the civil war, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

A Thai man takes pictures with his son on a bicycle which he custom built to go through floodwaters in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP)

Czech soldiers hold historical flags below the statue of the legendary warrior Jan Zizka during a ceremony at Prague's Vitkov hill, marking the 93rd anniversary of the creation of the independent Czechoslovak state in 1918. (Reuters)

An emu makes its way through a wheat field on a farm near Chinchilla, about 250km (155 miles) west of Brisbane, Australia. (Reuters)

Gravestones are seen with high rise residential blocks in the background in Hong Kong. (Reuters)

Students from the Brainshire Science School dress in Halloween costumes as they parade along the main street of Paranaque, in Metro Manila. (Reuters)

British skier Julian Ball performs a jump in the Battle of Britain ski competition next to Battersea Power Station during the Freeze Festival in London. (AP)

US singer Lady Gaga arrives at a press conference in New Delhi, India. (AP)

A Kia Sorento painted by Ghulam Sarwar. The Pakistan native has been in the U.S. for several months and has painted several cars in the colorful style of Pakistani trucks and buses. (VOA Photo/Matt Hilburn)

A column of steam rises from the Hudson volcano near Coihaique town some 1649 km (1025 miles) south of Santiago, Chile. (Reuters)

Activists from CCFD Terre Solidaire (Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development) wear masks portraying US President Barack Obama, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a protest action at the Palais Royal place in Paris, France. (Reuters)

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, right, and his South Korean counterpart Kim Kwan-jin, center, make an inspection during an honor guard ceremony at Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

Massive sandbag wall in front of Kasikorn bank on Bangkok's busy Phahonyothin Road, Thailand. (VOA Photo - D. Schearf)

Ballet dancers perform during a dress rehearsal of 'Samsara' by Spain's Victor Ullate in Madrid. (Reuters)

An entertainer is searched prior to the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II, for a State Reception at Government House in Perth, Australia. (AP)

Dr. Ross Bremner, left, a lung surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, is declared the winner of the St. Joseph's Hospital Doc-O-Lantern Pumpkin Carving Contest by The Phoenix Suns (basketball team) Gorilla, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. (AP)

Pumpkins carved by artists Ray Villafane and Andy Bergholtz are displayed during a pumpkin carving exhibition in the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (Reuters)

Autumn colors on the trees at Sheffield Park near Haywards Heath, southern England (Reuters)

Tents of Occupy Franfurt activists stand near the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP)

Claudio Barbato (L), a member of the opposition FLI party, fights with Fabio Ranieri (R) from the Northern League in Parliament in Rome. The Italian deputies exchanged blows in parliament as tensions over a tough economic reform program came to a head. (Reuters)

Protesters of the Occupy Atlanta demonstration are arrested as Mayor Kassim Reed revoked an executive order allowing them to remain in Woodruff Park in Atlanta, Georgia. (AP)

A woman worker dumps the sand near the track at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from New Delhi, in advance of Indian Formula One Grand Prix. (AP)

A man tries to pull a camel into the back of a truck after buying it from a cattle market in advance of the Eid al-Adha festival in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters)

Female Yemeni protesters burn veils during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a. (AP)

A woman walks along a network of makeshift ramps raised above floodwater that surrounds houses after a heavy downpour in Ikorodu, Nigeria. (AP)

A woman and her dogs sit in a boat as they are evacuated from a flooded area in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)

A residential area in Pudong district in Shanghai. Property sales in Shanghai, the most populous city in China, have fallen by more than a tenth over the first nine months of the year, prompting developers to cut prices and in some cases sparking protests. (Reuters)

Passengers sit on the rooftop of a commuter train as it arrives at the Manggarai train station in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters)

A man paints a tombstone at the cemetery of Casabermeja, near the southern Spanish city of Malaga in advance of All Saints Day on November 1. (Reuters)

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus celebrates her victory against Samantha Stosur of Australia during their WTA tennis championships match in Istanbul, Turkey. (Reuters)

Kopatch, a 15-year-old weeper capuchin monkey, carries her one-week-old baby at their enclosure in the Ramat Gan Safari, an open-air zoo near Tel Aviv, Israel. (Reuters)