Riot police fight with demonstrators during clashes in front of the parliament in Athens, Greece. (AP)

A child jumps on the waste products in a tannery at Hazaribagh in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters)

A traffic jam, one of five key issues Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi outlined in his Al Nhada (Renaissance) project, is pictured in old Cairo, October 8, 2012, a day after his 100th day in power. (Reuters)

A woman arranges books on a shelf at the Book Fair that will be opened later the day in Frankfurt, Germany. New Zealand is this year’s Guest of Honor. (AP)

Snails made of recycled plastic are installed on the terrace roof of Milan’s Duomo gothic Cathedral, Italy. Fifty blue recycled plastic snails by the Cracking Art Group will be installed with the aim of raising funds for the restoration of the Duomo. (AP)

Stars trail around the Polaris, commonly know as North Star or Pole Star, because of Earth’s rotation, in the village of Gornaya Mayevka in the Tian Shan mountains, above 1500 meters from sea level, some 30 km from Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. (AFP)

Avtar Singh, an Indian Nihang Sikh who wears an oversized turban, which he claims is 325 meters long, takes part in a procession on the eve of the birth anniversary of Guru Ram Das in Amritsar, India, October 8, 2012. (AP)