Newborn girl Serafima sleeps shortly after being born at Moscow City Hospital at 11:55 a.m. local time. (Reuters)

A woman walks past a sign in front of United Nations headquarters in New York announcing symbolically that world population hit 7 billion. (AFP)

Hubert de Canson, head of France's permanent delegation to UNESCO, sends a text message on his mobile phone with the results of the vote at UNESCO headquarters, where the UN agency gave Palestinians full membership in Paris. (Reuters)

A wounded U.S. soldier is carried to a medevac helicopter after being wounded by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AFP)

A boy swims at a flooded warehouse in Chinatown in central Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)

A Chinese woman poses during a Halloween party at Mao Livehouse club in Shanghai. (Reuters)

A dancer performs during the closing ceremony of the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, October 30, 2011. (Reuters)