A man carries a wreath inside the Holocaust memorial following National Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations, Bucharest, Romania. About 280,000 Romanian Jews and 11,000 Romanian Roma, or Gypsies, were deported and killed during WWII when Romania was ruled by a pro-nazi regime. (AP)

Syrians cross to Turkey by boat over the Orontes river on the Turkish-Syrian border near the village of Hacipasa in Hatay province. Scores of Syrian civilians, many of them women with screaming children clinging to their necks, crossed Orontes, a narrow river marking the border with Turkey as they fled the fighting in Azmarin and surrounding villages. (Reuters)

Rural Indians, including landless farmers, rest during an overnight halt of the ‘Jan Satyagraha’ march to New Delhi near Agra, about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from New Delhi, India. (AP)

Quincey Davis, of Montauk, N.Y., competes in the Oakley World Pro Junior Championships surfing event in Bali, Indonesia. (AP/Association of Surfing Professionals)

Students perform during celebrations to mark the centenary of the revolution that set the stage for the Republic of China, island’s official name, in front of Taiwan’s Presidential Office in Taipei. (AFP)

Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge embraces local boy Terry Campbell as she meets with members of the public during a visit to the Newcastle Civic Center in Newcastle. (AFP)

The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated during a technical check for the Festival of Lights in Berlin, Germany, October 9, 2012. (Reuters)