Posted October 20th, 2012 at 1:46 pm (UTC-4)
Luxembourg’s Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and his wife Princess Stephanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, leave the Notre-Dame Cathedral after their religious wedding service in Luxembourg. (Reuters)
Netherlands’ Princess Maxima arrives for the religious wedding service of Luxembourg’s Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Countess Stephanie de Lannoy at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Luxembourg. (Reuters)
Police officer detain a demonstrator during a protest march organized by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), in Oxford Street, in central London. Thousands of British protesters marched through central London against public spending cuts and tax rises enacted by a government fighting accusations it is run by an upper-class elite that ignores the plight of recession-hit voters. (Reuters)
Troops shoot during the reenactment of the Battle of the Nations at the 199th anniversary near Leipzig, central Germany. More than 1,000 members of military-historic associations from all over Europe take part in this ‘history lesson’. (AP)
Cambodian Buddhist monks chant and offer prayers to their late King Norodom Sihanouk in front of Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP)
A Palestinian elderly woman is helped to cast her vote at a polling station in the West Bank town of Burqin, near Jenin. Palestinians voted for mayors and local councils in 93 communities across the West Bank, their first chance to cast ballots in six years. (AP)
Stripes of land are blanketed in fog under a television tower during sunrise in Ujudvar, 216 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary. (AP)
‘Muu-chan’, a dog representing the Japanese film ‘7 Days of Sunflowers and Her Puppies,’ stands with actors at the opening of the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival in Tokyo. (AP)
Kenyan scouts play instruments to entertain guests during the Mashujaa Day (Hero’s Day) celebrations at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi. The national holiday commemorates those who had taken part in the country’s struggle for liberation. (Reuters)
A pedestrian walks under an umbrella during snowfall in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters)
Costumed revelers take part in the annual ‘Dream Parade’ in Taipei, Taiwan. (AP)
‘Amanite Tue Mouche’ (fly agaric), a dangerous mushroom grown in the Clairmarais’ wood, France (AFP)