Posted October 25th, 2012 at 2:39 pm (UTC-4)
Overcrowded passenger boats are seen on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Millions of residents of Dhaka are traveling home from the capital city to celebrate Eid al-Adha on October 27, 2012. (Reuters)
An Argentine sailor greets a relative as he arrives in Buenos Aires airport. Nearly 300 navy cadets arrived to Argentina’s capital from Ghana on an Air France charter after Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez refused to negotiate the release of the Argentine naval sailing ship, Libertad. The ship had been held in a port outside Ghana’s capital on October 2, when a Ghana court ruled to detain the vessel as collateral for Argentina’s unpaid debts. (AP)
Georgia’s parliament building in Kutaisi, some 250 km (155 miles) west of Tbilisi (AP)
Clowns laugh for fifteen minutes as they rally for peace during the 17th Latin American clown convention or ‘Fair of laughter ‘ at the Mother Monument in Mexico City, October 24, 2012.
An art installation by Russian artist Vasily Slonov at the Krasnoyarsk Museum Center in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Slonov created 68 flyswatters, displaying images of well-known politicians, famous historical characters and modern celebrities for his exhibition. (Reuters)
Somalis carry a swordfish and a shark on their heads from the ocean to the market in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP)
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney supporters attend a campaign rally at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, October 24, 2012. (AFP)
A teammate cheers a firefighter from South Africa as he competes in the Toughest Firefighter event at the 12th World Firefighter’s Games in Sydney, Australia. (Reuters)
Grace, a search dog with the British army, runs towards a handler wearing a Dickin Medal, Britain’s highest award for bravery by animals, following a special ceremony held at Wellington Barracks, in central London. (AP)
Muslim pilgrims walk up Mount Arafat near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (AFP)
Waves, brought by Hurricane Sandy, crash into a house in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood in eastern Kingston, Jamaica, October 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country’s most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP)
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from Meck Island on its way to an intercept of a ballistic missile target during U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s historic flight test, October 24, 2012 (DoD / Missile Defense Agency)
A model, seen through a veil curtain, walks down stairs while a traditional Chinese style painting showing flying wild geese is projected on the curtain at a fashion show by NE TIGER during the China Fashion Week in Beijing. (AP)