Hostesses for the National Congress pose for a picture in front of the Great Hall of the People before the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at in Beijing. (AP)

Snow blows past debris and nonfunctioning streetlights during a Nor’easter snowstorm in the Rockaway neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City, November 7, 2012. The Rockaway Peninsula was especially hard hit by Superstorm Sandy. (AFP)

Residents ride on a motorcycle at Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan. (Reuters)

Residents walk among rubble after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in San Marcos, Guatemala, November 7, 2012. The mountain village, some 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the epicenter, suffered much of the damage with some 30 homes collapsing in its center. (AP)

Italy’s Saad Assis takes cover as a bird flies over the Huamark Indoor Stadium disrupting their football match against Mexico of the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. (AFP)

Pakistani Muslims arrive to attend one of the world’s largest Islamic religious meeting, the Tablighi Ijtema, in Raiwind, near Lahore, Pakistan. (AFP)

People enjoy being part of an installation by Argentinian artist and architect Tomas Saraceno, in Milan, Italy. ‘On Space Time Foam’ is a multi-layered aerial installation featuring surfaces of clear film suspended in the air for visitors to walk, crawl, lie in, and engage in, directly affecting one another with their movement or lack of it. (AP)

A student protester throws a Molotov cocktail towards riot policemen during a rally against the government to demand changes in the public state education in Santiago, Chile. (Reuters)

A fisherman takes a nap on a float made of plastic bottles, on the banks of the Arabian sea in Mumbai, India. (AP)