A police man reacts as flames and smoke emerge from a truck after it was set alight by striking truck drivers on a slipway off a main highway leading out of the city of Cape Town, South Africa. (AP)

Men walk on a road amid wreckage, after three blasts ripped through Aleppo’s main Saadallah al-Jabari Square and a fourth was reported a few hundred meters away near Bab al-Jinein, on the fringes of the Old City, where rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been fighting. (Reuters/SANA)

An Afghan boy throws a discarded plastic seat while standing on a large pile of plastic refuse in Herat, Afghanistan. (AP)

Puerto Rican iguana take a stroll on a hot afternoon in San Juan Botanical Gardens, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 7, 2012. (Harish Raghani/VOA reader)

Italian businessman Marcello di Finizio stands by his banner as he protests on St. Peter’s 130-meter-high (426-feet-high) dome, at the Vatican, against the government and European Union policies. (AP)

A man poses with a thumbs up sign in front of a painting at the Berlin Wall in Berlin on the 22nd anniversary of German reunification after decades of division into Soviet-controlled communist German Democratic Republic in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany in the west. (Reuters)

Women carrying their belongings on their heads walk in a relief center for flood victims at St. Boniface primary school in Idah in Nigeria’s central state of Kogi. (Reuters)

A man walks through an art installation entitled ‘Rain Room’ at the Barbican in London. The ‘Rain Room’ is a 100 square meter field of falling water, which visitors are invited to walk into. (AFP)

A man stands on an old Russian tank in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 29, 2012. (Amin/Afghanistan/VOA reader)

A Padaung tribe elder in De Maw Soe township, Loikaw, Kayah state in eastern Burma. (Simonie/Burma/VOA reader)

Somali youths pull a donkey-drawn water cart, left, while a convoy of Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) passes by in Kismayo, southern Somalia, October 2, 2012. (AP)

Participants fight during an opposition rally in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. Police clashed with at least 2,000 opposition protesters the nationalization of a controversial gold mine in the east of the Central Asian nation. (Reuters)

Bavarian farmers transport their cows on a boat over the picturesque Lake Koenigssee at dusk, Germany. (Reuters)

A 700 kg crocodile called Rex calmly waits just beneath the water for a feed after coming out of a three-month hibernation at the Sydney Wildlife world in Sydney, Australia. (AP)

Models wear creations of fashion designer Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton’s ready to wear Spring-Summer 2013 collection presented in Paris, France. (AP)