Posted October 26th, 2012 at 2:35 pm (UTC-4)
A baby girl lies on the floor as her mother prays to mark the Muslim sacrifice day of Eid al-Adha in Makassar in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province. (Reuters)
The Suomi NPP satellite passes over Hurricane Sandy after it made landfall over Cuba and Jamaica on October 25, 2012, capturing areas of deep convection around the central eye. (NOAA/NASA)
Supporters of the Rapid Vienna soccer club shelter from the rain under glossy foils during the UEFA Europa League Group K football match – Rapid Vienna vs Bayer Leverkusen – at the Ernst Happel Stadium, in Vienna, Austria, October 25, 2012. Bayer Leverkusen won 4-0. (AFP)
Conservator Richard Horton adjusts a regulator clock by Cope and Molyneux, 1822-1823, one of the iconic clocks in the Science Museum’s Measuring Time gallery, in London. (AP)
A woman looks at pictures and paintings placed in frames during a street exhibition at Lisbon’s Comercio square, Portugal. (AP)
Traders herd goats to a livestock market for sale, after unloading them on a roadside on the eve of Eid al-Adha, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, India. (Reuters)
Supporters of the pro-President Yanukovich Regions Party attend a pre-election rally in Kyiv. Ukraine will elect a new parliament on October 28. (Reuters)
A fireman stands before a truck that collided with a train carrying fuel in Sector Industries in Brasilia, Brazil. (AP)
A worker carries stacks of boxes on his back at the Namdaemun Market in Seoul, South Korea. (Reuters)
The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this Hubble image is the most massive and brightest member of the galaxy cluster Abell 2261. Spanning a little more than one million light-years,the galaxy is about 10 times the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. The bloated galaxy is a member of an unusual class of galaxies with a diffuse core filled with a fog of starlight. Abell 2261 is located three billion light-years away. (NASA; ESA; M. Postman, STScI; T. Lauer, NOAO, Tucson; CLASH team.)
Sam Clarke of Britain falls from his motorcycle during the first practice session for the Moto2 class at the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island. (AFP)