Nobel Prize laureates Eric Maskin, Rich Roberts and Dudley Herschbach lean over behind a mini Eiffel Tower during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (AP)

Iranian army troops march in a military parade in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, commemorating the start of the Iraq-Iran war 32 years ago. (AP)

Journalists stand in front of the panorama print ‘The Wall’ by artist Yadegar Asisi during a preview in Berlin, Germany. The huge 15 meters high and 60 meters wide panorama of the Berlin Wall will be on display for the public from Sept. 23, 2012 for about a year near the former Checkpoint Charlie. (AP)

Roofs of houses and buildings in the crowded city of Ho Chin Min, Vietnam (Photo: Vi Thao Tran/Vietnam/VOA reader)

Apple Store employees create a tunnel for customers as they are allowed into the shop to buy the new iPhone 5 smartphone while a customer (top L) leaves with a new phone on the day of its release at Covent Garden in London. (AFP)

Warriors take part in a Maori welcoming ceremony for U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta at the Government House in Auckland, New Zealand. (Reuters)

Pakistani protesters topple a shipping container that police used to block the road to the U.S. consulate in Lahore, Pakistan. Tens of thousands protested around the country against an amateurish anti-Muslim film produced in the United States. (AP)

Women in national Belarusian costumes perform on stage during the Dazhynki harvest festival in the town of Gorki, some 270 km (168 miles) east of Minsk. (Reuters)

Socialite Daphne Guinness arrives at the New York City Ballet Fall Gala honoring fashion designer Valentino Garavani at Lincoln Center in New York, September 20, 2012. (AP)