A Pakistani Hindu girl holds an earthen lamp to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, November 13, 2012 in Karachi. (AP)

Believers attend a religious procession to commemorate ‘The Day of 100,000 Martyrs’ in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Reuters)

A donkey collapses from the heavy weight of bricks at a brick factory in Baghdad’s southeast suburb of Nahrawan, Iraq. (AP)

Syrian rebels of the Halab al-Shabah battalion under Al-Tawhid brigade take position during clashes with regime forces in Al-Amariya district of the northern city of Aleppo. (AFP)

All shops are supposed to close at 11 pm local time in Hanoi, Vietnam but the Old Quarter never sleeps at that time. (Phuong Nguyen/Vietnam/VOA reader)

Visitors look at the paintings ‘Water, 1998’ (L), ‘Memory-3’ (2ndL), ‘Memory-4’ (2ndR) and ‘Memory-2’ (2000) by artist Yue Minjun of China during the press visit of the exhibition ‘Yue Minjun, L’Ombre du fou rire’ at the Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, France. (Reuters)

Kyrgyz couples take part in a mass wedding ceremony in the capital Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Thirty-five couples took part in the mass wedding sponsored by a state company. (AFP)

Two mountain goats, Asiatic Ibex, stand in their enclosure in Berlin’s Zoo, Germany. (AFP)

Two people and a dog sleep on a mattress outside a shop with a poster which reads ‘Looking for humans (part time, full time)’, in Perpignan, France, November 11, 2012. (Pascal Grandperrin/France/VOA reder)

A masked Bahraini anti-government protester carrying petrol bombs confronts riot police firing tear gas to disperse participants in a mourning procession for a teenager whose death the opposition blames on police in Muharraq, Bahrain. (AP)

Stars swirl behind a sign of a ranch near Olsburg, Kansas, USA. (AP)