A worker carries bunches of bananas on his shoulder after being unloaded from a ship at a jetty in Rangoon, Burma.
Dancers from the Radio City Rockettes rehearse for the 2013 edition of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in New York.
People are seen on a rubber boat along a flooded road at Amata Nakorn industrial Estate in Chonburi province, east of Bangkok, Thailand. Flooding at an industrial estate east of the capital has forced the closure of 2 foreign-owned factories producing electronic spare parts.
Hungarian wingsuit flyer Victor Kovats jumps off a mountain at Tianmen Mountain National Park in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China, Oct. 8, 2013. Kovats died after failing to deploy his parachute prior to landing at the world championship staged in central China. His body was found after a team of more than 200 rescuers carried out searching by foot in the forests with no helicopter available on the spot. Initial analysis said the reason for the wingsuit flyer's plunge might relate to "technical problem during the trial".
Residents make their way through a floodwaters after typhoon Fitow swept the area in Yuyao, east China's Zhejiang province.
Protesters hold placards urging the U.S. Congress to end the federal government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, center, Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building Martin Lidegaard, left, and Vilnius mayor Arturas Zuokas, right, cycle around the old city during a sightseeing tour in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Pilgrims perform evening prayers in Mecca's Grand Mosque. Oct. 8, 2013, as more than two million Muslims have arrived in the holy city for the annual hajj pilgrimage.
Oct 8, 2013; Detroit, MI, USA; Oakland Athletics outfielder Yoenis Cespedes (52) is unable to catch a ball hit for a three-run home run by Detroit Tigers outfielder Jhonny Peralta (not pictured) in game four of the American League divisional series playoff baseball game at Comerica Park, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (Credit: Rick Osentoski/ USA TODAY Sports)
Japan's Misaki Sango, front left, China's Li Zhenzhu, front right, Yin Anna, back left, and North Korea's Pak Kum Hyang, back right, compete in women's 3000-meter steeplechase at the sixth East Asian Games in Tianjin, China.
A Sikh youth performs an act of fire as he displays martial art skills during a religious procession on the eve of birth anniversary of Guru Ram Das in Amritsar, India. Ram Das was the fourth of the ten gurus of Sikhism.
The new U.S. $100 bill is introduced by Michelle Scipione, vice president of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank Cash Services Department, during an event at the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A visitor walks along the exhibition titled "Man and Power in Russia in the XIX-XXI centuries" at the State Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Peter*****urg. The exhibition is a large-scale innovative project to create a complete image of the Russian political history of two centuries.
Artisan Rintu Das applies finishing touches to an idol of the Hindu goddess Durga inside a marquee, ahead of the Durga Puja festival, in Kolkata, India. The festival, which will be celebrated from Oct. 11 to 14, is the biggest religious event for Bengali Hindus. Hindus believe that the goddess Durga symbolises power and the triumph of good over evil.
Taiwanese children cover their heads to keep from the sun during a rehearsal for National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan. National Day is known as Double-Ten, because it falls on October 10, the tenth day of the tenth month of the year. It commemorates the Republican Revolution, which broke out in Wuhan, China, on Oct. 10, 1911, and brought about the end of China's Qing dynasty.
A demonstrator from the group called Black Bloc runs outside the Municipal Assembly during a protest supporting a teachers' strike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 7, 2013. The protest is to demand changes in the public state and municipal education system.
Flowers grow on a rock covered with moss. The rock from Spratlys Islands was given as a gift in 2011 to War Remnants Display on Mount Hon Me, Hon Dat district, Kien Giang province, Vietnam. (Photo taken by Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên/Vietnam/VOA reader)