October 9, 2015

Smokes rises from a fire as a Palestinian protester takes cover during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Wendy Lawshe (L) walks along the roof of her father's house as her husband waits for her in a boat as they retrieve pictures from the walls of the home that is flooded in in Andrews, South Carolina.  The state has experienced record rainfall amounts causing severe flooding and officials expect the damage from the flooding waters to be in the billions of dollars.

A uniformed tour guide gestures to tourists outside the War Museum in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is gearing up for a lavish celebration marking the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party on Oct. 10.

Supporters of Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara and his party, the Rally of the Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), dance during a campaign rally in Yamoussoukro.  Ouattara is heavily favored to win re-election with the Oct. 25 vote.

A silhouette of a Libyan man is seen during a protest against a new government proposed by U.N. envoy Bernardino Leon, in the eastern city of Benghazi. World leaders urged Libya's warring parties to sign a proposed peace deal installing a national unity government, after a cool response from some lawmakers in the country's rival parliaments.

An anti-Muslim protester shouts slogans outside the Parramatta Mosque in Sydney, Australia.  A small number of protesters gathered outside the mosque, which was regularly attended by 15-year-old radicalized Farhad Jabar, who killed a police worker a week ago before dying in a gunbattle with police.

Cardinals and bishops leave at the end of a morning session of the Synod of bishops, at the Vatican in Rome.

An artisan shows an effigy of demon king Ravana, to a customer (not pictured) in preparation for the upcoming Hindu festival of Dussehra in Chandigarh, India. Effigies of the 10-headed demon king are burnt on Dussehra, the Hindu festival that commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil.

A man photographs foliage in autumn color in central London, Britain.

A woman walks along Red Square under snowfall, with St. Basil's Cathedral seen in the background, in central Moscow, Russia.

Max Louscher dressed as Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls poses as he attends Day 2 of New York Comic Con in Manhattan. The event draws thousands of costumed fans, panels of pop culture luminaries and features a sprawling floor of vendors in a space equivalent to more than three football fields at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.