November 4, 2014

People wait to vote a polling station in Alhambra, California. Months of campaigning will finally come to an end Tuesday as voters make their choices.

Boxes of goods burn in central Ragga, Syria. Men who said they were hired by the Islamic State took the goods, as part of monitoring the quality of goods in markets.

Russian nationalists carry flags of Donetsk People's Republic during a march in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting with Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine in Moscow to mark People's Unity Day, a public holiday in Russia.

An Iranian woman stands in front of the painted wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran where a demonstration took place marking the anniversary of 35 years after Islamist students stormed the embassy compound, then holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.

Members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) perform the flag off ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah Border Post.

Kenneth Fok Kai-kong (C), grandson of the late Hong Kong billionaire tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung, takes part in an anti-Occupy Central rally at Hong Kong's financial Central district.

Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims bleed after hitting their foreheads with swords and beating themselves as they commemorate Ashoura in Baghdad. More than one million Shi'ite Muslims gathered at shrines and mosques across the country for the religious tradition.

Smoke rises from explosions on the Egyptian side of the border town of Rafah as seen from the Palestinian side in the southern Gaza Strip. With dynamite and heavy machinery, Egypt's army has been demolishing homes along its border with Gaza, after the military forced residents out of the homes last week to prepare for a planned buffer zone meant to stop militants.

Gallery assistants pose for pictures with John Pasche's 1971 'Tongue and Lip Design' logo, commissioned by Mick Jagger, at a photocall for a retrospective of students' artwork, titled "GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years" at the Royal College of Arts in London.

A chef prepares a snack during the final phase of the 10th edition of the National Skewers and Tapas competition held in Valladolid, Spain.

Spanish model Raquel Bonilla, age 22, poses inside an elevator as she wears a creation by Myriam Hurtado during an urban photo shoot, part of the Andalucia de Moda (Andalusia Fashion) in Seville, Spain.

Sydney's Opera House and a cruise ship are seen alongside giraffes in their enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. According to Taronga's conservation society, an estimated 80,000 giraffes remain in the wild, with a 30 percent decrease during the past decade because of poaching and destruction of their habitat.

Rowers practice in their boat ahead of the annual Water Festival on the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians will celebrate the Water Festival from November 5-7.

The Reichstag, German lower house of Parliament, is seen through autumnal trees in Berli, Germany.