October 17, 2014

A Bangladeshi child stands in an alley as a boy climbs a ladder outside their home at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Oct. 17 is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, designed to promote awareness of the need to put an end poverty in all countries.

A riot policeman yells during a confrontation with protesters at Mongkok shopping district in Hong Kong. Police used pepper spray and charged toward the protesters with batons on Friday evening as tension escalated.

Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture that shows a message about Ebola on a beach at Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

Former Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius sits in court for the last day of his sentencing hearing in Pretoria, South Africa. The prosecution is calling for at least 10 years in prison for culpable homicide in the shooting death of Pistorius' girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in February 2013.

Members of the media take photographs inside the Louis Vuitton Foundation art museum and cultural center in Paris, created by American architect Frank Gehry, during the press day. The 100-million-euro building, with glass casing and eleven gallery spaces, has been compared to an iceberg or giant sailboat. It took over a decade to create.

Demonstrators wearing masks march with photographs of missing students and chant slogans to protest the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico. The students haven't been seen since a police confrontation in Iguala on Sept. 26.

A man takes photos while standing on a cliff in Astwood Park, on Bermuda's south shore, with strong winds blowing from Hurricane Gonzalo. The storm came toward the island with damaging winds and a dangerous surge of water.

Kurdish refugees from the Syrian town of Kobani share bread in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Turkey.

Representatives from South Pacific nations dress in traditional attire while pushing their canoes into the water, as they prepare to protest against ships leaving the Newcastle coal port, located north of Sydney, Australia. Around 100 demonstrators protested the world's largest coal port, demanding a global change to the use of coal.

A super-heated giant ash cloud comes out from the crater of Mount Sinabung volcano. The volcano is threatening villages during the eruption, as seen from Simpang Empat district on Sumatra island.

National police officer Shatner Jean salutes during a ceremony marking the 208th anniversary of the assassination of Haiti's independence hero and founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Two boys play "war" on top of a monument at the World War I Tyne Cot Commonwealth cemetery in Zonnebeke, Belgium. Tyne Cot was chosen as one of several locations for an event called the "Light Front," to mark 100 years since the start of the First World War.

A man sunbathes on the beach during an unusually warm and sunny autumn day in Nice, France.

A girl runs with autumn leaves she gathered at a park in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.