October 3, 2014

Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat near Mecca as they perform one of the Hajj rituals late in the day.

A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police offers as an ambulance tries to leave the compound of the chief executive office in Hong Kong.

Turkish troops take position in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, near the Mursitpinar border crossing with Syria.

Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Workers' Party (PT) presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff(R)wave to supporters during a campaign rally in Sao Paulo. Brazil will hold its general elections Sunday.

Anatoly Nosvo, 65, stands inside the living room of his home, which was damaged by shelling a day before in the village of Pisky, near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Pro-democracy protesters set up colorful broken umbrellas near the central government complex in Hong Kong.

A man looks at pre-election posters of the Bulgarian Socialist's party in Sofia. Bulgarians will vote Sunday in early parliamentary elections.

Bangladeshi Muslims travel on the roof of a crowded train as they head to their homes ahead of Eid al-Adha in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Hindu women apply 'Sindur', or vermillion powder, on the face of a woman during the Durga Puja festival in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh.

A young boy wears an army helmet as he crosses over a floating pontoon bridge on the River Scheldt in Antwerp, Belgium. Antwerp opened its World War I 100th anniversary program with the bridge and will allow the general public to cross it for two days.

A woman walks past "Disobey" banners during a Catalan pro-independence protest at Catalunya square in Barcelona.

A girl runs with a container to join a line of people, ahead of Buddhist monks, who push a cart loaded with cooked food containers. The food is part of what the monks received as daily alms from devotees in Hlaing Thaya, northwest of Yangon, Myanmar.

Canoes are seen on a dock on Lake Louise at Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains outside the village of Lake Louise, Alberta.

중국 베이징 인민대회당에서 중국인민정치협상회의(정협) 전체 회의가 열린 가운데, 한 소수계 대표가 전통 복장으로 단체 사진을 찍고 있다.

A man uses a green "Solarbox" to charge his phone in central London. Some of London's famous red telephone boxes are going green, changing into free, sun-powered mobile chargers to provide a carbon-neutral source of energy in the city.