October 31, 2014

Children wearing Halloween costumes say the Pledge of Allegiance after becoming US citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in Baltimore, Maryland.

A crowd gathers in front of army headquarters in Ouagadougou, demanding that the army take over following the resignation of the president. Burkina Faso's army chief Navere Honore Traore said he was taking power on October 31 as head of state.

Military rescue workers recover the body of a woman, who was buried alive with several others in the October 29 mudslide, at a tea plantation in Koslanda in central Sri Lanka.

A Palestinian protestor throws a burning tire during fighting with Israeli security forces at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem City.

A Palestinian protester tries to throw back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli security forces during clashes at the Aida refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Vietnamese-born model and global fashion show organizer Jessica Minh Anh presents a creation during a fashion she organized, on a catwalk set up on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Howard, a 35-year-old Australian Chinese musician and lookalike of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, gestures in front of a wall with messages of support to pro-democracy protesters in part of Hong Kong's financial central district they are occupying.

Children dressed for Halloween prepare to trick-or-treat in a housing compound in South Jakarta district in Jakarta, Indonesia.

A hippopotamus catches a pumpkin during Halloween celebrations in the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria. Once a year the animals in the zoo are fed pumpkins to celebrate Halloween.

A tourist looks at a Thai woman dressed in a ghost costume for Halloween buying coconut in Bangkok, Thailand.

"I voted" stickers are given to people after turning in their ballots to election officials at the 2nd Canaan Baptist Church in Central Harlem, New York, April 19, 2016. (R. Taylor / VOA)

A man surfs on the Eisbach river at the English Garden during a sunny autumn day in downtown Munich, Germany.

A man walks along the Indian Ocean as the tide goes out at Coco Beach in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

An Indian Hindu devotee crawls under a sacred cow on the eve of Gopastami in Hyderabad. The Gopastami festival, which commemorates Hindu Lord Krishna becoming a cow-herder, brings devotees preparing food and offering religious rituals to cows.