October 2, 2014

A Turkish soldier holds a lost baby while he looks for the mother, as thousands of new Syrian refugees from Kobani arrive at the Turkey-Syria border crossing of Yumurtalik near Suruc, Turkey.

An Afghan trader waits for customers early in the morning at a livestock market ahead of the sacrificial Eid al-Adha festival in Kabu.

Anti-riot police use water cannon against protesters during a demonstration in Naples, Italy. Hundreds of protesters faced off riot police outside the Capodimonte Palace. The European Central Bank is holding on of its regular rate-setting meetings.

North Korea's Song Namhyang competes in the Women's 10m platform diving final at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

A field and trees are covered in broken bits of limestone rock to fix the Ph (chemical) levels in the soil, near the village of Cloghmills in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. This will help the release of important nutrients.

Mercy Kennedy, 9, cries as community activists walk toward her outside her home in Monrovia, Liberia, a day after her mother was taken away by an ambulance to an Ebola ward.

A Hindu devotee performs a traditional Dhunuchi dance inside a temporary worship venue of goddess Durga during the Durga Puja festival in Allahabad, India.

South Korea's Kim Hyeon-kyu is punched by Uzbekistan's Oybek Mamazulunov during their men's light heavy (81kg) semi-final boxing match at the Seonhak Gymnasium during the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

A nighttime view of Europe made possible by the day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Photo released by NASA.

Lea Toran Jenner of the Canadian troupe Cirkopolis performs with a ring during a practice at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.

The landscape portrait, "Out of Many, One" by Cuban American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, appears on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The 6-acre portrait will be on display until October 31.