October 8, 2014
Indian Sikh school children dressed as Punj Pyara participate in a march from the Sri Akal Takhat at the Sikh Shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, on the eve of the birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdass.
A whirlwind (rapidly moving air) comes toward an area where Syrian Kurds escaping to Turkey from Syria parked their vehicles. Many parked their vehicles in no man's land on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc, in Sanliurfa province.
A protester is pushed by a Spanish riot police officer as an animal hospital van, said to be carrying the dog of the Spanish nurse who has Ebola, leaves from the nurse's home in Alcorcon, Spain. The dog, Excalibur, may be euthanized (put to sleep) to avoid possible spreading of Ebola. Animal rights activists are protesting to save the dog's life.
Heath workers collect samples from the body of a person suspected to have died from the Ebola virus, as it lies on the street covered in leaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (pictured here) and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst completed the first of three spacewalks for the Expedition 41 crew aboard the International Space Station. (NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst)
Balinese men with burning coconut husks participate in 'Mesabatan Api,' a sacred firefighting ritual at a Hindu temple in Bali, Indonesia.
Pere Miro (R), Deputy Director General of Relations with the Olympic Movement, Director of Olympic Solidarity and NOC Relations, talks to Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini (L) during a joint press conference of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) in Berlin, Germany.
An illustration picture of binary code and letters of the Cyrillic alphabet is projected onto a man in Warsaw, Poland.
The main terminal of Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport is hit by shelling during fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government forces in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
A radio-controlled flying witch makes a test flight past the moon, along the Pacific Ocean in Carlsbad, California. Reuters was invited to photograph the testing of the life-sized device created by inventor Otto Dieffenbach III.
Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Warrior drill team shows rifle-handling skills during Air Force Day at the air force station in Hindon near New Delhi.
A woman knits with large knitting needles during the Knitting and Stitching show at Alexandra Palace in London.
A hot air balloon flies over the desert near Luxor, Egypt.
A Samaritan prays during Sukkot celebrations on Mount Gerizim, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Sukkot marks the exodus of the ancient Hebrew people from Egypt.
The Eiffel Tower is colored pink, in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in Paris, France.