Pictures captured across the globe...

**rubPzai** · 13-10-2011, 01:31 AM

A Buddhist monk looks on as armed police form a blockade at Boeung Kak Lake in Phnom Penh September 16, 2011. Two bulldozers cleared a number homes at the lake to pave way for a private real estate development. A foreign investment boom in Cambodia has come at the expense of what rights groups estimate is about 30,000 Cambodians forcibly evicted from their homes a year. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

Growers Pete Glazebrook (R), Joe Atherton (C) and Derek Neumann pose with their award winning giant vegetables at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate, northern England September 16, 2011. The show marking its 100th year, has introduced a giant vegetable class for the first time. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis

An anti-Gaddafi fighter tests an anti-aircraft gun southwest of Sirte, one of Muammar Gaddafi's last remaining strongholds, September 16, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

UBS trader Kweku Adoboli leaves City of London Magistrates Court in London September 16, 2011. Adoboli appeared in a London court on Friday charged with fraud after Swiss bank UBS said it had lost about $2 billion (1.27 billion pounds) in unauthorised trades. The court ordered him to be detained until a further hearing next week. REUTERS/Toby Melville

A soldier applies makeup as another soldier looks on during preparations for the Independence Day celebration parade at the Zocalo in Mexico city September 16, 2011. The country celebrates the 201st anniversary of their independence from Spain REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

A combination photograph shows a man setting himself on fire outside a bank branch in Thessaloniki in northern Greece September 16, 2011. The 55-year old man had entered the bank and asked for a renegotiation of his overdue loan payments on his home and business, according to police, which he could not pay, but was refused by the bank. REUTERS/Nodas Stylianidis/www.photoreportage.gr

A dancer waits for the opening ceremony of the 13th Beijing International Tourism Festival at Qianmen Commercial Street in Beijing, September 17, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Lee

An Ireland fan cheers on his team during their Rugby World Cup Pool C match against Australia Wallabies at Eden Park in Auckland September 17, 2011. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel

A girl swims near an altar outside houses affected by floods in Ayutthaya province, nearly 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok September 17, 2011. Monsoon rains, floods and mudslides in Thailand have killed at least 98 people since July, including a French tourist, authorities said on Friday, posing a test for the new government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Honda MotoGP rider Casey Stoner of Australia rides during the second free practice of the Aragon Grand Prix at Motorland race track in Alcaniz, near Zaragoza, September 17, 2011. REUTERS/Albert Gea

Revellers frolic in grape pulp during the annual grape battle in the village of Binissalem on the Spanish island of Mallorca September 17, 2011. Binissalem celebrates its wine tradition with the fiesta every year at the end of the grape harvest. REUTERS/Enrique Calvo

An EADS Eurofighter jet performs during the Air Show in Sion September 17, 2011. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud

A long time exposure shows visitors riding a ferris wheel at dusk during the first day of the Munich Oktoberfest September 17, 2011. The world's biggest beer festival runs until October 3. REUTERS/Michael Dalder

Cael Norman Sanderson (red) of the U.S. wrestles with Albert Saritov of Russia during the freestyle 84kg bronze medal match at the Senior Wrestling World Championship in Istanbul September 17, 2011. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

A model wears blue eye make-up backstage at the Vivienne Westwood Red Label 2012 Spring/Summer collection show during London Fashion Week September 17, 2011. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

A Tuareg man wearing a taguelmoust, a combination of veil and turban that covers the face, walks past men and their camels at the Cure Salee festival in Ingal September 17, 2011. Tuareg, Peul and Wodaabe nomads congregate each year at the salt flats around the northern oasis town of Ingal for the Cure Salee (salt cure), where their camels, cattle, sheep and goats drink the mineral-rich water after months on the move. Niger's nomads have held the three-day long event for centuries to mark the end of the rains, exchanging news and information amid music and dance as they prepare their animals over several weeks for the dry season. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

University of Miami defensive back JoJo Nicolas (29) tackles Ohio State's Jordan Hall during the first quarter of their NCAA football game in Miami, Florida September 17, 2011. REUTERS/Hans Deryk

WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (L) of the U.S. takes a punch from Floyd Mayweather Jr., also of the U.S., during their title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada September 17, 2011. Mayweather Jr took the WBC welterweight title from Ortiz with a controversial fourth-round knockout on Saturday that prompted an angry response from the crowd and raised questions about his conduct in the ring. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

Artists perform with fire during a festival in the south-eastern city of Gomel, some 320 km (173 miles) from Minsk, September 17, 2011. Ten teams from Belarus and Ukraine took part in the festival. Picture taken September 17. REUTERS/Vladimir Nikolsky

Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France during their Davis Cup World Group semi-final match at the Cordoba bullring September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

A woman forcado attempts to stop a calf by grabbing its head during a performance in her hometown arena at Benavente September 17, 2011. This team is the first comprising of only women to take part in the Portuguese bullfight in recent years, an event usually dominated by men. Wearing traditional stocking caps and red sashes, a forcado jumps on a bleeding bull's head as he charges it, while the seven other team members pile onto the animal until it is immobilised. Picture taken September 17. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro

A policeman keeps vigil on the banks of river Yamuna in front of historic Taj Mahal after Saturday's blast in the northern Indian city of Agra September 18, 2011. A small low-intensity blast at a hospital in Agra injured at least three people on Saturday, a local police official said. Television channels, citing sources, said the blast appeared to be a crude explosive device that had been placed under a chair at the reception area of a private hospital in Agra. REUTERS/Brijesh Singh

Team China capsize during the final fleet race of the America's Cup in Plymouth, southern England September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

Supporters of Andreas Baum of the Pirate Party (Piratenpartei) react after first exit polls for the city-state election in Berlin September 18, 2011. Germany's centre-left Social Democrats beat Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats in a regional election in the city-state of Berlin on Sunday, handing the conservatives their sixth defeat in seven elections this year. The Pirate Party, is a German branch of a party that emerged in Sweden five years ago to campaign for reform of copyright and better privacy in the Internet age. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Anti-government protesters carry an injured protester during clashes with police in Sanaa September 18, 2011. At least 20 protesters were killed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, when security forces opened fire on one of the biggest demonstrations against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in recent months, a Reuters witness said. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Chelsea's Fernando Torres reacts after a missed opportunity during their English Premier League soccer match against Manchester United in Manchester, northern England September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Phil Noble

New York Yankees' Brett Gardner jumps against a camera advertisement for a home run hit by Toronto Blue Jays' Adam Lind (not pictured) during the fourth inning of their MLB American League baseball game in Toronto September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former International Monetary Fund chief (IMF), in this still image taken from TF1 television footage, holds a document as he appears on their prime time news programme in their studios in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, September 18, 2011. Strauss-Kahn will speak to his nation in a TV interview on Sunday for the first time since a New York +++ assault case ended his IMF career and wrecked his chances of running in France's 2012 presidential election. REUTERS/TF1/Handout

A model covers herself with a mask so as not to get hairspray on her face as she gets made up during Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Susana Vera

Spectators flee as a bull charges during a traditional Corraleja or bullfight in Since, Sucre province September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Joaquin Sarmiento

A dog feeds a Siberian Tiger cub inside a box at a zoo in Qingdao, Shandong province September 19, 2011. The dog acted as a wet nurse to three Siberian Tiger cubs born on September 18 as their mother is unable to feed them, according the zoo officials. REUTERS/China Daily

An employee inflates tyres after her colleagues (not seen) fitted them with rims, at a wheel rims manufacturing factory in Hefei, Anhui province September 19, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer

Men peer past a cloth barrier which was raised to cordon off the site of a suicide bomb attack in Karachi on September 19, 2011. At least eight people were killed, including six policemen, after a Taliban suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car into the home of a senior police official in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi on Monday. Police said 300 kg (136 lbs) of explosives were used. REUTERS/Athar Hussain

An aerial view shows part of the illuminated Marina Bay street circuit of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix at dusk September 19, 2011. The Singapore F1 night race will take place on September 25. REUTERS/David Loh

A police officer walks through a road as a motorbike burns in Dhaka September 19, 2011. Street marches by members of Bangladesh's biggest Islamic party seeking the release of its leaders from jail turned violent across the country on Monday, with at least 70 people wounded in clashes, witnesses said. Activists belonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami party, many carrying sticks and throwing rocks, fought running battles with steel-helmeted riot police in Dhaka and set at least 30 vehicles on fire. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj

Aerobatic aeroplanes fly in formation during an annual military parade in Santiago September 19, 2011. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero

An elderly woman covers her head with her jacket as it rains while taking refuge in a military zone for people displaced by earthquakes in Cuilapa September 19, 2011. Four earthquakes struck southern Guatemala on Monday within 2 1/2 hours, shaking buildings in the capital and killing three people. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

NASA handout image, taken by a crew member of the International Space Station Expedition Three, shows the setting sun and the thin blue airglow line on the Earth's horizon, September 16, 2011. Some of the station's components are silhouetted in the foreground. Picture taken September 16, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

Flames are seen in a street after a blast in central Ankara September 20, 2011. A bomb blast rocked the centre of the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday and some media reports said two people were killed, while a local mayor said nobody was dead but three people were seriously wounded. REUTERS/Omer Kaya

Palestinian girls walk past a graffiti at Dehaishe refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem September 20, 2011. President Mahmoud Abbas has told the United Nations chief he will seek full U.N. membership for a Palestinian state, setting the stage for a showdown that could upset decades of Mideast diplomacy. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

A boy tries to outrun a man fumigating for mosquitoes through the streets of Lahore September 20, 2011. Two more people fell victim to the dengue virus in Lahore on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 48 in Punjab, local media reported. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

Fire crew work where a building collapsed onto a street and bus on the corner of 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, New York September 20, 2011. Seventeen people were injured and fire officials said the injuries were minor and not life-threatening, local media reported. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Jewish youth hold Israeli flags at the beginning of a rally march in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, near Nablus September 20, 2011. Jewish settlers protested on Tuesday against Palestinian plans to seek United Nations endorsement of statehood in the occupied West Bank, and clashes erupted in one village, underscoring growing tensions in the territory. REUTERS/Nir Elias

Montreal Canadiens' Ian Schultz (L) fights with Dallas Stars' Francis Wathier during the second period of NHL pre-season hockey action in Montreal, September 20, 2011. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

A passer-by struggles with strong winds and rain caused by Typhoon Roke in Tokyo September 21, 2011. At least four people died and two were missing in Japan as typhoon Roke bore down on Tokyo on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds and disturbing transport systems, public broadcaster NHK said. REUTERS/Issei Kato

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A man descends over the sacks of sand at the construction site of a commercial complex in New Delhi September 21, 2011. Output in the infrastructure sector, which accounts for just over third of India's industrial production, rose 7.8 percent in July, faster than the 5.2 percent growth seen in June. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian youth during clashes that erupted between the soldiers and Palestinian stone-throwers at Qalandiya checkpoint September 21, 2011. The clashes erupted after a rally in the nearby West Bank city of Ramallah in support of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' bid for statehood recognition in the United Nations. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

Kalyani Das (L), 60, ties her husband Pachugopal, 65, to the metal bars of a train window using a chain and padlocks as they travel from Mallickpur village where they live to Kolkata where she works September 19, 2011. Kalyani Das said her husband suffers from a mental disorder, whose condition started seven years ago due to family problems, and she chains him to prevent him from abusing her and running away while she works. Kalyani, who earns 50 Indian Rupees a day ($1.05) working at a roadside eatery, said she wishes for his death so that their suffering could end. She was married to Pachugopal at the age of 10 and has been married for 50 years, Kalyani said. Picture taken on September 19, 2011. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

A visitor looks at a plastinated foetus during the Body Worlds exhibition by Gunther von Hagen in Rome September 21, 2011. Von Hagen is a German anatomist who invented plastination, the method of preserving biological tissue specimens, according to the organizers. The exhibition shows whole bodies plastinated in lifelike poses and dissected to show various structures and system of human anatomy. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Anti-government protesters attend from a billboard a mass funeral for protesters and defected army soldiers killed in recent clashes with security forces in Sanaa September 21, 2011. Snipers, shelling, and gunfire killed at least five people in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday, violating a truce reached a day earlier between state troops and defected soldiers who joined protesters. The killings raised the death toll to 75 in four days of bloodshed, shattering a prolonged, uneasy stalemate that was set in place during fitful efforts to mediate the crisis. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Shane Bauer (C) , one of the U.S. hikers who was held in Iran on charges of espionage, hugs fiance Sarah Shourd (R) upon his arrival in Muscat after his release from Tehran's Evin prison, September 21, 2011. Three hikers, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd were arrested by Iranian forces in July 2009 near the unmarked border with Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, on suspicion of spying after crossing into Iran from Iraq. Bauer's fiance Sarah Shourd, was released in September 2010 after 410 days in solitary confinement. REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh

Martina Correia (C, sitting), the sister of convicted killer Troy Davis, is surrounded by supporters in the protest area at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification prison after learning of a delay in the execution of Davis by lethal injection in Jackson, Georgia September 21, 2011. The parole board in Georgia denied a last-ditch clemency appeal by Davis, a Georgia man set to be executed in a high-profile case for the murder of a police officer. REUTERS/Tami Chappell

Surging waves caused by Typhoon Roke hit the breakwater in Udono in the port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, September 21, 2011. A strong typhoon has left 6 people dead and 6 missing after pounding Japan with heavy rain and strong winds, public broadcaster NHK said, but it did not have a major impact on the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Picture was taken September 21, 2011. Mandatory Credit REUTERS/Chunichi Simbun/Daiji Yanagita

Fernando Cruz Vega, a 3-year-old boy who was born without arms, puts on the cap to a pen in a room at the shanty town of Libertad in Comas September 21, 2011. Deysi Vega, Fernando's mother, has travelled from the jungles of Peru in Mollobamba to Lima to seek medical help and rehabilitation therapies for her son. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

An electric display chart shows the afternoon trading trend of the blue chip Hang Seng Index at a brokerage in Hong Kong September 22, 2011. Hong Kong shares slumped on Thursday, dragged lower by mainland banks and property counters, but average turnover suggests investors are not panicking after the U.S. Federal Reserve said there were significant downside risks to the world's largest economy. The Hang Seng Index fell 4.85 percent to close at 17,911 points. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

A labourer works at a textile mill in Huaibei, Anhui province September 22, 2011. China's manufacturing sector contracted for a third consecutive month in September while a measure of inflation picked up, suggesting the world's No.2 economy may not be able to provide much of a counterweight to flagging U.S. and European growth. REUTERS/Stringer

Namibia's Danie Dames (L) fails to prevent South Africa Springboks' Bryan Habana from scoring a try during their Rugby World Cup Pool D match at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Members of the Iranian Army forces march during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), in Tehran September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer

U.S. soldiers from Task Force No Fear Alpha Co 2-27 Infantry The Wolfhounds fire a 120mm mortar at an enemy position from Combat Outpost (COP) Pirtle King in Ghaziabad district in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

A general view of the Holy Eucharist celebration conducted by Pope Benedict XVIat the Olympic stadium in Berlin September 22, 2011. Pope Benedict urged the faithful not to leave the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday as he began a four-day visit to Germany, where record numbers have quit the pews in protest against clerical +++ abuse of youths. About 100 left-wing deputies planned to boycott the pope's speech to the Bundestag, saying it violates the separation of church and state. REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the United Nations General Assembly as reflections in the glass of a viewing booth show many empty chairs in the chamber after delegates walked out on Ahmadinejad's speech at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduces Timeline during his keynote address at the Facebook f8 Developers Conference in San Francisco, California September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Residents search for valuable items to salvage after a fire razed shanties in Santo Nino town, Paranaque city, in metro Manila September 23, 2011. At least one resident died of a heart attack while 300 families lost their homes after a fire believed to be caused by an electrical short circuit razed 100 houses in Santo Nino town before dawn Friday, a local media reported. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

A dancer dressed in a traditional attire poses as she takes part in rehearsals for the garba dance ahead of Navratri festival in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad September 23, 2011. Navratri, held in honour of Hindu Goddess Durga, is celebrated over a period of nine days where thousands of youths dance the night away in traditional costumes. Navratri starts on September 28. REUTERS/Amit Dave

Rain clouds approach the city centre of Thailand's capital Bangkok September 23, 2011. Monsoon rains, floods and mudslides have killed at least 140 people since July, authorities said. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang