Missouri Tigers fans sit through driving rain during a game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Faurot Field/Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri. -- PHOTO: AFP
Ultraman brothers pose in a photo session with Honda Motor's all-new Step WGN and Cub during the Step WGN's press preview in its headquarter in Tokyo. The fourth generation Step WGN, with the combination of a 2.0-litre i-VTEC engine and torque converter-equipped CVT, was developed around the concept of comfort for everyone in minivan transportation. -- PHOTO: AFP
A person dressed as popular Japanese anime character Astro Boy shows off some of his moves to passing school children at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria. -- PHOTO: AFP
Halloween pumpkins and ghoulish mannequins decorate the amusement park 'Tivoli' in central Copenhagen, Denmark, for a ten day celebration of the Halloween season, during the school autumn holidays. Last year the Halloween event attracted some 250,000 visitors. -- PHOTO: AP
A South Korean sand artist Chun Byung Il works on his sand figure featuring Japanese actor Koji Yakusho during the PIFF on the beach in Busan, South Korea. One of Asia's top film festivals opened Thursday by taking a lighthearted look at the South Korean presidency. -- PHOTO: AP
The installation No Need For Forever by Japanese artist Rei Sato is displayed during a media presentation at the Third Floor - Hermes in Liat Towers in Singapore. Sato, 25, recreated her family-run cafe, Tokyo's Senzai Midori, for an exhibition at a Singapore gallery this week, and will be serving opening-night guests coffee as part of the installation entitled 'No Need For Forever'. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A fan of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim arrives for Game One of the ALDS against the Boston Red Sox during the 2009 MLB Playoffs at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
Team Oracle stunt pilot Sean Tucker (top) and a US Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet piloted by US Marine Corps Major Nathan Miller fly over the San Francisco Bay. San Francisco kicks off its annual Fleet Week celebration on Oct 10 with a parade of ships and an air show featuring the Blue Angels. -- PHOTO: AFP
The Syrian dance group Inana performs at the Opera House in Damascus. The performance, which includes acrobatics and a mix of theatre and cinema, depicts the story of the Muslim warrior Saladin who liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders in the 12th century. The dance was performed as part of celebrations marking Jerusalem's tenure as the Arab League's 'capital of Arab culture' for 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A laser beam is seen between the Paris Observatory and the Montparnasse tower rooftop (not pictured) in Paris. Every time a detector on top of Montparnasse Tower picks up a sub-atomic particle called a muon, a pulse of laser light will flash across the sky of the city's Latin Quarter from the Paris Observatory. -- PHOTO: AFP
A model displays a Spring/Summer design by Pablo Y Mayaya during the Pasarela Castilla y Leon fashion show in Burgos, northern Spain. -- PHOTO: AP
Kourtney Hardwick, BP Florida operations manager, looks over a methane gas well site east of Bayfield, Colorado. The natural gas industry, which produces more gas here than nearly every other county in Colorado, has undergone tougher state environmental regulations, and lower natural gas prices have slowed many new drilling permits. -- PHOTO: AP
One of thirty-six mummies from Guanajuato, Mexico's Museo de las Momias (Museum of the Mummies) is displayed at the Detroit Science Center in Detroit. It's the first of seven US stops through 2012 for a travelling exhibit from what's believed to be the largest mummy collection in the Western Hemisphere. -- PHOTO: AP
A worker with his hands covered with wax at a candle making factory in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri. Candles are sold in large numbers during Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, when people buy candles to decorate their homes. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An artist performs during a concert to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of World War Two at the Auditorium of the Conciliazione in Rome. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
