New Zealand's 'Haka' dancers perform at an unveiling ceremony of Giant Rugby Ball next to Tokyo Tower. The world's largest rugby ball that measures 25 metres long and 13 metres high is sited next to the Tokyo landmark and promotes New Zealand's Rugby World Cup 2011 and its tourism industry. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Chinese scientist Lu Junchang looks over the 165 million-year-old fossil of a 'Darwinopterus', which was discovered along with more than 20 new fossil skeletons in north-east China late last year, at his office in the Institute of Geology at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man passes the image of a skull covered in marigolds in front of a wall of graves during preparations for a massive altar in the San Fernando Cemetery in Mexico City. Workers added thousands of marigolds, known in Mexico as 'cempasuchil', to giant skull images as they prepare a massive altar in honour of Day of the Dead, to be celebrated Nov 1-2. -- PHOTO: AP
A base jumper falls backwards off the Menara Kuala Lumpur tower. A group of base jumpers were attempting to set a Guiness world record striving to have 24 people base jump every hour for 24 hours from the 915 feet high communication towers. -- PHOTO: AP
Cuban workers adjust a huge sculpture on a building at Revolution Square in Havana dedicated to Cuban Commander Camilo Cienfuegos, marking the 50th anniversary of his disappearance on October 28, 1959. Camilo was one of the principal Commanders of the Cuban Revolution, with Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara. -- PHOTO: AFP
Fans await the start of the world premiere of the Michael Jackson's 'This is it' at the Noika Theatre at LA Live in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
The perspex and plaster work 'Eye See You' by Australian artists Tim and Shayn Amber Wetherell peer from the sandstone cliffs on the eve of the 13th Sculpture By The Sea exhibition lining Sydney's Pacific seaboard. The annual outdoor display features sculptures by 114 Australian and international artists and is expected to attract over 600,000 visitors before closing on Nov 15. -- PHOTO: AFP
A model displays a 20-ounce Vienna gold coin minted by the Austrian Mint Bureau, in Tokyo for the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Vienna gold coin. The coin, 74mm in diameter and weighing 622.07g, will be one of 6,027 minted, with 2,009 each coins sold in the Japanese, European and North American markets. -- PHOTO: AFP
Motorcross rider Travis Pastrana from the US jumps his bike in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to promote a new television show. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Cape Town's Green Point stadium is illuminated as construction officials test the lighting as part of preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Two cows eating a pumpkin at Northern Lights Christmas Tree Farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore. -- PHOTO: AP
Models walk the runway in creations by Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani during a fashion show at the GUM department store in Moscow. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A clown from the family-owned circus King Cat applying his stage make-up, as another looks on, in Managua. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
View of one of the amphitheatres of the Caral archaeological complex. Caral is South America's most ancient city, of 5,000 years old, and one of the oldest cultures in the world after Egypt and Mesopotamia. -- PHOTO: AFP
Horses pull the carriage of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and India's President Pratibha Patil as it approaches Windsor Castle. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Russian sculptor Alexander Chernoshchyokov working on a plasticine model of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's bust in St. Petersburg. The sculpture is being created as a gift for ex-Hollywood bodybuilder and California's current governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. -- PHOTO: AFP
