

Ethiopian Jewish women pray during a ceremony for the traditional 'Sigd' holiday in Jerusalem. The festival, unique to the Ethiopian Jewish community, symbolizes the community's reacceptance of the Torah, led by Ezra the Scribe before the construction of the second Jewish temple. Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP Photo
A villager watches as volcanic material bursts from Mt. Merapi in Wukirsari, Indonesia. Searing gas and molten lava poured from Indonesia's deadly volcano in an explosion three times as powerful as last week's devastating blast, chasing people from villages and emergency shelters along its slopes. Trisnadi/AP Photo
A man walks through Green Park in central London. Toby Melville/Reuters
A worker smiles as he finishes his shift of unloading coal at a power plant in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. China is preparing to apply a new resource tax to coal, which would boost the tax burden on miners and bring more revenue to local governments, a Chinese newspaper reported. Sheng Li/Reuters
A keeper brushes a hippo's teeth at China's Shanghai Zoo. The hippo has its teeth cleaned three times a week to reduce the chance of mouth disease. Reuters
Footprints of an animal are seen in the toxic red sludge covering a yard in the town of Kolontar, Hungary. A month after a flood of red sludge devastated Kolontar, this town in western Hungary is struggling to overcome its deep scars. Bela Szandelszky/AP Photo
Newly ordained rabbi Alina Treiger holds her document during a ceremony in a synagogue in Berlin. Thirty-one-year-old Treiger is the first female rabbi to be trained in Germany since the Holocaust. She was born in Ukraine and came to Germany in 2002 after studying music in Moscow. After her ordination she will oversee Jewish communities in Lower Saxony in eastern Germany. Marcel Mettelsiefen/AP Photo
Swiss acrobat Freddy Nock balances on a tightrope between the towers of the Stadtkirche (l.) and the Castle of Thun (r.) in front of the Bernese Overland Alps in Thun, Switzerland. Nock crossed the old town of Thun over a distance of some 522 ft at a height of of 81 ft. Ruben Sprich/Reuters
An Indian artist works on a painting of President Obama and the late Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi at his studio in Thane, near Mumbai, India. President Obama is expected to visit India from Nov. 6-9 and will include a visit to Gandhi's memorial in New Delhi. AP Photo
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets Rose Parae, elder of New Zealand Parliament, after arriving at the Parliament Complex in Wellington, New Zealand. Evan Vucci/AP Photo
The Italian Frecce Tricolori aerobatic squad performs during the celebration of the Italian Army's anniversary in Rome. Max Rossi/Reuters
Honduran immigrant Jose Humberto Castro clings to a freight train on his way to the border with the United States in Orizaba in the state of Veracruz. Every day, hundreds of Central American immigrants try to cross from Mexico to the United States, according to National Migration Institute of Mexico. Eliana Aponte/Reuters
Winner Xuetong Cai of China competes during the final of the women's Snowboard Half-Pipe FIS World Cup 2010 event on the Allalin glacier in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Jean-Christophe Bott/AP Photo
Russian ultranationalists march during a demonstration on the outskirts of Moscow. Russia marks the Day of People's Unity on Nov. 4 when it celebrates the defeat of Polish invaders in 1612 and replaces a communist celebration of the 1917 revolution. Mikhail Voskresensky/Reuters
A member of France's Republican Guards receives assistance after he fainted while on the steps of the Elysee Palace, during the visit of China's President Hu Jintao, in Paris. Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Pakistani vendor Mohammed Arshad stands next to his stall waiting for customers in a dark alley of a neighbrhood in Multan in Punjab Province, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo
People wait to be evacuated from the Corail-Cesselesse refugee camp before the arrival of tropical storm Tomas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Fear and confusion set in among over 1 million Haitians advised to leave the homeless camps in the country's capital. Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo