A sheep is seen in front of the snow covered Falknis in Furggels, Switzerland, above the river Rhine valley. The snow line dropped to 1400m over sea level in an early onset of winter in Switzerland. Arno Balzarini/AP
An activist supporting Irish Travelers residing at the Dale Farm settlement lies at the entrance to the site near Basildon, England, on Sept. 19. Irish Travelers built barricades and chained themselves to cars to stop police from evicting them. The conflict has raged since 2001. The local authority waged a long legal battle to remove them, which it finally won at Britain's High Court last month. Matt Dunham/AP
Wodaabe girls arrive at the "Cure Salee" festival in Ingal, northern Niger. 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. Luc Gnago/Reuters
Protesters wave Syrian flags during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in front of NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Francois Lenoir /Reuters
The street circuit of the Formula One night race is illuminated during a light testing seen from Swissotel The Stamford at dusk in Singapore which will be the host city for the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix from Sept. 23-25. Wong Maye-E/AP
A man runs past brooms placed by members of NGO Rio de Paz (Peace Rio) at Copacabana beach as a form of protest in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 594 brooms, which represent the number of congressmen in the country, were placed at the beach to symbolize the need to 'sweep off' corruption in the Brazilian National Congress. Sergio Moraes /Reuters
Models presenting creations from designer Montse Bassons' Spring/Summer 2012 collection wait backstage for the start of the show during Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week. Susana Vera /Reuters
Residents peer past a cloth barrier which was raised to cordon off the site of a suicide bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan. 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 136 pounds of explosives were used. Athar Hussain /Reuters
Members of a German military honor guard stand in position before the start of an official state banquet in honor of Turkish President Abdullah Gul hosted by German President Christian Wulff at Bellevue Castle in Berlin. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
A Pakistani man wades through a flooded field in Tando Muhammad Khan near Hyderabad, Pakistan. The United Nations appealed for $357 million to help millions of Pakistanis affected by floods that have damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and destroyed millions of acres of crops. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Anti-Qaddafi fighters salvage weapons from a pro-Qaddafi weapons and ammunition compound in a village near Sirte, Libya, one of Muammar Qaddafi's last remaining strongholds. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Gujarat state Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who was on the third day of his fast, gestures in Ahmadabad, India. Mr. Modi began a three-day fast on Sept. 17 to strengthen social harmony and brotherhood in the state. Modi was at the helm of the Gujarat government during one of India's worst outbursts of communal violence in 2002 and remains in power. Ajit Solanki/AP
The hands of a resident are seen covered with mud as rescuers search for casualties in the ruins of a quake-damaged house at Lokanthali in Bhaktapur, Nepal. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit a remote Himalayan region of Nepal, India, and Tibet on Sept. 18. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
A Palestinian rides a camel on the beach in Gaza City. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sept. 19 that he would push ahead with plans to seek full UN membership for a Palestinian state, a move the United States and Israel say could lead to disaster. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Georgian dancers perform for Prince Albert II of Monaco, not pictured, as he visits an archeological site in the town of Dmanisi, Georgia. Prince Albert II was on a state visit to Georgia. Shakh Aivazov/AP
Jeff Gordon, foreground, makes a pit stop in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. Nam Y. Huh/AP
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