Local trade union members display rotis, or Indian bread, during a protest against Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Allahabad, India. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
An Egyptian policeman peeks from the window of a guard shack in front of the French Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. A French magazine published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, inflaming global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam. In response, the French government ordered embassies and schools to close Friday in about 20 countries. Ahmed Gomaa/AP
Student Tiandre Turner makes his way to class at Whitney Young High School in Chicago. Chicago students return to school on Wednesday after a teachers' strike ended. John Gress/Reuters
A tee flies out of the grass as Tiger Woods hits a practice shot at the Tour Championship golf tournament in Atlanta. The tournament begins Thursday. David Goldman/AP
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (back c.) arrives to inaugurate the new Sudan Gold Refinery in Khartoum. The refinery is considered to be the biggest in Africa. Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters
A customer grabs her purchase at a Zara store in Madrid. Susana Vera/Reuters
Students gesture during a demonstration demanding the government to withdraw the new subject "Moral and National Education" from the school curriculum, at the City University of Hong Kong. Kin Cheung/AP
A horse is treated with medicinal waters in a bathtub equipped with a treadmill at the Hungarian Equine Rehab and Healthcare Service in Kaposvar, 180 kilometers southwest of Budapest, Hungary. Gyorgy Varga/MTI/AP
Space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a modified jumbo jet makes its departure from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour will make a stop in Houston before heading to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Terry Renna/AP
A pigeon flies in front a fountain during a sunny day in central Donetsk, Ukraine. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Trinamul Congress Party (TMC), leader Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference in Kolkata, India. Bikas Das/AP
Toni Martin of Germany crosses the finish line during the men's time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Valkenburg. Michael Kooren/Reuters
A food vendor selling cooked pork takes a nap as he waits for customers inside the ancient walled city of Pingyao, northern China. Jason Lee/Reuters
An Indonesian woman walks past clocks showing world time at the Jakarta Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia. Achmad Ibrahim/AP
Ladybugs (Coccinellidae) walk on the fruit during the harvest of Burgundy grapes on a vineyard of the Thueringer Weingut Bad Sulza near Sonnendorf, central Germany. Jens Meyer)/AP
Austrian alphorn craftsman Walter Gstettner tests an alphorn prototype in front of his garage in the village of Vorchdorf in the Austrian province of Upper Austria, September 18, 2012. The alphorn or alpine horn is a wooden wind music instrument built in different shapes that was used for communication in most mountainous regions of Europe. Herwig Prammer/Reuters
Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa leaves a news conference room in Tokyo. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Mawimbi, a western lowland gorilla cub lies in the arm of its mother Mamitu in the Zoo of Zurich, Switzerland. Alessandro Della Bella/Keystone/AP
Construction workers walk down the stairs on a bridge next to the construction site of the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt. Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
Venezuela's judicial police officers escort alleged Colombian drug trafficker Daniel Barrera to a National Guard base in San Cristobal, Tachira state, Venezuela. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said alleged drug boss Daniel "Loco" Barrera was arrested after months of multinational cooperation that included help from the US and other nations. AP
Scholar Abdul Majid al-Zindani, head of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood political movement (c.) along with clerics attend a press conference in Sanaa, Yemen. The group condemned an anti-Islam film, the presence of US Marines in Yemen, and airstrikes carried out by US aircraft in Yemen. Hani Mohammed/AP
Models parade at the end of John Richmond Spring/Summer 2013 collection at Milan Fashion Week. Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters
An Egyptian woman walks past newly painted graffiti that reads in Arabic "erase more," on a wall that was whitewashed during a cleanup campaign to erase old murals, in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Graffiti artists are repainting the walls soon after municipal workers have whitewashed over a mural depicting the faces of victims of police brutality and violence over the past two years. Nasser Nasser/AP
Israeli soldiers conduct a military exercise in the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights, captured from neighboring Syria in the 1967 war. Ariel Schalit/AP
Visitors take in the view during a media preview of "Discovering Columbus," by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, in New York. The 810-square-foot living room offers spectacular views of mid-Manhattan. A 13-foot statue of Christopher Columbus stands amid the couches, lamps and coffee table. Mary Altaffer/AP
While the German economy is being held up as the model for ailing Europe to follow, some Germans say that the benefits of the boom aren't reaching them.
When President Obama stood in Berlin today and said that budget balancing must not trump the priority of improving lives, some saw a dig at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has led the call for austerity across Europe.
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