A dog jumps through a ring of fire during a multination National Cadet Corps (NCC) passing out ceremony in the Sri Lankan central town of Kandy. Cadets from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India passed out following an intensive course at one of the army's military academies.
Libyans attend the Muslim traditional Friday prayer at Martyrs' Square in the capital of Tripoli.
Samantha Froehlich, left, and Katharine Froehlich wipe down pumpkins in the rodeo arena at the Kodiak Island Fairgrounds in preparation for Saturday's 4-H pumpkin sale.
Amanda Boxtel, who is paralyzed, is helped to walk with the aid of the new Bionic Exoskeleton during its launch at the Excel center in London. The device, developed by Ekso Bionics, is a wearable, battery-powered, robotic exoskeleton, designed to aid wheelchair users and those who have suffered from spinal cord injuries to stand and walk.
U.S. sergeant Sara Nichols, serving with the 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder, checks the tail rotor blades of a Black Hawk medevac helicopter at Kandahar Air Field.
Queen Elizabeth II laughs with 6-foot-8 Australian basketball star Liz Cambage and Prime Minister Julia Gillard, right, at a reception at Parliament House in Canberra. The queen is on her first visit to Australia since 2006.
A Thai resident uses a makeshift float to keep his dog dry as he pulls a woman along flooded streets in Rangsit district at the outskirts of Bangkok. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged Bangkok's residents to get ready to move their belongings to higher ground Friday as the country's worst floods in half a century began seeping into the capital's outer districts.
Jesper Lambertsen, left, manager at SegWorld, takes a ride on a segway along with Mille Teichert during the inauguration the world's first indoor off-road Segway park in Aarhus, Denmark. The founder of the 6,000-square-foot SegWorld Park, Paul Teichert, already operates The Fun World in Esbjerg and a bowling center in Soenderborg. "We have built a copy of Yellowstone National Park, with mountains and waterfalls and tracks ranging from granite to seashells -- all sorts of things. You get the feeling you're actually driving in the park," Paul Teichert told AFP.
Police clash with Occupy Melbourne protesters in Melbourne, Australia. Protesters and riot police clashed in Friday after police, acting on a Melbourne City Council eviction order, attempted to break up the crowd of hundreds that had been positioned in City Square for a week.
Libyans celebrate after the Muslim Friday prayer at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli. The death Thursday of Moammar Gadhafi, two months after he was driven from power and into hiding, decisively buries the nearly 42-year regime that had turned the oil-rich country into his personal fiefdom.