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Indian police detain the members of Students Federation India(SFI) as they block the traffic during a protest against the price hike of cooking gas in Hyderabad. India's government has been confronted by continuous protests and a political backlash in recent weeks after the government unveiled a string of reforms designed to improve investor confidence. — Noah Seelam, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy arrives to announce the Nobel laureate in literature 2012 is Chinese author Mo Yan at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden. Yan, "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary," the jury said. — Fredrik Sandberg, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
Chinese writer Mo Yan smiles during an interview at his house in Beijing December 24, 2009. Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature for works which the awarding committee said had qualities of "hallucinatory realism". Picture taken December 24, 2009. — China Daily, Reuters, Oct. 11, 2012
Teachers and high school students protest school bus transportation problems due to austerity measures, outside the Finance Ministry in Athens. Greece narrowed its central government budget deficit, excluding local authority and social security spending, by 37 percent in the first nine months of 2012, the finance ministry said on Thursday, but revenues were still off target. — John Kolesidis, Reuters, Oct. 11, 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban address a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin. — Odd Andersen AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
A fox seen at the German Chancellery garden in Berlin. — Odd Andersen, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
Several thousand people march in Mali's capital city, Bamako calling for armed intervention by west African forces to regain control of the vast north from armed Islamist groups. The demonstrators carried banners and placards expressing support for the Malian army, Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and the Economic Community of West African States, which is prepared to send troops if it receives backing from the United Nations and western countries. — Habibou Kouyate, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
Rime covered grass in a meadow near Marloffstein in the early morning, southern Germany. — Daniel Karmann, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
A model parading with a sheep steps around droppings in Oxford Street, London. Four models escorted by four sheep posed for photographs in support of The Campaign for Wool's 'Wool Week' (October 15-21) encouraging people to donate unwanted woolen items to be reused, recycled or resold through Marks and Spencer and Oxfam shops. — Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
Bishops walk in procession before Pope Benedict XVI conducts mass to open the year of faith at the Vatican. — Stefano Rellandini, Reuters, Oct. 11, 2012
The "Mothers of Srebrenica" demonstrate in front of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France. Widows and family members of the 8,372 victims of Srebrenica have appealed to the Court to examine the immunity judgment rendered by the highest Civil Court of the Netherlands. The move by the Mothers of Srebrenica comes after a lawsuit accusing the United Nations and the Dutch state of negligence for failing to protect the victims of the 1995 wartime massacre in the Bosnian town was dismissed by the Netherlands supreme court. — Frederick Florin, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
An Emu bird seen in its outdoor enclosure in the Duisburg zoo, northwestern Germany. Emus are the second largest member of the ratite group of flightless birds. They are native to Australia and are its national bird. — Roland Weihrauch, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
Farmers harvest rice in a field on the outskirts of Hanoi. Vietnam's rice exports are expected to reach some 7.5 million tons this year, an increase of 300,000 tons over 2011, but the revenues will not be as high as last year due to the slump of prices, according to official published reports. In average the export price for Vietnamese rice in the first nine months was $443.30 per ton, about $35.70 per ton lower than last year, according to the reports. — Hoang Dinh NAM, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 11, 2012
Jay Allen and Joe Marshall, left, from the Shaw Craft Sign Company install a mural donated by the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition at the Senior/Youth Center building near the US 30 in Lynwood on Wednesday, October 10, 2012. The Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition installs a mural on Carl G. Fisher in their series of Interpretive Murals. Fisher was the businessman who promoted the idea of the Lincoln Highway. Lynwood marks the Eastern terminus to the Illinois portion of the Lincoln Highway. — Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 10, 2012
A Wendella Chicago Water Taxi travels down the Chicago River from the stop at the Wrigley building. The company is celebrating their 50th Anniversary with free rides on Thursday, Oct. 11. — Abel Uribe, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 10, 2012
A search and rescue dog is used to find survivors in the rubble of a four-story parking garage that was under construction and collapsed at the Miami Dade College's West Campus in Doral, Fla. — Joe Raedle, Getty Images, Oct. 10, 2012
Defendant Andreas S., left, sits in the docks of the Regional Court in Hildesheim, Germany, at the start of his trial. The 37-year old father admitted to killing his four children, aged five, seven, nine and 12 with a knife as they slept. — Peter Stefefn, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 10, 2012
Seven-year-old amputee Deng, right, SPLA soldier Kong, center, and Mabior sit outside the Rehabilitation Centre of Juba, South Sudan. Deng was amputated when he was 4 years old after a mine he was playing with blew up in his house, killing his mother. Kong stepped on a mine in Upper Nile state early 2012 and Mabior lost his leg at war. The Rehabilitation Centre of Juba was given by ICRC to the governemnt in South Sudan in 2009. 30% of the patients suffer from an amputation related to landmines. Other common injuries include gun shot wounds and untreated animal bites. In South Sudan, due to the lack of hospitals and infrastructure, simple injuries can be left untreated for months which increases the risk of surgical amputation as the only course of action. — Camille LePage, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 10, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI (L) greeting the Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, Rowan Williams, on the sidelines of a synod at The Vatican. Bishops gathered from October 9 for a synod aimed at boosting the flagging Church met Pope Benedict XVI for a close-door session in which they vented their frustration and exasperation over a decline in faith. — Osservatore Romano , Oct. 10, 2012
Members of the all-girl punk band "Pussy Riot" Maria Alyokhina, left, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass-walled cage in a court in Moscow. A Moscow court heard today the appeal of feminist punks Pussy Riot against their two-year prison camp sentence, days after President Vladimir Putin appeared to give his blessing to the verdict. — Natalia Kolesnikova, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 10, 2012
Police check the truck, parked in vacant lot in the 5800 block of South Aberdeen Street, where at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday Canadian truck driver Gary Clark, 39, was shot and killed during a apparent robbery attempt. — Michael Tercha, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 10, 2012
A wounded Syrian man is carried to a boat to cross to Turkey over the Orontes river on the Turkish-Syrian border near the village of Hacipasa in Hatay province. Scores of Syrian civilians, many of them women with screaming children clinging to their necks, crossed Orontes, a narrow river marking the border with Turkey as they fled the fighting in Azmarin and surrounding villages. Residents from the Turkish village of Hacipasa, nestled among olive groves, helped pull them across in small metal boats. — Osman Orsal, Reuters, Oct. 10, 2012
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, right, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, center, Japan's Finance Minister Koriki Jojima, left, and other delegates tour the areas hit by last year's massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami as part of the Sendai Dialogue, a disaster risk management meeting in Sendai, northern Japan. The event is held ahead of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s annual meeting, which will be held in Tokyo later this week, of world finance ministers and central bankers. — tephen Jaffe, Reuters, Oct. 10, 2012
Students perform during celebrations to mark the centenary of the revolution that set the stage for the Republic of China, island's official name, in front of Taiwan's Presidential Office in Taipei. Taiwan could play the role of a "peacemaker" in a dispute over islands where its own territorial claims rival those of China and Japan, Ma said. — Mandy Cheng, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 10, 2012
A sales assistant looks at her mobile phone as she waits for customers behind a counter at a Huawei booth in Wuhan, Hubei province. A U.S. congressional report that urged American companies to stop doing business with Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE has triggered a fresh wave of complaints against the firms, opening a second phase to the panel's investigation. — Darley Shen, Reuters, Oct. 10, 2012
Five-Star Movement activist and commedian Beppe Grillo prepares to swim across the Strait of Messina from Cannitello in Calabria to Messina in Sicily as he begins his election campaign. Italian elections are expected to take place in spring 2013. — Reuters, Oct. 10, 2012
Members of a French judiciary special police unit stage next to a garage entrance, where an anti-terrorist raid was conducted four days ago in Torcy, near Paris. Investigators searched garages in the town of Torcy overnight after an anti-terrorist raid on Saturday ended with police shooting dead an Islamist suspect linked to a grenade attack last month on a Jewish supermarket and arresting 11 others. — Christian Hartmann, Reuters, Oct. 10, 2012
Italy's Defense Minister Giampaolo Di Paola talks to U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, right, during a NATO defense ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels. — Francois Lenoir, Reuters , Oct. 10, 2012
Vehicles are seen along a main road in central Beijing. Vehicle sales in China fell 1.8 percent in September from a year earlier as Japanese automakers' sales collapsed, adding to downward pressures from a slowing economy and rising fuel costs that have weighed on the world's biggest auto market. — David Gray, Reuters, Oct. 10, 2012
Ivan Scott of Ireland shears a sheep on a farm on the Dentenberg near Bern. Scott visits Switzerland twice a year for about one month in spring and autumn to shear sheep on farms across Switzerland. — Pascal Lauener, Reuters, Oct. 10, 2012
Chicago Bulls players huddle before the start of their preseason game against the Memphis Grizzlies at the United Center in Chicago. — Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 9, 2012
Chicago Police Officer Joseph Lopez accepts the Lambert Tree Award from Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, left, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The award is given out for bravery in the line of duty. Lopez, an 8-year veteran, responded to a call of shots fired. Upon arrival, a witness told Lopez the subject fled in a SUV. Lopez located the parked vehicle several minutes later. As he approached, the rear passenger door opened and a male subject fled.
Lopez pursued the subject to a residential parking lot, where the subject turned toward Lopez, pointing and firing a semi-automatic handgun at him three times. Fearing for his life, Lopez aimed his weapon at the subject, but did not return fire as he was concerned additional gunfire would endanger citizens near the scene. The foot pursuit continued to a rear gangway and up some stairs.
The subject, realizing he had nowhere to go, walked down the stairs, coming face-to-face with Lopez. At that point the subject pointed his handgun at the officer. Fearing for his life, Lopez discharged his duty weapon one time, fatally striking the subject. The subject's weapon, a loaded 9mm semi-automatic handgun, fell to the ground but was recovered immediately. — Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 9, 2012
Tammy Duckworth supporter Frank Huckin, left, faces off with Joe Walsh supporter Frank Skorksi, before the debate between the 8th district congressional candidates in Rolling Meadows — Stacey Wescott, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 9, 2012
Elgin police and firefighters recover a body from the Fox River in Elgin. — Stacey Wescott, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 9, 2012
Chicago Federation of Labor President Jorge Ramirez, center, talks with teacher Laura Anzelmo, left, before speaking out on behalf of the Evergreen Park teachers strike at at a rally along the 3500 block of west 95th St. in Evergreen Park. — Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 9, 2012
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center leaves the Centre County Courthouse after being sentenced in his child sex abuse case in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. The 68-year-old Sandusky was sentenced to at least 30 years and not more that 60 years in prison for his conviction in June on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, including while he was the defensive coordinator for the Penn State college football team. — Patrick Smith, Getty Images, Oct. 9, 2012
Bicyclists commute on North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, between West Augusta Boulevard and North Willard Court on a chilly Tuesday morning. — José M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 9, 2012
A protester wears glasses with a message written on its lenses condemning the implementation of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 during a protest in front of the Supreme Court in Manila. The Supreme Court on Tuesday has issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on the controversial Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 or Republic Act 10175, acting on petitions from journalists, bloggers and activists who say the law's vague clause on libel violates freedom of expression. — Romeo Ranoco, Reuters, Oct. 9, 2012
People wait in line before former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse before being sentenced in his child sex abuse case in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Sandusky faces a sentence of hundreds of years for his conviction in June on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, including while he was the defensive coordinator for the Penn State college football team. — Patrick Smith, Getty Images, Oct. 9, 2012
Protesters clash with riot police protecting the Greek Parliament in Athens during a demonstration against the visit of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Police in Athens fired teargas to disperse protesters who tried to storm a steel barricade near the parliament as Merkel held meetings with Greek leaders a few blocks away. Some 25,000 protesters have massed in the capital to protest against the visit of Merkel, the leader of Europe's strongest economy who is seen as an instigator of tough austerity policies imposed on the recession-hit country since 2010. — Louisa Gouliamaki, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 9, 2012
A protester throws a bottle towards riot police outside a barrier erected to protect the Greek parliament in Athens during a demonstration against the visit of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Athens went into security lockdown for a landmark visit by Merkel, an austerity hate figure in Greece whose arrival will be greeted by union and opposition party protests. — Louisa Gouliamaki, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 9, 2012
Seven-month-old Elsie Davies of London poses for her parents next to a giant pumpkin at the Royal Horticultural Society's London Harvest Festival. The pumpkin, which won first prize in the giant pumpkin competition, was grown by horticulturalist Stuart Paton, of Pennington, Hampshire, and weighs 1054 pounds. — Suzanne Plunkett, Reuters, Oct. 9, 2012
U.S. Marines fix their tents as they arrive at Crow Valley, Tarlac province in northern Philippines, to take part in the annual 10 day Philippine-US Amphibious Landing Exercises program which includes combined live fire exercises, aircraft displays, a helicopter raid as well as medical missions around Subic and in the western island of Palawan. The Philippines said yesterday that a former U.S. naval base facing the South China Sea could play a key role as a hub for U.S. ships as Washington moves to boost its presence in the Asia Pacific. — Jay Directo, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 9, 2012
A delegate naps on the third day of the Conservative party conference in the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, England. Today's penultimate day of the annual, four-day Conservative party conference features speeches from Cabinet ministers and the Mayor of London. — Oli Scarff, Getty Images, Oct. 9, 2012
An Indian shoe vendor looks on standing in front of his roadside showroom as people walk past in Kolkata. India's economic growth rate will shrink to below five percent this year as the government struggles to restore investor confidence, the International Monetary Fund forecast. — Dibyangshu Sarkar, AFP/Getty Images, Oct. 9, 2012
Visitors to the Royal Horticultual Society's London Harvest Festival look at a table of prize leeks in London. — Suzanne Plunkett, Reuters, Oct. 9, 2012
U.S. Marines drive humvees at Crow Valley during the Philippines-U.S. amphibious landing exercise dubbed Phiblex 2013, in Tarlac, north of Manila. Philippines and United States forces conducted mock helicopter raids during their annual joint marine exercises in the northern Tarlac province on Tuesday. Some 3,000 U.S. and Philippine marines will be participating in the 12-day exercises which will focus on land and sea tactics, humanitarian aid and disaster relief operations. — Cheryl Ravelo, Reuters, Oct. 9, 2012
Mayor of London Boris Johnson confronts delegates as he finishes his speech at the Conservative party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, England. The annual four-day Conservative party conference began on Sunday and featured speeches from Cabinet ministers and the Mayor of London. — Matt Cardy, Getty Images, Oct. 9, 2012
A woman sorts books at a booth during preparations for the upcoming book fair in Frankfurt. The world's largest book fair runs from October 9 to October 14 and features the literature of New Zealand as its guest of honor. — Ralph Orlowski, Reuters, Oct. 9, 2012
Workers face French riot gendarmes during a demonstration in front of the entrance of the Paris Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris. The CGT, France's biggest trade union, has called for a national day of protest against job cuts and plant closures. — Jacky Naegelen, Reuters, Oct. 9, 2012