October 8, 2014

Indian Sikh school children dressed as Punj Pyara participate in a procession from the Sri Akal Takhat at the Sikh Shrine, The Golden Temple in Amritsar on the eve of the birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdass.

A whirlwind advances towards an area where Syrian Kurds fleeing to Turkey from Syria parked their vehicles in no man's land on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province.

A demonstrator is pushed by a Spanish riot police officer as a veterinarian van, apparently carrying Excalibur, the dog of the Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola, leaves from her apartment complex in Alcorcon, outside Madrid. Madrid regional authorities said they would euthanize Excalibur to avoid possible contagion, sparking an outcry by animal rights activists to save the dog.

Heath workers collect samples from the body of a person suspected to have died from the Ebola virus, as it lies on the street covered in leaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Burial teams abandoned the bodies of Ebola victims in the capital after going on strike this week, though an official claimed the situation had been resolved.

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (pictured here) and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst completed the first of three spacewalks for the Expedition 41 crew aboard the International Space Station. (NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst)

Balinese men lashing burning coconut husks off each other during 'Mesabatan Api', a sacred firefighting ritual at a Hindu temple in Bali, Indonesia.

Indian villagers sit in a tractor as they flee their homes fearing firing from the Pakistan side of the border at Chilyari village of Samba sector in Jammu and Kashmir state.

An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code including cyrillic words onto a man in Warsaw, Poland.

The main terminal of Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport is hit by shelling during fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government forces in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.

A radio-controlled flying witch makes a test flight past a moon setting into clouds along the pacific ocean in Carlsbad, California. Reuters was invited to photograph the testing of the life sized device by inventor Otto Dieffenbach lll.

Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Warrior drill team display rifle handling skills during Air Force Day at the air force station in Hindon near New Delhi.

A woman knits with large knitting needles during the Knitting and Stitching show at Alexandra Palace in London.

A hot air balloon flies over the desert near Luxor, Egypt.

A Samaritan prays during the holiday of Sukkot (the Tabernacles Feast) celebrations on Mount Gerizim, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Sukkot marks the exodus of the ancient Hebrew people from Egypt.

The Eiffel Tower is illuminated in pink, in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Paris, France, Oct. 7, 2014.