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2. Bhutanese Buddhist monks perform during a rehearsal for a dance to be performed during the wedding festivities of King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and future Queen Jetsun Pema, in the capital of Thimphu, Bhutan on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

3. Bhutanese Buddhist monks wear masks before a rehearsal for a dance to be performed during the wedding festivities of King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and future Queen Jetsun Pema, in the capital of Thimphu, Bhutan. The 31 year-old reformist monarch of the small Himalayan Kingdom will wed his commoner bride later this week. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

4. North Korean boys smile in a paddy field in an area damaged by summer floods and typhoons in South Hwanghae province September 30, 2011. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

5. Buddhist monks outside Myanmar's landmark Shwedagon Pagoda during the eve of the full moon day of Thadingyut, the lighting festival to mark the end of Buddhist Lent on Tuesday, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

6. Sri Lankan Buddhist worshipers in white clothes participate in religious rituals at Kelaniya Buddhist temple in suburbs of Colombo, Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Every month, this entire island of 19 million people shuts down for the Full Moon day. Offices, schools and cinemas are closed. Bars don't serve alcohol. Even cricket, the national passion, takes a break. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe)

7. An Ultra orthodox Jewish man pushes his bicycle as he carries palm fronds to be used to build a Sukka, for Sukkot in Bnei Brak, ultra Orthodox town near Tel Aviv, Israel on Tuesday. The holiday commemorates the Israelites 40 years of wandering in the desert and a decorated hut is erected outside religious households as a sign of temporary shelter.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

8. Vietnamese honor guards arrive to welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Presidential Palace on Tuesday, in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)

9. An activist shouts a slogan during a solidarity rally for workers of U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoran outside the company's Indonesian headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia on Tuesday. The demonstration came a day after Indonesian security forces fired on striking workers at the world's biggest gold mine, killing one and injuring more than a dozen other people, officials said. (AP Photo/Irwin Ferdiansyah)

10. Indian vendors sell marigold flowers and garlands at a wholesale market on the occasion of Laxmi puja, the goddess of wealth, in Kolkata, India on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

11. An Indian women prepares dough for making earthen pots for the upcoming Karwa Chauth festival in Allahabad, India on Tuesday. Karwa Chauth is a traditional Hindu festival celebrated in northern India where married women fast one whole day and offer prayers to the moon for the welfare, prosperity, and longevity of their husbands. It will be celebrated on Oct. 15. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

12. The illuminated Brandenburg Gate is pictured one day before the official start of the seventh "Festival of Lights" in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday. During the festival from Wednesday, Oct. 12 until Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, Berlin's most famous landmarks and impressive buildings will be glowing and sparkling with various colors and types of light, projections and fireworks. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

13. A Nepalese woman sifts her rice crop at Bhaktapur, outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal on Monday. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

14. North Koreans enjoy traditional folk dancing at a Pyongyang city square in North Korea, Monday, to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

15. A woman from the ancient Samaritan community decorates a Sukkah made from fresh fruit for the holiday of the Tabernacles, or Sukkot, in Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus on Monday. The Sukkah is a temporary structure built for the Jewish holiday Sukkot, which the Samaritans will celebrate early Tuesday. According to tradition, the Samaritans are descendants of Jews who were not deported when the Assyrians conquered Israel in the 8th century B.C. and of the small community of around 700 people, half live in a village at Mount Gerizim, and the rest in the city of Holon near Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

16. Band members of Taiwan's honor guard play their tubas during the national day celebrations of the centenial anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China government in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday. National Day is known as Double-Ten Day, Oct. 10, commemorating the Chinese republican revolution of October 10, 1911, bringing the end of mainland China's Qing dynasty. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

17. A Thai man smokes a cigarette as he sits in the flooded streets on Monday in Ayutthaya, Thailand. Around 200 factories closed in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya because of flooding, which is posing a threat to Bangkok as well. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

18. Children wait for the arrival of Spain's Queen Sofia in Leogane, Haiti on Saturday. Spain is among the countries that have made the biggest pledges to Haiti after the Jan. 2010 earthquake. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

19. An Afghan nomad woman, drives her donkeys on Kabul- Jalalabad road on their way to warm climate of south Afghanistan on Monday. (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar)

20. A mother Sumatran tiger and one of her cubs spend time together at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City, Okla. (AP Photo /The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel)

21. A woman and her pets are transported on a boat as she evacuates from flood in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand on Sunday. Thailand's prime minister warned that rising floodwaters which have wreaked havoc across the nation are now threatening the capital, Bangkok. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

22. A Nepalese Hindu devotee places burning oil lamps on his body as part of rituals to celebrate the tenth and final day of Dashain festival at Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal on Thursday. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by Hindu goddess Durga, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

23. In this exposure of five seconds a carousel rotates in front of the Mariendom (Cathedral of Mary), left, and the St. Severi's Church, right, during the Oktoberfest in Erfurt, central Germany on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

24. A Pakistani man working in a wholesale fruit and vegetable market, carries a sack of potatoes on his back, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. AP / Muhammed Muheisen

25. Central Illinois farmer Joe Pickrell shovels stuck corn out of the top of his combine while harvesting his corn crops on Sunday, near Divernon, Ill. Farmers harvesting their corn may find less of the crop than anticipated as the state office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service lowered corn yield estimates for Illinois, citing dry and hot weather in late summer. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

26. Young Indian artists dressed as Hindu deities Radha, right and Krishna, left, participate in a Dussehra procession in Allahabad, India. The Hindu festival of Dussehra commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

27. A devotee of the Jui Tui Chinese Shrine, center, shields himself from rain with an umbrella with its handle piercing through his cheek, at a procession during the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, southern Thailand on Monday. The festival, held annually at the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, celebrates vegetarianism with the believe that the sacred rituals bestow good fortune upon those who religiously observe this rite. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

28. North Korean orphans are dressed up as a foreign delegation visits their orphanage in the area damaged by recent floods and typhoons in the North Hwanghae province September 29, 2011.. Picture taken September 29, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

29. One of dozens of special shaped hot air balloons inflates at the 40th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M. on Sunday. Fiesta organizers said 550 balloons and 600 pilots from around the world are registered for this year's annual event. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

30. An Afghan boy works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct 10, 2011. AP / Rahmat Gul

31. Mexican artist Brama Santos performs covered in corn at an event marking National Corn Day in Mexico City on Thursday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo

32. Iranian Bakhtiari nomads show a traditional stick beating in a ceremony in front of Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat, near Susa, southwestern Iran on Thursday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

33. Ancient Samaritan community marks the Feast of the Tabernacles with sunrise pilgrimage Samaritan priest raises the Torah scroll during the holiday of Sukkot (Tabernacles). Samaritans celebrate the flight of Jews from Egypt. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP / Getty Images)

34. A man checks the well or colored yarn, from which in future will make garlands to decorate the annual festival of lights Diwali in Ahmedabad, India. (Amit Dave / Reuters)

35. Patrick Pleul / AFP - Getty Images Spix's macaws sit on a branch in their aviary at the association for the prrotection of endangered parrots in Schoeneiche, eastern Germany, on Tuesday, Oct. 11. According to the association, the Spix's macaw is the rarest parrot species in the world. The parrots vanished from the wild in 2000 and have been conserved in breeding programs.

36. Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP - Ancient Samaritan community marks the Feast of the Tabernacles with sunrise pilgrimage Members of the Samaritan community pray during the Feast of the Tabernacles on Mount Gerizim on Oct. 11.

37. Marco Longari / AFP - Getty Images Students at the University of Tripoli, formerly Al-Fateh University, gather at a volunteer's meeting on October 9. The academic year started a little late this year, after the ouster of former leader Moammar Gadhafi, but the University of Tripoli is full of enthusiastic students with new found freedoms now only missing their comrades still on the front.

38. Members of honor guards stand in a line ahead of a welcome ceremony for Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jason Lee)

39. Young Indian artists dressed as Hindu Gods and Goddesses participate in a Dussehra procession in Allahabad, India. The Hindu festival of Dussehra commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

40. Narinder Nanu / AFP - Getty Images - Young Sikhs perform a Sikh martial art, known as Gatka, during a procession at the Golden Temple a day before the anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdass, in Amritsar, India, on Oct. 8. Ramdass was born in Lahore in 1574 and is fourth Guru of Sikhism as well as the Guru who established the city of Amritsar.

41. Jonathan Saruk / Reportage by Getty Images - Ten years later, Afghans enjoy movies once banned Afghans look at movie posters outside of Pamir Cinema in Kabul.

42. Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters - The first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace prize Yemeni Tawakul Karman smiles as she talks on a mobile phone after it was announced that she won the Nobel Peace Prize, in Tagheer Square in Sanaa October 7, 2011. Karman said the award was a victory for Yemen's democracy activists and they would not give up until they had won full rights in a "democratic, modern Yemen".

43. Nic Bothma / EPA - Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday dance Nobel laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu dances with the Soweto Gospel Choir during the launch of his book 'Tutu: The Authorised Portrait' at the St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa on Oct. 6. Tutu celebrates his 80th birthday on Friday Oct. 7.

44. Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters - Boy in Nepal hailed as Ganesh, God of good fortune Sambeg Shakya, 6, gets ready to play his role as a living god at the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu Sept. 16. Sambeg Shakya was hailed last year by Buddhist priests as Ganesh, or the god of good fortune, since when he has led several processions of Nepal's better-known 'living goddesses', also known as Kumari. The centuries-old ritual, once used by now-toppled kings who thought it would make them stronger, was the climax of the annual Hindu festival of Dasain, which lasts for two weeks and has become a major tourist attraction in Nepal. Sambeg will continue in his supporting role until he is big enough to fit in a chariot pulled by men, after which he must return to real life.

45. Elderly Taiwanese perform during a celebration honoring Taiwanese centenarians in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

46. An Indian woman dressed like rural folk goddess "Yellamma" prepares to perform during a cultural event in Hyderabad, India on Monday. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

47. Four-day old African spurred tortoises, Geochelone sulcata, sunbathe on the back of their mother in their enclosure in Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, 140 miles east of Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday. (AP Photo/MTI, Attila Balazs)

48. Tim Thibodeaux puts the finishing touches on Big Tex's neck tie before the 52-foot -tall cowboy is lifted up at the State Fair of Texas on Monday, in Dallas, Texas. The State Fair of Texas' biggest spokesman was erected ahead of opening day, which will be Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Lara Solt)

49. German unicycle rider Lutz Eichholz rides over beer bottles as he attempts to break his existing Guinness World record on Monday, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Eichholz rode his unicycle 29.29 feet over 127 beer bottles on Monday, and is waiting for verification on this latest attempt . (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

50. An Indian child sleeps near unfinished idols of demon King Ravana ahead of Dussehra celebrations in New Delhi, India on Sunday. Hindu festival Dussehra, celebrates the defeat of demon Ravana at the hands of Hindu god Rama, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)