The WORLD in a SNAP (2)

2. Noida, India — Suman, a 9-year-old nomad girl from the desert Indian state of Rajasthan, with her face painted to attract commuters, reacts to the camera as she begs for alms at a traffic junction on the outskirts of New Delhi. Suman, whose elder sister paints her face, collects between 25 to 30 rupees (50 to 60 cents) a day. PHOTOGRAPH BY: PARIVARTAN SHARMA / Reuters

3. Chonburi, Thailand — A jockey competes during Chonburi's annual buffalo race festival, about 50 miles southeast of Bangkok. The event, which also celebrates the rice harvest, dates back to the buffalo trade in Chonburi, once the trade center of eastern Thailand. PHOTOGRAPH BY: CHAIWAT SUBPRASOM / Reuters

4. OCTOBER 13: The Swiss House of Parliament is illuminated by giant light projections during a show by "Les Allumeurs d'Images" (Image Lighters) in Bern. The show will run every evening until November 26. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

5. Ayutthaya, Thailand — A man rows a boat past a giant, reclining Buddha statue submerged by floodwaters in Ayutthaya province. Flooding in the area has claimed 261 lives over the last two months.

6. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP / Getty Images

7. Faces are projected on the roof as fireworks explode over Omnilife Stadium during the opening ceremony of the Pan American Games in Guadalajara. (Reuters)

8. Kathmandu, Nepal — A Buddhist carries old prayer flags to be replaced with new ones at Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu. PHOTOGRAPH BY: NAVESH CHITRAKAR / Reuters

9. OCTOBER 15: Irene Esser competes in the evening gown and swimsuit segments, and then receives her crown from Miss Venezuela 2010 Vanessa Goncalvez after being named Miss Venezuela 2011 in Caracas. Esser will represent the country in the 2012 Miss Universe pageant in Kosovo next year. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)

10. Nona Moumani fixes various globes at a booth at the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday. The world's largest book fair runs until Sunday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

11. An Afghan carpet seller displays a handmade rug bearing the image of US President Barack Obama inside his shop in Kabul, Afghanistan. The shop owner said the he spent a year sewing the carpet and that it is not for sale. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

12. Three-year-old Afghan refugee Nageen Jihandad plays with her doll in a slum near Islamabad, Pakistan, Sept. 28, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

13. Kit Cox wears a mustache umbrella in the Hendricks Unusual Umbrella Emporium at the launch of London Cocktail Week in London, England. The Unusual Umbrella Emporium is a pop-up bar in Seven Dials which will open for the duration of London Cocktail Week until October 15, 2011. The venue will showcase obscure umbrellas alongside a selection of cocktails and cocktail umbrellas designed by the top bartenders in the UK. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

14. Palestinian children play with parachutes at an event organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) seeking to achieve a world record for the largest number of people flying parachutes from the ground, at a sports stadium in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip . The event was part of the “Summer Games”, a six-week summer camp organised by UNRWA to provide a recreational outlet for children in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

15. Pakistani Anwar Ashian, 15, washes in a water reservoir on a roadside near Islamabad, Pakistan, Sept. 15, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

16. People wearing masks and costumes parade during a celebration honoring the Virgin of Zapopan in Guadalajara, Mexico on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bernardo De Niz)

17. Muskan, a female child of an Indian worker, is given a quick bath at a construction site in New Delhi, India. (Gurinder Osan/Associated Press)

18. Martin Bernetti / AFP - Getty Images Mexican dancers perform at the Omnilife Stadium during the opening ceremony of the XVI Pan-American Games Guadalajara 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct. 14, 2011.

19. People gather beside the newly installed fountain with colored lights in Islamabad, Pakistan (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

20. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, center right, and Queen Jetsun Pema greet locals during a celebration after they were married at the Punakha Dzong, in Punakha, Bhutan on Thursday. The 31-year old reformist monarch of the small Himalayan Kingdom wed his commoner bride in a series ceremonies Thursday in the 17th century monastic fortress. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

21. Models dressed as fantasy figures watch at the gamescom 2011 computer game fair in Cologne, Germany - 550 exhibitors from around the world show the latest world premieres at the supposed world's largest fair for interactive entertainment. The video games sector has become one of the most dynamic industries. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

22. An Indian Muslim man checks artificial garlands as he displays them for sale ahead of upcoming Hindu festival Diwali in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday. Hindus decorate their homes during Diwali which will be celebrated on Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

23. Young Indian artists dressed as Hindu deities Radha, right and Krishna, left, participate in a Dussehra procession in Allahabad, Indian students dressed in traditional attire leap in the air while taking part in Independence Day celebrations in Bangalore, India . (AP Photo)

24. Ansan Light Festival - China

25. A man in a kayak approaches “Die Badende” “the bather” a giant sculpture showing a woman's head and knees as if she were resting in the Binnenalster lake on Wednesday in Hamburg, Germany. The sculpture, which is made of styrofoam and steel and measures 13 feet high and 98 feet long, is a project by artist Oliver Voss and will be on display for the next ten days. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

26. Performers dance in North Korea's giant “Arirang” mass games show, on the opening night of its 2011 season, at Pyongyang's May Day Stadium, (AP Photos/APTN)

27. the Naadam Festival - MONGOLIA

28. Pigeons rest as a Nepalese woman sweeps to keep clean the Boudhanath Stupa, a world heritage site, in Katmandu, Nepal (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

29. Performers take part in the closing ceremony of the 14th FINA Swimming World Championships in Shanghai, China (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

30. Dancers perform at the Rabin Ajau National Folkloric Festival and Indian beauty contest in Coban, Guatemala (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

31. Refugees wait in the registration area of the Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on Tuesday in Dadaab, Kenya. The refugee camp at Dadaab, located close to the Kenyan border with Somalia, was originally designed in the early 1990s to accommodate 90,000 people but the UN estimates over 4 times as many reside there. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

32. Members of the Sabean Mandaeans, a pre-Christian sect that follow the teachings of John the Baptist, take part in a bathing ritual on the banks of the Tigris river in Baghdad, Iraq , to mark the new year which they celebrate as a five day holiday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

33. Indonesian couples cheer for their turn to wed during a mass wedding ceremony in Jakarta, Indonesia Thousands of underprivileged Indonesian couples from various faiths joined a reception to commemorate their mass wedding. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

34. Beekeeper Lu Kongjiang gestures as he wears tens of thousands of bees during a bee bearding contest in Longhui county, Shaoyang, in central China's Hunan province. (AP Photo)

35. Sri Lankan students dressed as traditional dancers perform during a cultural procession in Colombo, Sri Lanka . (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)

36. Fireworks illuminate the Eiffel Tower in Paris during Bastille Day celebrations (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

37. Dancers at a Mexican festival.

38. Raquel Borges visits her paralyzed lion Ariel at the home of a veterinarian where Ariel is being treated in Sao Paulo, Brazil - An Internet and Facebook campaign has been launched in Brazil to obtain funds needed to treat the lion that has been paralyzed for the past year. Borges launched the campaign for the three-year-old, 310 pound lion that has been unable to use his four legs due to a degenerative disease affecting his medulla. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

39. An exile Tibetan Buddhist nun takes out prayer flags from her bag to be hung behind the residence of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, India. Hundreds of exiles marked the 76th birthday of the Tibetan spiritual leader by offering prayers, distributing sweets and conducting traditional dance performances. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

40. Tobacco farmers smoke giant homemade cigarettes during a protest against a bill on stricter tobacco control outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia - Hundreds of farmers staged the protest claiming that the bill that would ban cigarette advertising and sponsorship, prohibit smoking in public, and add graphic images to packaging would lead to massive losses of job that would affect thousands of tobacco farmers and their families in Indonesia, the world's third-largest tobacco consumer. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

41. A man lets a two-headed albino snake crawl along his arm in a private zoo in Yalta, Ukraine. (AP Photo/UNIAN)

42. Assamese girls perform Bihu, a traditional folk dance of Assam, during India's Independence Day celebrations in Gauhati, India . India marked 64 years of independence from British rule. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

43. An aerial view of Top Pearsy's Maize Maze in the shape of Harry Potter, in York, England. Farmer Tom Pearcy has cut two portraits of Harry Potter in his crop of maize plants. With some subtle differences the two images create the world's largest spot the difference competition. At over 164 feet in diameter, and cut out of over 1 million living maize plants, the York Maze is the largest 'Maize Maze' in Europe and one of the largest in the world. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

44. A calf, used as a game to amuse revelers jumps to the arena after the running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, Spain. (AP Photo/Ivan Aguinaga)

45. A gorokan festival, papua New Guinea

46. A beggar protects himself from the sun with an umbrella as he is pulled along by an another on the route of a religious procession that marks the end of the Rath Yatra festival of Hindu Lord Jagannath, in Puri, 41 miles from Bhubaneswar, India (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout

47. Monks wearing masks and traditional attire perform a dance on the first day of the two day “Hemis Festival” at the Hemis Gompa, the oldest and biggest monastery in Ladakh region, 28 miles southeast of Leh, India The annual festival marks the birth anniversary of the monastery's founder Padmasambhava. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

48. An artist paints a mural on a wall at the airport in Benghazi, Libya , portraying the different tribes living in Libya. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

49. A Pakistan girl smiles after picking a melon from a nearby pile of waste thrown by fruit vendors at a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

50. Venezuela's Bolivarian Militias march during a parade marking 200 years of Venezuela's independence, in Caracas, Venezuela on Tuesday. Venezuela declared independence from Spain in 1811. Ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stayed home in his presidential palace Tuesday while thousands of troops across town marched to mark the country's bicentennial. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)