Alfonso Avalos (R), father of Chilean miner Florencio Avalos, and Wilson Avalos, brother of Florencio, embrace each other after Florencio was brought to the surface on October 13, 2010 following a 10-week ordeal in the collapsed San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, Chile. Avalos was the first of 33 to be lifted to the surface. By Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images.
A devotee of the Chinese shrine of Samkong, pierces his cheeks with toy guns during a procession of the Vegetarian Festival on October 11, 2010 in Phuket, Thailand. Ritual Vegetarianism in Phuket Island traces it roots back to the early 1800s. The festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days. Participants in the festival perform acts of body piercing as a means of shifting evil spirits from individuals onto themselves and bring the community good luck. By Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images.
A member of the English Defence League (EDL) threatens to spit at a photographer as he takes part in a protest in Leicester city centre, England, on October 09, 2010. The English Defence League (EDL) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF) were holding rival demonstrations in Leicester, prompting the city's largest policing operation in 25 years. By Carl Court/AFP/Getty.
A newly born panda bear sleeps in its incubator at the Madrid Zoo on October 7, 2010 in Madrid, Spain. The giant panda cubs, born today a month ago, on September 7, 2010, are the first giant panda twins to be conceived using the artificial insemination method outside of China. The gender of the cubs is still unkown. By Jasper Juinen/Getty Images.
Royal Marine Sgt Danny Smith smiles as his son Oliver wears his hemet, as they are reunited at Norton Manor Camp Barracks following his six month deployment to Afghanistan on October 6, 2010 in Taunton, England. The Royal Marines from 40 Commando have returned home after a six month tour Afghanistan, during which 14 marines were killied and 11 were seriously injured. About 600 marines had been serving since April in the Sangin area of Helmand Province before it was taken over by US forces in September. By Matt Cardy/Getty Images.
On October 5, 2010 a Palestinian boy tightens the t-shirt facemask of his friend as they get ready to throw stones at Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the Palestinian West Bank village of Beit Fajjar where a mosque was desecrated by vandals the day before. By Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images.
British Justice Secretary Ken Clarke addresses delegates on the third day of the Conservative party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 5, 2010. The ruling Conservatives promised Monday the biggest shake-up in decades of Britain's welfare system, two weeks before the government unveils cuts to slash a huge budget deficit. Finance minister George Osborne pledged the most dramatic changes to the state benefits system since the 1940s, including the first ever cap on benefits paid to each family and an end to child benefit payments for the more wealthy. By Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne speaks at the Conservative Party Conference on October 4, 2010 in Birmingham, England. On the second day of the conference the Chancellor announced cuts to welfare payments. By Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.
Thousands of Orthodox Jewish men perform the 'Hoshaana Raba' ritual at the end of the week-long religious Sukkoth festival at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on September 29, 2010. Sukkoth, the feast of the Tabernacles, commemorates the 40 years of wandering in the desert after the exodus of Jews from Egypt some 3,200 years ago. By Menahem/AFP/Getty Images.
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