Relatives of people killed in a train accident wait to claim their bodies after post mortems at a mortuary in Mathura, some 150kms east of New Delhi on October 21, 2009. At least thirteen people were killed and 22 injured as Goa Express moving towards Delhi rammed into the stationary Mewar Express near Mathura on Wednesday morning. The engine of the Goa Express climbed on the last bogey of the Mewar Express, which was stationary on the same track. By Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty.
David Phillis, a customer at McTears auctioneers, views Alter Ego a self portrait by artist Peter Howson on October 20, 2009 in Glasgow, Scotland. More than 200 works by renowned artist Peter Howson, including his personal collection of drawings will be auctioned today, the day before the artist receives his OBE from Buckingham Palace. By Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.
One of 1250 garden gnomes with their right arms raised in a Hitler salute is seen as part of the art installation 'Dance with the Devil' in the main square of Straubing on October 15, 2009 in Straubing, Germany. German artist Ottmar Hoerl installed 1250 plastic garden gnomes giving a Nazi salute. The artwork has been highly controversial as Nazi salutes and symbols have been illegal in Germany since the end of the Second World War. The exhibition opens today. By Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images.
From a series on facial illusions:
The Illusion of Sex, by Harvard psychologist Richard Russell, won Third Prize at the 2009 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest. The two side-by-side faces are perceived as male (right) and female (left). However, both of them are versions of the same androgynous face. The two images are exactly identical, except that the contrast between the eyes and mouth and the rest of the face is higher for the face on the left than for the face on the right.
Nine more here. So who turns you on, the man or the woman? And how much rests on that difference?
Israeli riot police use shields as they deploy against Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes October 9, 2009 in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ras al-Amud. Violent clashes continued in East Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank amidst calls from the militant Islamic group Hamas for a Day of Rage to defend the al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site. By David Silverman/Getty.
A US Marine from Fox Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines rests as his platoon finishes searching houses for the day during day two of Operation Germinate into the restive Bhuji Bhast Pass in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan, on October 8, 2009. The Bhuji Bhast Pass is effectively a Taliban corridor, mined with IEDs from one end to the other, and lined with villages that are hostile to the Western troop presence. Aboard Marine CH-53 helicopters Fox Company inserted yesterday into the pass on the 8th anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan in an effort to clear insurgent forces from local villages and improve security for the local Afghan population. By David Furst/AFP/Getty.
Spc. Matthew King of Lompoc, California, who has been without a shower since July 4 of this year, rubs his face in a below ground bunker October 6, 2009 in Forward Operating Base Zerok in Paktika province, Afghanistan. Conditions are harsh for the soldiers of the 3-509 US Army's 25th Infantry Division and their Afghan Army counterparts at the Zerok field base near the border with Pakistan. The troops stationed at the base frequently patrol the adjacent mountains on foot and endure frequent attacks by militants, as well as living without showers or laundry for months. By Chris Hondros/Getty.
An ultra-Orthodox Jew inspects a Hadas (myrtle branch), one of the Four Species which will be used during the rituals of the upcoming festival of Sukkot, on October 1, 2009, in the religious Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel. The eight-day Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles, which begins tomorrow evening October 2, 2009, commemorates the biblical Hebrews' 40 years of wandering in the desert after the exodus from Egypt some 3,200 years ago. By David Silverman/Getty Images.
Detox patient Ali Khan leans against a blackboard with notes from a class at the Kabul Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center September 29, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since the center opened in May 2009 it has rehabilitated over 400 addicts in its 100 bed facility with temporary funding from International Organization of Migration (IOM) and help from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). The program lasts for 45-days combining both detox and rehabilitation. The center houses the two leading organizations that offer detox programs, Wadan and Nejat. A U.S. Department of State report 2009 states that there are an estimated two million drug users in the country with at least 50-60,000 drug addicts in Kabul alone. By Paula Bronstein/Getty Images.
Indian Hindus dressed as deities Lord Rama and Laxman as they take part in a religious procession in the grounds of the Durgiana temple in Amritsar on September 28, 2009 on the occasion of the Hindu festival of Dussehra. Held at the end of the Navratri (nine nights) Festival, Dussehra symbolises the victory of good over evil in Hindu mythology. On the night of Dussehra, fire-crackers and stuffed effigies of Ravana are set alight in open grounds across the country. By Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty.
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