• A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt partially reopened its border crossing to the Gaza Strip for three days on Saturday for the humanitarian needs of patients seeking treatment, according to a Palestinian official. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/ Reuters
    A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt partially reopened its border crossing to the Gaza Strip for three days on Saturday for the humanitarian needs of patients seeking treatment, according to a Palestinian official. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/ Reuters
  • A man stands on a pile of rubble in front of a damaged building after it was hit by a bomb blast on Sunday, in Peshawar. The death toll from a car bomb explosion in an ancient market in Pakistan’s northwestern city rose to at least 42 on Monday. Fayaz Aziz/Reuters
    A man stands on a pile of rubble in front of a damaged building after it was hit by a bomb blast on Sunday, in Peshawar. The death toll from a car bomb explosion in an ancient market in Pakistan’s northwestern city rose to at least 42 on Monday. Fayaz Aziz/Reuters
  • Afghan youths light candles in front of the destroyed palace of Darul Aman to mark the killing of 5,000 civilians by the communist regime during the Russian occupation in Kabul. Massoud Hossaini/AFP Photo
    Afghan youths light candles in front of the destroyed palace of Darul Aman to mark the killing of 5,000 civilians by the communist regime during the Russian occupation in Kabul. Massoud Hossaini/AFP Photo
  • Pakistani shopkeepers read the Quran for those who lost their lives in a car explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan. Mohammad Sajjad/AP Photo
    Pakistani shopkeepers read the Quran for those who lost their lives in a car explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan. Mohammad Sajjad/AP Photo
  • A Iraqi Kurdish man lies on a bed as he is treated at a hospital in the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish Arbil following a car bomb attack the day before. Safin Hamed/AFP Photo
    A Iraqi Kurdish man lies on a bed as he is treated at a hospital in the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish Arbil following a car bomb attack the day before. Safin Hamed/AFP Photo
  • A dog rides a wave while competing during the 5th Annual Surf Dog competition at Huntington Beach, California. Frederic J Brown/AFP Photo
    A dog rides a wave while competing during the 5th Annual Surf Dog competition at Huntington Beach, California. Frederic J Brown/AFP Photo
  • A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, reacts as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip September 30, 2013. Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip for three days on Saturday for the humanitarian needs of patients seeking treatment, and students studying outside of Gaza, a Palestinian official said. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
    A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, reacts as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip September 30, 2013. Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip for three days on Saturday for the humanitarian needs of patients seeking treatment, and students studying outside of Gaza, a Palestinian official said. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
  • Surrogate mothers Daksha (from left), Renuka and Rajia pose for a photograph inside a temporary home for surrogates provided by Akanksha IVF centre in Anand town, about 70 km south of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters
    Surrogate mothers Daksha (from left), Renuka and Rajia pose for a photograph inside a temporary home for surrogates provided by Akanksha IVF centre in Anand town, about 70 km south of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters
  • Palestinian children look out of a bus window, in hopes of crossing into Egypt, at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
    Palestinian children look out of a bus window, in hopes of crossing into Egypt, at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
  • A boy from the Roma community pulls a tin bucket in a street in the Roma suburb of the town of Dupnitsa, southwestern Bulgaria. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo
    A boy from the Roma community pulls a tin bucket in a street in the Roma suburb of the town of Dupnitsa, southwestern Bulgaria. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo
  • A Chinese man holds his child on a ferry barge on Danjiangkou reservoir, part of the central route of the South-to-North Water Transfer project in Xichuan county, Henan Province, China. How Hwee Young/EPA
    A Chinese man holds his child on a ferry barge on Danjiangkou reservoir, part of the central route of the South-to-North Water Transfer project in Xichuan county, Henan Province, China. How Hwee Young/EPA

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