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Alain Kohl of Luxembourg dives from the 27 metre platform at Maya Bay in the Andaman Sea during the final stop of the 2013 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Phi Phi Island, Thailand
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Sharon Brynin, the mother of Lance corporal James Brynin, pays tribute as his coffin passes through Carterton, after the soldier was repatriated at nearby RAF Brize Norton. Lance corporal James Brynin worked as an Intelligence Corps soldier attached to 14th Signal Regiment, he was deployed to serve in Helmand, Afghanistan in August 2013. Whilst working for the Brigade Reconnaissance Force of 7th Armoured Brigade he was killed in action in the early hours of October 15, 2013 in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand
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Members of 1 Mechanized Brigade march into Westminster Palace in London. The one hundred and twenty strong brigade from Tidworth, who recently returned from Helmand Province in Afghanistan, attended a Parliamentary reception
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A cyclist struggles through the floods on Maryhill Rd in Glasgow, Scotland
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A British artist has spent three months turning a Ford Fiesta into a sculpture inspired by the US blockbuster Transformers. Hetain Patel, 32 from Bolton, created the sculpture in homage to the American film and toy franchise, with his engineer brother Pritum and his father, Pravin, who converts cars into hearses for his job
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Hetain said: It is the first sculpture I've ever made. Now that it is finished, my dad and I have been talking about the possibility of doing more. Hetain deliberately chose to use a 1988 Ford Fiesta for his art, as this was the first car he owned.
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Skydivers get into formation during 'Jump for The Rose', a skydiving program in Rosharon, Texas. Hundreds of skydiving enthusiasts came together for 'Jump for The Rose', a skydiving programme in the United States, to raise awareness against breast cancer. The event included participants from 18-75 years of age
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A student is hit by a jet of water released from a riot police vehicle during demonstration against government, in Valparaiso city, Chile
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Zenit supporters celebrate their team's goal during the Champions League group G soccer match between FC Porto and Zenit at the Dragao stadium in Porto, northern Portugal. Zenit won 1-0.
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A firefighter attempts to extinguish a bushfire in Bilpin in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales (NSW), west of Sydney, Australia. Residents of the NSW Blue Mountains are beginning to flee ahead of what's feared to be the most serious day of the state's bushfire crisis
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A firefighter drags a donkey from a well in a field in Chengde, Hebei province, October 21, 2013. The donkey was rescued after its owner reported that it fell into the well while they were on their way to harvest rice, according to local media.
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Parkinson's patient Jim Coppula works out in the ring with boxing coach Justice Smith (L) during his Rock Steady Boxing session in Costa Mesa, California September 16, 2013. According to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, research has shown that exercise can transiently increase the levels of dopamine in the brain, which is significantly reduced in Parkinson's disease. The club, whose headquarters is in Indianapolis, was started in 2006 and has 15 affiliates in six U.S. States, and one in Australia.
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Roujenka Romanes (R) speaks with violinist Constantin prior a dress rehearsal at the Gypsy "Romanes" circus in Paris October 18, 2013. Roujenka Romanes, 13, is the main character of their new show "Voleurs de Poules !" (Chicken Thieves !), an allusion to gypsies, which is presented from October 19, 2013 to February 23, 2014. Roujenka is the fourth daughter of Alexandre and Delia Romanes, founders of the Romanes circus, she dreams to be one of the world best flamenco dancer. Picture taken October 18, 2013.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) takes part in a meeting with Muslim clerics in Ufa October 22, 2013. Putin accused foreign rivals on Tuesday of using radical Islam to weaken the Russian state, a day after a suicide bombing blamed on a Muslim woman
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A resident fishes at a lake near apartment blocks in Beijing October 20, 2013. Average new home prices in China's 70 major cities in September rose 9.1 percent from a year earlier, according to Reuters calculations based on official data published on Tuesday, marking the ninth straight month of year-on-year increases. Picture taken October 20, 2013.
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A trailer loaded with trucks hangs on the edge of the guardrail on a bridge in Kaili, Guizhou province, October 21, 2013. According to local media, the trailer hanged on the edge of the bridge after the driver lost control of the vehicle. No injury was reported.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (L) gesture at each other during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 22, 2013.
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Palestinian stone-throwers are seen during clashes with Israeli forces near the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah October 22, 2013. The clashes broke out on Tuesday after Israeli forces killed an armed Palestinian militant Israel's Shin Bet security service said was wanted for what they said was his involvement in a Tel Aviv bus bombing last year.
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A model presents a creation by designer Geraldus Sugeng during a Fashion Week show in Jakarta, October 22, 2013
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Camila Veron, 2, who was born with multiple organ problems and is severely disabled, stands outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. Doctors told Camila's mother, Silvia Achaval that agrochemicals may be to blame. "They told me that the water made this happen, because they spray a lot of poison here," said Achaval
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Empty agrochemical containers including Monsanto's Roundup products lay discarded at a recycling center in Quimili, Santiago del Estero province. Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, is used roughly eight to ten times more per acre in Argentina than in the United States.
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Former farmworker Fabian Tomasi, 47, shows the condition of his emaciated body as he stands inside his home in Basavilbaso, in Entre Rios province. Tomasi's job was to keep the crop dusters flying by quickly filling their tanks but he says he was never trained to handle pesticides. Now he is near death from polyneuropathy. "I prepared millions of liters of poison without any kind of protection, no gloves, masks or special clothing. I didn't know anything. I only learned later what it did to me, after contacting scientists," he said.
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Sofia Gatica participates in a protest to block trucks from entering the site where Monsanto is building its largest Latin American seed production plant, in the town of Malvinas Argentinas, in Cordoba province. After Gatica's newborn died of kidney failure, she filed a complaint that led last year to Argentina's first criminal convictions for illegal spraying.
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Aixa Cano, 5, who has hairy moles all over her body that doctors can't explain, sits on a stoop outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province. Although it's nearly impossible to prove, doctors say Aixa's birth defect may be linked to agrochemicals
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Felix San Roman walks on his property in Rawson, in Buenos Aires province. San Roman says that when he complained about clouds of chemicals drifting into his yard, the sprayers beat him up, fracturing his spine and knocking out his teeth. "This is a small town where nobody confronts anyone, and the authorities look the other way," San Roman said. "All I want is for them to follow the existing law, which says you can't do this within 1,500 meters. Nobody follows this. How can you control it?"
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Clowns play music as they rally for peace during the 18th Latin American clown convention or "Fair of laughter" at the Mother Monument in Mexico City
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A young woman sits near her tent in an illegal campsite of Albanian asylum seekers, situated under the A6 motorway's Kitchener bridge in Lyon, France. A court today ordered the immediate expulsion of the camp of 300 people, including 98 children, who have been camping beneath the highway bridge since July
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Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration calling for the departure of the Islamist-led ruling coalition in at Kasbah Square, Tunis
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Laboour leader Ed Miliband meets with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at his office in London
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An anti-government protester throws stones at riot police during clashes after the funeral procession of 17-year-old Ali Khalil, in the village of Bani Jamra west of Manama, Bahrain. Khalil was killed when the bomb he was transporting to be planted on Tuesday night exploded, according to the Ministry of Interior
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A Syrian refugee gestures as others wait to cross a bridge to neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan. The group of over 150 Syrians were refused entry and had to return to north-eastern Syria. The crossing has been closed since the end of May, permitting only humanitarian aid and those who are ill
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David Cameron greets Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi outside Number 10 Downing Street, during her visit to the UK.
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The exhibition has been put on to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Richard Branson's Virgin records
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One way to carve a pumpkin: a Galapagos tortoise eats a pumpkin at Chester Zoo
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Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge with their son Prince George arrive at Chapel Royal
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Hey, i know where you're coming from Georgie, boys in dress's aren't that cool :)
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Workers at the Vegemite factory celebrate the 90th anniversary of Vegemite in Melbourne, Australia. Vegemite, a uniquely Australian yeast extract high in vitamin B, is now owned by the US food giant Kraft Foods.There are, on average, two jars of Vegemite sold in Australia every three seconds.
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Australian cane toads are displayed after being dyed at the Alric tannery owned by Jean-Charles Duchene and specialized in luxury products in Millau. Introduced from South America decades ago to control the native cane beetle, the cane toad may have outstayed its welcome in the South Sea Islands, but today their skins have become a much-prized luxury fashion material
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Sophie, Countess of Wessex, plays giant Jenga as she opens the new Girlguiding Residential Lodge, Wedmore, Somerset. The Countess toasted marshmallows over a camp fire made a dream catcher and took part in a number of other activities with The Brownies
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Cockroach farmer Xiao Zhongwu holding a hive full of cockroaches, at his farm. Cockroach farming is booming in China as the country looks for new, cheaper medicines for its rapidly ageing population. The cockroaches, whose innards resemble cottage cheese, have an earthy taste, with a slight twinge of ammonia.But they have become popular in China not for their taste, but for their medicinal benefits.
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A woman eats a grasshopper in the bar Le Festin nu (The Naked Lunch) in Paris. The bar in the Montmartre area of northern Paris serves tapas of insects including grasshoppers, worms, beetles and scorpions
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A car, loaded with household wares, drives up a bridge at the Orile-Iganmu district of Lagos, Nigeria :)
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The hobbit hotels at Woodlyn Park estate in Waitomo, New Zealand. The 3.5 hectare estate is home to a variety of unusual lodging experiences for visitors, including a range of historic transport units which have been decked out and turned into self-catering accommodation. The hobbit motel with circular windows and doors, was built two years after the final Lord of the Rings film was released and attracts score of visitors
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Ryanair cabin crew have selected the Teenage Cancer Trust as their charity partner for 2014 and hope to raise 100,000 euros from the sale of the calendar
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Chocolate maker Philippe Bernachon and designer Florencia Soerensen collaborate to create a chocolate dress in Lyon, France. The six kilogram chocolate dress is made from golden leafs and savage silk and is to be worn by former professional tennis player Marion Bartoli at the Paris chocolate trade show Salon du Chocolat on October 29 at Porte de Versailles.
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'Red Centre' by artist Carl Billingsley at the Sculptures by the Sea exhibition
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'Plastic World' by artists Carole Purnelle & Nuno Maya is displayed during the Sculptures by the Sea exhibition at Bondi in Sydney, Australia
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A visitor looks at 2 Seated on the Wall with Big Chairs art works by artist Juan Munoz during the International Contemporary Art Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris
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Clowns chat after registering to attend the 17th International Clown Convention in Mexico City
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A Bahraini protester runs away from tear gas and bird shot fired by riot police during clashes following the funeral of Ali Khalil Sabbagh in the village of Bani Jamrah, west of Manama
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Metal-sculpted flowers up to 40-feet tall frame the 605-foot Space Needle as it become obscured by fog Wednesday, in Seattle, USA. Forecasters say a mostly dry, high pressure system that has been sitting over the Northwest for a couple of weeks is causing dense fog in many parts of Washington. The National Weather Service said visibility early Wednesday morning in the central Puget Sound area was a quarter-mile or less.
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Ni Linmei shows her 9.5 foot long hair in Taiyuan, China. The 55-year-old woman, Ni Linmei, has not cut her hair for 17 years. Her hair was 5.5 foot long in 2007 when China Central Television did a story on her.
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Manchester City substitutes try to keep warm on the bench ahead of the UEFA Champions League group D soccer match between CSKA Moscow and Manchester City, at Arena Khimki stadium outside Moscow, Russia
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Underwater photographer Henry Jager, 43, photographed this glowing jellyfish on a visit to Marsa Shoona in Egypt. 'I wanted my photograph to play with the tension being close to potential dangerous but extremely beautiful animal,' said Henry. 'On the one hand you can enjoy the beauty of the jellyfish, but on the other hand it's very frightening, and I often get people asking me how I dare to go that close.'
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A flock of starlings splits and swirls as birds of prey pick off single starlings, causing incredible shapes to form. Fiona Exon photographed the birds in Gretna, Scotland at dusk.
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Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station released Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft from the station's robotic arm on Tuesday. Orbital Sciences engineers then conducted a series of planned burns and maneuvers to move Cygnus toward a destructive re-entry in Earth's atmosphere. Cygnus had been attached to the space station's Harmony module for 23 days. The spacecraft delivered about 1,300 pounds of cargo, including food, clothing and student experiments, on a demonstration cargo resupply mission to the station. Cygnus was launched on Orbital's Antares rocket on September 18, 2013 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
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The unmanned cargo ship Cygnus after departure from the ISS.
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NASA astronaut Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Yurchikhin and astronaut Parmitano pose for a photo in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station
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Amateur astronomer Ralph Smith photographed these close-ups of the sun from his garden. Ralph, from Deeral in Queensland, Australia, used off the shelf equipment to capture the detailed snaps. The results show huge bursts of flames - known as prominences - leaping from the Sun's surface. Others highlight giant sunspots - cooler areas on the Sun's photosphere - which are often larger in size than Earth itself.
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An artist's rendition of the newly discovered most distant galaxy named z8-GND-5296, whose light began its journey to Earth just 700 million years after the birth of the universe.
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An anti-government protester throws stones at riot police during clashes after the funeral procession of 17-year-old Ali Khalil in the village of Bani Jamra west of Manama, October 23, 2013. Khalil died from an explosion by a bomb he was transporting to be planted on Tuesday night, Ministry of Interior statement said. Hundreds of anti-government protesters marched towards riot police and threw stones. Riot police fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
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Jean Laurie changes the numbers on a sign she erected across the road from where her house once stood before being destroyed by hurricane Sandy in October of 2012 in the Ocean Breeze section of Staten Island in New York City, October 23, 2013. Many on the low lying south shore of Staten island continue to struggle to recover from the hurricane which destroyed hundreds of homes on the island with just days until the one year anniversary of the October 29, 2013 storm
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Belgian physicist Francois Englert (C) speaks during a television interview in Oviedo October 23, 2013. Englert, U.S. professor Peter Higgs and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will receive the 2013 Principe de Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in a traditional ceremony on October 25, 2013.
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Shareholder activist John Chevedden, 67, rides the subway to the DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc stockholder meeting in Hollywood, California May 29, 2013. Chevedden has quietly transformed corporate America. Using shareholder proxy measures, the retired aerospace worker helped convince big companies to change the way they elect directors or give shareholders more of a say in executive pay.
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Sam Rainsy (C), president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), is surrounded by his supporters as he arrives at a protest at the Freedom Park in central Phnom Penh October 23, 2013. The CNRP began a three-day mass demonstration on Wednesday over a disputed national election, which extended the long serving Prime Minister Hun Sen's rule for another five years. Thousands of CNRP supporters gathered at the park and marched to foreign embassies to push for an independent probe into the July 28 polls.
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A visitor looks at "Dino" art works by artist Bertrand Lavier during the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) at the Grand Palais in Paris October 23, 2013. The International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) will run from October 24 to 27 in the French capital.
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A boy leaves a flower outside Danvers High School in Boston, Massachusetts October 23, 2013. Massachusetts authorities on Wednesday charged 14-year-old high school student Philip Chism in the murder of Colleen Ritzer, 24, a math teacher at the school, after finding her body in the woods nearby. Chism pleaded not guilty to the murder charge and was ordered held without bail in a brief proceeding at Salem District Court, according to the clerk's office.
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Waterproof oilskins and boots are seen on the Boulogne sur Mer based trawler "Nicolas Jeremy" off the coast of northern France October 21, 2013. Fishermen will not get European Union subsidies to build new vessels, EU lawmakers agreed on October 23. Voting on how to allocate nearly 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) in annual fisheries subsidies up to 2020, the European Parliament said more money should be spent on assessing the state of Europe's depleted stocks. If confirmed in talks with governments, the proposals could spell relief for the estimated 75 percent of EU fish stocks that the European Commission says are over-fished
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People gather on a spot in front of the town hall of Rjukan, Norway, Oct. 18, 2013, where sunshine is reflected by three giant mirrors.
Rjukan, Norway, known for its darkness in winter, is located in the bottom of a valley between steep mountains in Telemark County, about 90 miles west of Oslo.
The idea to use mirrors to reflect sunshine during the winter was launched 100 years ago but will finally become a reality after the official opening on Oct. 31
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Seasonally spooky creations by French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier are on display during a press preview of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From Sidewalk to Catwalk exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York
