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The new-generation Revai electric car is seen near the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi.
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The U.S. Army's neighbourhood electric vehicles (NEV) on display at Ft. Myer, Virginia,
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Seeking Higher Ground
On Friday, Filipino villagers wade through the flooded town of Calumpit, Bulacan province, after Typhoon Nesat -- with its heavy rains and strong winds -- pummeled the area.
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From Ukraine With Love
A protester forms a heart shape with his hands as he demonstrates his support for Yulia Tymoshenko outside the Kiev court where she's being tried. The ex-Ukrainian prime minister is accused of abusing her power in office.
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Jackson Doctor's Story Challenged
A paramedic told a jury Friday that Dr. Conrad Murray, who's on trial in Michael Jackson's death, had never mentioned he gave the singer a powerful anesthetic. Here: La Toya Jackson (glasses) outside the Los Angeles court.
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New Blood
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden attend a "Change of Office" ceremony as Army Gen. Martin Dempsey is sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, Friday.
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All Together Now
On Friday, people wearing traditional garb take part in a festival marking the end of the harvest gathering in the Belarusian town of Molodechno.
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People Power
Sheikh Taysir Tamimi, center, head of the Palestinian Islamic courts, and MP Mustafa al-Barghouti, right, protest Friday in the West Bank city of Hebron in support of Palestinian prisoners in Israel who are on a hunger strike.
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A model shows off a creation during the National Contest of Young Designers in the Kazakh city of Almaty :rofl:
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Young children watch the running of the bulls in Maysaya, Nicaragua
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Filpino's wading to higher ground following the effects from Typhoon Nesat
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A Samoa supporter following his teams efforts against South Africa in NZ
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Britain basking in an Indian summer
Sirte airport captured by Libyan rebels
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NTC say the Gaddafi loyalists will soon be defeated.
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Tony Bennett has become the oldest singer to have a US number 1 album at the age of 85. It's also his first No 1 of the stars 60 years in the business. Here he is with Carrie Underwood and Stevie Wonder
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A small plane crashed in Nepal killing all 19 aboard
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The quite loony Labour Party at their annual conference last week
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland
England (3) 16
Scotland (9) 12
- Try: Ashton
- Con: Flood
- Pens: Wilkinson 3
- Pens: Paterson 2, Parks
- Drop-goal: Parks
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Ashton dives over to score England's winning try with three minutes left
England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.
Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
But two penalties and a drop-goal from Jonny Wilkinson, despite a host of other wayward attempts, plus a late try from Chris Ashton were enough to send a misfiring England through.
Scotland must now hope Georgia produce a huge upset and beat Argentina by at least eight points in Sunday's final Pool B match to prevent them failing to make the last eight for the first time in World Cup history.
Salman Taseer murder: Mumtaz Qadri sentenced to death
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A Pakistani court has found guilty and sentenced to death the police bodyguard who killed Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in January.
Mumtaz Qadri had confessed to murder on the grounds that he objected to Mr Taseer's calls to amend the country's controversial blasphemy law.
Critics of the law say it can be used to persecute minority faiths and is sometimes exploited for grudges.
The assassination divided Pakistan, with many hailing Qadri as a hero.
Qadri was part of Mr Taseer's protection team but opened fire on the governor as he was about to get into his car in the capital, Islamabad, on 4 January.
Curious vehicle on the road to Sirte
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The gun is operated by remote control from screens inside
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It is believed the vehicle was used as an escort for members of the Gaddafi family
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Gun ports in both rear passenger doors
Typhoon Nalgae batters flood-hit Philippines
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Typhoon Nalgae is following the same track as Nesat
The second typhoon to hit the Philippines in less than a week is battering the north of the country, with ferocious winds and heavy rain.
Typhoon Nalgae has hit regions still waterlogged by the earlier storm, Nesat, and authorities have warned of flash floods and landslides.
The BBC's Kate McGeown in Manila says many residents are still on rooftops awaiting rescue from the first storm.
The Philippines suffers frequent typhoons, about 20 a year.
Nalgae made landfall in the eastern province of Isabela on Saturday with winds of up to 160km/h (100mph) and is heading west across the main island of Luzon.
First reports speak of material damage across the affected region, but there has been no word so far of casualties.
The storm is taking much the same route as Typhoon Nesat which hit the country on Tuesday leaving at least 50 people dead and thousands homeless.
Tens of thousands of residents have moved into evacuation centres or the homes of relatives or friends, but many areas are still heavily flooded from the earlier storm.
Officials say more than a million of Luzon's 48 million inhabitants remain trapped by the floods.
Plane hits Ferris wheel north of Sydney, trapping four
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An ultra-light plane has crashed into a Ferris wheel in a village north of Sydney, trapping four people, Australian officials say.
The Cheetah S200 plane with two men aboard did not topple the wheel after hitting it during a festival in the village of Old Bar.
The men and two children at the top of the wheel were trapped for some time before being rescued by a crane.
There were no serious injuries in Saturday's incident, the officials say.
'Get the damn kids out'
"Thankfully, everyone was taken down and were able to walk away from it," New South Wales Rural Fire Service spokesman Ben Shepherd said after the incident in Old Bar, some 220 miles (350km) north of Sydney.
Police said the two children remained trapped on the wheel for about 90 minutes.
The two men spent almost three hours in the plane's wreckage, some 10m (30ft) above the ground.
The aircraft was leaking fuel, and rescue teams had to spray foam to reduce the risk of it exploding.
One of the men in the plane, who local media named as John, said he and the pilot had urged the rescuers to free the children first.
Maastricht bans cannabis coffee-shop tourists
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A ban on some foreign tourists has come into force in the cannabis-selling coffee shops of the Dutch border city of Maastricht.
City authorities say the influx of tourists buying soft drugs is threatening public order and causing major traffic problems.
Coffee shop owners say the ban won't work and will hit the local economy.
However, the ban does not apply to visitors from Germany and Belgium who are the majority of foreign customers.
The move comes ahead of a proposed nationwide crackdown being discussed in the Dutch parliament.
The BBC's Anna Holligan says the ban is being seen as a test case that could be implemented in other Dutch towns and cities.
There are about 700 coffee shops in the Netherlands. The cultivation and sale of soft drugs through them is decriminalised although not legal.
India abuse: Scores guilty of Dalit rape and torture
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All the victims have waived their right to anonymity to highlight their case
A court in India has convicted 269 police and forest officials of torturing and abusing more than 100 low-caste tribespeople in a 1992 raid.
Officials went to the village of Vachathi in southern Tamil Nadu state looking for smuggled sandalwood.
Over two days, 18 women were raped, at least 100 Dalits (former untouchables) abused and homes and cattle looted.
Seventeen officials were found guilty of rape and the rest were convicted of "atrocities against Dalits".
Nearly 100 of those convicted are policemen. Of the 269 convicted, 54 died during the course of the trial.
The court has sentenced all of those convicted: 12 men were given 10 years in prison and five were given seven years each. The remainder were given jail terms of between two and five years.
"This is an historic judgement. All the accused in this case are government officials. Till date I don't think so many government officials are convicted in a single case," said P Shanmugam, president of the Tamil Nadu Tribal People's Association.
Occupy Wall Street protests grow amid Radiohead rumour
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An estimated 2,000 people have gathered in Lower Manhattan, New York, for the largest protest yet under the banner Occupy Wall Street.
Demonstrators marched on New York's police headquarters to protest against arrests and police behaviour.
Several hundred people have camped out near Wall Street since 17 September as part of protests against corporate greed, politics, and inequality.
Earlier, UK band Radiohead were forced to deny rumours they would appear live.
A tweet sent out by a Twitter account linked to the protest movement set off a firestorm of online interest.
But a spokesman for the band later denied they were planning to appear, and the group themselves denied the rumour on Twitter.
"We wish the best of luck to the protesters there, but contrary to earlier rumours, we will not be appearing today at #occupywallstreet,"
Banned activist Sheikh Raed Salah wins in detention case
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A pro-Palestinian activist detained during a visit to the UK on the orders of Home Secretary Theresa May has won a partial victory in a claim for damages.
The High Court ruled Sheikh Raed Salah had been wrongly detained for two days, during which he was not told the reason for his arrest.
But it said the rest of his detention had not broken the rules.
The Home Office said the court had backed Mrs May's use of her powers and Mr Salah won only on a technical point.
Ministers are expected to fight any claim for compensation
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Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy enact eating grass during a demonstration demanding a rise in their social security pension from the state government, on the occasion of World Elders' Day, in Bhopal, India, on October 1. A gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal in 1984 killed thousands of people in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
The U.K.'s national weather service the Met Office says Saturday's temperature reached 85.8 F (29.9 C) at Gravesend in southeast England.
That is the highest October temperature since records began a century ago, beating the previous high of 84.9 F (29.4 C) reached on Oct. 4, 1985.
The average maximum temperature for early October is about 59 F (15 C).
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Crowds of sun seekers fill the beach on October 1 in Brighton, England.
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