A King Vulture, which is native to the jungles of Central and South America, is displayed at the Los Angeles ZooAFPAn installation titled Infinity Mirror Room - Phallus Field by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is seen during her exhibition at the Rufino Tamayo museum in Mexico CityReutersA photographer takes pictures of an installation titled Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled With the Brilliance of Life by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama during her exhibition at the Rufino Tamayo museum in Mexico City. The installation is part of Kusama's first major exhibition in Latin AmericaReutersA member of the Samaritan sect decorates a traditional hut known as a sukkah with fruits and vegetables, on Mount Gerizim, on the outskirts of the West Bank City of NablusReutersAn ultra-Orthodox Jewish man inspects a citron (or etrog in Hebrew), one of four species used during the celebration of Sukkot, the feast of the Tabernacles, in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of NetanyaAFPWorkers remove the large letters spelling out the Trump name from the shuttered Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City after real-estate mogul Donald Trump sued to end a licensing deal that allowed the casino owners to use his nameReutersCars that were washed away are seen in Grabels near Montpellier following overnight flash floods when the Lez river burst its banksAFPHalf of the city of Auckland in New Zealand is in darkness after fire damaged cables at Transpower's Penrose SubstationGettyProtesters continue to occupy an area around the government headquarters in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protests in the Chinese-controlled enclave subsided as students and civil servants returned to school and work after more than a week of demonstrations, but activists vowed to keep up their campaign of civil disobedienceReutersYau, 22, gets down to his knees and proposes to his girlfriend Chen, 21, both university students and pro-democracy protesters, in Hong Kong. The Chinese characters on Yau's arm read: "Leung Chun-ying, step down"ReutersPlaintiffs Moudi Sbeity and his partner Derek Kitchen, and Kody Partridge and her wife Laurie Wood take selfies as they celebrate at a same-sex marriage rally in Salt Lake City, Utah. The US Supreme Court declined to decide once and for all whether states can ban gay marriage, a surprising move that will allow gay men and women to get married in five additional states, with more likely to follow quicklyReutersA member of the Cleaning Guys Haz Mat clean-up company removes items from the apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was staying before being admitted to a hospital in Dallas, TexasGettyPolice escort an ambulance carrying the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola to a hospital in Alcorcón, in the Madrid metropolitan area. Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato confirmed the nurse had tested positive after treating two Ebola patients who had been brought back to the country from AfricaGettyRelatives pray over a weak Siata Johnson, 23, outside the Ebola treatment centre at the Island Hospital on the outskirts of Monrovia, LiberiaJohn Moore/Getty ImagesIslamic State militants and an IS flag are seen on a hill in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobani, near the Turkish-Syrian border. Turkish troops are pictured in the foreground, in the town of SurucAFPTurkish Army tanks take up position on the Turkish-Syrian border as Kurdish fighters continue their increasingly desperate efforts to defend the Syrian border town of Kobani from Islamic State militantsReutersSmoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani after an air strike, as seen from near the Mursitpinar crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border. Warplanes believed to have been sent by the US-led coalition struck positions held by Islamic State militants near the Syrian border that beleaguered Kurdish forces have been struggling to defendReutersThe road to Damascus: A heavily damaged arch is seen at the entrance of the Dakhaniyeh neighbourhood, southeast of the capital Damascus, after Syrian government forces seized control of areaAFPJapanese soldiers conduct search operations on Mount Ontake, which erupted 27 September. Two more bodies were found on the volcano, nearly a week and a half after the eruption that killed at least 51 people. The search continues for 10 people still missing in what has become the nation's worst volcanic disaster in a centuryReutersAn Indian village woman mourns the death of her relative whom locals say was killed by firing from the Pakistan side of the border at Arnia village, near Jammu. Nine civilians were killed and at least 25 wounded in fighting along a stretch of the disputed border between India and Pakistan in the Kashmir regionReuters
