October 17, 2014

A Bangladeshi child stands in an alley as a boy climbs a ladder outside their home at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Oct. 17 is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, designated to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution in all countries.

A riot policeman yells during a confrontation with protesters at Mongkok shopping district in Hong Kong. Police used pepper spray and baton charged crowds of pro-democracy protesters on Friday evening as tension escalated.

Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture depicting a message on Ebola on a beach at Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

Oscar Pistorius sits in court for the last day of his sentencing hearing in Pretoria, South Africa.

Members of the media take photographs inside the Louis Vuitton Foundation art museum and cultural center, created by American architect Frank Gehry, during the press day, in Paris. The 100-million-euro building, with billowing glass casing and 11 gallery spaces, has been compared to an iceberg or giant sailboat and took over a decade to make.

Masked demonstrators march with photographs of missing students and chant slogans to protest the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico. The youths haven't been seen since being being confronted by police in Iguala on Sept. 26.

A man takes photos while standing on a cliff on the island's south shore battered by winds from approaching Hurricane Gonzalo, in Astwood Park, Bermuda. Hurricane Gonzalo barreled toward the island with damaging winds and a dangerous surge of water.

Kurdish refugees from the Syrian town of Kobani share bread in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Turkey.

Traditionally-dressed representatives from South Pacific nations push their canoes into the water as they prepare to participate in a protest aimed at ships leaving the Newcastle coal port, located north of Sydney, Australia. Around 100 protesters formed a blockade using traditional canoes and kayaks to the entrance of the world's largest coal port demanding a global change to the use of coal.

A super-heated giant ash cloud spews from the crater of Mount Sinabung volcano threatening villages during an eruption, as seen from Simpang Empat district on Sumatra island.

National police officer Shatner Jean salutes during a ceremony marking the 208th anniversary of the assassination of Haiti's independence hero and founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Two boys play "war" on top of a monument at the World War I Tyne Cot Commonwealth cemetery in Zonnebeke, Belgium. Tyne Cot was selected as one of several locations for an event named the "Light Front", to commemorate 100 years since the start of the First World War.

A man sunbathes on the beach during an unusually warm and sunny autumn day in Nice, France.

A girl runs with collected autumn leaves at a park in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.