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Oct. 21, 2012

An Indian performer disguised as the Hindu goddess Kali performs with fire during Navratri festival in Allahabad, India. Navratri, or the festival of nine nights, is an annual Hindu festival of worship and dance.

Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

Oct. 21, 2012

Artists prepare themselves before going onstage for a traditional Ramleela drama, narrating the life of the Hindu god Rama, to celebrate the festival of Dussehra in Alllahabad, India. The festival celebrates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil.

Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

Oct. 21, 2012

A woman walks past an effigy of demon king Ravana during preparations for the Hindu festival of Dussehra in Delhi. The effigies are burned during the festival.

Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

Oct. 21, 2012

Indian soldiers perform Malkhamb during a two-day army exhibition in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Malkhamb is a combination of traditional Indian gymnastics and martial arts; it can be traced back to the 12th century.

Jitendra Prakash / Reuters

Oct. 20, 2012

Participants compete during the Mr. Antioquia Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship in Medellin, Colombia. Participants, who darken their skin with tanning products and apply oils to increase shine, do a series of mandatory poses and display their best-shaped muscles to a panel of judges, who assign points based on appearance.

Raul Arboleda / AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 20, 2012

Participants pose as they compete in the Mr. Antioquia Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship in Medellin, Colombia.

Raul Arboleda / AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 21, 2012

Yogis gesture during a Yoga de la Risa (Laughter Yoga) session in Mexico City. Luis Gomez, master trainer and founder of the Mexican Academy of Laughter Yoga, says Laughter Yoga is a mental, emotional and physical stress-eeleasing technique that combines interactive laughter exercises with deep, centering breaths and calming movements.

Tomas Bravo / Reuters

Oct. 22, 2012

A Chinese Kathu shrine adherent goes into a trance before a procession at the annual festival in central Phuket, Thailand. The festival, featuring face-piercing, spirit mediums and strict vegetarianism, celebrates the local Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help them obtain good health and peace of mind.

Damir Sagolj / Reuters

Oct. 22, 2012

An Orthodox priest conducts a blessing service in front of the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft, which is set up on its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The international space station crew of U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin is due to travel on the spacecraft to the ISS on Oct. 23.

Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters

Oct. 21, 2012

Two Hungarian competitors double-kick a ball as they try to break a Guinness record during the Impossibility Challenger record-breaking festival in Budaors, near Budapest.

Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

Oct. 21, 2012

Hungary's Attila Banyai grimaces as a four-wheel-drive vehicle rolls over him. He was attempting to break a Guinness record during the Impossibility Challenger record-breaking festival in Budaors.

Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

Oct. 20, 2012

Members of historical clubs reenact the 1813 Battle of Leipzig during the Napoleonic War near Leipzig, Germany. In the 1813 battle a coalition of Russian, Prussian, Austrian and Swedish armies defeated Napoleon in a four-day battle that involved 600,000 soldiers, the most number of troops ever involved in a single battle in Europe before World War I. The battle checked Napoleon's expansion eastward and compelled him and his troops to retreat toward France.

Marco Prosch / Getty Images

Oct. 21, 2012

Lebanese women weep during the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan and his bodyguard Ahmad Sahyouni, who were assassinated Friday by a car bomb, at Martyrs' Square in Beirut. Lebanese soldiers fired guns and tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters who came from the funeral and broke through a police cordon in an attempt to storm government headquarters.

Bilal Hussein / AP

Oct. 21, 2012

A Syrian man looks at a damaged car after a car-bomb attack in Damascus’s Bab Touma neighborhood, a popular shopping district largely inhabited by members of Syria’s Christian minority. A taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in the Syrian capital Sunday, killing at least 13 people, even as the U.N. envoy to the nation's crisis was visiting the city to push his call for a cease-fire in talks with President Bashar al-Assad.

Bassem Tellawi / AP

Oct. 21, 2012

Muslim pilgrims pray at the top of Noor Mountain, near the Hira cave, on the outskirts of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The annual Islamic pilgrimage draws 3 million visitors each year, making it the largest yearly gathering of people in the world.

Hassan Ammar / AP

Oct. 20, 2012

Free Syrian Army fighters crawl on a sidewalk as they attempt to rescue a civilian who was shot twice, in his stomach and his back, by a Syrian army sniper while walking in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo.

Narciso Contreras / AP

Oct. 21, 2012

A U.S Army soldier of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment takes a biometric scan of an Afghan local police officer before paying his monthly salary at Combat Outpost DPC-A in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. A local officer who works part time in guarding their own villages receives a salary of $180 a month, a U.S. military officer said.

Erik De Castro / Reuters

Oct. 21, 2012

A demonstrator gets a kiss from his dog during a rally of animal rights supporters to protest a planned amendment to Turkey's animal-protection law in Istanbul. Media reports state that the amendment would have stray dogs moved into shelters or parks, where, animal rights activists fear, the canines might suffer, rather than have them returned to areas in which they were caught under the “Capture, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return” method.

Tolga Bozoglu / European Pressphoto Agency

Oct. 21, 2012

Tourists take pictures of a mountain gorilla in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, near the border town of Bunagana. The M23 Movement, the newly formed political wing of former M23 rebels, opened the national park to tourists to allow the tracking of the rare mountain gorillas.

James Akena / Reuters

Oct. 20, 2012

Actor and honoree George Clooney kisses the hand of philanthropist Barbara Davis during the 26th Carousel of Hope Ball in Beverly Hills, Calif. The event benefits the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes.

Mario Anzuoni / Reuters

Oct. 20, 2012

Meatball, a bulldog, poses in a tuxedo at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in New York. Hundreds of dog owners festooned their pets for the annual event, the largest of its kind in the United States.

John Moore / Getty Images

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 14: Johnathon Carrington, valedictorian at Dunbar High School, laughs with family and friends after his school's graduation ceremony at Howard University on Friday, June 14, 2013, in Washington, DC. Carrington, who grew up in Tyler House public-housing apartments and is graduating from one of DC's low-performing high schoolsy, where academic expectations are high. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

Johnathon’s journey

Johnathon Carrington graduated Friday as the valedictorian of his neighborhood school, Dunbar High, and is headed to Georgetown University. But Carrington, 17, is nervous, and so are...

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 16: Reenactors dressed as knights stage a medieval jousting competition at Eltham Palace on June 16, 2013 in Eltham, England. The 'Grand Medieval Joust' event at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property which was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to give a great insight into life at the palace during the medieval period. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

The Grand Medieval Joust

The Grand Medieval Joust at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property that was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to lend insight through reenactment into life at the palace...

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 16: Solange performs during the 2013 Northside Festival at McCarren Park on June 16, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)

Eye on entertainment

Solange, Rod Stewart, Jon Bon Jovi, Demi Lovato, Samuel L. Jackson and more.

In this June 8, 2013 photo, youth compete in the Sao Carlos slum local soccer tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The pitch is just dirt and the incandescent lights aren't so bright. But when the boys' feet strike the football in the Sao Carlos slum as night falls every Saturday, big league dreams glow, inflated by the hope of escaping the shantytown with sporting skills. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Brazil’s other soccer fields

With the Confederations Cup opening this week and the World Cup one year away, all eyes are on Brazil, where soccer is arguably played with more passion and art than anywhere else....

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 16: John F. Tatum Sr. hugs his grandson John F. Tatum III during his annual Father's Day block party on Sunday, June 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Amanda Voisard/For the Washington Post)

Father’s Day picnic in Northeast D.C.

A decades-old backyard barbecue in Northeast Washington draws hundreds in honor of dads everywhere. “It’s off-the-chain fun,” says Butch McNair, who has worked one...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - JUNE 14: A man cycles past murals of Nelson Mandel near to Regina Mundi Church in the Soweto township on June 14, 2013 in Soweto,South Africa. The former South African President and leader of the anti-apartheid movement is spending a seventh day in hospital and is reported to be responding better to treatment for a recurring lung infection. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Mandela remains in a hospital

For a week, South Africa’s first black president has been undergoing treatment for a lung infection. Schoolchildren at Nelson Mandela’s childhood school in Qunu sang in...

LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 16: Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady reacts after being crowned Miss USA during the 2013 Miss USA pageant at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on June 16, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Miss USA 2013

Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady is crowned Miss USA 2013 in Las Vegas.

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