Police officers take cover as demonstrators aim fireworks at them in Terzigno, near Naples, Italy, during clashes Oct. 23. People were protesting plans to build a garbage dump near Naples.

A man sells balloons Oct. 24 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Sophomores Brandon Shugan and Claire Goodin flirt at Central Hardin High School on Oct. 22, as the Bruins take on Meade County for the football district championship. Meade County won 28-20.

Rescue workers try to push a stranded humpback whale back out to sea at Geriba beach in Buzios, 120 miles from Rio de Janeiro, on Oct. 26. The whales migrate north from Antarctica to mate from July to November off the coast of Brazil. This year, an unusually high number of whales have beached compared to last year.This whale could not be saved and died.

Pfc. Brandon Voris, 19, of Lebanon, Ohio, from the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines Alpha Company, stands in the middle of his camp as a sandstorm hits his remote outpost near Kunjak, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, Oct. 28.

Colored leaves lie on stones in the Schlaube River near Bremsdorf, eastern Germany, on Oct. 24.

Cattle walk on a foggy field on Oct. 27 near Hopkinsville, Ky. Storms passed through the area the day before, bringing cooler temperatures and allowing fog to form in low-lying areas.
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An aerial view of construction work at one of the planned 2014 Winter Olympics sites in the Imeretinskaya Valley near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, on Oct. 26.

Children and an Afghan policeman look at a U.S. soldier during a patrol on outskirts of Kandahar City, Afghanistan, on Oct. 24.

Clouds over Manteno, Ill., Oct. 26 as a storm producing high winds passes through the area.

Israeli riot police restrain a protester during clashes in Umm el-Fahm on Oct. 27. Arabs were protesting against a rally by ultranationalist Jews in the Israeli-Arab city.

Volunteers search for victims of the Mount Merapi eruption at Kinahrejo village in Sleman, on Oct. 27 near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes spewed out clouds of ash and jets of searing gas in an eruption that killed at least 33 people.

A rescuer walks in a flood-hit area in Chok Chai district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, about 165 miles northeast of Bangkok, on Oct. 19. The worst floods in decades in Thailand have killed dozens of people.

People clean a bloodstained patio at a home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Oct. 23. At least 14 young people were shot dead in an attack on the house during a 15-year-old boy's birthday party.

Friends and relatives of Luis Alberto Vital, 17, mourn over his coffin during a funeral service in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Oct. 24. Vital was among the victims of a shootout during a teen's birthday party.

The sun rises at Lochan na h'Achlaise on Oct. 25 in Rannoch Moor, United Kingdom.
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A female leper rests in the isolated village of Van Mon, south of Hanoi, Vietnam, on Oct. 24. More than 600 lepers and recovered lepers live with the government's support in the isolated village founded by French Catholic priests 110 years ago.

Masked Arab Israeli protesters use trash cans during clashes in the northern Arab Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm, Israel, on Oct. 27. Jewish extremists hoisting Israeli flags marched through the town, chanting "death to terrorists" and touching off clashes between rock-hurling residents and police.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks through a window during a visit to a new Coca-Cola factory, which she officially opened, in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on Oct. 22.

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen ride in the back of their helicopter on Oct. 10 with the flag-draped bodies of American soldiers who were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
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