وێنهی 3 ی دهی 2014
Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat near Mecca as they perform one of a series of Hajj rituals late in the day.
A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police offers as an ambulance tries to leave the compound of the chief executive office in Hong Kong.
Turkish troops take position in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, near the Mursitpinar border crossing with Syria. Islamic State (IS) militants have now advanced to within a few kilometers from the town, which lies just across the Turkish border.
Brazil's President and Workers' Party (PT) presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff (R) and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wave to supporters during a campaign rally in Sao Paulo. Brazil will hold its general elections Sunday.
Anatoly Nosvo, 65, stands inside the living room of his home, which was damaged by shelling a day before in the village of Pisky, near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine accused Russian forces of helping separatists step up pressure on government troops holding the main airport in the city, threatening a fragile ceasefire.
Pro-democracy protesters set up a colorful canopy of broken umbrellas near the central government complex in Hong Kong.
A man looks at pre-election posters of the Bulgarian Socialist's party in Sofia. Bulgarians will vote Sunday in early parliamentary elections.
Bangladeshi Muslims travel on the roof of an overcrowded train as they head to their homes ahead of Eid al-Adha in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Muslims around the world are preparing to celebrate Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice.
Hindu women apply 'Sindur', or vermillion powder, on the face of a woman during the Durga Puja festival in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. The festival is the biggest religious event for Bengali Hindus. Hindus believe that the goddess Durga symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil.
A young boy wears an army helmet as he crosses over a floating pontoon bridge on the River Scheldt in Antwerp, Belgium. Antwerp opened it's World War I Centenary program with the bridge and will allow the general public to cross it for two days.
A woman walks past "Disobey" banners during a Catalan pro-independence protest at Catalunya square in Barcelona.
A girl runs with a container to join a line of people, ahead of Buddhist monks, who push a cart loaded with cooked food containers, part of what the monks received as daily alms from devotees in Hlaing Thaya, northwest of Yangon, Myanmar.
Canoes are seen on a dock on Lake Louise at Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains outside the village of Lake Louise, Alberta.
A participant dressed as the character "Scorpion" from the upcoming 2015 "Mortal Kombat X" fighting game is seen at Comic-Con Russia convention and IgroMir 2014 exhibition in Moscow.
A man uses a green "Solarbox" to charge his phone in central London. Some of London's famous red telephone boxes are going green, transformed into free, solar-powered mobile chargers to provide a carbon-neutral source of energy in the city.