Angel Rufino de Haro, also known as “The Mariquelo,” ascends the New Cathedral’s Tower in Salamanca, Spain, in a tradition commemorating an earthquake that hit Lisbon in 1755. (J.M. Garcia / EPA)
Pakistani men gather around a truck to wait for donated sacks of flour during a food distribution drive after an earthquake in Ziarat, Pakistan. (Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)
A Kenyan vendor sells car stickers showing U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama in Nairobi. Obama’s father was Kenyan. (Simon Maina / AFP / Getty Images)
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Residents of Manila’s Marikina suburb parade in Halloween costumes, competing to win a cash prize for best costume. (Jay Directo / AFP / Getty Images)
Camels race in Wadi Rum, southwestern Jordan. Participants from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other neighbouring countries took part. (Awad Awad / AFP / Getty Images)
A boy waits for customer at a generator shop in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Rahmat Gul / Associated Press)
South Africa will sell approximately 51 tons of ivory in a once-off auction to buyers from China and Japan, approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, next week. The ivory was obtained from culling prior to 1994 and natural deaths. (Jon Hrusa / EPA)
