Russian Fashion Week in Moscow

A model presents a creation by Russian designers Shumilo&Elagina during Russian Fashion Week in Moscow, October 19, 2009. REUTERS

Julia Roberts taking holy water from a hindu priest

Hollywood actress Julia Roberts, centre, takes holy water from a hindu priest at the sets of her film 'Eat, Pray, Love' in a market in Ubud, Bali in Indonesia. (AP)

ELLE Magazine's 16th Annual Women in Hollywood

Honoree Julianne Moore speaks during ELLE Magazine’s 16th Annual Women in Hollywood Tribute in Los Angeles on Monday, Oct 19, 2009. (AP)

Actress Buvaneswari

Actress Buvaneswari, who was reportedly involved in a prostitution racket in Tamil Nadu. (BCCL)

Weekly Astro Boy Magazine on a handset

Takayuki Matsutani, president of Japan's cartoon and animation production company Tezuka Productions, displays the 'Weekly Astro Boy Magazine' on a handset in Tokyo on October 20, 2009. Japanese companies will start delivering Astro Boy and other comics by manga god Osamu Tezuka soon on mobile devices in the United States. The English-language 'Weekly Astro Boy Magazine' will be available on iPhone and iPod touch users possibly in October, with about 100 pages as one volume. (AFP)

World's first genetically modified blue roses

An employee of Japan's beverage giant Suntory holds a single genetically modified blue rose at a press conference in Tokyo on October 20, 2009. Suntory has created and grown the world's first genetically modified blue roses and will start selling from next month. (AFP)

Jiefang 'Liberation' truck

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, a new model Jiefang ('Liberation') truck is displayed at the First Automobile Works (FAW) Group Corp during a ceremony marking China's annual production figure reached 10 million in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province, on Tuesday Oct 20, 2009. China's annual auto production surpassed 10 million for the first time on Tuesday, as a new 'Liberation' model truck rolled off the assembly line at state-owned First Automobile Works, state media reported. (AP)

Part of a Roman-era sculpture

Part of a Roman-era sculpture extracted in 2009 at the ancient Roman archeological site of Stobi, in southeast Macedonia, 120 kms from the capital Skopje is displayed at the site on October 3, 2009. Stobi has for years attracted numerous visitors, scientists and tourists, but also thieves. A large part of the area has yet to be excavated, so officials introduced a 24-hour security of the site. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has vowed to put a halt to illegal excavations of archaeologic sites which have already destroyed a number of locations, but the smugglers seem to be always a step ahead from the police. (AFP)

NASA's new Ares 1-X test vehicle

NASA's new Ares 1-X test vehicle leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building early on October 20, 2009 on its way to launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida in preparation for its planned test flight. NASA is pushing back a space shuttle Atlantis mission to the International Space Station by four days to November 16 so that it can test an experimental rocket, NASA's Ares I, the US space agency said on October 19. (AFP)

Collecting reusable material

A person collects reusable material from offerings made by Hindu devotees in River Yamuna during the holy Kartik month in Allahabad on Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009. (AP)

Satellite image shows Hurricane Rick

This satellite image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Rick. Hurricane Rick was more than a day away from the resorts of Baja California on Monday but the 13-foot (4-meter) waves it kicked up have already killed one person in Los Cabos, which lies almost directly in the Category 2 storm's forecast path. AP

Storm watchers run from the beach

Storm watchers run from the deck at a hotel on Medano Beach as a large wave overtakes their perch as Hurricane Rick approaches Cabo San Lucas, a popular tourist resort at the Southern tip of Baja California, Mexico. Hurricane Rick has claimed its first victim as it churned up Mexico's Pacific Coast whipping up a giant wave which swept away a Mexican at the Los Cabos tourist resort, authorities said Monday. AFP

Oscar statues for the 82nd Academy Awards

Oscar statues are painted Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, in Santa Clarita, Calif., in preparation for the 82nd Academy Awards on March 7. AP

Usain Bolt after awarded with the 'Order of Jamaica'

Triple record holder, Jamaica's sprinter Usain Bolt, is pictured with the Order of Jamaica, the country's fourth highest honor, after being decorated during the National Heroes Day awards ceremony in Kingston, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. AP

 

Skulls found during excavations near the Akapana pyramid

Skulls found during excavations near the Akapana pyramid in the Tiawanaku ruins, some 70 km (43 miles) north of La Paz. Eager to attract more tourists, the town of Tiwanaku in the Bolivian Andes has spruced-up the ancient Akapana pyramid with adobe instead of stone, in what some experts are calling a renovation fiasco. REUTERS

Nevado del Huila volcano in activity in Huila province

Aerial view shows Nevado del Huila volcano in activity in Huila province. The alert on the status of the volcano, in southwest Colombia, changed last weekend from yellow to orange which means a 'Probable eruption in term of days or weeks' can happen, Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining Ingeominas said in a statement on their web site. REUTERS