Volcano in Ecuador, mini electric motorcycles, northern lights over England | Oct. 8
The day in photos around the world.
- An Indian woman farmer dries the maize crop at Aloli village, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Ajmer, Indias western state of Rajasthan, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Maize is an important cereal crop in the world after wheat and rice. (AP Photo/Deepak Sharma)
- Railway staff supervise the departure of a Barcelona bound high-speed train at the Atocha train station in Madrid, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. High-speed train service throughout the northeastern region of Catalonia bordering France was suspended for hours Thursday after thieves stole fiber-optic cable alongside the tracks that officials said was critical for maintaining train safety. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
- Honor guard soldiers walk during Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations at the Holocaust memorial, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. About 280,000 Romanian Jews and 11,000 Romanian Roma, or Gypsies, were deported and killed during WWII when Romania was ruled by a pro-nazi regime. About 6,000 Jews live in Romania today, compared to 800,000 before WWII. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
- North Koreans riding on the back of a pickup truck carry props to be used during upcoming anniversary celebrations, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The country is in high gear with preparations for the 70th anniversary of the founding of North Korea’s Workers’ Party on Oct. 10. 2015. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
- People gather at the site of Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanban, a region in Dhamar province 113 km (70 miles) southeast of the capital, Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Two airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 25 others in Yemen on Wednesday at a wedding hosted by a tribal leader known to support the Houthi rebels, witnesses and independent security officials said. (AP Photo/Ali al-Hassany)
- Lebanese riot policemen are seen through the spray of water cannons used against anti-government protesters against the ongoing trash crisis and government corruption, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Lebanese security forces used water cannons and eventually fired tear gas canisters to disperse dozens of anti-government protesters who tried to get past security barricades and reach parliament. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
- A masked Palestinian protester stands amid smoke of burning tires during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
- Israeli police stands guard at the entrance to Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred all Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from visiting a sensitive Jerusalem holy site, fearing any high-profile spectacle could further enflame tensions that have gripped the country for weeks, an Israeli official said Thursday. The Jerusalem hilltop compound lies at the heart of recent tensions. It’s revered by Muslims as the spot where Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven and by Jews as the site of the two Jewish biblical Temples. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
- A Palestinian man walks in the old city in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. A Palestinian stabbed a Jewish seminary student in Jerusalem on Thursday as the Israeli prime minister barred all Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from visiting a sensitive holy site in the Old City in an effort to calm tensions that have gripped the country for weeks. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
- A Palestinian man walks in the Old City in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. A Palestinian stabbed a Jewish seminary student in Jerusalem on Thursday as the Israeli prime minister barred all Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from visiting a sensitive holy site in the Old City in an effort to calm tensions that have gripped the country for weeks. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
- Egyptian school children make their way home after school in front of a banner with the photo of a parliamentary candidate, and Arabic that reads, “Ashraf Sayed Soliman, your candidate in the Boulaq El Dakrour cycle,” on a street in Boulaq El Dakrour district of Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Egypt’s long-awaited parliamentary elections will start on Oct. 18-19, a hoped-for step toward democracy amid a harsh crackdown on dissent. The second stage of the staggered vote will take place on Nov. 22-23. Final results will be announced in early December. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
- A man looks at his mobile phone while waiting for a train heading toward Serbia, at the transit camp for refugees near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, after crossing the border from Greece, early Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Several thousand migrants and refugees enter daily from Greece into Macedonia on their way through the Balkans towards the more prosperous European Union countries. More than 500,000 people have arrived this year in EU seeking sanctuary or jobs, sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
- A refugee family rest in a tent and wait for a train heading towards Serbia, at the transit camp for refugees near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, after crossing the border from Greece, early Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Several thousand migrants and refugees enter daily from Greece into Macedonia on their way through the Balkans towards the more prosperous European Union countries. More than 500,000 people have arrived this year in EU seeking sanctuary or jobs, sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
- People help a wheelchair user board a train with others, heading towards Serbia, at the transit camp for refugees near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Several thousand migrants and refugees enter daily from Greece into Macedonia on their way through the Balkans towards the more prosperous European Union countries. More than 500,000 people have arrived this year in EU seeking sanctuary or jobs, sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
- Jack Miller of Australia steers a mini electric motorcycle during a fan event at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit ahead of Sunday’s MotoGP Japanese Motorcycle Grand Prix in Motegi, north of Tokyo, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
- The pack pedals along desert dunes, during the first stage of the Abu Dhabi tour cycling race, from Qasr Al Sarab to Madinat Zayed, UAE, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (Claudio Peri/ANSA via AP)
- Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fires flares during a Vertical Charlie maneuver at the Air Force Day parade at Hindon Air Force base near New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha announced Thursday that the IAF would have women fighter pilots, a proposal pending at the Indian Defense Ministry for approval. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
- Loveleen Mori, 27, a homeless woman living in a large encampment in the Kakaako neighborhood of Honolulu, holds her dog as she tries to figure out where to bring her belongings as city officials start to sweep the camp, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Honolulu city crews are clearing a major chunk of the encampment that once was home to hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)
- An Afghan refugee jumps into the sea at the port of Mitylene on the northeast Greek island of Lesbos while waiting to get on board a ferry traveling to Athens, Thursday, Oct. 8 , 2015. More than 500,000 people have arrived in the European Union this year, seeking sanctuary or jobs and sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
- An Afghan refugee wrapped, in a thermal blanket faces the sea after he and others arrived late in the night on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, early Thursday, Oct. 8 , 2015. More than 500,000 people have arrived in the European Union this year, seeking sanctuary or jobs and sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
- A large plume of ash and steam rises from the Cotopaxi volcano as seen from Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. The Geophysics Institute said during the first week of October the Cotopaxi has shown an increase in emission of ash and temperature, and a noted glow in the crater. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
- Plush toys hanging from a makeshift clothesline frame a view of the Cotopaxi volcano, in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Ecuadors restive Cotopaxi has been spewing plumes of ash and gas far above its crater and volcanologists say its activity has been on the upswing. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
- Harold Ancrum, a church member at Canaan United Methodist Church, checks on the floodwaters at the church near Summerville, S.C., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. The church had some caskets come out of the ground at their cemetery beside the church during the flooding this week. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
- A muslim man prays in the Selimiye mosque, until the 16th century known as the Cathedral of St Sophia, or Agia Sofia in the Turkish Cypriot breakaway part at northern divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. A United Nations official says a wish expressed by some European countries or communities to accept only Christians fleeing war in countries such as Syria could be very dangerous because it would lead to divisiveness and breed hostility toward anyone deemed as not belonging there. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
- Novak Djokovic of Serbia, center, takes a selfie with officials after winning his men’s singles match against Zhang Ze of China in the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
- The aurora borealis, or the northern lights occur over Derwentwater, near Keswick, England, Thursday Oct. 8, 2015. The northern lights are the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth’s atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)
- Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich the 2015 Nobel literature winner, center, is surrounded after her news conference in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage.” (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
- Albania fans wait to be searched by police before the Group I Euro 2016 qualifying match between Albania and Serbia in Elbasan, central Albania, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. More than 2,000 officers will police the politically-charged match. A game between the countries _ who remain at odds over the status of now-independent Kosovo _ was interrupted by violence in Belgrade last year after a drone carrying a nationalist Albanian banner hovered over the pitch. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
- Albania fans wait to be searched by police before the Group I Euro 2016 qualifying match between Albania and Serbia in Elbasan, central Albania, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. More than 2,000 officers will police the politically-charged match. A game between the countries _ who remain at odds over the status of now-independent Kosovo _ was interrupted by violence in Belgrade last year after a drone carrying a nationalist Albanian banner hovered over the pitch. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)