A "spiritual guide," spits alcohol into a worshiper's mouth to perform a spiritual cleansing during the celebrations of Maximon in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala, on October 28. Unlike other traditional benevolent saints in Latin America, Maximon, who at times looks more like a bandit than a saint, can grant both good and evil requests.
A model wearing a collection of previous editions of the Sao Paulo Fashion Week, rides a subway train in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 27. About 40 models participated in the event to promote the Sao Paulo Fashion Week, which runs from October 28 to November 1.
People watch waves batter into the sea wall of a marina in Brighton, south England, on October 28. Meteorologists say it is one of the worst storms to hit Britain in years.
Boys play soccer during a break at their school in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, on October 29. Afghan children across the country increasingly playing football after Afghanistan beat India to win the South Asian Federation Football Cup earlier in the month.
A street monkey wears a baby doll mask as it performs in a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia. Security forces are fanning out across Jakarta conducting raids to rescue macaques used in popular street masked monkey performances in a move aimed at improving public order and preventing diseases carried by the monkeys.
Girls climb on an old Nord military transport aircraft as they celebrate Israel's 65th independence day with their family in the Defender's Forest near the Nahshon kibbutz in central Israel. The aircraft is a monument for fallen soldiers from the parachute brigade.
A soldier escorts men as they arrive from the rebel held suburb of Moadamiyeh to the government held territory in Damascus, Syria. Nearly 2,000 residents of the besieged western Damascus suburb of Moadamiyeh have fled their homes and have surrendered to the Syrian authorities after reports of starvation and disease triggered an international outcry for their help.
Saw Min lies on a bed with weights on her eyes after receiving local anesthesia ahead of a cataract operation at a government hospital in Bago, Myanmar. She waited with hundreds of Myanmar's poorest villagers to be prepped for the simple, free surgery she hopes will restore her sight.