Today in photos (Sept. 29)
View a gallery of photos from around the world on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011.
Section:Gallery
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An Indian worker ascends a ladder to a giant wheel at a carnival ground in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011.
Altaf Qadri Associated Press
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An artist puts final touches to an idol of Hindu Goddess Durga in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. The five-day Durga Puja festival that commemorates the slaying of a demon king by goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil, begins Oct. 2.
Saurabh Das Associated Press
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Libyan revolutionary fighters pray at their position outside Sirte, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Rebel forces are struggling to make headway against loyalist fighters inside the home town of Libya's ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Bela Szandelszky Associated Press
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A Saudi man reads the candidates' list inside a ballot booth at at polling station, during municipal elections in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has granted women the right to vote and run in municipal elections from 2015 onwards, a historic first for the ultra-conservative country where women are subjected to many restrictions.
Hassan Ammar Associated Press
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A protestor with Yemen's flag painted on his face and writing Arabic on his chest reading, " if you (the regime) see youth with bare chest, don't think that youth will be defeated," reacts and shouts slogans during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Clashes between government troops and rival tribesmen erupted anew in the Yemeni capital early Thursday and artillery shelling left at least one person dead and several wounded. Heavy gunfire and explosions started early in the morning in Sanaa's Hassaba neighborhood, spreading to nearby streets in the capital. Hassaba is a stronghold of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashid, led by Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar who has sided with the opposition.
Hani Mohammed Associated Press
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Displaced Pakistani villagers trying to handover their identity cards to get permits for relief at an office in Tando Mohammad Khan near Hyderabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept, 29, 2011. The flood have killed over 220 people and destroyed some 665,000 homes displacing 1.8 million people in Sindh province.
Pervez Masih Associated Press
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Pakistani protesters burn representation of the U. S. flag and an effigy of U. S. Adm. Mike Mullen, during an anti-American rally in Multan, Pakistan, on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. U.S. pressure on Pakistan to attack Afghan militants on its soil will not succeed, the Pakistani prime minister told a gathering of political and military leaders trying to formulate a response to fresh American allegations that the army's spy agency is supporting the insurgents. Banner reads "Down with America."
Khalid Tanveer Associated Press
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a cat with two faces, named Frank and Louie, sits on a mat in his home in Worcester, Mass. The animal is known as a Janus cat, named for the figure in Roman mythology with two faces on one head. The owner calls the face on the left Frank, while the face on the right she identifies as Louie.
Steven Senne Associated Press