Today in Photos (Oct 2)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014.

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Thu., Oct. 2, 2014

A Hindu devotee holds incense sticks as she offers prayers during the Durga Puja festival celebrations at the Dhakeshwari temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. The immersion of idols marks the end of the five-day Durga Puja festival.

A.M. Ahad Associated Press
Demonstrators, one of them wearing a Pulcinella face mask, center, face police as the ECB governing council meets in Naples, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. European Central Bank head Mario Draghi is expected Thursday to underline the bank's willingness to deploy more economic stimulus measures, a stance that could send the euro skidding even lower. And a drop in the currency which helps eurozone exporters and could nudge up worryingly low inflation might be the most effective stimulus to come out of the ECB's monthly meeting. Police squared off against more than 3,000 demonstrators in Naples, where the council held its monthly meeting, one of two held annually away from its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Riot police used water cannons to break up protesters carrying banners against government austerity policies and unemployment.

Salvatore Laporta Associated Press
Neighbors sit in front of the house that Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man now hospitalized in Texas, rented on 72nd SKD Boulevard during his stay in Liberia, in Morovia, Thursday Oct. 2, 2014. Since the announcement of his illness, Duncan has become a symbol of how Ebola could spread within the United States. Here in Liberia, though, he is just another neighbor infected by a virulent Ebola cluster ravaging this neighborhood of tin-roof homes along 72nd SKD Boulevard.

Jerome Delay Associated Press
Malaysian ethnic Chinese walk barefoot over burning coals on the final day of the Nine Emperor Gods festival at a temple in Ampang, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. The men have abstained from meat for the past nine days in order to purify their bodies in preparation for this ritual, in which women are barred from participating.
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his head as part of the Kaparot ritual in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Observers believe the ritual transfers one's sins from the past year into the chicken, and is performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year which starts at sundown Friday.

Oded Balilty Associated Press
Goats look out of a bus window, while being transported to a near by livestock market, to be displayed for sale in preparation for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice", on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Muslims around the world will mark Eid al-Adha, as the biggest holiday of the Islamic calendar. It commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim _ or Abraham, as he is known in the Bible _ to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead.

Muhammed Muheisen Associated Press