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Jerusalem — Ultra Orthodox Jews walk past the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, illuminated by pink lights to mark the launch of a breast cancer awareness campaign in Israel.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP/Getty Images

Ramallah, West Bank — Bottles of locally produced olive oil are displayed at an exhibition aiming to help Palestinian farmers to export their products.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ABBAS MOMANI / AFP/Getty Images

Rice, Texas — A light pole at the Rice ISD baseball practice field is bent in half, a result of a tornado that touched down before daybreak.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: COURTNEY PERRY / Associated Press

Los Angeles — One person was killed and 21 injured in a three-vehicle collision that left a school bus overturned in the Boyle Heights area.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times

Madrid — A young girl clutches a doll in the makeshift settlement of El Gallinero, where several hundred Romanian gypsies live, on the outskirts of the Spanish capital.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: SUSANA VERA / REUTERS

Sao Paulo, Brazil — Workers prepare for the 26th International Automobile Trade Show, which will showcase 450 cars from more than 42 brands, running from Wednesday through Nov. 7.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: PAULO WHITAKER / REUTERS

Herat, Afghanistan — An Afghan women passes election graffiti reading, "I work for you — Haji Sofi Habibullah al-Habib."

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Reza Shirmohammadi / Associated Press

Beit Lahya, Gaza Strip — Members of the British "Circus to Gaza" group perform for children at a United Nations-run school in the northern Gaza Strip town.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ALI ALI / European Pressphoto Agency

Berlin — Barrels symbolizing nuclear waste frame the German parliament building during nationwide protests against the transport of French nuclear waste to a salt deposit storage facility in Gorleben, scheduled for early November.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ODD ANDERSEN / AFP/Getty Images

Hanoi, Vietnam — People play Chinese chess in downtown Hanoi.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: KHAM / REUTERS

Athens — A fearless feline, taking full advantage of a railway strike, sits safely on converging train tracks at the Athens central railway station. All train services in Greece were suspended after state railway workers launched a four-day strike to protest planned privatization of the rail system.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Thanassis Stavrakis / Associated Press

Rannoch Moor, Scotland — With the moon still visible, the sun rises over Lochan na h'Achlaise.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — A model presents a creation of designer Abir Suwaidi during a fashion show.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: MARWAN NAAMANI / AFP/Getty Images

Hanoi — Vu Cong Doanh, 72, exercises on the Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi. He says he exercises twice a day on the bridge that for him represents a steel dragon, giving strength and power.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: DAMIR SAGOLJ / Reuters

Warsaw — People visit an art installation with information on various events.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Czarek Sokolowski / Associated Press

Arlington, Va. — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks at a symposium on mortgages and the future of housing finance. Bernanke said that banking regulators have been concerned about "reported irregularities" in foreclosure practices and are conducting an in-depth review.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: JIM YOUNG / Reuters

Sofia, Bulgaria — People walk in a park on a warm autumn day.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: STOYAN NENOV / Reuters

Yokohama, Japan — A DNA sample of a proboscis monkey, a threatened species, is displayed at Japan's Preservation and Research Center. Negotiators from over 190 countries are gathered in Nagoya, Japan, for a U.N. meeting to discuss ways to fight rising extinctions of plants and animals.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: YURIKO NAKAO / Reuters

Lambourn, Britain — Racehorses are exercised on a cold morning.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: David Davies / Associated Press

Newtown Linford, Britain — A deer walks through a stream at Bradgate Park in central England.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: DARREN STAPLES / Reuters

Islamabad, Pakistan — An Afghan refugee girl looks back while walking with other women in an alley of a poor neighborhood.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press

Wagah, Pakistan — A man holds a framed picture of the sixth president of Pakistan, Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, during a ceremony at the Wagah border near Lahore, the only road crossing between India and Pakistan.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: CARL DE SOUZA / AFP/Getty images

Ayutthaya, Thailand — A villager walks in flood waters at a Buddhist temple as the country struggles in the wake of two weeks of flooding due to rains.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL / AFP/Getty Images

Fos-sur-Mer, France — A flare silhouettes a striking employee during a blockade by dock and refinery workers at the entrance to a fuel depot. The strike over port reforms has gone on for 29 days.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: PHILIPPE LAURENSON / Reuters

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Monday’s Pictures in the News gallery has images of breast cancer awareness in Israel, high fashion in Dubai, art in Poland, and wildlife at Bradgate Park in central England.

A septuagenarian exercises on Vietnam’s Long Bien Bridge while a Thai villager struggles through floodwaters at a Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya. Workers in France block oil tankers from docking, and a fearless feline takes advantage of the first of several strikes to hit the Greek railway system.

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