Devotees of the Chinese shrine of Jui Tui carry a Chinese god on a palanquin as firecreckers explode during a procession of the Vegetarian Festival on Oct, 14 in Phuket, Thailand.

A fish hangs from a net during the traditional fish haul of the Velky Tisy pond at the village of Lomnice nad Luznici near the south Bohemian town of Trebon, during the traditional carp haul, Oct. 13.

An endangered black male rhinoceros with its horn partially cut-off stands in a cage after a radio transmitter was implanted in its horn before translocation at the Lake Nakuru National park in Kenya's Rift Valley, 99 miles west of the capital Nairobi, on Oct. 12. After implanting radio transmitters into the horns to track the animals and notching their ears, KWS is translocating 10 black rhinos to the Tsavo National Park, southeast of Nairobi, to re-establish the population.

A man carries a young girl on a bicycle along an empty highway in Los Palacios, Cuba, on Oct. 11.

A young boy looks at giant pumpkins in the back of a pickup truck before the start of the 37th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off on Oct. 11 in Half Moon Bay, California. Ron Root of Citrus Heights, California won the competition with a 1,535 pound pumpkim and took home $9,210 in prize money equal to $6 a pound.

A police dog bites the clothing of a demonstrator from the far-right English Defence League (EDL) during a march in Leicester, central England, on Oct. 9.