Woman of the traditional Dani tribe shows her amputated fingers on October 10 in Wamena, West Papua, Indonesia. The primitive tribe still lives a very traditional existence due to the remoteness of its location. The tribe were once famed as a head-hunting tribe and still demonstrate specific customs today, including the women cutting off segments of their fingers whenever a relative dies.

U.S. Marines use Hide's camera to scan the fingerprints and iris of a villager during a patrol to collect information near Barcha village in Helmand province, Afghanistan, October 11.

Amateur inventor Tao Xiangli exits his homemade submarine in a lake near Beijing. Tao built the fully functional sub (which has a periscope, depth control tanks, electric motors, manometer, and two propellers) using old oil barrels and tools bought at a second-hand market. He took 2 years to create it, at a cost of 30,000 yuan ($4,385).

A flock of budgerigars flies about 20 kms from the town of Boulia in far-western Queensland, Australia on Oct. 6, 2009. Flooding earlier in the year led to ideal breeding conditions and plentiful food supplies for the birds. Photo made available on Oct.27.

Early morning fog surrounds the Marchlins castle in Igis, in the Rhine valley, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009.

The medical staff of the 8th FST (Forward Surgical Team) play cards with a US soldier who was injured by an IED (improvised explosive device) while on patrol close to the Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar Province. The 8th FST is the US Army's busiest trauma surgical centre, providing care for US troops, the Afghan National Army (ANA), and local civilians in Eastern Afghanistan.

The Global Green Challenge is one of the world's toughest endurance races for hybrid and solar cars that got underway in Australia in October 2009. The 3,000 km race aims to highlight advances in hybrid, electric and low emission vehicles as well as those propelled by the sun.

A hummingbird is silhouetted against the sky as it looks for nectar among hanging plants in a balcony on Friday Oct. 23, 2009 in Singapore.

Marisol Rangeo receives the swine flu nasal spray vaccine in Indianapolis, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. The Marion County Health Department had about 3,000 shots and nasal sprays on hand Thursday for the free clinic.

Smoke billows from a gasoline warehouse and distribution center in Catano, Puerto Rico, on Friday, Oct. 23. Fire crews struggled to contain a fire at a fuel storage facility following an early morning explosion that knocked out windows and shook the ground in the U.S. territory.

Young Kenyan athletes' training shoes are piled up at the entrance to a boarding facility at Kiptenden Success Runners Club based in Kericho district, Kenya. An unprecedented decision was made this month by Athletics Kenya to shut down the top youth athletics camp after reports of sexual abuse has laid bare the level of exploitation facing many Kenyan youth getting into athletics to escape poverty.

Firefighters monitor the area during bushfires in Poinciana Street, Koongal, Rockhampton, 17 October 2009, near where one house was burnt to the ground. Blazes had been threatening homes and property near Mt Archer National Park, on the outskirts of Rockhampton, Australia.

Members of the Ohio Army National Guard 's 135th Military Police Company cheer as Sgt. Corwyn Collier, center, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, surprises them by appearing at the company's welcome home ceremony in Bainbridge Twp., Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 18. The unit spent the past year in Baghdad, Iraq. Collier was the one member of the unit gravely injured during the year and had been recovering at Walter Reed Army Hospital, but was released to attend the event and surprise his fellow soldiers.

A Thai soldier holds a machine gun as he patrols by segway at a hotel in Thailand on Oct. 22, 2009. The Thai government has deployed 18,000 soldiers and police with martial law-style powers to protect the leaders ahead of the Association of South-East Asian Nations summit. The Thai government is trying to avoid a repeat of an April summit cancellation that occured due to protestors bursting into the assembly.

A man puts a tire on a Ferrari race car made out of LEGOs ahead of the opening of LEGO World in Zwolle, The Netherlands, on Tuesday, Oct. 20. The event, where children can see and build constructions made of LEGOs, starts on Thursday.

A participant in the annual Rubik Cube Hungarian Open Championships attempts to solve a cube with his feet in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009.

Several cows stand in snow, at 1245 meters above sea level in Gaebris, Appenzell, Switzerland, Monday, Oct. 19.

The White House is for sale!! But not the presidential one. This White House is a scaled-down replica, complete with an Oval Office and Lincoln bedroom. Pictured is its owner, American-Iranian Fred Milani, who has lived in the house for 7 years, but hard times have forced him to put it on the market for 9.88 million. Milani says, ''Really, I am not very political. The architect just asked, 'How about I build you the White House?' and I said yes. That is the whole story.''

Schoolchildren perform morning exercises at their school in Shanghai October 14, 2009.

Pulin Mondal stores a coin in his mouth while collecting money from the polluted river Adi Ganga next to the Kalighat temple in Calcutta, India, on October 9. Every day more than fifty people collect coins tossed into the river by devotees, earning about a dollar per day each.

Militant youths display arms and ammunition of the most notorious leader of the militant groups in the Niger Delta, Ateke Tom, in Port Harcourt on October 3. Ateke Tom surrendered the arms in exchange for amnesty for militant youths in the Niger Delta.