A picture taken in December 2008 shows a cemetery on the shoreline in Majuro Atoll being flooded from high tides and ocean surges. The low-lying Marshall Islands, a Pacific atoll chain that rises barely a meter above sea level, has announced plans for a wall to hold back rising sea levels.

Triplets Aliah, left, Steven and Aiden Tarabokija take part in the annual Halloween Ragamuffin Parade in Hoboken, N.J., Oct. 31.

A woman wipes a tear as she is seen on a wheelchair praying next to the tomb of her relatives on the eve of 'All Saints Day' in a cemetery in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, Oct 31. All Saints Day, which falls on Nov. 1, is a Catholic holiday to reflect on the saints and deceased relatives.

Villagers escape as Mount Merapi erupts in Deles village, Klaten, Indonesia, on Oct. 31. Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano erupted again on Sunday, sending a plume of ash and smoke about 3,500 metres into the air.

Market workers walk in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Oct. 31.

Volcanologists walk in the area of Anak Krakatau volcano in Sunda Strait after their installation of a seismometer. The Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center in Bandung, West Java has set the status of the volcano, situated east in the Sunda Strait, as alert, according to local media. Picture taken Oct. 27.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner greets sympathizers while accompanying the hearse of her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, from the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace to the local airport for a flight to their home province of Santa Cruz, in Buenos Aires on Friday, Oct. 29. Tens of thousands of Argentines paid tribute to Kirchner, whose death rallied markets but robbed his wife and successor President Cristina Fernandez of her closest adviser. Kirchner, 60, was Argentina's most powerful politician and a leading contender for next year's presidential election.

A drop of water falls into a well containing a maple leaf during a sunny autumn day at the Central Cemetery in Vienna, Oct. 29, 2010. The cemetery, built in 1874, is located in Simmering district, and is Vienna's largest cemetery.

A woman cleanses a young man at the Temple of San Simon (Saint Simon) in the municipality of San Andres Iztapa in Chimaltenango, some 72 km west of Guatemala City, on Oct. 28.

San Francisco Giants baserunner Freddy Sanchez reacts as he is called out at first base as Texas Rangers first baseman Mitch Moreland holds the ball in the bottom of the first inning of game two of the 2010 World Series.

Like rivers of liquid water, glaciers flow downhill, with tributaries joining to form larger rivers. But where water rushes, ice crawls. Alaska's Susitna Glacier revealed some of its long, grinding journey when NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead on Aug. 27. This satellite image from Terra, released Oct. 20, combines infrared, red, and green wavelengths to form a false-color image. Vegetation is red, and the glacier's surface is marbled with dirt-free blue ice and dirt-coated brown ice. Infusions of relatively clean ice push in from tributaries in the north.

A Halloween mask depicting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is displayed at a store in Silver Spring, Maryland, on October 28. Halloween, an ancient Celtic pagan rite, originally held to celebrate the dead and the end of the harvest season, is primarily a children's event, it also gives adults an excuse to dress up like their favorite ghoul and behave like kids. People carve pumpkins into frightening or comical faces and place them on their doorsteps after dark during Halloween which is celebrated on October 31 every year.

Counterfeit watches and goods crushed by a vibrating roller are seen during an event to launch a new campaign by Swiss Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy platform "Stop Piracy" on October 28, at Belp Airport, near the Swiss capital Bern. "Stop Piracy" estimated that the Swiss economy suffers losses of 146.4 million Euros (2 billion Swiss francs) annually due to counterfeiting and piracy.

Actress Eva Mendes waves to demonstrators during a protest by Italian actors, directors and trade unions of the film industry against the Italian government's recent arts budget cuts during the opening of The 5th International Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Oct. 28, 2010 in Rome.

The assembly line at the General Motors Lansing Grand River plant where GM announced a $190 million investment in the plant to produce an all-new Cadillac small luxury car in Lansing, Mich., Oct. 28, 2010. The investment will create 600 jobs and result in the addition of a second shift. The announcement brings the total of new U.S. investment to over $3.1 billion and more than 7,900 jobs that GM has created or retained in 21 U.S. plants since emerging from bankruptcy in July 2009.

Southern Sudanese women sit in buses preparing to head to southern Sudan, at a staging area 20 miles south of Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 28, 2010. Hundreds of southern Sudanese began heading south from the capital Khartoum Thursday, ahead of a key referendum over the future of the country in January.

Six spectacular spiral galaxies are seen in a clear new light in pictures taken by the HAWK-I camera on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. From left, the galaxies are NGC 5427, Messier 100 (NGC 4321) and NGC 1300 in the top row, and NGC 4030, NGC 2997 and NGC 1232 in the bottom row.

Texas Rangers' Cliff Lee throws during the second inning of Game 1 of baseball's World Series against the San Francisco Giants Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, in San Francisco.

Missouri Senate candidate Roy Blunt talks to supporters at the Pettis County Republican Headquarters, Oct. 27, 2010 in Sedalia, Mo.

President Barack Obama talks with host Jon Stewart as he takes part in a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart", Oct. 27, 2010, in Washington.

Avicularia braunshauseni, discovered in Brazil in 1999, belongs to a class of tarantulas that are known as "pinktoes" because of their characteristically colored foot pads. Avicularia tarantulas are not considered to be aggressive. They prefer to jump and flee as quickly as possible when threatened. They'll occasionally respond to a threat by launching a jet of excrement that can accurately hit a target 3 feet (1 meter) away.

Egyptian fishermen are seen on small fishing boats at Lake Borolos on the North shore of the river Nile Delta, Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 27 2010. The salt water lake which is located halfway between the Nile’s Rosetta and Damietta branches provides livelihood to most of the inhabitants who live near it. The lake was declared a natural protectorate in 1998, the body of water and its surrounding marshlands provide a diversified wetland ecosystem.