SpaceShip2 (VSS Enterprise) glides toward Earth on its first test flight after release from the mothership, 'WhiteKnight2' (VMS Eve) over the Mojave Desert in California, on October 10, 2010. The craft was piloted by engineer and test pilot Pete Siebold from Scaled Composites. A seat on Virgin Galactic spaceship will cost $200,000 per person, with refundable deposits starting at $20,000. Virgin Galactic has managed to sell 700 seats thus far. Virgin Galactic space flights are the brainchild of British Sir Richard Branson, who heads up the Virgin empire.

Fall colors near their peak in the Pocono Mountains over the Delaware River, separating New York and Pennsylvania near the town of Lackawaxen, Pa.

Czech jockey Lucie Baluchova rides Ligreta over "Big Taxis" during the 120th Velka Pardubicka Steeplechase in Pardubice, East Bohemia, on Oct. 10.

Horses jump over the "Big Taxis" obstacle during the 120th Velka Pardubicka Steeplechase in Pardubice on Oct. 10.

Workers lay down grass on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, left, before the start of the Breakfast on the Bridge event in central Sydney, on Oct. 10. Traffic on the bridge was closed so that more than 7,000 people could gather to have breakfast on the main deck of the Sydney Harbour bridge. According to local media, Australia's national soccer team, the "Socceroos" agreed to attend this event to help increase Australia's chances of hosting the 2022 World Cup.

A bride takes a nap as newlyweds attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Sun Moon University in Asan, south of Seoul, Oct. 10. The Unification Church founded by evangelist reverend Moon Sun-myung in Seoul in 1954, performed its first mass wedding in 1961 with 33 couples. Seven thousand and two hundred couples attended the mass wedding on Sunday.

A ship sails on the Danube on a foggy morning in Bazias, western Romania, Saturday, Oct. 9. Red sludge contaminated Danube waters on Thursday threatening a half dozen nations along one of Europe's key waterways. In Hungary, the population of Kolontar was evacuated early this morning, and Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a new sludge deluge. Authorities asked residents to put their most essential belongings into a single bag and prepare for possible evacuation.

Sea Gulls feed amongst tens of thousands of dead Sea Urchins washed up on Malibu beach, which is closed to swimmers after recent rains caused the water to be contaiminated, before the dedication ceremony for the iconic Malibu Surfrider Beach to become the first "World Surfing Reserve" (WSR), in Malibu on Oct. 9. Malibu is California's definitive pointbreak and one of the world's first "perfect waves", but has struggled with water quality issues in recent years. The WSR program, inspired by UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, helps the surfing community to identify and preserve it's surfing heritage, raise environmental awareness and issues at important surf breaks.

A petrochemical factory is seen near a polluted river with its water turned black due to many factories dumping industrial sewage into it, in Qingdao, China, on Oct. 9, 2010. China is expected to achieve its target of a 20 percent cut in energy use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) in the five years to 2010 as planned also with the aim to cut the industrial pollution to protect environment, according to state media reports.

A demonstrator from the far-right English Defence League (EDL) is bitten by a police dog during a march in Leicester, England, Oct. 9.

Amateur triathletes start the swim portion of the Ford Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, Oct. 9.

A relative of one of the 33 miners trapped deep underground in a copper and gold mine is hugged by a policeman after the T-130 drilling machine completed an escape hole at San Jose mine near Copaipo, Chile, Oct. 9.

A rickshaw puller transports sacks filled with plastic balls on the outskirts of Agartala, India, on Oct. 9.

A firefighting vessel, bottom, tries to extinguish a fire on the car ferry Lisco Gloria in the Baltic Sea, on Saturday, Oct. 9. The maritime emergencies center in Cuxhaven said that an explosion apparently occurred on the Lisco Gloria at about midnight. The Lithuanian-flagged ferry had more than 200 people on board and was traveling from the German port of Kiel to Klaipeda, Lithuania. German authorities said that all passengers and crew members have been rescued.

In this handout provided by the German Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (Havariekommando) the Lithuanian passenger and car ferry Lisco Gloria is pictured burning following an explosion on board in the early hours of Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 in Fehmarn, Germany. The ferry carrying 236 passangers was en route from Kiel to Klaipeda in Lithuania when an explosion occurred on the ferry's upper deck around midnight, Germany's Central Command for Maritime Emergencies said. All passengers and crew have been evacuated and returned to Kiel on board of another ferry. Around 20 people were injured, three badly enough to be taken by helicopter to hospital .

A mental patient is tied down to the bed before receiving treatment at a hospital, which houses and provides treatment to more than 500 patients suffering from mental illnesses, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, Oct. 9.

A mental patient sits inside a hospital which houses and provides treatment to more than 500 patients suffering from mental illnesses in Taiyuan, Shanxi province on Oct. 8.

Mental patients sit at a yard inside a hospital which houses and provides treatment to more than 500 patients suffering from mental illnesses in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, Oct. 8.

Activists from the Hong Kong Shark Foundation pose for three minutes at Time Square in Hong Kong, China, on Oct. 9. The Hong Kong Shark Foundation is calling for Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang to remove shark fin soup from all official government functions. Around 73 million sharks are killed each year for their fins to satisfy Asian demand for the infamous luxury culinary dish.

Jenna Randall of England begins her synchronised swimming solo technical routine during the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi on Oct. 6.

Sunflowers stand in poisonous red mud in a field in Somlovasarhely, 169 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary, on Oct. 6, after a dike of a reservoir containing red mud of an alumina factory in nearby Ajka broke two days before, and over one million cubic meters of the poisonous chemical sludge inundated three villages, killing four persons and injuring over hundred. Hundreds of families have been evacuated.

Britain's Prince Charles dances with villagers at Tolasar village near Jodhpur in India's state of Rajasthan on Oct. 5.

Staff Sgt. Dustin Shanahan of Susanville, California with U.S. Army's EOD demolition team carefully carries a powerful Taliban-planted bomb made from a mortar round and a rocket-propelled grenade before blowing it up to neutralize it October 8, 2010 in the village of Zoldag Mongah west of Kandahar. Shanahan is attached to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, the storied "Black Hearts" that won fame on D-Day and in other battles and are now spread out in the Taliban-infused badlands west of Kandahar.

Shanahan was called upon to defuse four different bombs aimed at American troops today.

A group of pigs enjoy the afternoon sun in their pen at the Dodge Farm in Berlin, Vt., Friday, Oct. 8, 2010.

An Israeli motorist runs down a masked Palestinian boy who was throwing stones at Israeli cars on Friday, Oct. 8 in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.

One of the newly born twins panda cubs grimaces in their incubator at the Madrid Zoo on October 8, 2010 in Madrid. The two panda cubs, born on September 7, 2010, are the first giant panda twins to be conceived using the artificial insemination method outside of China.

The gender of the cubs is still not known.

A Chinese specialist takes care of one of the cubs.

Fishermen try to push a stranded boat out to sea at Tanmen port in Qionghai, Hainan province, China on Friday, Oct. 8. Torrential rains have submerged more than 1,000 villages in the subtropical Chinese island of Hainan, home to much of the country's rubber plantations.

A water spout hits the coastal city of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv, on Friday, Oct. 8.

Two base jumpers leap from the 380 metres high Kuala Lumpur Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 07 October 2010. Some 120 base jumpers from 22 countries took part in the annual KL Tower International Jump. BASE (Building, Antenna, Span and Earth)-jumping is an extreme sport where parachutists jump off tall buildings and structures instead of aircraft.

In this Oct. 5, 2010 photo, California Highway Patrol officer Cotton Tichy and an unidentified man view the carcass of a blue whale that washed ashore over the weekend at Bean Hollow State Beach near Pescadero, Calif. The California Academy of Sciences says its researchers plan to take blubber samples, skin samples and conduct a thorough visual inspection for possible wounds. The animal will be allowed to decompose and wash out to sea once the samples are taken.

Pakistani villagers collect oil leaking from torched NATO trucks near Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, Oct. 7. Gunmen in northwest Pakistan torched a dozen tankers carrying fuel to NATO troops, the latest strike against supply convoys heading for Afghanistan since Pakistan shut a key border crossing last week.

Pakistani villagers collect oil leaked from NATO tankers on Thursday. The trucks were waiting for the reopening of the Torkham border crossing, which was closed a week ago after NATO helicopters attacked a Pakistani post along the Afghan frontier.

Residents on horse-led carts hurry past burning fuel tankers along a road near Nowshera, located in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on Thursday.