An employee adjusts the helmet on a rare Darth Vader costume at Christies auction house in central London, Oct. 27, 2010. The costume forms part of the 'Popular Culture: Film and Entertainment' auction, and is expected to fetch close to $300,000, and is due to be sold on Nov. 25th.

Spray towers over the 57-foot-tall Ludington Lighthouse in Michigan as a storm packing winds of up to 81 mph howled across the Midwest and South on Tuesday, Oct. 26.

A line of cattle walks through a foggy field on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 near Hopkinsville, Ky. Storms passed through the area on Tuesday, bringing cooler temperatures and allowing fog to form in low lying areas.

Clouds pass over Manteno, Ill., Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010, as a storm producing high winds passes through the area.

A laborer pushes a cart loaded with honeycomb briquettes at a coal processing factory in Shenyang, Liaoning province Oct. 26, 2010.

A model walks the runway during KAVON He Shujun 2011 S/S Collection at China Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 on Oct. 26, 2010 in Beijing, China.

U.S. Marines from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company sleep by the moonlight at their remote base near the town of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, Oct. 24, 2010. The picture, which was taken using a 30-second exposure, was first moved on the wire on Oct. 26.

A worker jumps over a puddle near a residential construction site in Taiyuan, Shanxi province Oct. 26. What's weak is strong, what's down is up, what's loose is tight -- pretty much everything that defines the American and European economies these days finds its diametric opposite in China.

In this combination photo US soldiers from 2nd Platoon Chaos Company 1-75 Cavalry 2nd Brigade 101st Airborne Devision explode an unused building that they believe Taliban will use in Didar village in Zari district of Kandahar province, south of Afghanistan on 25 October, 2010. More than 150,000 US and international troops are now in Afghanistan, with their number boosted by the 30,000 strong-surge strategy which US President Obama announced in 2009 and which is now reaching its peak.

A picture made available 25 October 2010 shows lamas playing basketball on a basketball ground built by the government some two kilometers away from the monastery in Jiuzhi county, Qinghai province, China, 23 October 2010. Five lamas of the Longge Monastery have formed a team and sometimes can have a match against local herdsmen.

A scene from "Nosferatu," a film from F.W. Murnaus's 1922 silent classic. The German film was the first adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," but because it was unauthorized, the characters names were changed.

China is the largest cotton producer in the world, with cotton occupying a crucial position in the national economy and the basic means of livelihood for many Chinese.

Cotton pickers rest at their makeshift house after a whole day working the fields.

A deer walks through a stream at Bradgate Park in Newtown Linford, central England Oct. 25.

A view of residential housing in Tseung Kwan O district of Kowloon, Hong Kong, China on Oct. 25. According to local media reports, home prices on the secondary market in Hong Kong have jumped 47.9 per cent since January last year, largely driven by investors from mainland China.

An emergency flare silhouettes a striking employee during a blockade by dockers and refinery workers at the entrance of a fuel depot in Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, Oct. 25. A strike by workers at France's largest oil port of Fos-Lavera was blocking 57 oil vessels on Monday, the port of Marseille said in a statement, included 38 crude oil tankers and 19 refined product tankers. A total of 80 vessels were being blocked at the port. The strike at Fos-Lavera over a port reform was now in its 29th day.

A two-day old pigeon is held in a coop in Lahore on Oct. 24. It is estimated that there are over 300,000 pigeon fanciers in Lahore, which has a population of almost 10 million people.

Pigeons sit on their coop.

Pigeon keeping in Pakistan dates back to the Mughal period (from 1526 to the the mid-19th century) in Asia when pigeons were used to carry love messages into harems or secret military instructions to warriors in the field.

Chinese monks painted in bronze pose as bronzemen during the 8th Zhengzhou International Shaolin Wushu Festival in Dengfeng city, central Chinas Henan Province, Oct. 23. The bronzemen are famous in Shaolin movies where they test the kung fu of those monks who want to leave the Shaolin Temple.

In this photo by Joao Silva, a British soldier with the Royal Anglians B Company calls for more ammunition as his comrades fire towards Taliban positions after elements of their company came under fire during a regular patrol in Kajaki, Afghanistan, on July 23, 2007.

In this photo by Joao Silva, a militiaman loyal to the rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr waves his weapon atop a burning American tank after it was destroyed in a clash with the Mahdi Army in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Aug. 16, 2004. The U.S. military said the tank's crew escaped.

Sgt. Jesse E. Leach, squad leader of 4th Mobile Assault Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, pulls LCpl. Valdez-Castillo, wounded by a sniper, towards a safer area, Oct. 31, 2006 in Karma, Iraq, in a photo taken by Joao Silva. Valdez-Castillo survived.

Afghan children stand together near the town of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Oct. 24.

Friends and relatives of Luis Alberto Vital, 17, mourn over his coffin during a funeral service in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday Oct. 24. Vital is one of the 14 victims of the attack on two private homes where about four dozen partygoers had gathered for a teen's birthday on Friday night.

People clean a blood stained patio at a home in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 23. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house late Friday during a 15-year-old boy's birthday party.

Palestinian Salima Ewes, 73, mourns the loss of her olive trees in the West Bank village of A Loban, Oct. 23. Ewes lost 40 of her olive trees after they were chopped down by Israeli settlers from the nearby Elie settlement, near the West Bank City of Nablus.