Best from October 12
Devotees of the Chinese shrine of Ban Tha Rue carry an effigy of a Chinese god on a palanquin as firecreckers explode during a procession at the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand.Athit Perawongmetha
Serbian forward Dragan Mrdja (L) fights for the ball with Italy's defender Leonardo Bonucci next to a firework thrown by a Serbia's supporter during the Italy-Serbia football Euro 2012 Group C qualifier in Genova, Italy. The game was suspended following crowd trouble.GIUSEPPE CACACE
Canada's Carly Dockendorf clears the bar on her way to winning bronze in the women's pole vault finals at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India.ADNAN ABIDI
England's Tom Daley (bottom) and Max Brick compete during the men's synchronised 10m platform diving final at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The England pair won gold.ANDY CLARK
Sajadi, a ninety-year-old woman labourer, smokes a bidi (an Indian leaf cigarette) at a roadside on the outskirts of New Delhi.PARIVARTAN SHARMA
People walk over the interactive LED art project Onskebronn made by the Berlin artists network phase7 performing.arts at the main railway station Hauptbahnhof in Berlin. The art project interacts with people when they walk over the LED panels.FABRIZIO BENSCH
Oystercatchers take to the air during the incoming tide, at the RSPB's Snettisham Nature Reserve in Snettisham, United Kingdom. The reserve lies on the edge of The Wash, one of the most important bird estuaries in the UK, supporting over 300,000 birds. High tides force thousands of Geese and other waders including Knot, Oystercatchers, Avocet and Grey Plover to take flight, and advance up the mud flats in search of food.Dan Kitwood
Pilgrims pray at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil's national saint, in the city of Aparecida, 165 km east of Sao Paulo, October 12, 2010.NACHO DOCE
Barb Higgins (C) reacts as the bobsled she is riding in goes out of control while being pushed by members of the Canadian Olympic bobsled team in Calgary, Alberta. Higgins who is running for mayor of the City of Calgary was racing against one of her opponents Craig Burrows.TODD KOROL
Nathan Yeomans of the United States crashes off of a wave as he takes part in the O'Neil Cold Water Classic surfing competition taking place in Tofino, B.C.Jonathan Hayward
Torrey Meister of Hawaii catches a wave off of Chesterman Beach as he takes part in the O'Neil Cold Water Classic surfing competition taking place in Tofino, B.C.Jonathan Hayward
Residents cheer after the first rescuer reached the underground refuge of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine, while watching on a large screen in a public square in Copiapo, Chile.MARIANA BAZO