A firefighter pours water on a structure at the Sky Terrace Mobile Lodge in Lake View Terrace as the Marek fire in Southern California grew to 3,700 acres, fanned by high wnds. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A camera placed beneath a hang glider shows the pilot soaring over the autumn palette of the Bregenzer Forest in Austria. (Dietmar Stiplovsek / EPA)
In Ahmadabad, India, earthen lamps are prepared for the annual Hindu festival of lights, which will be celebrated Oct. 28. (Ajit Solanki / Associated Press)
An Orthodox Jewish man checks a palm branch for blemishes before buying them for use in rituals celebrating Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, which marks the fall harvest and commemorates the desert wandering of the Jews during the Exodus. The weeklong holiday begins today. (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Associated Press)
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A woman admires dwarf cosmos flowers at Showa Memorial Park in suburban Tokyo. About 4,000,000 blooms were on display in the park on Japan’s National Sports Day. (Dai Kurokawa / Associated Press)
Illegal immigrants protest their detention conditions from a window of the police center in Istanbul. Detainees broke windows and burned blankets to call attention to complaints of insufficient food and medical care. (Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Images)
A veterinary surgeon at a wildlife rehabilitation center in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia treats a short-toed eagle that was shot by poachers. (Petar Petrov / Associated Press)
An employee of the Tate Modern gallery in London examines an art installation entitled “Fontes,” part of an exhibition by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. (Carl De Souza / AFP / Getty Images)
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Telefonica Blue is under full sail in the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race off Gibraltar. (Dave Kneale / Associated Press)
