The Week in Pictures

The faithful burn incense during the main procession of “The Lord of Miracles” event in Lima.  (Karel Navarro / Associated Press)

Richard Heene with sons Falcon, center, and Ryo at their home in Fort Collins,, Colo. Authorities said a runaway balloon purportedly carrying the 6-year-old Falcon was actually a publicity stunt intended to get the family a reality television show.  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

Yankees players swarm Jerry Hairston Jr. after he scored in the 13th inning of New York’s 4-3 victory in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium. Game 3 will be Monday at Angel Stadium in Anaheim.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Maldivian Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Ibrahim Didi signs a document calling on all countries to cut their carbon dioxide emissions before a major United Nations climate change conference in December in Copenhagen. Government ministers in scuba gear held an underwater meeting of the Maldives’ Cabinet off the island of Girifushi to highlight the threat global warming poses to the lowest-lying nation on earth. Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed led the meeting around a table on the sea floor, 20 feet below the surface, with ministers communicating using white boards and hand signals.  (Mohammed Seeneen / Associated Press)

A Brazilian firefighter directs water toward a bus in flames after suspected drug traffickers attacked it in the Jacarezinho slum of Rio de Janeiro. Gun battles raged in the northern slum after midnight in clashes between rival gangs, and a police helicopter was forced to land in a soccer field after the pilot was shot in the leg. The pilot and three other police officers who were in the helicopter escaped the area after landing.  (Felipe Dana / Associated Press)

A young boy participates in a bull race, known locally as “karapan sapi” Saturday.  (Mochamad Risyal Hidayat AFP/Getty Images)

A photograph of Stephen Gately is carried by a members of the funeral party for Gately, the Irish singer from the pop group Boyzone, at St. Laurence O’Toole’s Church on Saturday. An autopsy on Gately revealed that he died due to excess fluid in his lungs, a court spokeswoman on the Spanish island of Majorca said. Gately, 33, was found dead last week in his apartment in Majorca.  (Peter Muhly AFP/Getty Images)

A protester sleeps as police officers form a line during a climate change demonstration at Ratcliffe Power Station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, England. Protesters scaled fences as they attempted to break into the power station to highlight their campaign to to close coal-fired power stations.  (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

Valentino Rossi of Italy, a member of the Fiat Yamaha team, looks over his shoulder during qualifying on Saturday at the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, the 15th race in the MotoGP World Championship.  (Robert Cianflone / Getty Images)

Angels’ Kendry Morales dives into the stands for a foul ball during the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. The Yankees beat the Angels, 4-1. Game 2 is Saturday.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Crowds outside Yankee Stadium enter before Game 1 of the ALCS between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the New York Yankees.  (Julie Jacobson / Associated Press)

Members of the University of Kansas men’s basketball team wait to be introduced during the university’s Late Night at the Phog event Friday night at Allen Fieldhouse.  (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

A group of Bolivian natives take a break during a summit of the Councils of Social Movements, held on the sidelines of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, gathering.  (Aizar Raldes / AFP/Getty Images))

A sightseeing boat cruises around the brilliant fall colors of a small cape in Lake Chuzenji in Nikko, Japan.  (Akiko Matsushita / Associated Press)

Actor Richard Gere poses with one of his costars in “ Hachiko: A Dog’s Story” at the Rome Film Festival. Gere said he “cried like a baby” when he read the script of his new movie, a remake based on a Japanese story about a faithful dog that died at a train station waiting for its owner. The festival runs through Oct. 23.  (Alessandra Tarantino / Associated Press)

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark returns a serve by Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada during their quarterfinal match at the Japan Open tennis tournament in Osaka. Wozniacki won 6-2,7-6,6-2.  (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)

Chinese laborers pass an artwork entitled “Big Ocean” by Li Shiwei, displayed near a commercial district near Beijing.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Protestors stage a demonstration near a building where Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who just premiered a controversial film about Islam, had held a news conference in Westminster, central London.  (Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images)

A Palestinian demonstrator wields a slingshot to attack Israeli soldiers (not pictured) during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier, in the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah.  (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Associated Press)

A Cambodian child sleeps in a hammock behind a roadside store at Romlorng village, Kampong Thom province, about 80 miles north of Phnom Penh.  (Heng Sinith / Associated Press)

Falcon Heene, 6, with his father, Richard, outside the family’s home in Fort Collins. The boy was thought to be on board a balloon that floated over northern Colorado for about two hours. In truth, he was at home the entire time.  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

U.S. troops shield their eyes from the rotor wash of a cargo helicopter as they are picked up from a mission in southern Afghanistan. They had been looking for Taliban weapons stores and hide-outs.  (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)

A fisherman holds up a net in Malkiya, Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf, where villagers say coastal development is wiping out fish and shrimp stocks.  (Hasan Jamali / Associated Press)

Fans surround a bus carrying Honduras’ soccer team as it arrives in Tegucigalpa. Honduras’ victory over El Salvador this week earned the Central American nation a place in next year’s World Cup.  (Arnulfo Franco / Associated Press)

A man and his dog have a moment under a canopy of trees in El Dorado East Regional Park, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Full story  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

Dodgers’ shortstop Rafael Furcal chases down Phillies’ center fielder Shane Victorino as he scampers back to first base after being picked off by Clayton Kershaw in the first game of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium on Thursday.  (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)

A masked demonstrator marches with a Puerto Rican flag during a protest in San Juan. Thousands of protesters gathered at Puerto Rico’s financial hub in a rally against Gov. Luis Fortuno and the layoffs of more than 20,000 public employees. Fortuno says the layoffs are a necessary measure to close a deficit and pull the island’s economy out of a three-year recession.  (Ricardo Arduengo / Associated Press)

Painted pumpkins prepare for Halloween at Smolak Farms in North Andover, Mass.  (Charles Krupa / Associated Press)

Two men in a rowboat fish on lake Spitzingsee in the German state of Bavaria. The heavy snowfall was the season’s first there.  (Miguel Villagran / Getty Images)

Gymnast Sergio Sasaki of Brazil does a flip on the parallel bars during the men’s all-around final on the third day of t he 2009 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at the O2 Arena in London.  (Clive Rose / Getty Images)

People gather in Mexico City’s downtown Zocalo plaza to protest the government’s decision to disband the state-run electricity company, Luz y Fuerza del Centro. Mexican President Felipe Calderon disbanded the provider, which supplies electricity to central Mexico, citing a budget hole that threatened service to 25 million consumers. Leaders of Mexico’s 66,000-member Union of Electricians said they would fight the decision on constitutional grounds. The Federal Electricity Commission will now provide service to the capital and parts of four central states, according to Mexico’s Energy Department. Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral appears at the center.  (Marco Ugarte / Associated Press)

In this long exposure, light pollution from St. Ives casts an orange haze in the night sky, as star trails are traced by Earth’s rotation, above the mysterious Men-an-Tol, one of the best known megalithic structures in Britain, on Wednesday near St. Just, England. Locally known as the “Crick Stone,” the name Men-an-Tol is said to simply mean “holed stone,” and despite having been considered a significant and popular monument from a very early date, its true purpose still remains a mystery.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

A suicide car-bomber detonated his explosives outside a police station, killing 10 people including a child in Kohat, Pakistan.  (Arshad Arbab / EPA)

At a PETA rally in Frankfurt, Germany titled “Fishing Hurts!,” where activists asked people to forgo eating fish, a protester lies in a silver “fish” costume beneath a fishing net.  (marius Becker / EPA)

A Chinese artist wears an elaborately decorated costume and a cap festooned with pheasant feathers at Book Fair 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany. Some 300,000 visitors are expected at the event.  (Boris Roessler / EPA)

Unter den Linden avenue is colorfully illuminated during the annual “Festival of Lights” in Berlin. The event, during which landmarks, famous sites and buildings in the German capital are decorated with colored lights, runs through Oct. 25.  (Florian Schuh / AFP / Getty Images)

Demonstrators install tents as they gather in a square in front of parliament in the Hague to protest a bill drawn up by Dutch Christian democrats and liberals to remove squatters from several buildings.  (Robin Utrecht / AFP / Getty Images)

Paramedics tend to a seriously injured protester after he and scores of others were shot by police during ongoing service delivery protests in the Diepsloot township in Johannesburg, South Africa. Protesters and police were involved in running battles as police tried to stop a march protesting the lack of services. Many poor South Africans are bitter over the fact that they still do not have running water or electricity after so many years of post-apartheid freedom.  (Kim Ludbrook / EPA)

A Cambodian fisherman throws a net to catch fish in the flooded village of Kampong Roteh, Kampong Thom province, about 100 miles north of Phnom Penh.  (Heng Sinith / Associated Press)

Storm clouds part over the Pacific off Royal Palms Beach, a popular surfing spot in San Pedro.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Lisa Simmons wipes her tears after placing a rose on a brass plate at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Memorial Wall in remembrance of her husband, Officer Randal D. Simmons, who was killed in a 2008 standoff. The wall was dedicated Wednesday.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

The colors of fall are vibrant in the White Mountain National Forest in Twin Mountain, N.H.  (Jim Cole / Associated Press)

A mudslide covers a basketball court and part of a home in Corralitos, Calif., in Santa Cruz County, after a major storm hit the area. A mandatory evacuation order remained in effect for residents of about 40 homes in Central Coast mountain areas.  (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)

The bright stripes of circus tents create a colorful pattern on a gray day. Visitors to the Santa Monica Pier sought shelter from the rain as they passed Cirque du Soleil tents being erected near the pier. The company will present its touring production “Kooza” on Friday through Dec. 20.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Bridget Sloan of the United States competes in the balance beam event at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at the O2 Arena in London.  (Clive Rose / Getty Images)

A former Taliban militant covers his face during a ceremony in which weapons were handed over to the Afghan government in the city of Herat in the country’s far west. About 50 Taliban militants in Herat province handed over their weapons as part of a peace-reconciliation program.  (Fraidoon Pooyaa / Associated Press)

A Palestinian woman gathers olives in the West Bank town of Abu Dis.  (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP/Getty Images)

Couples from around the world participate in a mass wedding ceremony arranged by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon‘s Unification Church at Sun Moon University in Asan, South Korea. The brides wore wedding dresses or their national dress; the men wore black suits with red ties, with white scarves around their necks.  (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)

Manfred Muller of Germany takes a picture of his bride, Miwhahanna, during the mass Unification Church wedding ceremony.  (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)

An image of Russian tennis player Marat Safin doubles as sunshade for a spectator at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. The second-round singles match pitted Safin and Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic. Berdych won the match, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.  (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)

Shoppers look for decorative items ahead of the Diwali festival in Bhopal. The nation celebrates Diwali, or the Festival of Lights, on Oct. 17. Artificial flowers and decorations are in high demand during the festival.  (Sanjeev Gupta / EPA)

Garden gnomes -- 1,250 in all -- with their right arms raised in a Hitler salute make up a work of art by Ottmar Hoerl. The artist said this was the first public display of the provocative gnomes, which already were presented by galleries in Germany, Italy and Belgium.  (Joerg Koch / AFP / Getty Images)

Workers carefully return the restored sails to Stembridge Tower Mill, Britain’s only remaining thatched-cap windmill. Stembridge Tower Mill has stood in the village of High Ham since 1822 and was still actively grinding local cereals until 1910. It is one of the few windmills in England to still have any intact mechanisms and has been under the care of the National Trust since 1969. The mill has been undergoing a full and extensive renovation and will reopen to visitors in March 2010.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, right, and his partner Chris Meehan fall into the water after they capsize in Sydney harbor during the 2009 World Masters Games.  (Matt King / Associated Press)

Sri Lankan fishermen pull their boat to shore to take part in a tsunami awareness drill in Godawaya, about 125 miles southeast of Colombo.  (Eranga Jayawardena / Associated Press)

Buddhist monks gather under images of the 1973 student uprising while attending a memorial service marking the anniversary of the incident in the Thai capital. Scores of people were killed when activists and students took to the streets to protest military rule.  (Apichart Weerawong / Associated Press)

A loon swims on fog-shrouded Curtis Pond in Calais, Vt.  (Toby Talbot / Associated Press)

Japan’s Kohei Uchimura competes in men’s qualifying at the world gymnastics championships in London.  (Matt Dunham / Associated Press)

Afghan boys run along with bicycle tires in an impoverished neighborhood of Kabul, the capital. Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, most Afghan children still don’t attend school and face the prospect of a life of poverty no different from that of their parents. Prospects for girls are bleaker: Figures show that only about 13% of females over 15 years old can read or write -- compared with 43% for males.  (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)

Two moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) swim in the Berlin Zoo Aquarium. They are native to the North and Baltic seas.  (Franka Bruns / Associated Press)

People watch the Tuesday sunset from the historic 15th century St. Michael’s Tower, built on Glastonbury Tor above the Somerset Levels. England, particularly in the south, is currently enjoying a spell of dry, fine weather, allowing the beginning of the autumn foliage colors -- brought on by shortening daylight hours and cooler weather -- to be fully appreciated.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a news conference after their talks on Iran’s nuclear program.  (Ivan Sekretarev / Associated Press)

David Barrows, left, Joan Stallard and Polly Miller hold up signs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on healthcare reform.  (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)

A publishing house employee arranges books on shelves Tuesday at the 61st edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where China is this year’s guest of honor. The fair will be inaugurated later in the day by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping. Some 6,900 exhibitors from 100 countries are to gather in Frankfurt until Oct. 18, around 400 fewer than last year, and each publisher has trimmed the size of its participation.  (Martin Oeser AFP / Getty Images)

German police officer Mario Weinheimer, wearing a white hat, oversees the training of Afghan police officers in Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday. Two hundred members of the Afghan National Police, including 87 recruits, are receiving training from the German Police Project Team.  (Michael Kappeler AFP / Getty Images)

U.S. surfer Kelly Slater rides a wave during the third stage of the Billabong Pro Mundaka surf tournament at Sopelana Beach in Bilbao, Spain on Tuesday.  (Alfredo Aldai / EPA)

A woman waits to cast her vote in a village near Ballabgarh, in Indian state of Haryana, on Tuesday. Three Indian states went to the polls to elect local governments in what is seen as a test of strength for the Congress party, which heads the national government.  (Manish Swarup / Associated Press)

Foreign tourists light bamboo torches to pay their respects in remembrance of those killed as they mark the seventh anniversary of the deadly nightclub bombings that killed 202 people at Kuta beach in Bali, Indonesia.  (Firdia Lisnawati / Associated Press)

Muhammad Zahid weeps as he offers his two children, Hamna and Jawwad, for sale in Karachi, Pakistan. Zahid has been jobless for four years, and it is not uncommon for the country’s poor to sell children or organs.  (Rehan Khan / EPA)

An Indian Metro worker is seen working in a tunnel at the under-construction site of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation project between Jangpura and Lajpat Nagar in New Delhi.  (Anindito Mukherjee / EPA)

The moon is seen behind trees as the early-morning sunlight in Bath, England, breaks through leaves that are beginning to change color in Victoria Park. England, particularly in the south, is currently enjoying a spell of fine, dry weather, allowing the begining of the autumn foliage colors to be fully appreciated.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

A woman makes her way over the snowy tracks left by pedestrians in St. Petersburg, Russia. Snow fell today across the city, while temperatures topped out at 34 degrees.  (Dmitry Lovetsky / Associated Press)

China’s Deng Lin Lin performs on the balance beam during a World Gymnastics training session at the O2 arena in London. The championships will run from Oct. 13 to Oct. 18.  (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)

Members of the Melbourne outdoor theater group Strange Fruit perform ‘Ringing the Changes’ which sees the performers perched atop 16-foot poles and swaying among bells, playing a specially commissioned score for the Melbourne International Arts Festival. The festival runs Oct. 9th through Oct. 24th showing creations of artists from 26 participating countries.  (William West / AFP / Getty Images)

Colorado Rockies’ first baseman Todd Helton slides passed Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley in Game 4 of the National League Division Series at Coors Field. The Phillies took the lead on a ninth-inning rally to win, 5-4, and eliminated the Rockies. Philadelphia will take on the Dodgers in the championship series, starting Thursday.  (Doug Pensinger / Getty Images)

A man is dwarfed by a poster at the 20th Sportel (International Sports Convention for Television and New Media) in Monaco.  (Lionel Cironneau / Associated Press)

Rescue workers help a child to safety after a landslide in Benguet province near the mountain resort city of Baguio, in the northern Philippines. The region is facing shortages of food, fuel and coffins after being hit by back-to-back typhoons.  (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)

A woman rests inside a building near the Diogo Pires shantytown in western Sao Paulo, Brazil. More than half the 600 families living there lost all their belongings in a fire.  (Mauricio Lima / AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. troops are engulfed in dust and debris as a helicopter lands to transport them from their forward operating base in Farah province, southern Afghanistan.  (David Furst / AFP/Getty Images)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray at sundown on the outskirts of the Mount of Olives cemetery in East Jerusalem, following the funeral of a rabbi.  (Jim Hollander / EPA)

Artists perform during a ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the Polish Olympic Committee in Warsaw.  (Bartlomiej Zborowski / EPA)

Greek gymnast Vassilki Millussi trains before the 2009 Artistic Gymastics World Championships at the O2 Arena, which will run from Tuesday through Oct. 18.  (Carl de Souza / AFP/Getty Images)

Paintings by French artist Pierre Soulages on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition, which anticipates Soulages’ 90th birthday on Dec. 24, looks back over more than 60 years of his painting, with emphasis on more recent developments in his work. The exhibition ends March 8, 2010.  (Pierre Verdy / AFP / Getty Images)

The ice rink at Rockefeller Center opens for the season.  (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Mike Ajalat hauls sandbags off his truck Monday along Rock Castle Drive in La Cañada Flintridge, preparing for the possibility of mudslides in coming days as winter storms are expected to bring 2 to 3 inches of rain to the L.A. Basin. The Metro desk has a detailed storm forecast, a map of sandbag-pickup locations and a list of tips for dealing with mudslides.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

A baby elephant orphaned by the drought affecting Kenya plays in mud at a sanctuary run by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi. The drought has killed hundreds of thousands of livestock and wild animals and left millions of people at risk of starvation.  (Stephen Morrison / EPA)

As a Los Angeles water-dropping helicopter works on brush fire off Anaheim Street in Harbor City, ducks paddle placidly in a nearby lake.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Magneto and Jackson leap off foam surfboards at the Surf City Surf Dog contest, held in Huntington Beach to raise money for animal welfare groups. Dogs were judged on the size of the wave they caught, how long they rode it and their posture on the board.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Dallas Cowboys’ running back Marion Barber flips over Kansas City Chiefs’ cornerback Brandon Flowers for a short gain in the third quarter on Sunday. Despite a last minute touchdown in the fourth quarter by Kansas City to send the game to overtime, Dallas scored a touchdown to win the game, 26-20.  (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

Lauren Hendricks, 20, of Tallahassee, Fla., left, and Cameron Tolle, 21, of Cincinnati, Ohio, join tens of thousands for a gay-rights march in Washington, D.C.  (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)