A devotee of the Chinese Shrine Gim Tsu Ong race across hot coals during a fire-walking session at the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. The festival celebrates vegetarianism and calls on devotees to purify themselves through mortification and fire walking to take on the sins of the community.
Under The Number
Trader Arthur Cashin wears a "Dow 10,000" hat, which was given out when the Dow Jones Industrial Average first hit 10,000 on March 29, 1999, as he works on the NYSE trading floor Monday Oct. 6, 2008. The Dow dipped back below the 10,000 mark Monday for the first time since Oct. 29, 2004.
Interested Bystander
An Iraqi boy looks at a U.S. soldier during a foot patrol in the Sunni neighborhood of Fadhil in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.
Wet Ride
A woman and her son take a ride on a scooter, as it rains in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.
Sendoff Fit For A Queen
The world famous Queen Elizabeth II liner arrives in Greenock on the Clyde, Scotland, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, where she was launched 41 years ago. It is the latest stop on a goodbye tour of the British Isles before the QEII heads for retirement as a floating hotel in Dubai.
Pit Stop
Palestinian Tuqa Amjed, 7 months, sits on sorted olives picked by her family during the harvest in the West Bank village of Kufr Nimeh, near Ramallah, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Palestinians began the annual harvest of olives, a staple for many local farmers who also use them to make oil.
Nosing Around
A camel named Otis pokes its head through the fence of its pasture in Richmond, Vt., Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Owner Darin Pratt bought Otis from a Massachusetts farmer two years ago. He had heard camels had a lot of personality and wanted a fun pet.