Day in pictures

Angry Jordanian protesters pray during a blockade of Jordan's main highway, south of Queen Alia Airport, that links Amman and the north with all southern cities, on Oct. 12, 2011. The protesters believe they have been harmed with the government's announcement of joining and leasing of governorates.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a speech on American global leadership during the Center for American Progress' "American Idea: A More Perfect Union" conference at the Decatur House Oct. 12, 2011, in Washington, D.C. Clinton briefly addressed a plot the U.S. government said it foiled to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States by elements of the Iranian government.

Longshoremen work next to a container ship at Port Everglades on the day that the U.S. Congress is scheduled to vote on free trade deals on Oct. 12, 2011, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It is expected that Congress will approve the free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that proponents of the agreements say will have the potential to spur economic activity and put Americans back to work.

An unemployed youth walks through a street in Accrington, Lancashire, on Oct. 12, 2011, in the U.K. The latest unemployment figures have reached a 17-year high as new figures, released by the Office for National Statistics, show that 2.57 million are out of work. The figures also showed that jobless 16- to 24-year-olds hit a record high of 991,000.

Soldiers clean up the oil spill on Papamoa Beach on Oct. 12, 2011, in Tauranga, New Zealand. Up to 350 more tons of oil has spilled from the Rena, a Liberan cargo ship stricken off the coast of Tauranga since Oct. 5. New Zealand officials are calling this the worst maritime environmental disaster in the country's history, and claim it is likely to worsen before it improves.

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Wales prop Paul James in action as the Wales IRB Rugby World Cup 2011 squad enjoys a quad biking adventure through Woodhill Forest ahead of their game against France on Oct. 12, 2011, in Auckland, New Zealand.

A visitor of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011 skims trough a book on Oct. 12, 2011, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This year's edition of the largest book fair in the world takes place from Oct. 12 to 16, and features Iceland as guest of honor.

Orthodox Jews prepare a sukkah, an outdoor hut, by covering its roof with branches as part of the Sukkot holiday at the Chabad center on Oct. 12, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. Sukkot, also called the Feast of Tabernacles, lasts seven days and community members take celebratory meals inside the sukkah.

Bhutanese novice Buddhist monks eat breakfast in a monastery in Thimphu, Bhutan, on Oct. 12, 2011. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and future Queen Jetsun Pema will wed in the small Himalayan kingdom in a series of ceremonies set for Oct. 13, 2011.

Dr. Conrad Murray looks on during his involuntary manslaughter trial on Oct. 12, 2011, in Los Angeles. Murray has plead not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death.

Kurt Carroll, of Swartz Creek, Mich., waits out a rain delay before Game Four of baseball's American League championship series between the Detroit Tigers and the Texas Rangers, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, in Detroit.

An Orb Weaver spider rests in her drew-soaked web early on Oct. 12, 2011, near Henderson, Ky.

People cheer during a rally in support of Bolivia's President Evo Morales' government in La Paz, Bolivia, on Oct. 12, 2011.

Protesters march from a City Hall encampment to a Wells Fargo bank on Oct. 12, 2011, in Philadelphia. The demonstration at City Hall is one of many being held across the country recently in support of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York.

A woman wades through a street flooded by heavy rains dumped by Hurricane Jova in Villa de las Garzas, Mexico, on Oct. 12, 2011. Jova slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 2 hurricane early Oct. 12, swamping beach towns and causing floods in the mountains above before dropping to tropical storm force as it swept past Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

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