An unidentified person visits a memorial at the main gate at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for race driver Dan Wheldon in Indianapolis on Oct. 17, 2011. Wheldon, a two-time Indianapolis 500 champion, died Sunday after a 15-car crash at the Las Vegas Indy 300.
Yamina Muhasen, mother of Palestinian prisoner Haled Muhasen, cries as she talks about her son while awaiting news of prisoners due to be released in prisoner exchange deal on Oct. 17, 2011 in east Jerusalem, Israel.
Israelis opposed to the release of jailed Palestinians in exchange for an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit who was captured in 2006 by militants, have sought a Supreme Court intervention.
Shalit is set to be freed from five years of captivity in Gaza in an exchange deal which will see the release of 477 Palestinian prisoners, with another 550 to be freed after the return of Shalit.
This photo provided by the Association of Surfing Professionals shows Jadson Andre, or Brazil, competing in the Rip Curl Pro Portugal surfing competition in Peniche, Portugal on Oct. 17, 2011.
Police officers are reflected in a mirror as they walk next to the main barricaded gate at Dale Farm traveler's camp on Oct. 17, 2011 near Basildon, England. Residents of the illegal camp are fighting an eviction order to remove them from the camp.
A man photographs paintings by American artist George Condo in the "Mental States" exhibition of his work at The Hayward Gallery on Oct. 17, 2011 in London, England. The "Mental States" exhibition is the first major retrospective of George Condo's work in the UK, which opens to the public on Oct. 18, 2011 and runs until Jan. 8, 2012.
A young man takes a break from cleaning the mud out of his house in Cuilapa, Guatemala on Oct. 17, 2011.
The young man's home was flooded when a nearby river crest its banks due to the recent heavy rainfall. Guatemalan officials confirmed 28 deaths in their country, adding that two more people were missing and that more rain was expected in the following days.
Katie Francis, an engineer, rappels down the facade of the Washington National Cathedral on Oct. 17, 2011 in Washington D.C., checking for damage from the recent East Coast earthquake.
Protesters walk under heavy rain in Unduavi, Bolivia, as they advance toward the country's capital on Oct. 17, 2011.
Indigenous and environmentalist groups began an estimated 242-mile march from Trinidad to La Paz starting on Aug. 15 to protest a government-planned highway that would cut through the Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory National Park, home to 15,000 indigenous people.
Princeton University Professor Cornel West (right) is hugged outside the D.C. Superior Court in Washington on Oct., 17, 2011, after a hearing where he was released and not charged. West was arrested while protesting on the steps of the Supreme Court.
Hindus take part in the Firewalking Festival as part of the Theemidhi Festival at Sri Mariamman Temple on Oct. 17, 2011 in Singapore. Devotees walk barefoot across a four-meter pit of red-hot coals in honor of the goddess Draupadi. It is believed that if a devotee is not pure, he or she will fail and be burned.