Ticker tape from the 1929 stock market crash is displayed at the Museum of American Finance in New York
A security guard looks at an artwork called "We are all errorist" by the Spanish group Internacional Errorista at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan
A woman fishes in a paddy field after a flood at Kaurbaha, India
Vehicles wait to cross a bridge damaged by Hurricane Ike at High Island, Texas
A NASA image showing a dune field in an impact crater Near Cerberus Fossae on Mars
This NASA image shows layers of of dusty ice up to 3 kilometres (2 miles) thick in the north polar region of Mars
Guests have dinner in the sky, seated around a table that is lifted by a crane, next the Alexander Nevski cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria
After throwing out the first pitch, Morgan Hamm and his twin brother Paul, both members of the US gymnastics team, do back flips prior to the baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix
A multiple exposure shows Lu Lan of China serving against Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia during their women's singles quarterfinal match at the Japan Open badminton tournament in Tokyo
Jelena Jankovic of Serbia casts her shadow on a court as she serves against Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia during their quarter-final match in the Toray Pan Pacific Tennis in Tokyo
Bolivian police stand guard near the building where opposition Governor Leopoldo Fernandez is being held in La Paz
Children play on the Mount Lavinia beach in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Chinese People's Liberation Army troops march in the rain at the PLA Naval barracks in Hong Kong
A German Bundeswehr army CH-53 helicopter is obscured by dust after landing in Feyzabad, north of Kabul
Vietnamese police officers watch Catholic nuns gathering in the street for a peaceful protest concerning a disputed plot of land in downtown Hanoi
A Ukrainian officer examines a huge map during military exercises
Sevilla's Diego Capel reacts after scoring a goal during their UEFA Cup match against Salzburg in Seville, Spain
Marine biologist Pam Schaller is trailed by a group of South African penguins at the California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
Coal, an American Bulldog that has had a limb fitted using a groundbreaking new process which allows bone to grow into the false leg
An Andean Condor flies next to other condors, after being released into the wild in Sierra de Paileman, Argentina
A duck swims on golden pond at sunset in Fort Smith, Arkansas
A dragonfly which appears to be smiling for the camera