Winnipeg Free Press > FP News Gallery > Day in Photos: Oct. 1, 2012

  • A 15-day-old night monkey sits in a veterinarian's palm. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
  • MANAGUA - A nurse tends to paper work in the emergency ward in Managua, Nicaragua.
  • General view of the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The Egyptian military on Monday assumed joint responsibility with the police for security and protecting state institutions until the results of a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum are announced. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
  • Residents cross a river using suspended ropes at Andap, New Bataan township, Compostela Valley in southern Philippines Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, a day after Typhoon Bopha made landfall. Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines this year, barreled across the country's south on Tuesday, killing scores of people while triggering landslides, flooding and cutting off power in two entire provinces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Images from around the world chosen by the photo desk at the Winnipeg Free Press.

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    Day in Photos: Oct. 1, 2012

  • A worker sprays water on a statue of the late Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of his birth anniversary at Gandhi Park in Bhubaneswar, eastern India. Gandhi, known as the

    A worker sprays water on a statue of the late Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of his birth anniversary at Gandhi Park in Bhubaneswar, eastern India. Gandhi, known as the "Father of the Nation," was instrumental in the movement that lead to India's independence from Britain in 1947. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout) Photo Store

  • Exiled Tibetan Buddhist nuns listen during a teaching by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, not seen, at the Tsuglakhang Temple in Dharmsala, India. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

    Exiled Tibetan Buddhist nuns listen during a teaching by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, not seen, at the Tsuglakhang Temple in Dharmsala, India. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Photo Store

  • An explosion erupts at Speedway International, a methanol fuel plant in Winnipeg. (The Canadian Press / Christine Morin)

    An explosion erupts at Speedway International, a methanol fuel plant in Winnipeg. (The Canadian Press / Christine Morin) Photo Store

  • Ultra Orthodox Jews dance as they celebrate the holiday of Sukkot at a yeshiva in the Ultra Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

    Ultra Orthodox Jews dance as they celebrate the holiday of Sukkot at a yeshiva in the Ultra Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) Photo Store

  • The body of a Syrian woman is seen near Izaz's Hospital after being shot by a sniper in the countryside around Izaz, near the Turkish border with Syria. Activists say government warplanes bombed a town northwest of Aleppo, killing at least 21 people including five children. One report says 30 people were killed in the town, just four miles from the border with Turkey. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

    The body of a Syrian woman is seen near Izaz's Hospital after being shot by a sniper in the countryside around Izaz, near the Turkish border with Syria. Activists say government warplanes bombed a town northwest of Aleppo, killing at least 21 people including five children. One report says 30 people were killed in the town, just four miles from the border with Turkey. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo) Photo Store

  • San Francisco Giants' Brandon Belt, right, steals second as Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Mark Ellis reaches for a late tag during the seventh inning of their baseball game, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

    San Francisco Giants' Brandon Belt, right, steals second as Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Mark Ellis reaches for a late tag during the seventh inning of their baseball game, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Photo Store

  • An Afghan refugee girl stands next to her family's sheep in a field next to a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

    An Afghan refugee girl stands next to her family's sheep in a field next to a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Photo Store

  • Campaign volunteer Calandra Vargas waits for an event to being with Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

    Campaign volunteer Calandra Vargas waits for an event to being with Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Goldman) Photo Store

  • A Boeing 787 operated by All Nippon Airways taxis under a rainbow created by fire trucks at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, in Seattle, during an official welcome ceremony after it landed on the first day of service for the aircraft on ANA's Seattle-Tokyo route. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

    A Boeing 787 operated by All Nippon Airways taxis under a rainbow created by fire trucks at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, in Seattle, during an official welcome ceremony after it landed on the first day of service for the aircraft on ANA's Seattle-Tokyo route. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Photo Store

  • An Afghan girl carries firewood for her home in Gushta district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

    An Afghan girl carries firewood for her home in Gushta district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) Photo Store

  • Georgians vote during Parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tbilisi, Georgia. Voters in Georgia are choosing a new parliament in a heated election Monday that will decide the future of Saakashvili's government. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

    Georgians vote during Parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tbilisi, Georgia. Voters in Georgia are choosing a new parliament in a heated election Monday that will decide the future of Saakashvili's government. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov) Photo Store

  • A partial view of the frescoes painted on the wall of the Ancient Church of St. Mary in the Roman forum. Italy's Ministry of Culture allowed media in Monday for a preview of a massive restoration of what experts call the Sistine Chapel of the VIII century, a series of medieval byzantine frescoes painted on the walls of this church over the course of three centuries. The Ancient Church of St. Mary was founded in the sixth century, in between imperial roman palaces. It was the oldest and most important Christian monument in the Roman forum. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

    A partial view of the frescoes painted on the wall of the Ancient Church of St. Mary in the Roman forum. Italy's Ministry of Culture allowed media in Monday for a preview of a massive restoration of what experts call the Sistine Chapel of the VIII century, a series of medieval byzantine frescoes painted on the walls of this church over the course of three centuries. The Ancient Church of St. Mary was founded in the sixth century, in between imperial roman palaces. It was the oldest and most important Christian monument in the Roman forum. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Photo Store

  • In this photo taken with a cell phone through a glass window of another vehicle and distributed by China's Xinhua News Agency, a tourist bus is engulfed in flames on an expressway near Tianjin, China. Five Germans and a Chinese citizen were killed when the bus burst into flames after hitting the back of a truck, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua)

    In this photo taken with a cell phone through a glass window of another vehicle and distributed by China's Xinhua News Agency, a tourist bus is engulfed in flames on an expressway near Tianjin, China. Five Germans and a Chinese citizen were killed when the bus burst into flames after hitting the back of a truck, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua) Photo Store

  • Chinese soldiers holding red and yellow flags stand at Tiananmen Square during a ceremony marking National Day in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

    Chinese soldiers holding red and yellow flags stand at Tiananmen Square during a ceremony marking National Day in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) Photo Store

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