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A Kashmiri Muslim girl watches the aftermath of a gun-battle between Indian security forces and suspected militants in the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.Dar Yasin/The Associated Press

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A U.S. Capitol police officer lies on the steps of the Senate with a gun drawn in response to a report of shots fired Thursday, Oct. 3, 2012. A police officer was reported injured after gunshots at the U.S. Capitol.Alex Leary

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A couple stand in front of Spanish riot police after they were evicted from an unoccupied building of flats in Malaga, southern Spain October 3, 2013. A total of 13 families, included 12 children, had occupied the building since February.JON NAZCA/Reuters

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French climber Alain Robert, also known as "Spiderman", scales the 185 metre GDF Suez Tower at La Defense business district outside Paris October 3, 2013.GONZALO FUENTES/Reuters

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Rescue workers stand near the tail of a plane at the site of a plane crash near the Lagos international airport October 3, 2013. Fifteen people were killed when an Embraer passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off just outside Lagos airport's domestic terminal on Thursday, Nigerian authorities said.AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/Reuters

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A kite boarder takes advantage of high winds on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Gulfport, Miss. Preparations are underway along the Mississippi Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Karen moves through the Gulf of Mexico.Amanda Mccoy

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Soldiers of Chinese People's Liberation Army "bowl" during China's seven-day National Day holiday in Jinan, Shandong province, October 3, 2013.CHINA DAILY/Reuters

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A man walks out from a destroyed mosque that was burnt down in recent violence at Thapyuchai village, outside of Thandwe, in the Rakhine state, October 3, 2013. Security forces raced to contain deadly violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state on Tuesday.Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

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A man who was reading a book rests on a bench as a rainbow forms on a fountain at Emery Barnes Park in downtown Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday October 3, 2013.DARRYL DYCK

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Protesters dance after entering the National Confederation of Agriculture building during a demonstration by indigenous Indians against proposed constitutional amendment PEC 215, which amends the rules for demarcation of indigenous lands, in Brasilia October 3, 2013.UESLEI MARCELINO/Reuters

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