Best pictures from October 16
Children pose for pictures at the Planet Jellies display inside the new Ripley's Aquarium of Canada which opened its doors to the public in Toronto, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013.Peter Power/The Globe and Mail
The tallest clock tower in the world with the world's largest clock-face at the Abraj Al-Bait Towers overlooks the Grand Mosque and its expansion in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. More than two-million pilgrims – about one-million fewer than last year – perform the hajj, a central pillar of Islam and one that able-bodied Muslims must make once in their lives. It is a four-day spiritual cleansing based on centuries of interpretation of the traditions of Prophet Muhammad.Amr Nabil/The Associated Press
A visitor photographs part of Robert Pruitt's "Safety Cones" at New York-based Gavin Brown's Enterprise's stand at the Frieze Art Fair in central London, October 16, 2013.ANDREW WINNING/Reuters
A dog chases a mock intruder during a function to celebrate the 29th Raising Day of the Indian National Security Guard in Manesar, about 60 kilometres south of New Delhi, October 16, 2013.ANINDITO MUKHERJEE/Reuters
Greenpeace activists are silhouetted by the rising sun as they watch members of their team hang a large banner off of one of the oil storage containers at the Kinder Morgan facility in Burrard Inlet in Burnaby, B.C. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press
A car painted in Egypt's national flag colors is parked on a bridge over the Nile river during celebrations of the third day of Eid al-Adha, one of the most important Muslim holidays, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. Muslims all over the world are celebrating the holiday by sacrificing sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son, Ismail, on God's command.Manu Brabo/The Associated Press
Six-year-old Larissa Martin looks at Los Angeles Dodgers yearbook covers at Dodgers Stadium before Game 5 of the National League baseball championship series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, in Los Angeles.Jae C. Hong/The Associated Press
A worker walks in a tunnel some 200 feet below New York's Central Park where Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the completion and activation of the Manhattan portion of the city's third water tunnel (Tunnel No.3) October 16, 2013.MIKE SEGAR/Reuters
Thania Sayne of Effingham, Ill., cries at the grave of her husband, Army Sgt. Timothy D. Sayne, during the playing of taps at a nearby burial service at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, a day before what would have been their third wedding anniversary. Sayne, was four months pregnant with their second son, Douglas, when her husband was killed on Sept. 18, 2011, in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.Manuel Balce Ceneta/The Associated Press
A Pakistani worshipper wearing henna designs on her hands prays at the Badshahi Mosque on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013.K.M. Chaudary/The Associated Press