The best images from around the world for Oct. 6
Members of the "Colla Vella Xiquets de Valls" human tower team form a "castell" during the XXV human towers, or castells, competetion in Tarragona.JOSEP LAGO/AFP / Getty Images
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel and other rescuers arrive to conduct search operations at the ash-covered Ontake Shrine near the summit of Mount Ontake in central Japan.The Associated Press
A protester sleeps in a hammock outside the Hong Kong Government Complex.Anthony Kwan/Getty Images
The replica of the frigate hermione, onto which La Fayette embarked in 1780 to bring help and support to the American insurgents, appears at sunset off La Rochelle during engine testing.XAVIER LEOTY/AFP / Getty Images
Iraqis take a ride at an amusement park during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Baghdad.AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP / Getty Images
Switzerland's Ilaria Kaeslin performs on the uneven bars during the women's qualification at the Gymnastics World Championships in Nanning, China.GREG BAKER/AFP / Getty Images
Jiejin Qiu, who is six months pregnant with her first baby, poses underwater during a photo shoot at a local wedding photo studio in Shanghai.CARLOS BARRIA/Reuters
Visitors take photos as they lie down on the new glass floor at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP / Getty Images
An Indian village woman mourns the death of her relative whom locals say was killed by firing from the Pakistan side of the border at Arnia village, near Jammu.MUKESH GUPTA/Reuters
Kashmiri Muslims watch from a window as a sheep is sacrificed on the occasion of the religious festival of Eid al-Adha in Srinagar, India.Mukhtar Khan/The Associated Press