CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for October - 2015
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- 2015-10-30U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi hands a gavel to incoming Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan on Thursday, October 29, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Ryan has been elected to succeed Rep. John Boehner to be the new speaker of the House.
- 2015-10-29The children of Hassan Abdo Ahmed Mohammed sleep on an air mattress at a terminal in Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport.
- 2015-10-28Allobates amissibilis -- Believed to be highly endangered, this amphibian found in Guyana marked the third Allobates species found there.
- 2015-10-27A man sifts through the rubble of a house in Mingora, Pakistan, on Tuesday, October 27. A magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck near Jarm, Afghanistan, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, on Monday.
- 2015-10-26This stuffed animal was found on a beach in Lesbos, Greece, in early September. Photographer Anna Pantelia collected this and other items that were left behind by migrants who traveled to Lesbos by boat.
- 2015-10-23Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Benghazi Committee on Thursday, October 22. Clinton mounted a passionate defense of her response to the attack, which claimed the lives of four Americans in 2012. But she came under
- 2015-10-23Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses an audience of dignitaries, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, at the Manchester airport in Manchester, England, on Friday, October 23. It was the end of a four-day state visit for Xi, who traveled to th
- 2015-10-23Piglets feed together in Santa Rosa, Philippines, as local residents wade through a flooded highway on Monday, October 19. Typhoon Koppu hit the region a day earlier and flooded some farming villages. See more remarkable images from "The week in 35 p
- 2015-10-23Can you pick out the real Bastian Schweinsteiger?
- 2015-10-22With Halloween around the corner, expect a plague of grisly monsters in skin tight "onesies."
- 2015-10-22The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, looks like a Bond villain's lair, but its contents could help humanity recover from a major disaster.
- 2015-10-22A prisoner in Medellin, Colombia, looks out from behind bars in 2007. Over 10 years, photographer Valerio Bispuri visited 74 prisons in South America. Bispuri said his mission was to humanize prisoners and help find a universal element that connects us al
- 2015-10-20Perhaps the most famous mermaid right now is Ariel, the star of Disney's animated version of "The Little Mermaid," by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The film may have been released in 1989 but Ariel remains one of the top-earning Di
- 2015-10-20This smiley face belongs to Robocoach, an exercise robot being rolled out in Singapore senior centers. It has two screens: One for motivation, the other for guidance.
- 2015-10-20A woman in Qingdao, China, practices tai chi by the Yellow Sea in 1981. It's one of the many photographs featured in Hiroji Kubota's new retrospective photo book.
- 2015-10-20Migrants waited in the rain at the Trnovec border crossing in Croatia on Monday. Amnesty International described the conditions there as "dire."
- 2015-10-19A butler in training measures the precise distance between cutlery on a table at China's only foreign-run butler school in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on January 23, 2015. There has been a surge in demand among China's wealthy for Western-trained
- 2015-10-16Egypt starts the long process of electing a new parliament -- and possibly returning to democracy -- with elections on October 18-19. But the vote will be the eighth in the last five years, and voters are showing little interest.
- 2015-10-16U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders shakes hands with fellow presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the Democratic debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 13. The lighthearted moment came after Sanders gave his take on the Clinton email scandal. "The Ame
- 2015-10-16People in Sanaa, Yemen, leave an area that was destroyed by an airstrike in early September. Photographer Lorenzo Meloni began documenting Yemen's civil war in April.
- 2015-10-16Children hang from the bumper of a vintage car as they play in a flooded street in Havana, Cuba, on Wednesday, October 14. The street was flooded after heavy rain. See more remarkable images from "The week in 34 photos."
- 2015-10-15Pope Francis meets with some of the 33 Chileans who were rescued from the 2010 mining accident. The miners, who are in Rome promoting a new film about their ordeal, posed for photos and presented gifts to Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday, October 14.
- 2015-10-15Barbara Massaad poses with a refugee child at the Zahle Lebanon. Her experience at the camp inspired her to create the humanitarian cookbook "Soup for Syria."
- 2015-10-14Elian Gonzalez was rescued from an inner tube in the Florida Straits in 1999 at age 6. His mother and nine others drowned after their rickety boat capsized while they tried to make their way from Cuba to the United States. After his rescue, Elian was plac
- 2015-10-14Australian Ralph Grimm of Jimboomba, Queensland, captured this incredible close-up of a bee's eye covered in dandelion pollen grains. The image won first prize in the 2015 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition. Grimm used reflected light to
- 2015-10-13Debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 sits in a field at the crash site in Hrabove, Ukraine, on September 9, 2014. The Boeing 777 was shot down July 17, 2014, over Ukrainian territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. All 298 people on board were k
- 2015-10-12A wounded man lays on the ground at the site of an explosion in Ankara, Turkey, on Saturday, October 10. Two powerful bombs exploded near the main train station in Ankara on Saturday morning.
- 2015-10-12The sun rises over Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center, at left, on Friday, September 11, in a view from Jersey City, New Jersey. The nation is marking the 14th anniversary of 9/11, the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Nearly 3,000 people
- 2015-10-11A soldier stands at attention in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, October 10, during a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the North Korea's ruling Worker's Party, and commemorating Kim Jong Un's third-generation leadership.
- 2015-10-09Maine Maritime Academy students bow their heads during a vigil of hope for the missing crew members of the U.S. cargo ship El Faro on Tuesday, October 6, in Castine, Maine. A U.S. Navy salvage unit will join the search for the wreckage of El Faro, which d
- 2015-10-09Information overload can lead to "decision fatigue." Some famous figures have chosen to wear similar clothes each day to reduce the decisions they have to make.
Steve Jobs famously favored a black turtleneck, jeans and sneakers.
- 2015-10-09Relatives stand by as rescuers work to free 33 miners trapped inside the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, on August 6, 2010. The mine collapsed a day earlier, and the miners ended up trapped 2,300 feet underground for more than two months. See how the r
- 2015-10-08Lalish, in northern Iraq's Nineveh Province, is the spiritual heartland for Yazidis.
- 2015-10-07Xate Shingali is a Yazidi musician who has recruited over 100 girls and women to form the Sun Girls battalion.
- 2015-10-07In an effort to refresh his creativity, photographer Jason Willheim was connected with the Mongols Motorcycle Club. He spent seven years with the group, documenting weddings, parties, funerals and road trips. Seen here is the 2010 Mother Chapter in Los An
- 2015-10-07Kevin Watson, a corporal with MOCA, Jamaica's Major Organized Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency, led a raid on a Montego Bay house after receiving intelligence the man inside may have made hundreds of thousands of dollars off lottery scamming. Authori
- 2015-10-07Megan Duckett is the founder of Sew What, L.A.'s premier theatrical draping company which provides concert backdrops for A-list musicians like the rock band KISS, John Legend and Rod Stewart.
- 2015-10-07A new species of frog -- Leptobrachium bompu -- was one of the hundreds of new species of animals and plants discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This frog has greyish-blue eyes, with a vertically oriented black pupil
- 2015-10-06Search efforts continue for victims of a deadly landslide in Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala, on Monday, October 5. A massive landslide buried much of the El Cambray community near Guatemala City on Thursday, October 1. More than 160 people are dead, and
- 2015-10-05Rescue workers pump water out of a garage in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France, on Monday, October 5. Rainfall on an "exceptional scale" set off flash floods that have wreaked havoc along France's southeastern coast. At least 19 people are dead.
- 2015-10-05Doll heads piled up at a toy factory in Xitang, Zhejiang Province, China, on September 17, 2015. Toy factories in the area are struggling after a fall in orders from Europe and Latin America. It's part of a broader decline in China's manufacturi
- 2015-10-02Wind and rain from Hurricane Joaquin lashes Nassau, Bahamas, on Friday, October 2. The storm stalled over the Bahamas and then began moving northward later in the day, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
- 2015-10-02U.S. President Barack Obama has his tie adjusted by first lady Michelle Obama as they await the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, on Friday, September 25. Xi was making his first official state visit to Washington. See mo
- 2015-10-02Students, staff and faculty from Umpqua Community College are led away from the school after a deadly shooting Thursday, October 1, in Roseburg, Oregon. Preliminary information indicated that nine people were killed and nine were wounded, police said. Dou
- 2015-10-01A Turkish woman mourns her husband, who was killed by Greek forces in Cyprus in 1964. British photographer Don McCullin is renowned for his work in war and conflict. His retrospective book is now available through Aperture.