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An employee holds a Philips VISIQ portable ultrasound system, produced by Royal Philips NV, for a photograph during the company's innovation day at the Evoluon Center in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. Philips plan to sever ties with the lighting business on which it was founded and focus instead on health care pushing the Dutch company into a field increasingly crowded by companies such as Apple Inc. Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(02 of29)
Hillary Clinton, partially visible left, her husband Bill Clinton, far right, their daughter Chelsea Clinton, center, her newborn baby, Charlotte, and Chelsea's husband Marc Mezvinsky leave Manhattan's Lenox Hill hospital in New York. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(03 of29)
A man walks past a pro-democracy demonstrator guarding a bus placarded with messages of support in Hong Kong on September 30, 2014. Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters turned parts of Hong Kong into a massive street party on September 29 night, with the mood turning festive just a day after riot police fired tear gas in ugly clashes. AFP PHOTO / Philippe Lopez (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PHILIPPE LOPEZ via Getty Images)
(04 of29)
A pro-democracy demonstrator guards a bus placarded with messages of support in Hong Kong on September 30, 2014. Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters turned parts of Hong Kong into a massive street party on September 29 night, with the mood turning festive just a day after riot police fired tear gas in ugly clashes. AFP PHOTO / Philippe Lopez (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PHILIPPE LOPEZ via Getty Images)
(05 of29)
SAKARYA, TURKEY - SEPTEMBER 30: Incomplete vehicles move along the production lineat the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey's (TMMT) assembly plant in Sakarya, Turkey on September 30, 2014. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey is the one of Toyota's vehicle production bases in Europe. (Photo by Ibrahim Yozoglu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
(06 of29)
Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, Premier Li Keqiang, center right, and high profile officials stand near the Monument to the People's Heroes during a ceremony marking Martyrâs Day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. Xi and other solemn-looking Chinese leaders presented flower baskets and scores of ordinary people filed up to lay a single flower each Tuesday at the Peopleâs Heroes Monument in central Beijing to mark Martyrâs Day. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(07 of29)
British model Cara Delevingne speaks through a megaphone (R) as she fakes a demonstration along with other models as they present creations for Chanel during the 2015 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on September 30, 2014 at the Grand Palais in Paris. AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIK (Photo credit should read PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PATRICK KOVARIK via Getty Images)
(08 of29)
British model Cara Delevingne speaks through a megaphone (R) as she fakes a demonstration along with other models as they present creations for Chanel during the 2015 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on September 30, 2014 at the Grand Palais in Paris. AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIK (Photo credit should read PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PATRICK KOVARIK via Getty Images)
(09 of29)
British Chancellor George Osborne is pictured as he listens to a speech by Mayor of London Boris Johnson on the third day of the annual British Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central England, on September 30, 2014. AFP PHOTO/LEON NEAL (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:LEON NEAL via Getty Images)
(10 of29)
Mayor of London Boris Johnson holds a brick as he addresses delegates on the third day of the annual British Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central England, on September 30, 2014. AFP PHOTO/LEON NEAL (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:LEON NEAL via Getty Images)
Conservative Party Conference Held In Birmingham - Day 3(11 of29)
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 30: Prime Minister David Cameron reacts as Mayor of London Boris Johnson addresses the Conservative Party Conference in the main hall of the ICC Birmingham on on September 30, 2014 in Birmingham, England. The third day of conference will see speeches on home affairs and justice. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (credit:Matt Cardy via Getty Images)
(12 of29)
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 30: Gisele Bundchen walks the runway during the Chanel show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2015 on September 30, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo by Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage) (credit:Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho via Getty Images)
(13 of29)
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 30: Model Gisele Bundchen walks the runway during the Chanel show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2015 on September 30, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo by Rindoff/Dufour/French Select/Getty Images) (credit:Rindoff/Dufour via Getty Images)
(14 of29)
A local poses next to a mural called Art Buff created by street artist Banksy which appeared in Folkestone, Kent, during last weekend. (credit:PA)
(15 of29)
Roundabout of the Year winner 2014: the Stonehills roundabout on the A38 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire Rex Features (credit:Rex Features)
(16 of29)
The volcano on Mt Sakurajima erupts September 29, 2014 in the air over Mt Sakurajima, Japan. T (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) (credit:Chris McGrath via Getty Images)
(17 of29)
Prime Minister David Cameron talks to LBC radio presenter Nick Ferrari (right) during the Conservative Party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. (credit:Joe Giddens/PA Wire)
(18 of29)
A woman walks her dog along the banks of the river Cam at Granchester Meadows in Cambridgeshire as as the Met Office said that this was set to be the driest September across the UK since records began in 1910, with exceptionally low rainfall for many parts of the country. (credit:PA)
(19 of29)
A female devotee has her faced pierced with a metal spike outside Jui Tui Chinese Shrine on September 30, 2014 in Phuket, Thailand. Ritual Vegetarianism in Phuket Island traces its roots back to the early 1800's. The annual festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days. Participants in the festival perform acts of body piercing as a means of shifting evil spirits from individuals onto themselves and bring the community good luck. The ritualized mutilation is performed at a local Buddhist shrine under a trance-like state and is carefully supervised. (Photo by David Longstreath/Getty Images) (credit:David Longstreath via Getty Images)
(20 of29)
People wait at the Zenith in Montpellier, where they have found shelter, early on September 30, 2014. Emergency shelter centers have been set up throughout Montpellier to receive about 4.000 victims of the floods in Montpellier and its surroundings, on the night from September 29 to 30. AFP PHOTO / SYLVAIN THOMAS (Photo credit should read SYLVAIN THOMAS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SYLVAIN THOMAS via Getty Images)
(21 of29)
An employee of Japan's robot venture Cyberdyne demonstrates the new robot suit 'Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) labor version,' developed by University of Tsukuba professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, at the Cyberdyne headquarters in Tsukuba, suburban Tokyo on September 30, 2014. The HAL, which is designed to learn the user's motion and assist their movements, can be used by construction workers to reduce power to carry heavy objects with supporting user's back. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:YOSHIKAZU TSUNO via Getty Images)
(22 of29)
This picture taken on September 30, 2014 shows the Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, as it is moored at the Wilhelminakade in Rotterdam. The vessel has a capacity of 6,360 passengers and is 362 meters long, 60 meters wide and 65 meters high. AFP PHOTO / ANP / JERRY LAMPEN ***netherlands out*** (Photo credit should read JERRY LAMPEN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JERRY LAMPEN via Getty Images)
(23 of29)
Demonstrators gather in the area of Mongkok in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. Tens of thousands of protesters filled streets in Hong Kong through the night to press for open elections and the resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, as student leaders set an Oct. 1 deadline for their demands to be met. Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg via Getty Images (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(24 of29)
A high view shows thousands of students gathering in a "sit-in" to block main roads of a popular fashion district of Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Pro-democracy protesters expanded their rallies throughout Hong Kong on Monday, defying calls to disperse in a major pushback against Beijing's decision to limit democratic reforms in the Asian financial hub. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(25 of29)
An Indian roadside barber gives a shave to a person next an effigy of mythical demon king Ravana for sale as part of Dussehra festivities in New Delhi, India, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. The effigies will be burned at the end of the ten day long festival symbolising the victory of good over evil. (credit:PA)
(26 of29)
Dense white plumes of gases and ash are spewed out from the summit crater of Mount Ontake, central Japan, Monday afternoon, Sept. 29, 2014. Japanese soldiers managed to bring down eight more bodies by helicopter from the ash-blanketed peak of a still-erupting volcano on Monday, before toxic gases and ash forced them to suspend the recovery effort in the early afternoon (credit:PA)
(27 of29)
Turkish soldiers stand as Turkish Kurds gather in the area to express their solidarity with Kurdish fighters in Kobani, Syria, at the Turkey-Syria border near Suruc, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. U.S.-led coalition air raids targeted towns and villages in northern and eastern Syria controlled by the Islamic State group, including one strike that hit a grain silo and reportedly killed civilians, activists said Monday. (credit:AP)
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Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Al-Noor during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca (credit:Rex Features)
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Iain Duncan Smith speaks at the Conservative Party Annual Conference in Birmingham, Britain. (credit:Rex Features)