Friday: The day in photos
A broker reacts to sharply falling stock prices, part of the ongoing global financial crisis, as he works on the floor of the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange in Sao Paulo. (Andre Penner / Los Angeles Times)
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the start of a trading day made hectic by the ongoing global financial crisis. (Justin Lane / EPA)
A city worker passes the Evening Standard headline board in London. Shares worldwide have fallen dramatically as fears grow of a widespread recession. (Cate Gillon / Getty Images)
Laborers walk on a bridge near the Baglihar hydroelectric project on the Chenab River in Chanderkot, India. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the dam today. (Channi Anand / Los Angeles Times)
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Shopkeepers in Lahore, Pakistan, burn compact discs and movie posters after a warning from hard-line religious fundamentalists to stop selling CDs and videos that those people consider “un-Islamic.†(K.M. Chaudary / Associated Press)
A male white lion, part of a rare white lion pack, rests in South Africa’s Sanbona Wildlife Reserve. A project to establish the world’s only self-sustaining integrated pride of white and tawny lions in the wild has been heralded as a success. (Liesl Eichenberger / EPA)
Students wearing black veils march in Naples during a silent demonstration against education reforms planned by the Italian government. Thousands of students demonstrated in Italian cities, and a general strike is scheduled for Oct. 30. (Carlo Hermann / AFP / Getty Images)
Presidential security officials talk in the audience before the start of the National Day celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan. (Wally Santana / Associated Press)
