November 4, 2014

U.S. voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Alhambra, California. Months of campaign promises, partisan charges and a seemingly endless flood of political ads and mailers will finally come to an end Tuesday as voters make their choices.

Goods confiscated by men, who say they were hired by the Islamic State to monitor the quality of goods in markets, are set on fire in central Raqqa, Syria.

Russian nationalists carry flags of Donetsk People's Republic during a march in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting with Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine in Moscow to mark People's Unity Day, a public holiday in Russia.

An Iranian woman stands in front of the painted wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran where a demonstration took place marking the anniversary of 35 years after Islamist students stormed the embassy compound, then holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.

Members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) perform the flag off ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah Border Post.

Kenneth Fok Kai-kong (C), grandson of Hong Kong late billionaire tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung, takes part in an anti-Occupy Central rally at Hong Kong's financial Central district. Thousands of protesters remain camped out in a sea of tents on a major highway close to government headquarters in Admiralty and in lesser numbers in the shopping and densely populated districts of Causeway Bay and Mong Kok.

Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims bleed after hitting their foreheads with swords and beating themselves as they commemorate Ashoura in Baghdad. More than one million Shi'ite Muslims gathered at shrines and mosques across the country for the religious ritual.

Smoke rises from explosions demolishing houses on the Egyptian side of the border town of Rafah as seen from the Palestinian side in the southern Gaza Strip. With dynamite and heavy machinery, Egypt's army has been demolishing homes along its border with Gaza, after the military ordered residents out last week to make way for a planned buffer zone meant to stop militants and smugglers.

Gallery assistants pose for pictures with John Pasche's 1971 'Tongue and Lip Design' logo, commissioned by Mick Jagger, at a photocall for a retrospective of students' artwork, titled "GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years" at the Royal College of Arts in London, Nov.

A chef prepares a snack during the final phase of the tenth edition of the National Skewers and Tapas competition held in Valladolid, Spain.

Spanish model, Raquel Bonilla, 22, poses inside an elevator as she wears a creation by Myriam Hurtado during an urban photo shoot, part of the Andalucia de Moda (Andalusia Fashion) in Seville, southern Spain.

Sydney's Opera House and a the cruise ship are seen alongside giraffes in their enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. According to Taronga's conservation society, there are an estimated 80,000 giraffes remaining in the wild with the 30 percent drop in numbers over the past decade directly due to poaching for bush meat and habitat encroachment by humans.

Rowers practice in their boat ahead of the annual Water Festival on the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians will celebrate the Water Festival from Nov. 5-7.

The Reichstag, German lower house of Parliament, is seen through autumnal trees in Berlin.