GERMANY Young women in traditional Bavarian dresses pose with beer mugs at the 176th Oktoberfest beer festival on September 19 in Munich, south Germany (XINHUA/AFP)

BANGLADESH Thousands of people cram onto ferries at a terminal on the outskirts of Dhaka on September 18, as they rush home before the Muslim Eid Festival, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan (XINHUA/AFP)

THE UNITED STATES U.S. President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas confer during trilateral negotiations on Middle East peace on September 22 in New York (XINHUA/AFP)

FRANCE Milk farmers spray about 1 million liters of milk onto a field on September 21 in Sainte-Trephine, west France, to protest plummeting milk prices (XINHUA/AFP)

CUBA Hundreds of thousands of Cubans attend the Peace Without Borders concert on September 20 in Havana (XINHUA/AFP)

AUSTRALIA A rare, extensive sandstorm blanketed cars, buildings and roads with orange-colored desert dust across Sydney, Australia, on September 23 (XINHUA/AFP)