Best Photos of the Day

NEW YORK.- By day, the late Mark Falk was a mild-mannered government employee who went to church regularly and played music as a hobby. He was a model citizen who, as it turns out, also had an unusual fascination with death. Over several decades, he amassed an extraordinary collection of post-mortem photos, as well as books, sheet music and objects pertaining to death - from tribal throwing knives and human bones to voodoo and vampire paraphernalia. What better time than the Halloween season to auction such a macabre collection? Sterling Associates of Closter, New Jersey will conduct the sale on Wednesday, October 22nd via LiveAuctioneers. Caution: it's not for the faint of heart. LIVEAUCTIONEERS / STERLING ASSOCIATES PHOTO

GENEVA.- A file photo shows a statue next to a building of the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva. Completing the deadlocked Doha trade liberalisation deal would add $11 trillion to the global economy and pull 160 million people out of poverty by 2030, economists said October 21, 2014. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI.

BEIJING.- Decorative plates featuring Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and late communist leader Mao Zedong are seen behind a statue of Mao in a shop window in Beijing on October 20, 2014. Leaders of China's ruling Communist Party opened a highly-anticipated meeting on October 20 as state media emphasised the need to strengthen the country's legal system. AFP PHOTO/Greg BAKER.

ZAPORIZHIA.- A statue of Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin stands in Zaporizhia on October 12 , 2014. Zaporizhia -- historically part of the so-called "red belt" of regions in the southeast where Communists had considerable support -- now has the largest standing Lenin in the country, a statue on the Dnipro River with arm outstretched to point at the Dnipro hydropower plant. This month however the local Lenin got dressed by activists in a Ukrainian vyshivanka -- a traditional embroidered shirt that has made a popular comeback amid the wave of patriotic sentiments in the country. AFP PHOTO/OLEXANDR STASHEVSKIY.

AIT-BEN-HADDOU.- A picture taken on October 19, 2014 shows the kasba of the southern village of Ait-Ben-Haddou near Ouarzazate. Ait-Ben-Haddou is an ensemble of buildings offering a complete panorama of pre-Saharan construction techniques as well as a miniature of the architectural typology of southern Morocco. AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA.

BORDEAUX.- People gather on October 15, 2014 inside the 1024 Architecture‘s Tesseract, an installation inspired by the so called “four-dimensional cube,” during the Semaine Digitale in Bordeaux. The structure created from ordinary scaffolding, a translucent fabric skin and a series of electronically controlled lights, plays with complex geometrical compositions, as the light beams rapidly create and deconstruct shapes within the outer 10 metre cubic frame. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-PIERRE MULLER.

JAKARTA.- Tens of thousands of people gather to witness Indonesian President Joko Widodo's speech at National Museum park next to the presidential palace on October 20, 2014 during Widodo's inauguration ceremony. Widodo, Indonesia's first leader without deep roots in the era of dictator Suharto, was sworn in as president on October 20 and immediately reached out to his political foes to seek support for his ambitious reform agenda. AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO.

ALEXANDRIA.- A royal crown is displayed during the official reopening of the Royal Jewelry Museum in Alexandria on October 19, 2014. The museum in Alexandria reopened on October 19, after a three-year closure due to security. AFP PHOTO / TAREK ABDEL HAMID.

AMSTERDAM.- Technicians are at work as a crane raises a painting from Dutch artist Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy entitled "Civic guards from the company of captain Jacob Backer and lieutenant Jacob Rogh" (1632) into the Hermitage Amsterdam through a hole in the roof of the museum on October 20, 2014. 15 large-sized 17th century paintings from the Riksmuseum and the Amsterdam Museum will be transported this way to their temporary location for the exhibition "Portrait Gallery of the Golden Age", that will be open to the public from November 29, 2014 until the end of 2016. AFP PHOTO /ANP / ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN

PARIS.- French designer Pierre Cardin shows paintings of Japanese artist Hokusai on October 16, 2014 at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris. The couturier will unveil 22 erotic prints by the famed Japanese artist Hokusai at the Espace Pierre Cardin. AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN