A sign in South Bend, Indiana caused a few red faces. The embarrassing spelling error on a digital billboard meant to promote South Bend public schools has been pulled down, but it was up for five days. A spokesman for Blue Waters Group, the company responsible, said: "The message was proofed by four people and the typo got by all of them"
A video grab of Nick Kraynok, US weatherman on KLST in San Angelo, Texas, as he warned residents about a thunderstorm. The map behind him featured a rather suggestive phallic weather pattern. See http://www.asylum.co.uk/2010/10/25/penis-storm-strikes-texas-weatherman-embarrassed/
A billboard along Interstate 35 in Wyoming, Minnesota, US, carries an image of former President George W Bush and reads "Miss me yet?"
A royal guard lies on the floor after fainting while standing guard at a dinner for Danish parliament members and members of the European Parliament hosted by the Danish Queen at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen...
Pumpkin carver Noel Dickover from from Centreville, Virginia, has carved various creative pumpkin designs in the run-up to Halloween. Pictured is the Star Wars Death Star
This picture was snapped by traveller Nick Kelly who caught the moment when a fish swam in front of a friend - creating the optical illusion a new species of 'fish man' had been discovered. Nick, from Los Angeles, says: "I was travelling around south east Asia and was staying on the island of Koh Tao in Thailand. I went snorkelling with a friend and took lots of pictures of the amazing sea life, but this was the best one. I didn't really notice until back on the beach but the fish had completely stolen the shot."
A burqa-clad Afghan woman has her picture taken as she registers for parliamentary elections at a voter registration centre in Herat, Afghanistan
Dutch and Brazilian fans enjoy the atmosphere prior to the 2010 FIFA World Cup Quarter Final match between Netherlands and Brazil at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
A woman cleanses a young man at the Temple of San Simon in San Andres Iztapa, Guatemala City. Thousands of devotees will celebrate Saint Simon's day, considered the patron of the most marginal people in society
Florida Senator Mike Bennett looking at pictures of topless women while on the Senate floor. In his defence, he said that he was "bored" during a debate on abortion in the state legislature in Tallahassee
"SHCOOL" is painted along a newly paved road leading to Southern Guilford High School on Drake Road in Greensboro, North Carolina, US
The world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, standing at 8 ft 1 in (246.5 cm), poses with He Pingping who was the shortest man in the world before he died on March 13, 2010, standing at 2 ft 5.37 in (74.61 cm)
Amazonian wrestler Lindsay Hayward, 23, aka Isis, poses with a local market stall worker in Chinatown in New York City. Lindsay is a six-foot-nine wrestler and model. "I have a rule that I never date anyone below 6ft 4ins at least. Normally I eat about 3lbs of rare steak a day. I'm always hungry. I need a lot of food," she said. She reached six foot tall by the age of nine and reached her full height by the time she was 13
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