Events in Pictures 02-11-09

	Children look for coins and other reusable material amid fancy boats offered by devotees at the Bindu Sagar pond in Bhubaneswar, India

	Surfer Raph Bruhwiler lights his Olympic Torch before surfing along the shores of Pacific Rim National Park just outside Tofino, British Columbia

	Pedestrians walk past an installation art piece titled The Public Purse by Simon Perry in central Melbourne, Australia

	A man walks through graves during the Day of the Dead at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery in Lima, Peru

A man fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan is frisked by a soldier as he queues at a distribution point for internally displaced persons in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province.



An officer for TWU Local 234 places an American flag on a pole as transport workers start a massive strike in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. The strike by the Philadelphia transit system's largest union stalled the city's bus, subway and trolley operations.

	A jellyfish illuminated with coloured lights floats inside a tank at Beijing's Blue Zoo, which boasts a 130m moving walkway through an underwater tunnel

	A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, rests on the stairs leading to the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi

	A two-month-old poison dart frog sits on a one euro coin at an animal park in Nuremberg, southern Germany

	An employee at Korea Exchange Bank stacks American dollars at the bank's head office in Seoul

A farmer carries buckets to collect water as he walks on a dried-up pond on the outskirts of Yingtan, in the drought-stricken Jiangxi province, eastern China

Palestinian workers waiting for transportation at an Israeli checkpoint near Kibbutz Eyal. Every day thousands of Palestinians pass through checkpoints to work in Israel, 3 November 2009.