Photos: Pictures in the News | November 3, 2015

Mourners continued to come to Dvortsovaya Square in St. Petersburg to lay flowers for the victims of the A321 Russian airliner that crashe din Egypt on Saturday.

June Steenkamp, center, mother of the late Reeve Steenkamp, listens as Chief state prosecutor Gerrie Nel, argues in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The state argued that Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’ conviction of culpable homicide should be replaced with the initial and more serious charge of murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Altar boys asperse incense as they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis on the occasion of a Mass for cardinals and bishops who died in the past year, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.

The staff of MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres), also known as Doctors Without Borders, gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, one month after the US bombing of their charity-run hospital in Kunduz in Afghanistan.

A Romanian gendarme places candles given by the people who came to pay respect for the victims of the fire at the “Colectiv” nightclub in Bucharest. A fire and stampede at the club during the night to October 31, 2015 left 31 people dead and nearly 200 injured.

Ice crystals grow on the edge of an autumn coloured maple leaf in Sieversdorf, Germany.

Racegoers celebrate as a man successfully bends backwards between two racegoers who have their ties tied together as racegoers play a game of Limbo following 2015 Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.

Tibetan Buddhist nomads listen during the annual Bliss Dharma Assembly at the Larung Wuming Buddhist Institute in the remote Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China.

A Palestinian covered with national flag walks on top of the Israeli controvertial separation wall separating the West Bank city of Abu Dis from east Jerusalem, during clashes with Israeli security forces.

People visit the graves of their loved ones in Tlacotepec, Mexico. This Mexican public holiday, originally called Dia de Muertos, is celebrated on the Allhallowtide’s days All Saints’ Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day.

A man walks next to a mural in Tixtla, Mexico, during the celebration of All Souls Day.

A view of Earth seen from the International Space Station (ISS) taken by current ISS crew member, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko.