FILE -In this file photo dated Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, Pro-Russian rebels carry a ballot box with a rebel eagle symbol and the words Donetsk Peoples Republic, during supreme council and presidential elections on the front line near Donetsk airport in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The pro-Russian rebels are holding the elections that were dismissed by Ukraine and the West as illegitimate. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)
LONDON (AP) — On the week when the world celebrated Halloween, pro-Russian rebels came up with a tactic to scare Ukraine's pro-Western government in Kiev — holding a rebel election in separatist eastern Ukraine. Ukraine and the West denounced the vote as illegitimate.
Pope Francis arrived for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square in Rome, while over in Madrid a different sort of flock gathered — hundreds of sheep were herded through the Spanish capital in defense of ancient grazing rights.
Riots took place in the West African nation of Burkina Faso in the strongest challenge yet to President Blaise Compaore's 27-year reign.
FILE - In this file photo dated , Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, French TV host Severine Ferer presents a chocolate studded dress during a show as part of the chocolate fair in Paris. The fair starts on Oct. 29 and ends on Nov.2. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, FILE) (Christophe Ena/AP)
Russia put the body of a baby mammoth on display in Moscow, while young boys climbed a good mine slag hill near Johannesburg, South Africa, and a French TV host wore a chocolate-studded dress for a chocolate fair in Paris.
People were still dying of Ebola even as the outbreak appeared to be easing in Liberia. Fighters in the northern Syrian city of Kobani were still fighting off Islamic State extremists with the help of repeated airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition.
In soccer, the world's most popular sport, the Atalanta goalkeeper saved a penalty kick in Bergamo, Italy; fireworks broke out at a game in Hamburg, Germany; and players vied for the ball in an English Premier League match in Newcastle.
FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, a car burns outside the parliament building in Burkina Faso as people protest against their longtime President Blaise Compaore who seeks another term in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Protesters stormed Burkina Faso?s parliament Thursday, dragging furniture and computers onto the street and setting the main chamber ablaze, in the most significant challenge to the president?s rule during his 27-years in power. (AP Photo/Theo Renaut, FILE) (Theo Renaut/AP)
FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, Russian Geographic Society staff members carry the body of baby mammoth to put on display in Moscow, Russia. The 39,000-year-old baby mammoth is named Yuka, derived from the Yukagir coastline where she was found. Yuka was found four years ago in the Siberian permafrost and was between six and eleven years old when she died. Scientists call Yuka the best preserved mammoth in the history of paleontology. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, FILE) (Ivan Sekretarev/AP)
FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, hearth workers carry the body of an old man from his house as he is suspected of dying from the Ebola virus in the Siah Town area on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The World Health Organization said this week that the rate of infection in Liberia appears to be falling but warned that the response effort must be kept up or the trend could be reversed. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh, FILE) (Abbas Dulleh/AP)
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