Eduardo Munoz

In today’s pictures, Air Force One casts a shadow as the president flies into New York, police officers watch a fire in Spain, a villager rides a donkey in Afghanistan, and more.

Sanitation workers cleared out belongings and cleaned Zuccotti Park on Tuesday after a raid by the New York Police Department on what had been the Occupy Wall Street home base. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

For a certain type of cocktail drinker, few places in New York are more traditional than the King Cole Bar. Shown, the Maxfield Parish mural of merry Old King Cole. (Will Anderson for The Wall Street Journal)

“Mickey, in foreground, held by his handler Shaun Nicholls, and Nemo, in background, are New York City’s two new bedbug-sniffing beagles. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal )

Jude Thornton, 2, from Brooklyn, watched a model train set on display at the the New York Transit Museum Galley Annex and Store in Grand Central Terminal in New York Tuesday. (Ramin Talaie for The Wall Street Journal)

Pastors Edwin Colon, left, and Gus Rodriguez posed in the New Baptist Temple in Brooklyn, which was damaged by fire in 2010. The temple wants to team up with a real-estate developer to repurpose the building as a mixed-use facility with apartments and new church space. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

A charcuterie spread from Kutsher’s Tribeca on Franklin Street. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

School children toured Macy’s Design Studio in Moonachie, N.J., where floats and balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade are prepared. (Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal)

A protester affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement waved a U.S. flag on the Brooklyn Bridge Thursday. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

Community leaders, elected politicians and residents marched down Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn Sunday, two days after three vehicles were set on fire and park benches and sidewalks were tagged with swastikas. (Ramin Talaie for The Wall Street Journal)

A person in a window flashed victory signs as Occupy Wall Street protesters marched near Bowling Green park in Lower Manhattan Thursday. (Ramin Talaie for The Wall Street Journal)

Ted Baker, a British clothing line, has signed a lease for a new flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 48th Street. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

An Occupy Wall Street protester dragged his tent away from Zuccotti Park after the raid by police early Tuesday. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement blocked Broadway at Pine Street after being displaced from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow and has now spread across the world, motivating thousands to voice their anger at financial and social inequality, and in some places merging with existing anti-government protests. On Saturday, a global "Day of Rage" was observed, and demonstrations took place in more than 80 countries around the world. Protesters took their messages and anger to the streets from Hong Kong to Fairbanks, from Miami to London, from Berlin to Sydney, and hundreds more cities large and small. The demonstrations were largely peaceful -- with the exception of some violent clashes in Rome. Collected here are some images from the past several days as the Occupy Wall Street message continues to resonate and grow. [50 photos]

A participant protests with a mock 500 euro bill during a demonstration to support the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in Munich southern Germany, on October 15, 2011. Protestors gathered at many major European cities Saturday to join in demonstrations against corporate greed and inequality.(AP Photo/Joerg Koch)

There are many forms of protest, many ways to express an objection to particular events, situations, policies, and even people.  Protests can also take many forms - from individual statements to mass demonstrations - both peaceful and violent. In the last 30 days, there have been numerous protests across the globe in many countries.  The following post is a collection of only some of those protests, but the images convey a gamut of emotions as citizens stand up for their political, economic, religious and lifestyle rights.  -- Paula Nelson (51 photos total)
As protesters sleep in Zuccotti Park, N.Y. police officers receive instructions. A group of activists calling themselves Occupy Wall Street targeted the Financial District for more than a week of demonstrations in late September. The group said they sought to bring attention to corporate malfeasance, social inequality, and the yawning gap in income between America's rich and poor. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

One of the most indelible memories in the collective psyche of Americans - and the world - comes from the images of the World Trade Center following the terrorist attacks on the United States, September 11, 2001. Yesterday, Americans and the world collectively remembered those who lost their lives in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania ten years after that unforgettable day. This post (edited by Leanne Burden) shows the transformation, of what became known as Ground Zero, over the last ten years. A memorial rises from the ashes of that day on September 11, 2011. -- Paula Nelson (41 photos total)
Photos by Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite showing the World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York, collected on June 30, 2001 showing the 110-stories twin towers; on September 15, 2001 showing the remains of the 1,350-foot (411.48-meter) twin towers of the World Trade Center, and the debris and dust that have settled in Ground Zero, four days after the terrorist attacks; and June 8, 2002, showing the progress in the reclamation of Ground Zero where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood. AFP/Space Imaging

Around the world, the LGBT community celebrates in environments ranging from welcoming to tolerant to violently hostile. Many cities stage gay pride parades on or around June 28, the anniversary of New York's Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969 -- what many consider the beginning of the gay rights movement. New York enjoyed its parade this year on June 26, a celebration given added spirit with the legalization of gay marriage in New York state two days earlier. Some communities in the world still meet with resistance, with activists assaulted and arrested in Russian cities, and an Indian health minister describing homosexuality as a "disease" three days after the New Delhi pride parade on July 2. Collected here are photographs of people celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered pride around the world.

The Big Picture offers special thanks to Charles Meacham for making his photographs available. -- Lane Turner (43 photos total)

People take part in the gay pride parade on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on June 26, 2011. (Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images)

The spectacle of gaudy colors, outlandish floats, airborne beads, and extravagant costumes was not limited to the French Quarter of New Orleans Tuesday. Weeks of pre-Lent celebrations culminated into explosions of exhilarating events for "Fat Tuesday" and Carnival around the globe. Historians say the Mardi Gras tradition dates back to Roman times, when the newly converted Christians retained vestiges of their pagan festival "Lupercalia" as a period of celebration before the penance of Lent. That spirit ricochets today from the revelers of Carnival in Brazil to the flour-tossing sprites of Greece to the ebullient trombones of Bourbon Street. -- Lloyd Young (43 photos total)
A Grande Rio samba school dancer performs while parading through the Sambadrome during carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 8. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)