Friday: The day in photos

A woman photographs another who holds up a sign that reads, “Young, single and poor looking for a millionaire” at the Millionaire Fair Munich 2008 in Germany. The four-day trade fair exhibits luxury products including golden mobile phones and expensive cars.  (Oliver Lang / AFP / Getty Images)

Protesters wearing the colors of the separatist Morning Star flag shout slogans during a demonstration demanding independence for the resource-rich Papua province in Jakarta, Indonesia.  (Irwin Fedriansyah / Associated Press)

A member of a group of 110 would-be African emigrants waits to dock at the port of Los Cristianos after being intercepted by Spanish coastguards off the Canary Island of Tenerife. The vessel, a traditional West African fishing boat, was found south of Tenerife and taken to the port of Los Cristianos. In the first eight months of this year, 5,392 people arrived on the Canaries, hoping to immigrate to Europe.  (Desiree Martin / AFP / Getty Images)

Iranian women make an Ostrich meat sandwich that they say will be the world’s longest during a special event at the Mellat park in Tehran. The group’s aim was to make a sandwich that measured almost a mile and set a world record.  (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)

A police officer shields himself from stones thrown by Kashmiri protesters in Srinagar, India. Officials said government forces fired tear gas and swung batons to disperse hundreds of Muslim protesters demonstrating against Indian rule in the disputed region of Kashmir.  (Mukhtar Khan / Associated Press)

Orphaned Sri Lankan elephants find some respite at a transitional home manned by wildlife authorities near the sanctuary of Uda Walawe in Sri Lanka. The elephant-human conflict has claimed a high number of deaths from both species. While authorities attempt to protect the elephants, cultivators often lay traps or shoot at the animals who invade their plantations. Several transit homes have been set up to care for the offspring of killed elephants and to send them back to the wild successfully.  (M.A. Pushpa Kumara / EPA)

Partygoers carry an effigy made from cloth during the second AfrikaBurn festival in South Africa. The festival is based on Burning Man in the United States, where thousands of people gather in the desert to construct huge art pieces that are eventually burned to the ground on the final night.  (Kim Ludbrook / EPA)

A worker passes an electrical generator in a formerly secret air-raid tunnel in London. The tunnels were built 100 feet under central London in 1940 as fully equipped air-raid shelters and could accommodate 8,000 people. They have since been used by MI6 and the Public Records Office to hold 400 tons of secret documents. Current owner British Telecom is now seeking a buyer for the surplus tunnels.  (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)

Burgundy grapes are harvested in the vineyards at Ballrechten-Dottingen in southern Germany.  (Winfried Rothermel / Associated Press)