An Indian boy offers prayers as others gather near a dead elephant at Bagulamari, in Goalpara in the eastern Indian state of Assam, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The wild adult elephant was killed when a tree that he had uprooted to eat fell on an electric tower just past midnight on Tuesday. Locals told the photographer that the rest of the herd of 20-25 elephants tried to help but were scared by the jolts of power and finally had to abandon the pachyderm. (AP Photo/Vishma Thapa)
A migrant girl waits to register with the police at a refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. Several Eastern European countries are cooperating on controlling the flow of migrants at the external borders of the European Union ó a program a top Hungarian official said Tuesday could set an example for the rest of the 28-nation bloc. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Roberta Albers walks around her home after the floodwaters start to recede at French Quarter Creek in Huger, S.C., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. French Quarter Creek is prone to flooding, but all residents who have lived there for several decades say this is the worst it has ever been. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
North Korean women wearing traditional dresses gather for rehearsals, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea in preparation for the 70th anniversary of the founding of their country’s ruling party on Oct. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Chicago Blackhawks’ Niklas Hjalmarsson skates out to center ice with the Stanley Cup during a Stanley Cup championship banner raising ceremony before an NHL hockey game between the Blackhawks and the New York Rangers Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Haze envelops the Forbidden City as seen from nearby hilltop park on a polluted day in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. Wednesday is the last day of China’s weeklong National Day holiday, traditionally a peak time of the year for tourist travel, but for the second day in a row air quality readings in Chinese capital were at levels considered hazardous by international measuring standards. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A pedestrian exits a subway station as a homeless man sleeps covered in cardboard packaging, outside the main railway station in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The sewers around the railway station are a popular shelter for the town’s many homeless, especially in the bitter Balkan winter weather. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Supporters of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) celebrate as their leader and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu arrives to deliver a speech during a rally, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. Turkey goes to elections on Nov. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
A model wears a creation for Moncler Gamme Rouge as part of its Spring-Summer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
An artist moulds clay as he works on an idol of Hindu Goddess Durga in preparation for the upcoming Durga Puja festival in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The festival, to be celebrated from Oct. 19 to 22, commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A worker cleans carpets at the Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrassa in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. The mosque and madrassa is considered to be a religious school for all four main Sunni ‘madaheb’ or schools of thought in Islam. The four consist of Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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