Photos of the Day: Oct. 17, 2015

Originally published October 17, 2015 at 4:42 pm Updated October 17, 2015 at 5:22 pm

Olympiakos’ fans light flares before a Greek Super League soccer match against AEK Athens at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus port, near Athens, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Kansas City Royals fans arrive for Game 2 of baseball’s American League Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Laborers work on electric power poles to modify and maintain the high voltage power cables in Mandalay, Myanmar, October 17, 2015. (HEIN HTET / EPA)

A participant in wingsuit flies above Tianmen Mountain at Zhangjiajie Scenic Spot during the 4th Red Bull WWL China Grand Prix on October 16, 2015 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province of China. (ChinaFotoPress / Getty Images)

A young boy is illuminated by stained-glass window light during a funeral service for three children killed in a Minneapolis house fire, held by the Spiritual Church of God at the Elim Lutheran Church, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015, in Robbinsdale, Minn. Authorities say the mother of three children was not home when the blaze started. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)

A Chinese worker sweeps the street as haze is seen on the skyline during a polluted morning on October 17, 2015 in Beijing, China. As a result of industry, the use of coal, and automobile emissions, the air quality in China’s capital and other major cities is often many times worse than standards set by the World Health Organization.(Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

A mother and son rejoice after arriving on a raft moments before from Turkey onto the island of Lesbos on October 17, 2015 in Sikaminias, Greece. Dozens of rafts and boats are still making the journey daily as thousands flee conflict in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and other countries. More than 500,000 migrants have entered Europe so far this year. Of that number four-fifths of have paid to be smuggled by sea to Greece from Turkey, the main transit route into the EU. Nearly all of those entering Greece on a boat from Turkey are from the war zones of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

Indian fishermen arrested by the Pakistani authorities are held in a lock up in Karachi, Pakistan, October 17, 2015. Pakistani authorities 17 October arrested some 28 Indian fishermen in Pakistan’s territorial waters. The two countries’ maritime security forces often arrest each other’s impoverished fishermen for violating the territorial waters as demarcation is often unclear. (REHAN KHAN / EPA)

A woman pleads for the release of two residents who were detained by police during clashes in El Limon, Nicaragua, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. Riot police clashed with striking workers demanding the reinstatement of fired employees from the Canadian mining company B2Gold. By midday Saturday, police had not said how many people were arrested or injured, but witnesses saw two police officers bleeding after being hit by rocks and two local residents being arrested for not leaving street blockades. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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