PHOTOS OF THE DAY.

First lady Michelle Obama hugs Sesame Street characters Elmo and Rosita after delivering remarks at the White House on marketing healthier foods to children. Obama also invited local schoolchildren to participate in the fall harvest of the White House Kitchen Garden.

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Rep. Pete Olson (R-Tex.) a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, holds up a quote from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as he questions Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill over the botched rollout of the health-care insurance exchange Web site. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Although the Obama administration claims the botched rollout of the health insurance exchange was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations, not bad management at HHS, Sebelius repeatedly said she was responsible for the program’s faults. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

Halloween masks are offered for sale at Fantasy Costumes in Chicago. Although Halloween spending has increased more than 50 percent since 2005, according to the National Retail Federation, spending for the holiday this year is expected to be slightly lower than it was in 2012. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

A man who sells packages for memorial services looks out from a coffin as he waits for customers on the eve of the All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day celebration, a Roman Catholic feast in the Philippines, at a cemetery in Las Pinas, in metropolitan Manila. (Erik de Castro / Reuters)

Turkey's ruling Ak Party lawmakers Nurcan Dalbudak, center, and Sevde Beyazit Kacar, right, attend the general assembly in Ankara wearing their head scarves. Four female lawmakers from Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling party wore their head scarves in parliament on in a challenge to the country's secular tradition. The last time a lawmaker attempted to wear the head scarf in parliament in 1999 she was expelled from the assembly. (Umit Bektas / Reuters)

Yemeni men hold fireworks during a mass wedding ceremony in Sanaa, Yemen. The non-government Orphan Foundation in Yemen organized a mass wedding ceremony for 4,000 couples. The wedding ceremony, which cost $5 million, was funded by Qatar's former emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Upon strict Muslim traditions practiced in Yemen, women have their own celebration separately. (Yahya Arhab / European Pressphoto Agency)

Residents gather at the site of a bomb attack in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, Iraq,106 miles north of Baghdad. Four civilians were killed and 27 others were wounded in the attack, police said. (Reuters)

Residents hang from a bus and hold a South Sudanese flag after a referendum in the disputed Abyei region of Sudan. Residents of the flash-point region on the border of Sudan and South Sudan, which is claimed by both countries, have voted in an unofficial referendum to decide which country they belong to. (Ali Ngethi / AFP/Getty Images)

A Congolese army soldier responds to cheers from civilians as the army enters the town of Bunagana, eastern Congo, near the border with Uganda. The Congolese army retook one of the last remaining strongholds of the M23 rebels, with fighters heading for the hills as the military sought to extinguish the 18-month insurrection, officials said. (Joseph Kay / AP)

Hundreds of people participate in a rally in Nairobi. The rally marched to the police inspector general's office to present a petition signed by more than a million people from around the world calling for justice for a 16-year-old woman dubbed “Liz” who was gang-raped by six young men. The men were later set free by police after slashing grass as a punishment. After their release, the men allegedly threw Liz into a six-meter-deep pit latrine. Liz now suffers from serious injuries to her back and is bound to a wheelchair. (DANIEL IRUNGU / European Pressphoto Agency)

Thai opposition protesters hold protest placards as they rally against a planned amnesty at a railway station in Bangkok. Thailand braced for mass protests as parliament debated a political amnesty that opponents fear will "whitewash" the past killing of unarmed demonstrators and allow ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra to return. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul / AFP/Getty Images)

A supporter of Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi holds a poster with a photo of Bassem Youssef, the man known as “Egypt’s Jon Stewart,” during a protest in Cairo. The poster reads:"not Egypt, you are degrading to the media, fifth column." Several complaints were filed against Youssef after he mocked the pro-military fervor gripping Egypt in his first program of the season last week. Youssef also took jabs at the powerful el-Sissi, lionized in the local media after leading a July 3 overthrow that ousted the Islamist president. (Amr Nabil / AP)

Riot police are seen on al-Azhar university during clashes with student protesters in Cairo. Egyptian police fired teargas at protesting students at Cairo's al-Azhar university on Wednesday hours after authorities announced the detention of Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian, part of a crackdown against the Islamist movement. (Mohamed Abd el Ghany / Reuters)

Soledad Carrasquilla Delgado, 53, left, reacts as her husband and sister, in background at right, look out of a window as the police arrive during their eviction in Madrid. Delgado and her family have lived in an apartment belonging to the Madrid Housing Institute for seventeen years. The family, who are all without work, survive on unemployment benefits of euro 426 ($586) per month and euro 564 ($776) in food benefits. (Andres Kudacki / AP)

An activist of the “Office for unusual measures” dressed as President Obama while holding a sign reading “Sorry Angela” in front of the Chancellery in Berlin. According to media reports, U.S. officials have admitted that the National Security Agency had tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone. (Wolfgang Kumm / European Pressphoto Agency)

President Obama pauses for applause as he addresses supporters on his signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, at Faneuil Hall in Boston. In his speech, Obama took responsibility for making sure that problems with the Web site, HealthCare.gov, are fixed as soon as possible. (Stephan Savoia / AP)

Boston Red Sox fans celebrate after Boston defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 of the World Series. The Red Sox won 6-1 to win the series. It was the first time the team won the title at home since 1918. (Charlie Riedel / AP)

Boston Red Sox's David Ortiz carries relief pitcher Koji Uehara after winning Game 6 of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. (David J. Phillip / AP)

A man carries an artwork of a skeleton in preparation for the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City's Zocalo square. Mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead to honor deceased loved ones, a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day and All Souls Day on Nov. 1 and 2. (Eduardo Verdugo / AP)

A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this new image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, released by NASA on Oct. 31. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head Nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive stars. Dust in the cloud is being hit with starlight, causing it to glow with infrared light, which was picked up by WISE's detectors. (NASA AFP/Getty Images)

The disembodied remains of a dying star, called a planetary nebula, was captured in this image by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Planetary nebulas are a late stage in a sun-like star's life, when its outer layers have sloughed off and are lit up by ultraviolet light from the central star. The Ghost of Jupiter, also known as NGC 3242, is located roughly 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Hydra. Spitzer's infrared image, released Oct. 31, shows off the cooler outer halo of the dying star, colored here in red. Also evident are concentric rings around the object, the result of material being periodically tossed out in the star's final death throes. (NASA via European Pressphoto Agency)