Today In Pictures: Oct. 8, 2012

A pro-government fighter with the Ras Kimboni Brigade gets a haircut at a barber's kiosk in a market area in the center of the southern port city of Kismayo, Somalia. African Union troops alongside Somali forces seized the formerly Islamist-held town of Wanla Weyn Oct. 7, 2012, the latest loss for the al-Qaeda-linked Shebaab fighters, commanders said. (Stuart Price/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom)