Week in Pictures | October 5, 2012

In this Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, photo, job hunter Bessie Soley, of Locust Grove, Ga., files out an application at the National Job Fair in Atlanta. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 367,000, a level consistent with only modest hiring on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2012. The Labor Department says applications increased last week by 4,000 from the previous week’s level of 363,000. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

In this July 25, 2012, file photo Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner leaves the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill after testifying for two and one half hours before the House Financial Services Committee, where he warned that Europe’s debt crisis and the looming U.S. budget crisis could weaken an already-fragile U.S. economy. As the government closes the books Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, with a $1.1 trillion deficit for the year, which required borrowing 32 cents for every dollar it spent, budget analysts have little confidence in either President Barack Obama’s or Mitt Romney’s plan to address the accumulating debt, now at about $16 trillion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talk at the end of the first presidential debate in Denver, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)