2014 – Images of DECEMBER - Dec 01 - Dec. 08

2014 – Images of DECEMBERDec. 01 – Dec. 08

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This Nov. 20, 2014 photo shows an area controlled by the Islamic State group, past the Qada Azadiroundabout, foreground, in Kobani, Syria. Amid the wasteland and destroyed buildings, a sense of camaraderie has developed among the town’s defenders who have doggedly fought off militant advances for more than two months. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin)Nov. 20, 2014

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Monday, November 24, 2014A rebel fighter aims his weapon as he takes a position at the frontline against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Maysaloun neighborhood in the old city of Aleppo, November 24, 2014. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

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PhotographerStringer .LocationLatakia, SyriaReuters / Tuesday, November 25, 2014A rebel fighter carries ammunition as he heads towards his position near the frontline against forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in the Jabal al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province, November 25, 2014. REUTERS/Alaa Khweled

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PhotographerHosam KatanLocationALEPPO, SyriaReuters / Thursday, November 27, 2014Fighters from the Noureddine Zankimovement, which operates under the Free Syrian Army, rest inside a room near the frontline against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Rashideen neighborhood, November 27, 2014. REUTERS/HosamKatan

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PhotographerHosam Katan

LocationALEPPO, Syria

Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Locally made shells are launched by Free Syrian

Army fighters towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Handarat area,

north of Aleppo November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerHosam KatanLocationALEPPO, SyriaReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Free Syrian Army fighters fire an anti-aircraft weapon towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Handarat area, north of Aleppo.

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PhotographerStringer .LocationALEPPO, SyriaReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Free Syrian Army fighters take shooting positions during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in Old Aleppo, November 30, 2014. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

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PhotographerMahmoud HebboLocationALEPPO, SyriaReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014An injured girl reacts during what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in the Bab al-Hadiddistrict of Aleppo November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerDamir SagoljLocationLopburi, ThailandReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014A terminally ill patient raises his arm in a hospice for those dying of AIDS at the Buddhist temple WatPrabat Nampu in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok, Thailand.

Nov. 30, 2014


PhotographerBobby Yip

LocationHONG KONG, China

Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014A pro-democracy protester blocks a

riot policeman during a clash outside the government headquarters in

Hong Kong December 1, 2014.

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PhotographerTyrone SiuLocationHONG KONG, ChinaReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Police use pepper spray during clashes with pro-democracy protesters close to the chief executive office in Hong Kong, November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerRonen Zvulun

LocationJERUSALEM, Israel

Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014A burnt wall is seen in a torched

classroom in an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem November 30, 2014. Suspected

Jewish extremists set fire to the classroom, police said, targeting a symbol

of co-existence in a city on edge over a recent surge in violence.

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PhotographerSheng LiLocation

CONGJIANG, ChinaReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014

Two bulls fight as villagers watch during an ethnic Dong traditional bullfighting contest in Congjiang

county, Guizhou province, November 29, 2014.

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PhotographerSiphiwe Sibeko

LocationJohannesburg, South Africa

Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Nine-year-old Tumelo holds his grandmother's hand after taking his medication at Nkosi's Haven, south of Johannesburg November 28,

2014. Nkosi's Haven provides residential care for destitute HIV-positive mothers and their children, whether HIV-positive or not.

Nov. 30, 2014


PhotographerAdrees LatifLocationFERGUSON, United StatesReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014An image of 18-year-old Michael Brown is seen on the tie of his father Michael Brown Sr. as he attends Sunday service under a makeshift tent next to the destroyed Flood Christian Church in Ferguson, Missouri November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerAlex LeeLocation

GUANGZHOU, ChinaReuters / Sunday, November 30,

2014Flamingos are seen in a nature

reserve park in Panyu district south of Guangzhou, Guangdong province,

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PhotographerDarren StaplesLocationKEELE, United KingdomReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014A competitor throws during the UK Christmas Tree Throwing Championships in Keele, central England, November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerAdrees LatifLocationFERGUSON, United StatesReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014A protester shouts at police as he blocks traffic before being arrested outside the Ferguson Police Station in Ferguson, Missouri November 29, 2014.

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PhotographerMark Blinch

LocationVANCOUVER, Canada

Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014The Grey Cup splits into two pieces as Calgary

Stampeders' Matt Walter celebrates in the locker room after his team defeated the

Hamilton Tiger Cats in the CFL's 102nd Grey Cup football championship in Vancouver,

British Columbia, November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerDamir Sagolj

LocationLopburi, Thailand

Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Terminally ill patients rest in their

beds in a hospice for those dying of AIDS at the Buddhist temple Wat

Prabat Nampu in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerMark Blinch

LocationVANCOUVER, Canada

Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Calgary Stampeders' Nik Lewis (82) jumps over Hamilton Tiger Cats' Brandon Stewart (9) while running the football in the first half during the

CFL's 102nd Grey Cup football championship in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 30,

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PhotographerRobert PrattaLocationLYON, FranceReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Marine Le Pen, France's National Front political party leader, reacts after being re-elected during their congress in Lyon November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerAlessandro BianchiLocationROME, ItalyReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014AS Roma's Radja Nainggolanstretches before the start of his Italian Serie A soccer match against Inter Milan at the Olympic stadium in Rome November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerTyrone Siu

LocationHONGKONG, China

Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Pro-democracy protesters sleep at a tunnel blocked by protesters near the office of the Chief Executive in Hong Kong December 1,

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PhotographerStoyan NenovLocationISTANBUL, TurkeyReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Pope Francis is seen through a window aboard his plane as he leaves Istanbul, November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerUSA Today SportsLocationSt. Louis, United StatesReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey (12), wide receiver Tavon Austin (11), tight end Jared Cook (89), wide receiver Chris Givens (13) and wide receiver Kenny Britt (81) put their hands up to show support for Michael Brown before a game against the Oakland Raiders at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri. REUTERS/USA Today Sports/Jeff Curry

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PhotographerBobby YipLocationHONG KONG, ChinaReuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014Riot police use a water cannon to disperse protesters during clashes outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong.

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Indians walk though a tunnel decorated with murals during the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Delegates from more than 190 countries will meet in Lima for two weeks to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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PhotographerJorge Lopez

LocationCHILPANCINGO, Mexico

Reuters / Monday, December 01, 2014A masked CETEG (State Coordinator of Teachers

of Guerrero) member loots a vending machine during a protest demanding the government

find of missing students of the AyotzinapaTeacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos, at the General Attorney building in Chilpancingo,

Guerrero, Mexico.

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PhotographerStefan WermuthLocationLONDON, United KingdomReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Comedian Russell Brand (C) holds a banner during a protest by residents and supporters of the New Era housing estate, in central London. The housing estate residents, in Hoxton, east London, fear they could face higher rents after the estate was bought earlier in the year by an investment group, local media reported.

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PhotographerJorge Lopez

LocationCHILPANCINGO, Mexico

Reuters / Monday, December 01, 2014A CETEG (State Coordinator of Teachers of

Guerrero) member walks with a replica rifle during a protest demanding the government find of

missing students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos, in Chilpancingo,

Guerrero, Mexico.

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PhotographerMohammed SalemLocationGAZA CITY, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Palestinians warm themselves by a fire near the ruins of houses which witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the east of Gaza City.

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PhotographerDenis BalibouseLocationGENEVA, SwitzerlandReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014An element of the installation "Voyageurs" by French artist Cedric Le Borgne sits atop building top at Place Bel Air in Geneva.

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PhotographerIlya Naymushin

LocationKRASNOYARSK, Russia

Reuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Members of the "Skipper" yacht club dressed as Father Frost, the Russian

equivalent of Santa Claus, sail a yacht to mark the end of the sailboat season

on the Yenisei River, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November

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PhotographerWilliam Hong

LocationSUZHOU, China

Reuters / Monday, December 01, 2014A monkey cowers as its trainer Qi Defang approaches during training for a circus in

Suzhou, Anhui province, November 29, 2014. Suzhou is known as the hometown of

circus troupes in China and has more than 300 circus troupes.

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PhotographerDanish SiddiquiLocationMUMBAI, IndiaReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014A volunteer pins a red ribbon on the blouse of a sex worker, as her child looks on, during an event to mark World AIDS Day in Kamathipura, Mumbai's red light district, December 1, 2014.

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PhotographerRonen ZvulunLocationEFRAT, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Israeli soldiers stand at the scene of a stabbing attack near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, part of the Gush Etzion bloc, December 1, 2014. A Palestinian woman stabbed and slightly injured an Israeli in the occupied West Bank and was then shot and wounded by security forces, the military and police said.

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIdlib, SyriaReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Children, who are internally displaced due to fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, walk past tents at the Jarjanazrefugee camp in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerOlivia Harris

LocationKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Reuters / Monday, December 01, 2014

London's Mayor Boris Johnson rides on the monorail during an

official visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia December 1, 2014.

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PhotographerIlya NaymushinLocationKRASNOYARSK, RussiaReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Members of the "Skipper" yacht club dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, greet the crew of another boat as they sail a yacht to mark the end of the sailboat season, with the air temperature at about minus 18 degrees Celsius (minus 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit), on the Yenisei River, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November 30, 2014.

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PhotographerAdrees LatifLocationST. LOUIS, United StatesReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Student activists stage a 'die-in' as part of the nationwide "Hands up, walk out" protest, demanding justice for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, at Washington University in St. Louis.

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PhotographerPatrick FallonLocationLOS ANGELES, United StatesReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014An LAPD motorcycle officer uses his baton to push back demonstrators as his colleagues detain a man during a rally against the Missouri grand jury's decision to not indict Darren Wilson in his fatal shooting of Michael Brown and the LAPD's fatal shooting of Ezell Ford, in Los Angeles, California.

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Photos by the Honduran President's Office announced

that the Christmas tree because of people standing together

established a new world record with the largest number of people in the square of the

capital, Tegucigalpa, on December 1, 2014.

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PhotographerTT News Agency

LocationSTOCKHOLM, Sweden

Reuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Swedish Member of Parliament Barbro Westerholm (L)

speaks to former U.S. NSA contractor Edward Snowden, shown on a livestream from Moscow, during the Right

Livelihood Award ceremony at the second chamber hall at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. Snowden was

awarded the Right Livelihood Honorary Award for "his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of

state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and...more

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PhotographerIssei KatoLocationSoma, JapanReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Japan's Prime Minister ShinzoAbe eats a local grilled fish during his official campaign kick-off for the December 14 lower house election, at the Soma Haragama fishing port in Soma, Fukushima prefecture.

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PhotographerCarlo AllegriLocationNew York, United StatesReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014Chris Martin performs with U2 during a surprise concert in support of World AIDS Day in Times Square in New York.

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PhotographerKhaled Abdullah Ali Al MahdiLocationSanaa, YemenReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014A poster of Abdul Karim Jedban, a late member of the Yemeni parliament, is seen on a water tank damaged by an explosion of a bomb planted at the gate of a house belonging to a Shi'ite Houthi in Sanaa. The poster reads, "The martyr Dr. Abdul Karim Jedban."

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PhotographerRadu SighetiLocationBUCHAREST, RomaniaReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014A member of the air force helps her colleague with her make-up before a military parade celebrating Romania's National Day in Bucharest.

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PhotographerPilar Olivares

LocationRio de Janeiro, Brazil

Reuters / Monday, December 01, 2014The statue of Christ the Redeemer is lit

up in red to promote the "Test, Treat, Live Better" awareness campaign marking World AIDS Day in Rio de

Janeiro.

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PhotographerHenry RomeroLocationMexico City, MexicoReuters / Monday, December 01, 2014A protester pushing his bicycle yells slogans while walking underneath a red cloth during a protest in support of the 43 missing trainee teachers in Mexico City December 1, 2014.

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PhotographerIvan AlvaradoLocationSANTIAGO, ChileReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014A sculptural artwork depicting a hooded high school student shooting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and headless presidents is seen at the Contemporary Art Museum in Santiago, Chile December 2, 2014. The artwork, part of the "El ladrillo angular" (the angular brick) exhibition, portrays a student fighting against the ongoing continuity of dictatorship because of a political and economic system which has been impossible to...more

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PhotographerJim YoungLocationWEBSTER GROVE, United StatesReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014A protester argues with police officers during a protest over the grand jury verdict in the shooting death of Michael Brown, in Webster Grove, Missouri, December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerEnrique Castro-MendivilLocationCUSCO, PeruReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Llamas are seen in front of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Cusco December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerYves Herman

LocationBRUSSELS, Belgium

Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attend a NATO foreign ministers meeting at the

Alliance's headquarters in Brussels December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerDanish Ismail

LocationRAJWARA, India

Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Kashmiri women wait in a queue to cast their

vote outside a polling booth during the second phase of the state assembly election in

Rajwara, north of Srinagar.

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A Syrian refugee girl sits on the mud at a refugee camp in the city of Al-Faour of Lebanon near the border with Syria.

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Lufthansa employees wait for customers beside Christmas decoration at the airport in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. German airline Lufthansa said it has cancelled about half of its flights after pilots went on strike in an ongoing dispute over retirement benefits. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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Fireman approach the flames as a fire rages near a mosque on the edge of Lions Head mountain near the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

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Naga tribal men in traditional attire wait to perform a dance during the Hornbill festival at the Kisama village in Nagaland, India, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. The 10-day long festival named after the Hornbill bird is one of the biggest festivals of India’s northeast that showcases the rich tradition and cultural heritage of the indigenous Nagas. (AP Photo/Anupam

Nath)

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The men of the Naga tribe performed a traditional dance festival in the village of horny Beak in Kisama in Nagaland, India. The Festival lasts for 10 days was named species of hornbills and is one of the largest festivals in the northeast of India, introduced the traditions and rich cultural heritage of the indigenous of Naga.

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A woman and her daughter must however turtle but without success after the donation for the monks near the train tracks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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British theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking attends a symposium in Amsterdam on May 23, 2014.

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PhotographerJonathan ErnstLocationWASHINGTON, United StatesReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014People gather to watch the lighting of U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, an 88-foot white spruce from the Chippewa National Forest in Cass Lake, Minnesota, in Washington.

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PhotographerDanish SiddiquiLocationMUMBAI, IndiaReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Indian Navy soldiers play drums during Navy Day celebrations, marking their battle at Karachi Harbourduring the India-Pakistan war in 1971, in Mumbai.

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PhotographerHeinz-Peter BaderLocationKOTTES, AustriaReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Ice-covered leafs of a tree hang over a roadside shrine near Kottes in northern Austria.

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PhotographerMahmoud Hebbo

LocationALEPPO, Syria

Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014A participant runs past a damaged

building as he competes in a running race along a street in Aleppo's Bustan

al-Qasr neighborhood, a rebel-controlled area.

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PhotographerCarlo Allegri

LocationNew York, United States

Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014A man who gave his name as Wildcat works out on NYPD crowd control barricades in the rain in

Times Square in New York.

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PhotographerTomas Bravo

LocationMexico City, Mexico

Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014A demonstrator throws a firebomb at the windows of an ATM facility during a protest in support of the 43 missing

trainee teachers in Mexico City.

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PhotographerUmit BektasLocationANKARA, TurkeyReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Students of Tevfik Ileri Imam HatipSchool climb flights of stairs as they leave their classrooms for a break in Ankara November 18, 2014.

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Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Student leader Joshua Wong makes a

phone call during a hunger strike outside the government headquarters in Hong

Kong December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerNacho DoceLocationNAZARE PAULISTA, BrazilReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014A drought-related cactus installation called "Desert of Cantareira" by Brazilian artist and activist Mundano is seen at Atibainha dam, part of the Cantareira reservoir, during a drought in Nazare Paulista, Sao Paulo December 2, 2014.

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A Syrian refugee boy stands outside his tent at a refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al-Faour near the border with Syria, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Syrian refugees in Lebanon reacted with panic Tuesday to news that the U.N. was suspending aid to 1.7 million refugees due to lack of funds a decision officials said threatens to starve thousands of families and add pressure on already strained hosting countries. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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PhotographerChaiwat Subprasom

LocationBangkok, Thailand

Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Thai Royal Guards march in front of the Grand Palace, during a military parade as a part of a

celebration for the upcoming birthday of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in

Bangkok. The revered King, the world's longest reigning monarch, will turn 87-years-old on

December 5.

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PhotographerEduard KorniyenkoLocationStavropol, RussiaReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014A man in a wheelchair is reflected in a mirror, as he watches a news broadcast showing Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaking at a news conference during his visit to Turkey, at a gerontological center in Stavropol, southern Russia.

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PhotographerAmit DaveLocationAHMEDABAD, IndiaReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014A woman pours vermillion powder on the body of Sonu, a female stray dog, as part of a ritual before her burial in Ahmedabad, India. According to the residents, Sonu guarded the neighborhood for 18 years and was a favorite of all the residents.

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PhotographerDanish IsmailLocationKULANGHAM, IndiaReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014An Indian paramilitary trooper keeps guard near a polling station during the second phase of the state assembly election in Kulangham, north of Srinagar.

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In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, Siegmar Klotz of Italy skies toward the finish during a men’s World Cup downhill skiing training run Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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PhotographerSTRINGER El SALVADOR

LocationSan Salvador, El Salvador

Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Salvadoran workers build a Christmas tree at the Gerardo Barrios Square in San Salvador

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PhotographerChina Stringer Network

LocationCHONGQING, China


A newlywed couple kiss during a photo shoot, as an assistant

runs away after lifting the veil, in Chongqing municipality,

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Former Prime Minister and leader of the Fatherland party Yulia Tymoshenko, center, and lawmakers from her party vote during a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament has approved the formation of a new government, bringing an end to weeks of behind-the-scenes political wrangling following an October election that ushered in a group of ardently pro-Western parties. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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PhotographerJoe PenneyLocationOUAGADOUGOU, Burkina FasoReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Men bury coffins of six people killed during the October 30 and 31 popular uprising, during a funeral service in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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PhotographerStringer SpainLocationMELILLA, SpainReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014African migrants sit atop a border fence, as Spanish Civil Guard officers stand under them during an attempt to cross into Spanish territories, between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerSusana VeraLocationMADRID, SpainReuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Melchorita Garcia, who is at risk of being evicted from her home by the end of the year, cries as she watches how Jose Antonio Giraldo Zacarias, 44, (not pictured) is told that his eviction has been temporarily suspended in Madrid December 2, 2014. Giraldo Zacarias, a former landscape worker for 28 years, stopped making his rent payments to the Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS) in 2011, when he became unemployed. His...more

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PhotographerPOOL New

LocationJERUSALEM, Israel

Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu is pictured during a news conference at his office in Jerusalem

December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerSuzanne Plunkett

LocationLONDON, United Kingdom


Singer Ariana Grande performs during the 2014

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in London.

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A model presents a creation as singer Taylor Swift performs.

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A model presents a creation at the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in London.

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A model presents a creation at the 2014 Victoria's Secret

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Kashmiri Muslims watch the funeral procession of Indian paramilitary soldier Muhammad Shafi Bhat in Buran, some 22 miles north of Srinagar, India, on Dec. 3.

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A Secret Service Agent is seen through tinted and patterned glass as he stands in front of the door to a room where President Barack Obama was meeting with leading CEOs to discuss ways to promote the economy and create jobs during his last two years in office, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, at the Business Roundtable Headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Flowers and a picture cover the grave of Tugce Albayrak in Bad-Soden Salmuenster, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Tugcehad been in a coma since mid-November following an altercation at a restaurant in Offenbach near Frankfurt. She died Friday, her 23rd birthday, after her family gave doctors permission to switch off her life support. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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A Palestnian crane removes the rubble of Jamal Abdelnaser UNRWA School which was destroyed during the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas in Shijaiyah, neighborhood in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. The first large-scale project to remove rubble from the most recent war in the Gaz Strip started Wednesday, a step perceived as notable on the long path of rebuilding. The project is taking place in Shijaiyah , east Gaza City, one of three areas where Israeli artillery shells destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of houses. Sweden is paying $3.2 million for this project through UNDPísProgramme of Assistance to the Palestinian People, where officials hope to crush and clear 140,000 tons of rubble in Shijaiyah in one year. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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A man reads the newspaper on the waterfront in the Urcaneighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Urca is a small and charming neighborhood located at the foot of the Sugar loaf mountain and surrounded by the Guanabara Bay. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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A man steps on loose cigarettes near the site of Eric Garner’s death after it was announced that the New York police officer involved in the death of Garner is not being indicted in the borough of Staten Island in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. A grand jury cleared the white New York City police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of Garner, an unarmed black man, who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, a lawyer for the victim’s family said. A video shot by an onlooker and widely viewed on the Internet showed the 43-year-old Garner telling a group of police officers to leave him alone as they tried to arrest him. The city medical examiner ruled Garner’s death a homicide and found that a chokehold contributed to it. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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A member of museum staff poses for a picture with the most complete Stegosaurus fossil ever discovered, on display at the Natural History Museum in London, England, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. The 150 million year old specimen is similar in size to a 4×4 vehicle and is made up of over 300 bones. It was discovered in 2003 at the Red Canyon Ranch in Wyoming, USA. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

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A neighbour looks inside the apartment as Esther Gimenez Gimenez, 31 years old, not pictured, waits for the police to arrive during her eviction in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Gimenez Gimenez and her husband Guillermo Vazquez Alamo, 32 years old, have three children: Maria Isabel 6 years old, Aitana 2 years old, and Naomi 4 months old. They occupy a BBVA bank apartment, that was left empty after a previous eviction. They could not afford to pay rent with their main income coming from state benefits of euro 530 ($ 652). The eviction was postponed until April 9. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

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A man rows his boat on the River Ganges in the early morning fog on the outskirts of Allahabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Several parts of north India continue to experience cold weather conditions, according to local news reports. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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PhotographerAntonio BronicLocationSlovyanoserbsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014Patients are seen in a hallway at the regional psycho-neurological hospital on the outskirts of Slovyanoserbsk, in a territory controlled by "Lugansk People's Republic" (LPR), eastern Ukraine, December 1, 2014. The hospital is caught in the crossfire in separatist-held territory near the frontline.

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Reuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Gwen Carr, mother of the late Eric Garner, listens as civil rights activist Reverend Al

Sharpton (not pictured) speaks at the National Action Network

in Harlem, New York.

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PhotographerMohamed Azakir

LocationRAS BAALBEK,

LebanonReuters / Wednesday,

December 03, 2014A window with broken

glass overlooks the Lebanese-Syrian

border as seen from a Lebanese military

post, near the site of an ambush where

gunmen killed at least six Lebanese soldiers,

in the mountainous border town of Ras

Baalbek.

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PhotographerNacho DoceLocationNAZARE PAULISTA, BrazilReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A Brazilian flag is seen on the cracked ground of Atibainhadam, part of the Cantareirareservoir, during a drought in Nazare Paulista, Sao Paulo state.

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PhotographerRonen ZvulunLocationJERUSALEM, IsraelReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014Alia Tunisi, a first grade school teacher, adjusts the skullcap of one of her students during reading hour at the Hand in Hand Arab Jewish bilingual school in Jerusalem.

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PhotographerStringer .Location

AKKAR, LebanonReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014

The mother (2nd R) and family members of Lebanese army soldier Ali Mohammad,

who was killed during an ambush in RasBaalbek when gunmen killed at least six

Lebanese soldiers, mourn during his funeral in his hometown of Habshit in

Akkar.

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PhotographerMarcelo del PozoLocationSEVILLE, SpainReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014Andalusian horsemen wait before taking part in a morphological contest for colts of three years during the Sicab International Pre Horse Fair in the Andalusian capital of Seville.

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PhotographerKhaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi

LocationSanaa, Yemen

Reuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014Rescuers search for survivors at the

residence of the Iranian ambassador after a suicide attacker drove a car laden with

explosives into the residence in Sanaa.

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PhotographerDinuka LiyanawatteLocationHAMBANTOTA, Sri LankaReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A ground worker runs over a cover, after the third ODI (One Day International) cricket match between England and Sri Lanka was stopped due to rain, in Hambantota.

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PhotographerHannibal Hanschke

LocationBerlin, Germany


A shovel is placed over coal briquettes during a protest in front of the

chancellery in Berlin. Germany's cabinet will agree plans to cut CO2

emissions by up to 78 million tonnes by 2020, pushing operators to shut some

coal-fired plants, to help Europe's biggest economy meet ambitious

targets to fight climate change.

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PhotographerJim Young

LocationST. LOUIS, United States

Reuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A protester yells as he is detained during a demonstration against police violence and

the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case, in front of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S.

Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri.

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PhotographerHeinz-Peter BaderLocationSCHNEEBERG, AustriaReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A sign for the village of Schneeberg, translated as Snow Mountain, is covered with ice, in northern Austria, December 3, 2014.

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PhotographerAmmar Awad

LocationMAALE ADUMIM, Palestinian

TerritoriesReuters / Wednesday, December 03,

2014Israeli police forces detain a

suspected Palestinian at a supermarket, where another

Palestinian stabbed two people according to police and an

ambulance service, near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West

Bank December 3, 2014.

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationSYDNEY, AustraliaReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014Gregory Hughes (front), the father of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, cries as he carries his son's casket past mourners after his funeral service in the town of Macksville, Australia, December 3, 2014.

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PhotographerKhalil Ashawi

LocationIdlib, Syria


Members of al Qaeda's Nusra Front drive in a convoy as they tour

villages, which they said they have seized control of from Syrian rebel

factions, in the southern countryside of Idlib, December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIdlib, SyriaReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A member of al Qaeda's NusraFront carries his weapon as he stands in an olive tree field, near villages which the Nusra Front said they have seized control of from Syrian rebel factions, in the southern countryside of Idlib, December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerRalph Orlowski

LocationBad Soden-Salmuenster,

GermanyReuters / Wednesday,

December 03, 2014A mourner cries at the

cemetery before the burial of late student

Tugce Albayrak in Bad Soden-Salmuenster,

December 3, 2014. TugceAlbayrak, 23, was beaten

up in mid-November in front of a fast food in

Offenbach near Frankfurt, as she tried to defend

two girls. She was in coma since then and died

on November 28 when her family allowed

doctors to switch off her life support, on the day of

her birthday.

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PhotographerEnrique Marcarian

LocationBUENOS AIRES, Argentina

Reuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A seven-year-old boy, who preferred to give only his first name as Benjamin, bandages a horse as he prepares for

his polo lessons at the Puesto Viejo Ranch in Canuelas, outside Buenos Aires.

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PhotographerMike Segar

LocationNEW YORK, United States


The 82nd Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is

seen shortly after being lit during the annual

ceremony at Rockefeller Center, in midtown

Manhattan in New York City, December 3, 2014.

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PhotographerAndrew Kelly


Reuters / Friday, November 07, 2014

A worker prepares an 85-foot-tall Norway Spruce from Hemlock Township, Pennsylvania to be

hoisted into position as the 2014 Rockefeller Center Christmas

Tree in New York November 7, 2014.

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PhotographerAndrew Kelly


Reuters / Friday, November 07, 2014

Workers hoist the 85-foot-tall Norway Spruce

from Hemlock Township, Pennsylvania into

position as the 2014 Rockefeller Center

Christmas Tree in New York November 7, 2014.

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PhotographerAndrew KellyLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Friday, November 07, 2014Workers hoist the 2014 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York November 7, 2014.

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PhotographerBobby YipLocationHONG KONG, ChinaReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014(L-R) Cardinal Joseph Zen, former head of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong, walks with Occupy Central civil disobedience founders Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, Chinese University sociology professor Chan Kin-man and University of Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai as they arrive at the Central Police Station to voluntarily surrender themselves to the police in Hong Kong December 3, 2014.

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PhotographerBeawiharta BeawihartaLocationJAKARTA, IndonesiaReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A volunteer clears rubbish from the Ciliwung River after flooding last week, in the Jatinegara district of Jakarta, December 3, 2014.

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PhotographerDinuka LiyanawatteLocationHAMBANTOTA, Sri LankaReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014The field is seen after the third ODI (One Day International) cricket match between England and Sri Lanka was stopped due to rain, in HambantotaDecember 3, 2014.

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PhotographerKhalil AshawiLocationIdlib, SyriaReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014Men suspected of fighting against al Qaeda's Nusra Front sit inside a room, after being detained by Nusra Front members, in the southern countryside of Idlib, December 2, 2014.

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PhotographerUmit BektasLocationANKARA, TurkeyReuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A Syrian refugee boy pauses as he carries his sister to their house in Hacibayram district of Ankara November 21, 2014. The graffiti on the wall reads, "He is now a soldier."

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PhotographerAdrees Latif


Reuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014A police officer stands over activists,

demanding justice for the death of Eric Garner, as they stage a 'die-in' during rush

hour at Grand Central Terminal in the Manhattan borough of New York on

December 3, 2014.

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PhotographerRupak De Chowdhuri

LocationKOLKATA, India

Reuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014

Taramuni Ray, 62, cries as she sits on the debris from her

burnt hut after a fire occurred at a slum in Kolkata.

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PhotographerNir EliasLocation

AVIHAYIL, IsraelReuters / Thursday, December 04,

2014Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu attends a re-interment ceremony for Lieutenant-Colonel

John Henry Patterson and his wife Frances in the agricultural

cooperative of Avihayil north of Netanya. Patterson, a British

commander of the Jewish Legion during World War I, died in 1947 and his ashes were brought to Israel and

re-buried.

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PhotographerSiphiwe Sibeko

LocationSOWETO, South Africa


Posters of various newspapers paying tribute after the death of

former South African President Nelson Mandela are seen ahead of his first death anniversary, in

Soweto.

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PhotographerJason ReedLocationLIGHTHOUSE BEACH, AustraliaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A camel yawns as a tourist checks images on her camera following a ride on a camel safari alongside the Pacific Ocean on Lighthouse Beach, north of Sydney.

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PhotographerYuri GripasLocationWASHINGTON, United StatesReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014President Barack Obama dances with participants during the 92nd annual National Christmas Tree Lighting on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington.

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PhotographerDanish SiddiquiLocationMUMBAI, IndiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Indian Navy soldiers demonstrate their skills as they play drums during Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai.

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PhotographerIvan Alvarado

LocationSANTIAGO, Chile

Reuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A student supporter is detained by a riot police officer during a demonstration by

teachers in Santiago, Chile.

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PhotographerERIC THAYERLocationNew York, United StatesReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A protester holds a sign up to a bus window in Manhattan as thousands take to the streets of New York demanding justice for the death of Eric Garner.

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PhotographerGUS RUELAS

LocationLOS ANGELES, United States

Reuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres speaks as

singer Pharrell Williams is honored by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los

Angeles, California.

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PhotographerMarcelo del PozoLocationSEVILLE, SpainReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014An Andalusian horseman leaves after competing in a morphological contest for stallions of four years during the SicabInternational Pre Horse Fair in the Andalusian capital of Seville.

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PhotographerBrian SnyderLocationBOSTON, United StatesReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A demonstrator protests recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, at Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts December 4, 2014.REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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An empty gravel over the protesters while they block the road for the location to build a tourist village project in the forest near the Chambaran Roybon, France. After being postponed several times since the year 2007, the project finally went ahead, but the protesters said it would be disastrous for the environment.

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Those who survived the super typhoon, some people are still living in tents, to evacuate to safer places with their belongings in the town of Tanauan, Leyte province, central Philippines. Forecasters said Typhoon Hagupit will advance into Western Center of the country at the end of this week.

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A worker attached to the names of the victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and over the wall of the tsunami Museum 10th anniversary occurs this deadly catastrophe in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia.

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A Yemeni University student wipe tears in Sana'a medical school in commemoration of one year after the attack on the Yemeni Defence Ministry, killing many who worked in a hospital located within the complex.

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In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, the big wheel is illuminated as part of Christmas lights on the Champs Elysees, in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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A mask lies along a path at a homeless encampment known as The Jungle

Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. Police and social-workers on

Thursday began clearing away one of the nation’s largest homeless

encampments, a cluster of flimsy tents and plywood shelters that once housed

more than 200 people in the heart of California’s wealthy Silicon Valley. (AP

Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Chinese military band members leave after performing at a welcome ceremony for South African President Jacob Zuma at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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A xenon light illuminates NASA’s Orion spaceship early Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Orion is scheduled to lift off later today on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket on its first unmanned orbital test flight. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

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A man dressed as the superhero Captain Planet stands outside a conference room used by the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. A recent study by a top Brazilian climate scientist, Antonio Nobre, draws together data from multiple researchers to show that the Amazon, due to decades of deforestation, may be closer to a tipping point than the government has acknowledged and that the changes could be a threat to climates around the globe. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Protesters rallying against a grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner gather in Foley Square, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a TV screen at a shop in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, giving his annual state of the nation address in the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy, saying the actions are necessary for his country’s survival. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationMAJDANPEK, SerbiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Lazar and his sister Andjelka sit by a candle in their home in Majdanpek, as electricity workers struggled through snow, ice and treacherous terrain to restore power to a town left shivering without power, heating or running water for a fourth day.

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PhotographerEnrique Castro-MendivilLocationCUZCO, PeruReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A view of ancient, terraced salt ponds at the Maras mines in Cuzco, Peru.

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PhotographerEnrique Castro-MendivilLocationCUZCO, PeruReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A view of salt ponds at the Maras mines in Cuzco.

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PhotographerRalph OrlowskiLocationFrankfurt, GermanyReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi addresses a news conference for the first time in the ECB's new 1.3 billion euro headquarters in Frankfurt.

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PhotographerScott Audette

LocationCape Canaveral, United States

Reuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014The Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the

Orion spacecraft sits on the launch pad awaiting liftoff in the sunrise at the Cape

Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Student leader Joshua Wong, covered with a blanket, looks on

during the third day of his hunger strike in a tent outside the

government headquarters in Hong Kong.

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PhotographerERIC THAYER



A NYPD policeman reacts next to people protesting against the

Staten Island death of Eric Garner during an arrest in July, in

midtown Manhattan, New York.

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PhotographerSuhaib SalemLocationGAZA CITY, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Members of Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas march during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City.

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PhotographerAly SongLocation

HANGZHOU, ChinaReuters / Thursday, December 04,

2014Folk artist Han Xiaoming demonstrates painting with his tongue in Hangzhou,

Zhejiang province. Han dips his tongue in ink to paint on paper, and uses his

fingers to fill in final adjustments. The artist also uses a paintbrush held with

his mouth and utilizes fish and vegetables as paint tools, local media

reported.

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PhotographerStefan WermuthLocationIVER HEATH, United KingdomReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Actors Lea Seydoux, Daniel Craig and Monica Belluccipose on stage during an event to mark the start of production for the new James Bond film "Spectre", at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, southern England.

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PhotographerStringer Russia

LocationGrozny, Russia


The Press House burns as militants attack in Grozny,

December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerStringer RussiaLocationGrozny, RussiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014The burnt exterior of the Press House, a local media agency, is seen in the Chechen capital Grozny, after at least six gunmen and three policemen were killed in gun battles when the building was stormed.

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PhotographerStringer RussiaLocationGrozny, RussiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A man looks into a burnt-out car near the Press House building, a local media agency, after a gun fight between gunmen and policemen in the Chechen capital Grozny.

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Reuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Armoured personnel carriers (APC) are

seen on a street in Grozny, December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerStringer RussiaLocationGrozny, RussiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Chechen Interior Ministry servicemen stand guard near a market building damaged during fighting between unknown gunmen and police, in Grozny, December 4, 2014.



Reuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Police stand guard at the site of the counter-terrorism operation near the Press House, in

Grozny, December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerStringer RussiaLocationGrozny, RussiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A local media building known as the Press House burns as militants attack in Grozny, December 4, 2014.

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A burnt-out car is seen near the Press House building in Grozny,

December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerStringer RussiaLocationGrozny, RussiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Police stand guard near firefighters extinguishing a fire at a market near the Press House building in Grozny, December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerStringer RussiaLocationGrozny, RussiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A Chechen Interior Ministry servicemen stands guard at the site of the counter-terrorism operation, near the Press House in Grozny, December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerStringer RussiaLocationGrozny, RussiaReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014The burnt exterior of the Press House is seen in Grozny, December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerZohra BensemraLocationISLAMABAD, PakistanReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Girls talk to each other in their one-room shack while their grandmother sits outside, in a Christian slum in Islamabad.

Christian slums of Islamabad

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PhotographerZohra BensemraLocationISLAMABAD, PakistanReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A man plays with his son as he sits in his one-room shack at a Christian slum in Islamabad.

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PhotographerZohra BensemraLocationISLAMABAD, PakistanReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A girl looks over at her house at a Christian slum in Islamabad December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerZohra BensemraLocationISLAMABAD, PakistanReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A woman cooks during a power shortage at her house at a Christian slum in Islamabad December 4, 2014

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PhotographerZohra BensemraLocationISLAMABAD, PakistanReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A woman stands at her house's doorstep at a Christian slum in Islamabad December 4, 2014.

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PhotographerShannon StapletonLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A demonstrator restrains another as protesters clash with police in Times Square as they protest a grand jury decision not to charge a New York policeman in the choking death of Eric Garner, in New York December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

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PhotographerStringer .LocationBEER ORA, IsraelReuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014Crude oil streams through the desert in south Israel, near the village of Beer Ora, north of Eilat, flooding 200 acres of a desert nature reserve.

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PhotographerDamir SagoljLocationBangkok, ThailandReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014Well-wishers look toward the building where Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadejis residing at Siriraj hospital in Bangkok as people gather to pray for his health and celebrate his birthday December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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PhotographerDamir SagoljLocationBangkok, ThailandReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A well-wisher cries under the building where Thailand's King BhumibolAdulyadej is residing at Siriraj hospital in Bangkok as people gather to pray for his health and celebrate his birthday. The king canceled a public appearance on his 87th birthday on the advice of doctors, disappointing thousands camped outside the hospital hoping for a glimpse of the world's longest-reigning monarch.

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Hachiro Okonogi, center, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

candidate for a Kanagawa district, delivers a speech atop a vehicle

decorated with his name banners and photo in front of a billboard

pasted with posters of local candidates from different political

parties during a lower house election campaign rally at dusk in

Yokohama, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the LDP dissolved the lower house of

parliament on Nov. 20, forcing a snap poll on Dec. 14. (AP

Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Ebola health care workers carry the body of a man suspected of dying

from the Ebola virus in a small village Gbah on the outskirts of Monrovia,

Liberia, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. As officials struggle to contain the

biggest-ever Ebola outbreak in West Africa, their efforts are being

complicated by another problem, bad data that could further hamper the already fractured response. (AP

Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

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A burned-out market pavilion seen through a bullet riddled broken window in central Grozny, Russia, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. Security forces in the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya stormed two buildings yesterday, Dec. 4, including a school, during fierce gun battles with militants that left at least 19 dead, authorities said. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

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Residents take shelter inside the provincial capital of Surigao city close to central Philippines on Friday, Dec.

5, 2014 in anticipation of typhoon Hagupit which is expected to hit land Saturday afternoon. A wide swath of the Philippines, including the capital

Manila, braced Friday for a dangerously erratic and powerful

typhoon approaching from the Pacific, about a year after the

country was lashed by Typhoon Haiyan that left more than 7,300

people dead. (AP Photo/Erwin Mascarinas)

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Protesters march on a highway in a steady drizzle on the final day of

a 7-day march Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Jefferson City, Mo. Scores

of people protesting the police shooting of Michael Brown

arrived Friday at the Missouri Capitol, completing a 130-mile

march from the shooting site in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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An elderly Indian patient who went blind following a cataract surgery, performed at a free medical camp run by a charity, walks into an eye ward of a hospital with the help of a walking stick in Amritsar, India, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. Authorities ordered an investigation Friday after at least 24 poor and elderly people went blind following cataract surgeries performed at a free medical camp run by a charity in northern India. (AP Photo/Sanjeev Syal)

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Sana, a 30-day-old Afghan girl, sleeps on her grandmother’s lap in her home on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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PhotographerAlaa Khweled

LocationLATAKIA, Syria

Reuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A rebel fighter fires a Grad long distance

shell towards forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad located in the

city of Jableh at the Syrian coast, from Jabalal-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province December 4, 2014.

REUTERS/Alaa Khweled

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PhotographerRick Stevens

LocationSYDNEY, Australia

Reuters / Friday, December 05, 2014

Lightning can be seen as a large storm front crosses over the Sydney suburb of Wakehurst

December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Rick Stevens

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PhotographerAntonio Bronic

LocationDonetsk, Ukraine


Galina Bayeva cries with her son and husband next to the body of her father Vladimir Churilov who

was killed by recent shelling at the Azotny district in Donetsk, eastern

Ukraine, December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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PhotographerElizabeth ShafiroffLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A New York Police Department helicopter points its lights toward protesters demanding justice for Eric Garner as they enter the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, New York December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Elizabeth Shafiroff

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PhotographerRobert PrattaLocationLYON, FranceReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014View of Color or Not installation by artist Yves Moreaux at the Saint-Jean Cathedral during the rehearsal for the Festival of Lights in central Lyon late in the night December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Pratta

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PhotographerRobert Pratta

LocationLYON, France

Reuters / Friday, December 05, 2014"Lyon, Terre aux lumieres" installation

by artists Gilbert Coudene and Etienne Guiol.

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Lighting up Lyon

PhotographerRobert PrattaLocationLYON, FranceReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014The Basilica of Fourviere with a mirror ball.

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"Laniakea" installation by artists Jerome Donna and Simon

Milleret-Godet.

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PhotographerRobert PrattaLocationLYON, FranceReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A giant incandescent light bulb, as part of the "Incandescence" installation by artist SeverineFontaine.

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"Color or Not" installation by artist Yves Moreaux at the Saint-Jean Cathedral.

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"Jardin d'Hiver" installation by artist Christophe

Martine.

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"Les Pockets (Pocket Lights)" installation by collective Tilt.

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Reuters / Friday, December 05, 2014"Hi Striker" installation by Collectiv

Beam'Art on the facade of the courthouse.

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PhotographerRobert PrattaLocationLYON, FranceReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014View of Jardin d'Hiverinstallation by artist Christophe Martine during the rehearsal for the Festival of Lights in central Lyon late in the night December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Pratta

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"Reves de nuit" installation by artist Damien Fontaine.

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PhotographerRobert PrattaLocationLYON, FranceReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014"Lyon, Terre aux lumieres" installation by artists Gilbert Coudeneand Etienne Guiol.

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PhotographerRobert PrattaLocationLYON, FranceReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014"Lyon, Terre aux lumieres" installation by artists Gilbert Coudene and Etienne Guiol.

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"Hi Striker" installation by Collectif Beam'Art.

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PhotographerGoran TomasevicLocationMANDERA, KenyaReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A man rides in a donkey cart past Kenya policemen as he crosses from Kenya into Somalia at the border town of Mandera December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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PhotographerNASA NASA

LocationCAPE CANAVERAL, United States

Reuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy

rocket with NASA's Orion spacecraft mounted atop is seen in this handout photo after the Mobile Service Tower

was finished rolling back early on December 4, 2014, at Cape Canaveral

Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37, Florida.

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Liftoff for Orion

PhotographerSteve Nesius

LocationCAPE CANAVERAL, United States


The Mobile Service Tower rolls back from the Delta IV Heavy with the

Orion spacecraft on launch pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in

Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 4, 2014

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PhotographerMike BrownLocationCape Canaveral, United StatesReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014The Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Orion spacecraft lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida December 5, 2014.

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PhotographerSteve Nesius

LocationCape Canaveral, United

StatesReuters / Friday,

December 05, 2014The Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Orion spacecraft

lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force

Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida

December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Steve Nesius

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A Palestinian rally run seek shelter when Israeli military vehicles sprayed slightly smelly in the clash after a rally protesting Israel occupied Palestinian land in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the West Bank.

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A Buddha statue is on display at a shopping center in Beijing. The art work of the sculptor Chinese Yang Tao includes a total of 628 red ropes and about 70 meters.

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A supporter of the regime ruling the Egyptian flag stand before military vehicles on Tahrir square in Cairo in a protest against the ruling of the Court condone murder against President Hosni Mubarak.

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A model of the Capitol made entirely from the various wood types in the U.S. Botanic Gardens in Washington.

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High school students laid wreaths in celebration of a five-day loss of South African President Nelson Mandela at the foot of the world's largest statue of Mandela in Pretoria.

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The scene after a car bomb explosion in the area of Shia in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. A series of car bombings occurred across Iraq, killing dozens of people on Thursday

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Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden on a sunny fall day in Tokyo, Japan.

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Art set "Rêves de nuit" by artist Damien Fontaine during the

Festival of light in the center of Lyon, France. The Festival of light with the works from around the

world lasted from 5 to 8 December, 2014.

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Art set "Black Vulture" by artist Cristina Planas either side of the road in a natural conservation area in the South. The vulture, tied up the Palm trees have died, representing the waste collection workers from different areas of the city and Congress of climate change of the United Nations about to take place.

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Activists in Noel outfits in a campaign to draw attention to the violation of human rights in the cultivation of cocoa farms in West Africa, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.

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PhotographerElizabeth Shafiroff



Protesters, demanding justice for Eric Garner, hold placards while

shouting slogans in Foley Square, New York December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Elizabeth Shafiroff

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PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationNONE, SyriaReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014Orphans attend a gathering organized by Douma charity organization for orphans in Douma , near Damascus December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

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PhotographerBobby YipLocationHONG KONG, ChinaReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014Student leader Joshua Wong, who has undergone more than 90 hours on a hunger strike, speaks to journalists beside other four students on hunger strike, outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

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PhotographerRupak De ChowdhuriLocationKOLKATA, IndiaReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A man jumps to head a ball during his soccer practice in a public park on a foggy morning in Kolkata December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

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PhotographerEduard KorniyenkoLocationStavropol, RussiaReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014An elderly woman sits on a bench during a religious procession in Stavropol, southern Russia, December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko

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PhotographerThomas PeterLocationTOKYO, JapanReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A woman takes pictures of a tree in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden on a sunny autumn day in Tokyo December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

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PhotographerFabian BimmerLocationHAMBURG, GermanyReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014Kamchatka Brown Bear Mascha stands beside a Christmas tree, decorated with fruits and fish, at Hagenbecks zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany, December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

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PhotographerDavid W CernyLocationPRAGUE, Czech RepublicReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014People walk under trees decorated with Christmas lights on the eve of Saint Nicholas Day at the Old Town Square in Prague December 5, 2014. REUTERS/David W Cerny

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PhotographerAndrew Winning

LocationLONDON, United Kingdom

Reuters / Friday, December 05, 2014The full moon rises behind the Shard

building in London December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

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PhotographerAlexandre MeneghiniLocationHAVANA, CubaReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014Girls wait to perform ballet at the Prado Boulevard in downtown Havana, December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

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PhotographerAlexandre MeneghiniLocationHAVANA, CubaReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A boy plays on a street in downtown Havana, December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

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PhotographerSTRINGER MexicoLocationTuxtla Gutierrez, MexicoReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014People react as a man burns after he was set alight with the help of a fellow protester during a protest in Tuxtla Gutierrez, in the Mexican state of Chiapas December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Rene Arauxo

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PhotographerMohamad TorokmanLocationBILIN, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014A Palestinian protester throws back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes following a demonstration against Jewish settlements in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

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PhotographerAndrew KellyLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Friday, December 05, 2014Women perform the "Hands-Up Don't Shoot" action in their car as protesters walk by during a march for chokehold death victim Eric Garner in New York December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

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PhotographerBrendan McDermidLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Half-brother of Akai Gurley, Malaki Palmer, is aided by his father Ken Palmer as he makes a reading during Gurley's funeral at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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PhotographerERIC THAYER


Reuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014

A protester is taken into custody along FDR Drive in Manhattan in New

York City as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of New York demanding justice for the

death of Eric Garner December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

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PhotographerPatrick FallonLocationLOS ANGELES, United StatesReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Logan Browning, with duct tape over her mouth, joins demonstrators protesting against police violence, including the July chokehold death of unarmed black man Eric Garner in New York, as they march near the area where LAPD shot an assault suspect on December 5, in Hollywood, California December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon

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PhotographerGoran TomasevicLocationMANDERA, KenyaReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014George Mwangi and Joel WarvareKaringa, who survived the Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaabattack last Tuesday, stand in the spot where militants killed 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry near the town of Mandera, at the Kenya-Somalia border December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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PhotographerAlexandros AvramidisLocationTHESSALONIKI, GreeceReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Riot police are seen through a cloud of smoke during clashes with masked youths who occupied the Labour Center of Thessaloniki December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis

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PhotographerAlexandros AvramidisLocationTHESSALONIKI, GreeceReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Riot police clash with masked youths occupying the Labour Center of Thessaloniki December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis

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PhotographerNeil HallLocationLondon, United KingdomReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Demonstrator Carla Mastroianni feeds her baby Sienna during a protest in support of breastfeeding in public, outside Claridge's hotel in London December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Neil Hall

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PhotographerGrigory DukorLocationSt. Petersburg, RussiaReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Visitors look at the headless, reclining sculpture of the river god Ilissos at the State Hermitage Museum as part of its 250th anniversary celebration in St Petersburg, December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor

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PhotographerPOOL New

LocationKabul, Afghanistan


Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani reaches out to shake hands

with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel during an arrival ceremony at the Presidential

Palace in Kabul December 6, 2014. REUTERS

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PhotographerHandout .

LocationVALE DO ITAJAI, Brazil

Reuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014An undated handout photo released by Santa

Catarina State Police on December 6, 2014 shows a swastika at the bottom of a swimming pool in Vale do Itajai, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. According to local media reports, police officers in a helicopter

taking part in an anti-kidnapping operation spotted the Nazi symbol by chance. A subsequent police

investigation revealed that the swastika had been there for 13 years. No charges have...more

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PhotographerJason LeeLocation

BEIJING, ChinaReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014

Female delegates take selfies with Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma as he arrives for the

Fifth Conference of Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, December 6, 2014.

REUTERS/Jason Lee

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PhotographerEddie KeoghLocationStoke-on-Trent, United KingdomReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Stoke City's Charlie Adam gets a yellow card for this foul on Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez during their English Premier League soccer match in Stoke, northern England December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

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PhotographerAmr DalshLocationCAIRO, EgyptReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Fans of Egypt's Al Ahly light flares during their African Confederations Cup final soccer match against Ivory Coast's Sewe Sport at Cairo stadium, December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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PhotographerGonzalo FuentesLocationParis, FranceReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Paris St Germain's Ezequiel Lavezzi reacts next to FC Nantes' goalkeeper Remy Riou during their French Ligue 1 soccer match at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

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PhotographerDarren StaplesLocationLONDON, United KingdomReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Sergio Aguero of Manchester City reacts as he walks off the pitch after sustaining an injury during their English Premier League soccer match against Everton at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Darren Staples

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PhotographerNeil HallLocationLondon, United KingdomReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Participants dressed in Santa costumes sing during the annual SantaCon event in London December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Neil Hall

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PhotographerShailesh Andrade

LocationMUMBAI, India

Reuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014People get their eyes tested at a free eye-

care camp on the occasion of Indian politician Babasaheb Ambedkar's death

anniversary in Mumbai December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade

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PhotographerMariana Bazo

LocationLIMA, Peru


A monkey skull necklace hangs around the neck

on an indigenous leader, of the Shipibo people

from the Peruvian Amazon, as he waits to

take part in a formation to highlight the rights of

indigenous people, at Agua Dulce beach in

Lima's Chorrillos district, December 6, 2014.

REUTERS/ Mariana Bazo

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PhotographerBrendan McDermidLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Family members embrace following the funeral for Akai Gurley at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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Photographer

Patrick Fallon

Location

LOS ANGELES, United

States

Reuters / Saturday,

December 06, 2014

Marilyn Monroe impersonator

April Q. Russell joins

demonstrators protesting

against police violence,

including the July chokehold

death of unarmed black man

Eric Garner in New York, as

they march near the area

where LAPD shot an assault

suspect, in Hollywood,

California December 6, 2014.

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PhotographerMark WilsonLocationFOB Gamberi, AfghanistanReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to American troops during a visit to Forward Operating Base GamberiDecember 7, 2014. Hagel met with troops in Afghanistan on what is likely his last visit there before stepping down from his post, and one day after he announced that the U.S. will keep up to 1,000 more soldiers in Afghanistan a year longer than previously planned.

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PhotographerJorge LopezLocationEL PERICON, MexicoReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Edith Mora Mora Venancio, sister of Alexander Mora Venancio, mourns next to others women at their house in El Pericon, December 6, 2014. Forensics identified the remains of Alexander Mora Venancio, one of the 43 missing students of AyotzinapaTeacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos.

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PhotographerNoah Berger

LocationBERKELEY, United States

Reuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014A protester flees as police officers try to

disperse a crowd comprised largely of student demonstrators during a protest

against police violence in the U.S., in Berkeley, California early December 7, 2014.

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDonetsk region, UkraineReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014A man and a child walk in the snow at the destroyed war memorial at Savur-Mohyla, a hill east of the city of Donetsk, December 7, 2014.

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PhotographerNoah BergerLocationBERKELEY, United StatesReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Protesters retreat while police officers deploy teargas to disperse a crowd comprised largely of student protesters during a protest against police violence in the U.S., in Berkeley, California December 7, 2014.

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Reuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Huge protest banners block a main

road along with tents set up by pro-democracy protesters outside the

government headquarters at Admiralty in Hong Kong December 7, 2014. The Chinese characters on the

banners read, "Support the students. I want real universal suffrage. Civil

disobedience. C Y step down" .

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PhotographerStringer PhilippinesLocationALBAY, PhilippinesReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Strong winds and waves brought by Typhoon Hagupit pound the seawall in Legazpi City, Albay province southern Luzon December 7, 2014.

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PhotographerStringer PhilippinesLocationMANILA, PhilippinesReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Children look out of a window at an evacuation center for the coastal community, to shelter from Typhoon Hagupit, near Manila, December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Cheryl Gagalac

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PhotographerDado Ruvic

LocationZENICA, Bosnia and

HerzegovinaReuters / Sunday,

December 07, 2014A member of the Imperial

Russian Ballet waits to perform Tchaikovsky's

"Swan Lake" at Arena hall in Zenica, Bosnia

December 7, 2014.

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PhotographerJason ReedLocationSYDNEY, AustraliaReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Thousands of runners in Father Christmas suits pose for a group photo after completing an annual Santa fun run from Darling Harbour to the Sydney Opera House, December 7, 2014.

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PhotographerHugh GentryLocationHONOLULU, United StatesReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Pearl Harbor survivors wait for ceremonies honoring the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor to start at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii December 7, 2014.

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PhotographerJonathan ErnstLocationWASHINGTON, United StatesReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014President Barack Obama gives a thumbs-up as he and first lady Michelle Obama arrive in their box to celebrate the 2014 Kennedy Center honorees including actor Tom Hanks (2nd L) and comedienne Lily Tomlin (L), at the Kennedy Center in Washington, December 7, 2014.

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PhotographerOlivia HarrisLocationKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014A Vietnamese fan wipes blood on his head after scuffles between fans during the first leg of the Suzuki Cup 2014 semi-final match between Vietnam and Malaysia at Shah Alam stadium in Kuala Lumpur December 7, 2014.

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PhotographerSergei KarpukhinLocationKhimki, RussiaReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Spectators await the start of a cinema screening at a Kinostar De Lux Multiplex in the Moscow suburb of Khimki, December 7, 2014. Furniture retailer IKEA has converted one of the cinema halls, completely replacing standard seats with their furniture, according to local media. There are 17 double beds fitted in the hall, which was renamed to "It wakes love".

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PhotographerNacho Doce

LocationSAO CAETANO DO SUL, Brazil

Reuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014

Vitor Martins poses as he puts on his Santa outfit inside his house,

before a performance with children in Sao Caetano do Sul's

town square, near Sao Paulo, December 7, 2014. Martins has dressed as Santa Claus, working at shopping centers and various

events, for fifteen years, and has 94 percent of his body covered in tattoos, with several in reference

to Christmas.

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrive at the Carlyle hotel in New York, December 7, 2014. Prince William and his wife Kate are on their first visit to New York City, a whirlwind trip that includes visits to a Harlem child development center and the September 11 Monument and Museum.

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PhotographerChina Stringer Network

LocationCHONGQING, China

Reuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014Four men cover their faces while being

photographed at a police station in Chongqing municipality, December 6,

2014. The men were brought into police station for questioning after

local residents accused them as frauds, begging for money at public areas

pretending to be migrant workers who couldn't afford train tickets to go home

for the Spring Festival. They were released after writing self-criticism

letters and promised to behave...more

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PhotographerJonathan AlcornLocationPASADENA, United StatesReuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014(L-R) Pastor Greg Waybright speaks with Emmanuel (son), Matthew Huang, Grace Huang and Josiah (son) during their first public appearance after leaving Qatar, at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, California December 7, 2014. The couple was convicted and later cleared of wrongdoing in the death of their adopted African-born daughter in Qatar and left the Gulf Arab state after a travel ban was lifted, ending a nearly two-year ordeal,...more

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A fighter from the self-styled Donestk People's Republic (DPR) stands guard at the Savur-Mohyla monument to Red Army soldiers who died during World War Two near the eastern Ukrainian city of Snizhne. The DPR held a ceremony there on Sunday in memory of pro-Russian rebels who have died fighting the Ukrainian army this year.

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Locals enjoy a jug of beer at an annual beer festival in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. The popular Bia Hoi draught beer was given away free at the event.

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American swimmer Ryan Lochte competes in the men's 100m individual medley at the World Swimming Championships in Doha, Qatar. He took bronze with a time of 51.24, but saw the record he set in Istanbul in 2012 beaten by 0.05

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More than 250 firefighters battle a massive blaze in downtown Los Angeles at an apartment building under construction next to the 110 Freeway, a major road in the city.

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People push a car stuck on the A93 in north-east Scotland. The UK Met Office has issued a yellow warning in Scotland, with snow forecast across much of the country.

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A member of the Somali security forces stands guard during an operation against al-Shabab in Mogadishu. Security has improved in Somalia's capital in recent years but the Islamist militant group has been blamed for a series of bomb attacks in recent weeks, including one targeting a United Nations convoy last week.

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Three-month-old baby orangutan Bulu Mata preparation is taken to his new home, Monkey World of Dorset, England, from the Zoo in Budapest, Hungary.

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A man runs with a “toroencuetado,” a structure resembling a bull and covered with exploding fireworks, as part of the celebrations in honor of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception on her feast day in Managua, Nicaragua, early Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception is Nicaragua’s patron saint. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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A Los Angeles city firefighter works amid the ruins of a raging fire that destroyed a massive apartment complex under construction in downtown Los Angeles early Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. It was one of two destructive early morning fires in the city. The other heavily damaged a building that houses multiple businesses in a neighborhood a couple miles away. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Janine Motta, of Manalapan, N.J., stands in a field not far from where hunters are watching for bears near the Whittingham Wildlife Management Area, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, in Fredon, N.J. The last of New Jersey’s five state-sponsored bear hunts began Monday, as wildlife officials and opponents of the hunt sparred over whether the hunt has been effective and should be renewed. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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People and a statue are silhouetted against the sun on the harbour in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The Nobel Peace Prize will be presented to and shared between the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzaiand Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in a ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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A woman attends a night light show, in Lyon, central France, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, as part

of the Festival of Lights. Millions of visitors come into the city to watch the four-day event.

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Texas’ Empress Davenport is introduces before an NCAA college basketball game against Southern, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Two police officers chat in front of the tent which was set up by pro-democracy protesters at the occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. Leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, representing those studying at colleges, said last Thursday that they were considering a retreat from the protest sites and expect to come to a decision soon. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Photograph of Australian environmental agencies shows that one in six children dead sperm whale washed ashore in South Australia.

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Greenpeace activists stood next to the text content with calling for use of renewable energy in the future, besides the great Hummingbird pictures over more ground in Nazca, Peru.

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Supporters of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi waiting for him to speak at a meeting of the jugal-essential local before the election in Srinagar, the Indian Kashmir region under control.

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A person sitting on the sea fishing in the port of Muara Baru in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Christmas globe erected at Manezhnaya square, outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

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PhotographerAndrew KellyLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Monday, December 08, 2014A coalition of faith leaders from the Micah Institute at the New York Theological Seminary perform a spontaneous Die-In protest at New York City Hall in response to police violence in New York.

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PhotographerAdnan AbidiLocationNEW DELHI, IndiaReuters / Monday, December 08, 2014Policemen run along with driver Shiv Kumar Yadav (C) who is accused of a rape outside a court in New Delhi, December 8, 2014. U.S. online ride-hailing service Uber has been banned from operating in the Indian capital after a female passenger accused one of its drivers of rape, a case that has reignited a debate about the safety of women in the South Asian nation.

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PhotographerAdnan AbidiLocationNEW DELHI, IndiaReuters / Monday, December 08, 2014Policemen escort driver Shiv Kumar Yadav (3rd R in black jacket) who is accused of a rape outside a court in New Delhi December 8, 2014. U.S. online ride-hailing service Uber has been banned from operating in the Indian capital after a female passenger accused one of its drivers of rape, a case that has reignited a debate about the safety of women in the South Asian nation.

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PhotographerStringer .LocationMANILA, PhilippinesReuters / Monday, December 08, 2014A general view of damaged houses swept by Typhoon Hagupit in Eastern Samar, in central Philippines, December 8,

2014.

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PhotographerAhmed SaadLocationBAIJI, IraqReuters / Monday, December 08, 2014Members of Iraqi security forces and Shiite fighters eat on their vehicle on the outskirts of Baiji, north of Baghdad, December 8, 2014.

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PhotographerGene BlevinsLocationLOS ANGELES, United StatesReuters / Monday, December 08, 2014Flames spread from a massive fire at the sight of a seven-story downtown apartment complex under construction in Los Angeles, December 8, 2014.

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PhotographerFeisal Omar

LocationMOGADISHU, Somalia

Reuters / Monday, December 08, 2014Blindfolded suspects crouch as they are detained during a security operation in

Hodan district of the capital Mogadishu, December 8, 2014, against suspected

militant Islamist group al Shabaabsympathisers.

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationKuwait City, KuwaitReuters / Monday, December 08, 2014A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter from Bravo Co 2/147th AVN Renegades flies support for U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel over Kuwait City, December 8, 2014. Hagel flew out to Camp Buehring to visit with troops stationed there. REUTERS/Mark Wilson/Pool

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PhotographerDanish SiddiquiLocationMUMBAI, IndiaReuters / Monday, December 08, 2014Five-year-old Sonu holds balloons as he helps his father at a fair in Mumbai, December 8, 2014.

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PhotographerMike Hutchings

LocationCAPE TOWN, South Africa

Reuters / Monday, December 08, 2014Ami Denborg (C), sister of Anni Dewani,

leaves a court with family members in Cape Town December 8, 2014. The South

African court cleared Shrien Dewani on Monday of charges that he paid hitmen to

kill his wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.

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PhotographerPatrick Fallon

LocationLOS ANGELES, United States

Reuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014Actor Tyrese Gibson and daughter Shayla Somer join

demonstrators protesting against police violence, including the July chokehold death of unarmed black man Eric Garner in New York, as they march near the

area where LAPD shot an assault suspect, in Hollywood, California December 6, 2014.

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PhotographerGoran Tomasevic

LocationMANDERA, Kenya

Reuters / Monday, December 08, 2014A plainclothes policewoman searches

female passengers, traveling to Nairobi, for weapons in Mandera at the Kenya-

Somalia border December 8, 2014.

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PhotographerSTRINGER Iraq

LocationNAJAF, Iraq

Reuters / Monday, December 08, 2014Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims walk to the holy city

of Kerbala, ahead of the holy Shi'ite ritual of Arbaeen, in Najaf, Iraq, December 8,

2014. Arbaeen falls 40 days after the holy day of Ashura.

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