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October 24, 2011. A Buddhist monk trudges through floodwaters in Bangkok. Thailand is experiencing its worst flooding in half a century.

Caner Ozkan—ReutersOctober 20, 2011. In the wake of the earthquake that killed more than 430 and injured at least 1,000, mostly in Turkey's

southeastern region, rescue workers join to carry a survivor from a collapsed building in Ercis.

William Gularte—ReutersOctober 24, 2011. In Guatemala City, protesters set

tires ablaze on Periferico Avenue to press their demand for a law that would guarantee housing and

basic services for people living in makeshift settlements around the city.

Edgard Garrido—ReutersOct. 21, 2011. A healthy newborn in a hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduran officials estimate that 220,000 babies are born each

year in their country, where the cost of a hospital delivery is $10. On Oct. 31 the world population is expected to reach seven billion.

Kevin Frayer—APOctober 23, 2011. Near the village of Phakding in the Nepalese

Himalayas, a sherpa does a balance check while painting a devotional text on a mani stone, which is used in Buddhist

prayer. The site is on the main route to Mount Everest.

Franziska Kaufmann—EPAOctober 22, 2011. After the fight for the Cruiser Weight WBO World Championship in Ludwigsburg, Germany, a referee confirms that Argentine boxer Rogelio Rossi is unconscious. The bout, which ended when Rossi was

KO’d in the sixth round, was won by 26-year-old Marco Huck, the defending champion from Germany.

Felipe Dana—APOctober 24, 2011. In the crowded slums of Rio de Janeiro, a girl

carries water in front of the city’s recently inaugurated cable-car system. The Complexo do Alemao cable railway can transport

30,000 people a day—without ever making a wrong turn.

Oli Scarff—GettyOctober 22, 2011. Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters, who first gathered

near St. Paul’s Cathedral, opened a camp at a second site, Finsbury Square.

Manu Brabo—APOctober 22, 2011. Rebel forces’ months-long fight to topple Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi ended with

the despot’s death on Oct. 20 in Sirt— Gaddafi’s birthplace and the last stronghold of his loyalists. On Oct. 22, the city looked quieter, perhaps a result of

dust from its new ruins.

Hani Mohammed—APOctober 25, 2011. Compatriots carry a wounded Yemeni

protester from the site of violent clashes with security forces in the country’s capital, Sana‘a. Troops loyal to embattled

President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on thousands of citizens calling for the President’s ouster. At least two protesters were

killed.

Yahya Arhab—EPAOctober 26, 2011. Yemeni women burn veils to

protest government crackdown against peaceful protests during a demonstration demanding the

ousting of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sana'a, Yemen.

Morteza Nikoubazl—ReutersOctober 25, 2011. A woman mourns as she sits next to a grave

of her relative, killed during an earthquake, in Ercis. Rescue workers dug deeper into collapsed buildings in a battle against time to find survivors from an earthquake in southeast Turkey

that killed at least 366 people and made tens of thousands homeless.

Quentin Top—Wostok Press/Maxppp/ZUMAPRESS.comOctober 25, 2011. A day after the earthquake struck

the province of Van in eastern Turkey, rescue workers struggle to clear the rubble of destroyed

buildings in the hope of finding survivors.

Umit Bektas—ReutersOctober 26, 2011. Rescue workers look for survivors trapped under debris after the earthquake in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van. Turkey struggled to provide shelter on Wednesday to tens

of thousands left homeless by an earthquake that killed nearly 500, and rescue teams began taking painful decisions to call off

searches for those buried alive.

John Moore—Getty ImagesOctober 26, 2011. A man sits covered against the

cold and snow at the "Occupy Denver" protest camp in Denver, Colorado. Some 25 protesters slept at the

camp overnight as a winter snow storm moved in, and several demonstrators have been taken to the

hospital for hypothermia.

Oswaldo Rivas—ReutersOctober 20, 2011. A man transports a coffin across a river using rope and pulley as he travels with others to collect the body of

a relative at the flood-affected remote community of San Nicolas, 154 km (95.7 miles) north of Managua, Nicaragua.

Twelve people died in the floods after heavy rains in the area.

Dario Lopez-Mills—APOctober 22, 2011. Sebsatian Harmsen of Peru

reacts after taking a fall in the men's wakeboard final during the water skiing event at the Pan

American Games in Chapala, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Dieu Nalio Chery—APOctober 21, 2011. An orphan reacts inside a UNICEF bus as he is taken away after the closure of the Son

of God orphanage In Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The orphanage, whose director was accused by U.S. missionaries of not feeding children and selling

donated goods, was closed Oct. 21 in a rare crackdown by Haitian authorities.

Mustafa Quraishi—APOctober 24, 2011. An exiled Tibetan girl cries outside the gate of the United Nations Information Center at a protest against the U.N. on its foundation day in New Delhi, India. The protest was held to express

solidarity with the plight of people in Tibet, some of whom have set themselves on fire to protest against

Chinese rule.

Khaled Abdullah—ReutersOctober 24, 2011. A defected army soldier now backing the anti-government protesters takes a

position at a checkpoint near the Taghyeer (Change) Square, where protesters are camping to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali

Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a.

Carlos Barria—ReutersOctober 27, 2011. Riot police order people to move at the entrance to the Zhili town government building in Huzhou city, Zhejiang province. Hundreds of people

have clashed with police and smashed public property in China's eastern Zhejiang province after a

dispute between tax authorities and a local shop owner snowballed into protests.

Marko Djurica—ReutersOctober 23, 2011. A wooden cross is placed on a concertina wire

at the barricades in the village of Jagnjenica, near the town of Zubin Potok. Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs prevented NATO troops in Kosovo from removing roadblocks on roads to two contested

border crossings between the country's volatile north and Serbia.

Tony Karumba—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 24, 2011. An injured man lies on a bed at the Kenyatta hospital in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on as he waits to be x-

rayed for possible bone injuries following a grenade attack on a bar. A grenade was thrown into a discotheque in Kenyan capital Nairobi early injuring 14 people, all Kenyans, in an attack police linked with recent threats made by Somali Shebab insurgents.

Majdi Mohammed—APOctober 21, 2011. Palestinians wield a

sling-shots at Israeli troops during clashes outside Israeli military prison

Ofer near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Jay Finneburgh—APOctober 25, 2011. 24-year-old Iraq War veteran Scott

Olsen lays on the ground bleeding from a head wound after being struck by a by a projectile during

an Occupy Wall Street protest in Oakland, Calif. Olsen suffered a fractured skull while marching with other protesters attempting to re-establish a presence in

the area of the disbanded camp.

Regis Duvignau—ReutersOctober 21, 2011. An inflatable

sculpture is seen on a facade of the Louvre museum as part of the

International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) in Paris.

Ferenc Redei—ReutersOctober 27, 2011. A therapist from the Gezenguz

(Rascal) Foundation works with an infant during an underwater nerve therapy session in Budapest. Infants and children who have birth injuries and

congenital developmental conditions or diseases seek rehabilitation at the foundation.

Alessandra Benedetti—CorbisOctober 23, 2011. An unidentified man burns a bible on St. Peter's Square in Rome during Pope Benedict

XVI's canonisation of three founders of religious orders as saints of the Catholic Church.

Cheryl Ravelo—ReutersOctober 23, 2011. A boy models his monster

costume during the kids costume competition at the "Scaredy Cats and Dogs" Halloween fund-raising event at a mall in Quezon City, Metro

Manila, Philippines.

Francois Mori—APOctober 25, 2011. An effigy of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi with writng in Arabic reading "Libya Hura", meaning "Libya Free" is displayed at a check point at the entrance of Misrata, Libya. The bodies of Muammar Gaddafi, his son, Muatassim Gaddafi,

and his ex-defense minister Abu Bakr Younis were removed from Misrata Monday night to be buried at a secret location.

Guillem Valle—EPAOctober 21, 2011. A Libyan rebel fighter covers a dead body of

an alleged Muammar Gaddafi loyalist, killed by a NATO air strike in the outskirts of Sirt, Libya. Libyan deposed leader Muammar

Gaddafi was arrested on Oct. 20, he was found hiding in a drainage pipe in Sirte. He died later, along with his son

Motassim.

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Abbas Momani—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 29, 2011. In the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, Palestinian stone throwers

clash with Israeli forces following the weekly demonstration against Israel’s

continued settlement expansion.

John Moore—Getty ImagesOctober 29, 2011. A policeman in riot gear arrests a

protester at the Occupy Denver camp. Police trying to tear down some newly erected tents at the

encampment scuffled with demonstrators. They also arrested about six people and pepper-sprayed others

during the melee.

Valery Hache—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. Protesters demonstrate in the French resort

town of Cannes, two days before the G-20 economic summit convened there. Demonstrators planned to march by the

thousands through the streets of neighboring Nice in opposition to omnipotent corporations and their government enablers.

Christopher Furlong—Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. Members of the

Gendarmerie erect a barricade ahead of an anti-G20 demonstration in Nice, France. Anti-G20 demonstrators are gathering in Nice ahead of the arrival of the world's top economic leaders

for the G20 summit in Cannes.

Eric Gaillard—ReutersNovember 1, 2011. General view as anti G20 demonstrators hold up signs near a sphere decorated as the planet with the message,

"Hello, the G20?" as they take part in a protest march against globalisation in Nice,

southeastern France.

Ahmad Nadeem—ReutersOctober 31, 2011. A bloodied Afghan policeman stands near a building in Kandahar that housed

offices of a U.N. refugee agency. At least five died when a suicide bomber backed a truck into the

building. It was the second major attack in days on international aid organizations in the provincial

capital.

Mohammad Ismail—ReutersOctober 29, 2011. A foreign soldier investigates the crater

caused by an explosion at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. At least four people were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of foreign soldiers in the Afghan capital,

Kabul, with an unspecified number of NATO-led troops among other casualties.

Prakash Mathema—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. Nepalese riot police chase a Tibetan protester near the

Jwalakhel Refugee Camp in Kathmandu. Nepalese police arrested more than 50 Tibetan exiles demonstrating in support of monks from their

homeland who have set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule. Nine Buddhist monks and a nun have self-immolated since March in southwest China's Sichuan province, home to a large ethnic Tibetan

population.

Aftab Alam Siddiqui—AP PhotoNovember 1, 2011. Hindu devotees in the Indian state of Bihar wade into the Ganges during an annual festival honoring the sun

deity.

Rajanish Kakade—AP PhotoNovember 1, 2011. An Indian Hindu woman offers prayers to the setting sun during the

festival of Chhath at the Arabian Sea, in Mumbai, India. During this ancient Hindu

festival, rituals are performed to thank the Sun god for sustaining life on earth.

Fayez Nureldine—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 31, 2011. A general view shows

hundreds of thousands of pilgrims praying at Mecca's Grand Mosque in

Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage to the Shrine City.

Enrique Castro-Mendivil—ReutersNovember 1, 2011. A view of Nueva Esperanza

cemetery during the Day of the Dead celebrations in Villa Maria, Lima. Each year

people visit the cemetery, one of Latin America's largest, to honor the dead.

Rodrigo Abd—AP PhotoNovember 1, 2011. A boy flies a kite in the cemetery on Day of

the Dead in Zunil, Guatemala. Mayans believe the dead are allowed to visit their families on earth for one day. Family members fly kites to guide their departed relatives to their

earthly homes. Decorating graves with fresh flowers is common throughout Latin America, as is having a picnic at the departed

relative's grave site.

Dario Pignatelli—PolarisNovember 1, 2011. A tombstone is seen partially submerged at the cemetery of

a flooded temple where hundreds of victims found shelter in Laksi, Bangkok.

Barbara Walton—EPAOctober 31, 2011. Rescuers pull Thai flood victims through oily waters that swamp a major highway in Bangkok. At least 381 have died and millions more have been affected in the most

devastating floods to hit Thailand since 1995. Health concerns are rising as filthy water inundates parts of the capital and

northern provinces.

Rungroj Yongrit—EPANovember 1, 2011. A Thai boy is reflected on floodwaters at a residential area in Bangkok,

Thailand. It will take at least ten days to drain 5.5 billion cubic meters of floodwaters north of Bangkok

around the capital and then into the sea.

Adrees Latif—ReutersNovember 1, 2011. Airplanes are reflected in flood waters in Bangkok's domestic Don Muang airport at dawn. Nearly 400 people have been killed in months of floods that have disrupted the lives of more than

two million.

Andrew Gombert—EPAOctober 28, 2011. A police officer walks past paper

airplanes thrown by protesters at the Bank of America headquarters in Manhattan as protesters

associated with Occupy Wall Street gather outside. Protesters delivered 6,000 letters from angry bank customers to the headquarters of Bank of America,

Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and JP Morgan.

Khalid Mohammed—AP PhotoNovember 1, 2011. A U.S. military helicopter flies over the

Ramadi desert, Iraq. The U.S. has promised to withdraw from Iraq by the end of the year as required by a 2008 security

agreement between Washington and Baghdad. Some 39,000 U.S. troops are scheduled to clear out along with their

equipment.

Pius Utomi Ekpei—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 31, 2011. Barges laden with stolen oil are stationed along the Imo

Rivers at Abia state, Nigeria. In a raid along Imo River, the military reported seizing 30 barges with unspecified quantities of crude and illegally refined oil. Thieves often sabotage pipelines in order to gain access to crude, resulting in oil spills. The military said it has arrested dozens of suspected oil thieves in recent months and destroyed some

2,000 illegal make-shift refineries.

Behrouz Mehri—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 1, 2011. US Crew Chief specialist Saul

Avila from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off," Charlie Company 1-171 Aviation Regiment looks on

with his night vision goggles in a medevac helicopter while the hospital staff move three Afghan National

Army (ANA) soldiers to the ambulance after they were airlifted in Helmand province.

Behrouz Mehri—AFP/Getty ImagesOctober 31, 2011. A severely wounded US

Marine hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is carried by his comrades to a medevac helicopter of U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust

Off", Charlie Company 1-171 Aviation Regiment to be airlifted in Helmand province.

Morteza Nikoubazl—ReutersOctober 29, 2011. A door remains standing around

rubble after buildings collapsed during the earthquake, in Guvecli village. Authorities overseeing

relief efforts after Turkey's biggest earthquake in over a decade were confident emergency needs for tens of thousands made homeless would be met in

hardest hit urban areas.

Gerald Herbert—AP PhotoNovember 1, 2011. Blood is seen on a storm drain on

the sidewalk at the corner of Bourbon St. and St. Louis St. in the French Quarter section of New

Orleans, where eight people were shot. Another four were shot nearby on Canal St. in a separate incident. Fifteen people were shot and at least two killed in a

bloody wrap up of Halloween.

Jorge Dan Lopez—ReutersOctober 28, 2011. Outside the Church of San Simon in Iztapa,

near Guatemala City, a woman conducts a ritual for devotees of St. Simon. For some, he is synonymous with prosperity and happiness; others link him to witchcraft and paganism. The faithful offered money, liquor or tobacco in exchange for his

blessings.

Akhtar Soomro—ReutersOctober 29, 2011. Students attend morning

exercise before going to classrooms in a private school at a slum area on the outskirts of

Karachi, Pakistan.

Diego Azubel—EPAOctober 30, 2011. Spectators watch

from behind a fence during the Formula One Grand Prix of India at the Buddh

International Circuit on the outskirts of New Delhi.

Dar Yasin—AP PhotoOctober 31, 2011. Sheep colored to attract customers

gathered at a market ahead of the Eid-al-Adha festival in Srinagar, India. Muslims in Kashmir

celebrate Eid-al-Adha on Nov. 7 with sacrificial killing of sheep, goats, cows or camels.

Gene Blevins—Los Angeles Daily News/ZUMAPRESS.com

October 28, 2011. A Delta 2 launches with an advanced environmental satellite to observe our

home planet at 2:48 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Enrique De La Osa—ReutersOctober 28, 2011. Schoolchildren leave after throwing flowers

into the sea in honor of rebel hero Camilo Cienfuegos from Havana's seafront boulevard "Malecon." Cienfuegos was a

commander of Fidel Castro's rebel army but died less than a year after their victory when his plane disappeared over the

ocean on Oct. 28, 1959 enroute from Havana to Camaguey. The plane and his body were never found. Every year on Oct. 28,

Cubans toss flowers into the sea in his honor.

Jessica Hill—AP PhotoOctober 30, 2011. A man walks near a tree down on a power line a day after a snow storm in Glastonbury,

Conn.

Maxim Shipenkov—EPANovember 1, 2011. Russian soldiers in historical uniforms march

during a military parade rehearsal on the Red Square in Moscow. The parade will take place on Nov. 7 to mark the

anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through the Red Square to the front lines of World War

II.

Mike Segar—ReutersOctober 28, 2011. New U.S. citizens celebrate

after taking the oath of citizenship during a naturalization ceremony beneath the Statue of

Liberty, which recently celebrated its 125th anniversary.

Ali Ali—EPAOctober 31, 2011. Palestinian militants from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

(DFLP) during the funeral of Ahmed Jarghuon in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip. Jarghoun was killed

in an Israeli air strike on Oct. 30. Nine Palestinian militants and an Israeli civilian were killed in an

escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel.

Stephen Lam—ReutersNovember 3, 2011. A demonstrator waves a flag as rubbish

burns at the Occupy Oakland demonstration in Oakland, California. Police in riot gear clashed with protesters in Oakland

in the early morning hours on Thursday, firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators lingering in the streets after a day of mostly peaceful rallies against economic inequality and police

brutality.

Joel Saget—AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 3, 2011. A fireman holds a flare during a demonstration of the

profession against a reform changing the methods of recruitment in Paris.

Jack Guez/AFP/Getty ImagesNovember 3, 2011. Israeli soldiers from the army's Home Front Command and rescue

teams take part in defence drill simulating a missile attack at a school in Holon, near Tel

Aviv.

Oleg Urusov—Itar-Tass/NewscomOctober 30, 2011. The Soyuz-V launch vehicle

with the Progress M-13M blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It will bring more than 2.6 tons of cargo to the International

Space Station (ISS).

Carlos Jasso—ReutersOctober 29, 2011. Sex workers in skeleton masks

pause for a moment after a procession in Mexico City just before the Day of the Dead (Nov. 1 and 2). The demonstration by more than 100 prostitutes was in memory of deceased colleagues, especially those

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Gurinder Osam—AP November 7, 2011. A young Indian Muslim girl stands while others pray in New Delhi during 'Id al Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice,

which follows the end of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

Green Renaissance—EPANovember 8, 2011. A sedated black rhino is carried by military helicopter away from a poaching area in the hills of the Eastern Cape in South Africa to a new home 15 miles away. The World Wildlife Fund organized the move of 1,000 rhinos, which are

under threat from poachers across Africa because of the market value of their horns.

Jane Hahn—CorbisNovember 7, 2011. A Liberian man in Monrovia,

carries a burning stand after riots broke out during a protest over runoff elections. The main opposition party, the CDC headed by Winston Tubman and George Weah, have boycotted the runoff vote, challenging the country's delicate democracy.

Ramon Espinosa—APNovember 7, 2011. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter pauses

during an interview in Leogane, Haiti. Carter and his wife Rosalynn joined volunteers from around the world to build 100 homes in partnership with earthquake-affected families in Haiti during a weeklong project sponsored by Habitat for Humanity.

China Daily/ReutersNovember 11, 2011. Rescuers take a break

outside a coal mine after a gas leak accident in Shizong county,Yunnan province, China.

Twenty-one miners have been confirmed dead. Hundreds of rescuers rushed to save 22 people

still trapped underground.

Dmitry Lovetsky—AP PhotoNovember 8, 2011. Birds fly over

burning South dump in St.Petersburg, Russia. South dump is the biggest in

St.Petersburg and situated near Pulkovo airport.

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