World News in Pictures

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Protesters help a handicapped protester, who fell from her wheelchair after tear gas was shot towards them, during a demonstration in front of a courthouse in Ankara October 28, 2013. Turkish police fired water cannon and teargas on Monday to break up a protest by around 2,000 people outside the court over the handling of the trial of a policeman accused of killing a demonstrator earlier this year. Officer Ahmet Sahbaz is accused of killing Ethem Sarisuluk, shot dead in June during a wave of nationwide anti-government demonstrations set off by a tough police response to a protest over the redevelopment of a park in Istanbul



People take pictures and videos as Tiger Woods of the U.S. (centre, L) and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland tee off during a 18-hole exhibition match at the Blackstone course of Mission Hills in Haikou, Hainan province October 28, 2013.



Believers dressed in purple carry a replica of the painting of the "Lord of Miracles", Peru's most revered Catholic religious icon, in a major procession through central Lima October 28, 2013. The painting can be traced to the colonial era when an Angolan slave drew an image of a black Jesus Christ on the walls of a hut in a plantation of Pachacamila, near Lima. The image is known as the "Lord of Miracles", after an earthquake in the 17th century destroyed most of the city, leaving only the mural standing



Relatives and friends of the miners dead in a gas leak embrace outside the "Emilio del Valle" mine in Llombera de Gordon, northwestern Spain, October 28, 2013. Six miners have died and five others are injured after a gas leak at the "Emilio del Valle" mine in Llombera de Gordon, according to an emergency services spokesperson.

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Experts said that the storm in England was one of the worst since 1987, when 18 people were killed and about 15 million trees blown over. The Association of British Insurers said it was too early to give figures on the insured loss.

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Feeling squashed: A face carved out of a pumpkin by professional sculptor Ray Villafane and his team in Bellaire, Michigan. See more of the horrifying results in the gallery here



Palestinian police take part in riot police training in the West Bank city of Ramallah.



A chihuahua is helped into a lobster costume at the 23rd annual Tompkins Square Halloween dog parade in New York

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Halloween dog parades

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Bare chested Stoke fans celebrate after Stoke win 4-2 on penalties during the Capital Cup Fourth Round game between Birmingham City and Stoke City at St Andrews stadium in Birmingham, England



The Bosphorus Bridge that links the city's European and Asian sides, with the European side in the background, lights up with a fireworks display during the Republic Day celebrations in Istanbul. Turkey marks the 90th anniversary of the Republic Day



Tongan players preform the Sipi Tau before the Rugby League World Cup Group C match between Tonga and Scotland at Derwent Park in Workington, England

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Israeli security detain a foreign activist as he and others, including Palestinians, try to stop the demolishion a small house (behind) belonging to a Palestinian family in Khirbit al-Tawil, in the northern West Bank, which was built without a permit from Israel. Homes and structures in the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank are frequently demolished by the Israeli authorities stating the structures are illegally built.



Protesters hold an image of Andy Lopez as they march in Santa Rosa, California. Hundreds of people have gathered in Santa Rosa to protest the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a California sheriff's deputy. Andy Lopez was shot by a Sonoma County deputy last week after authorities say the deputy mistook a pellet gun Lopez was carrying for an assault rifle



Whoops: A two-day-old elephant offspring gets in a way at the Zoo in Hanover, Germany



U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (seated, L) and Deputy Attorney General James Cole prepare to testify at a House Intelligence Committee hearing as protesters hold up signs in the audience on Capitol Hill in Washington. The hearing was on the potential changes to the foreign intellience surveillance act (FISA).

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An Indian craftsman paints clay 'diyas' (earthen lamps) ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali in Amritsar. Diwali, celebrated this year on November 3 marks the victory of good over evil and commemorates the time when Hindu God Lord Rama achieved victory over Ravana and returned to his Kingdom Ayodhya after 14 years of exile



Police arrest immigration reform advocates after they blocked a road next to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention center in New York City. The New York Immigration Coalition organized the demonstration and act of civil disobediance in protest of the daily deportation of more than 1,000 immigrants nationwide by the U.S. government. Police arrested ten demonstrators at the event



A favourite peeing tree is no more - Ludo is gutted

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Aquarist Cat Dixon watches Sid, a new born seahorse, with a model mother to keep him company while he grows big enough to join his siblings in the main displays at Sea life London Aquarium



Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attend an official ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of Republic Day at Anitkabir in Ankara



Turkish protestors lie in front of policeman blocking the street during a protest in Istanbul on the sideline of commemorations to mark Republic Day



Half a human body made entirely from cake, designed for Georgia Jagger's birthday by cake artist Sarah Hardy. The food artist Sarah Hardy, 43, started baking her gory cakes after she decided to combine her culinary talent with her interest in the human body

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A released Palestinian prisoner Hazem Shobair is welcomed by people upon arrival home at Khan Younis camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday, the second stage of a limited amnesty designed to help U.S.-sponsored peace talks that have been dogged by divisions on both sides.



A Palestinian man sits next to his belongings as the Jerusalem municipality workers demolish a residential building in an East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, West Bank. The building was demolished after Israeli authorities claimed that the the structure had been built without the necessary authorisation.



A mysterious structure, made with a series of modern cargo containers about four stories high, is rising from a floating barge at the end of Treasure Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Google is thought to be behind the secret project, possibly a data centre

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



A model parades a creation from the Sheguang Hu Hu Sheguang Haute Couture Collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing



Three camels wait outside Radio City Music Hall Hall for their first day of rehearsals for the 2013 Radio City Christmas Spectacular and their starring role in the Living Nativity show with the Rockettes in New York. The camels were joined by two sheep and a donkey

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Manchester United's Javier Hernandez soars high above the Norwich defence to score at Old Trafford in Manchester



Bottles of museum wines, some of which date back to 1895, are stacked in a wine vault containing 280,000 bottles in Tokaj. The Hungarian tradition of plucking shriveled grapes, sometimes one-by-one, to make pricey, sweet white wine dates back centuries, but growers hope new technology will help them harvest the fruit at its rotten best. Tokaji Aszu wine, which retails in Britain for at least 20 pounds a bottle, is one of a handful of wines around the world made with fruit affected by noble rot, induced by the Botrytis fungus that shrivels the grapes and concentrates their sugar.



Mohammad (R), a 13 year-old fighter from the Free Syrian Army, aims his weapon as he runs from snipers loyal to the Syrian regime in Aleppo's Bustan al-Basha district. Mohammad joined the Free Syrian Army after his father died during clashes with the Syrian regime. The gun he is using was his father's

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Nine-year-old Nabila Rehman holds a photo with a drawing she made depicting a drone strike that killed her grandmother, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla. invited Pakistani teacher Rafiq ur Rehman and his children, Nabila, and 13-year-old son Zubair, to speak about a drone strike that killed Rafiq's mother, Mammana Bibi, in the remote tribal region of North Waziristan



Marc Kopp (Bottom), a French multiple sclerosis sufferer and tandem skydiving partner Mario Gervasi (top) skydiving over Mount Everest in Nepal. The French multiple sclerosis sufferer became the first disabled person to skydive over Mount Everest, successfully completing his landing before being taken to hospital as a precaution.

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A protester with the organization Code Pink wears giant glasses with the message Stop Spying as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Director of National Security Agency (NSA) and Commander of US Cyber Command General Kieth Alexander testify before the House (Select) Intelligence Committee on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Capitol Hill in Washington



South Korean soldiers demonstrate special martial arts during a rehearsal for welcoming ceremony of the Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition (ADEX) at the Ministry of National Defense in Korea



Banksy transformed a nature scene on a painting bought from a thrift shop into a high-priced work of art with his addition of a Nazi officer looking at the lake. He then re-donated it to the thrift shop



Sybrina Fulton of Miami, Florida, mother of Trayvon Martin, wipes her eyes during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Stand Your Ground laws in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony on 'Stand Your Ground' Laws: Civil Rights and Public Safety Implications of the Expanded Use of Deadly Force

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Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) sailors disembark a would-be immigrant child from an AFM offshore patrol vessel at the AFM Maritime Squadron base at Haywharf in Valletta's Marsamxett Harbour October 29, 2013. 41 immigrants, claiming to be Syrians and Palestinians, were rescued from a boat in distress 89 nautical miles south of Malta in a joint operation between Maltese and Italian forces, according to army sources



A woman undergoes an eye examination using a smartphone at a temporary clinic by International Centre for Eye Health at Olenguruone in the Mau Summit 350km (217 miles) west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, October 29, 2013. The organisation is running clinics for 5000 eye patients using a new application "Peek Vision" that enables doctors to give patients a full eye examination using smartphones. The phone diagnoses and conducts cataract scans, basic eye tests, and uses the phone's flash to illuminate the back of the eye for signs of disease. It also sends all recorded data of a patient along with their location to a doctor for analysis



The disused bobsleigh track from the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics is seen on Mount Trebevic, near Sarajevo September 19, 2013. Abandoned and left to crumble into oblivion, most of the 1984 Winter Olympic venues in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo have been reduced to rubble by neglect as much as the 1990s conflict that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. The bobsleigh and luge track at Mount Trebevic, the Mount Igman ski jumping course and accompanying objects are now decomposing into obscurity. The bobsleigh and luge track, which was also used for World Cup competitions after the Olympics, became a Bosnian-Serb artillery stronghold during the war and is nowadays a target of frequent vandalism. The clock is now ticking towards the 2014 Winter Olympics, with October 29 marking 100 days to the opening of the Games in the Russian city of Sochi.

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A man runs with a dog at a mass grave in Kuropaty on the outskirts of Minsk, October 26, 2013. More than 100 Belarussians including 22 writers and poets were executed by the NKVD secret service, predecessor of the present-day Belarussian KGB secret service, overnight on October 29, 1937. October 29 is marked as an unofficial day of commemoration for victims of political repression. Between 600,000 and 1.5 million people fell victim to Stalin's repressions in Belarus, according to various estimates



President Barack Obama sits with Speaker of the House John Boehner during a memorial service for former Speaker Tom Foley in the Capitol in Washington October 29, 2013.



U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (seated, L) and Deputy Attorney General James Cole prepare to testify at a House Intelligence Committee hearing as protesters hold up signs in the audience on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 29, 2013. The hearing was on the potential changes to the foreign intellience surveillance act (FISA). Clapper said on Tuesday that foreign allies regularly conduct espionage activities against American leaders and intelligence services

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Ko Min, 26 manually extracts oil from one of three 300 feet deep wells he works on in the Minhla township of the Magwe district October 27, 2013. Everyday Ko Min makes around $30 extracting crude oil from three small wells after he bought rights to use them for close to $1000 from a farmer who owns the land. In Myanmar, an impoverished country rich with natural resources, people from poor communities find ways to supplement their income by exploiting such resources often using primitive and dangerous methods. Picture taken October 27, 2013.



Bangladesh's Rubel Hossain (2nd L) celebrates with teammates after he dismissed New Zealand's James Neesham as he made a hattrick during their first one-day international (ODI) cricket match in Dhaka October 29, 2013

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Under the watchful eye of the Downing Street police officer David Cameron welcomes President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to a UK-Afghanistan-Pakistan trilateral meeting



A sheet weaver spider (Pityohyphantes phrygianus) with a parasitic wasp larva on its abdomen. One of the entries in the 2013 annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. See more of the winners here in the gallery



People in an empty swimming pool recreate a Tomatina style fight...but this time with blood and guts to mark Halloween



Two men row a boat past a partially dried-up riverbed on a section of the Yangtze River in Jiujiang

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An annual convention of women's advocacy groups hold slogans vowing to empower women, in Seoul, South Korea



Shoot from the hip: Scooter rider Ryan Williams during a demonstration of Nitro Circus Live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands



People waiting in a barber shop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games, Rio has started a multibillion dollar urban renewal program for its port district

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Egyptian plain clothes policemen inspect the ransacked administration building of al-Azhar University in Cairo after protesting students stormed the university's offices



Autumn colours are reflected in the water at Fountains Abbey, Ripon in North Yorkshire. 'God's Own Country' was recently declared the best place in Europe and has now been named the third best holiday destination in the world



A Guardia Civil officer stands in the main entrance of the Spanish Bank as anti-eviction protesters try to block access during a demonstration in Barcelona, Spain

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A protester lies next to riot police officers during a demonstration in Phnom Penh. Residents from several communities were protesting against the government evicting them from their homes



Released French hostage Daniel Larribe is greeted by relatives and officials as he arrives at the Villacoublay military airbase outside Paris. Four Frenchmen held hostage for three years by al-Qaida militants in the Sahara have landed in France



Mourners gather after a train rammed into a bus in Nairobi, killing at least 12 passengers on the bus. The train crashed into the side of the bus as it crossed the railway line during rush hour

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Using the streets of the Sao Paulo financial district as a catwalk, models present designs from Fause Haten winter collection, as part of Fashion Week in Brazil



Michelle Obama has a group hug with Sesame Street characters Elmo and Rosita at the White House before joining school children to bring in the annual harvest from the White House Kitchen Garden



What a fright! A young filipino boy dressed as a vampire takes part in the Halloween Parade in Marikina city, east of Manila, Philippines.

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Protesters burn cardboard as they demonstrate against a lack of housing and other services in Cape Town



Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi receives an honorary degree in philosophy from Ivano Dionigi, Rector of the University of Bologna, Italy.

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Hole in one: A rabbit burrows into the side of practice bunker at the Sheshan International Golf Club, Shanghai



Clenched mussels... Authorities in Jakarta have put a hold on issuing permits to farmers harvesting green mussels in the bay of Jakarta due to the poor water quality



Fancy dress: Abigail Venter curtsies to Queen Elizabeth II as she visits the new YHA South Downs hostel in Lewes, UK

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Hellish morning commute: Participants dressed as zombies march during a Halloween event at Tokyo Tower, Japan



A woman sits on her suitcase on a platform during a 24-hour nationwide train strike in Seville, Spain



Workers carry paint to redecorate the sloping stone walls of the Potala Palace during an annual renovation in Lhasa, Tibet.



Filipino Catholics clean up the crypts of their loved ones at a public cemetery at Paranaque city, Philippines to honour the departed on All Saint's Day



Rosana Moses, who is homeless, stands with dogs she cares for in the port district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil