World News in Pictures

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A Filipino store owner aims a pistol and warns looters trying to enter his store in Tacloban, on Nov. 10.

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A native from the Brazilian Pataxo tribe participates in a spear tossing competition during the XII International Games of Indigenous Peoples, in Cuiaba in Mato Grosso state, Brazil



The world's biggest book tower, made up of 19,236 books, which set a Guinness World Record, sits at a square at Suzhou Industrial Park, China

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David Dimbleby has a scorpion tattooed on his right shoulder.Dimbleby, who has been presenting the BBC's general election coverage since 1979, got the tattoo while making the maritime series Britain And The Sea, set for broadcast later this month.You are only old once. I have always wanted a tattoo. I thought I might as well have it done now. It's a dream come true for me, he said



A crater of the Italian volcano Mount Etna has produced its 15th paroxysmal eruptive episode since the beginning of this year



A worker from Yuantong Express sorts packages in Guangzhou, China. The online shopping spree on November 11, in the name of Singles Day, a celebration for those not paired off, has become China's most popular annual commercial holiday. The surging package volume caused great pressure for many express delivery companies

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Members of United States Army march in the Veteran's Day Parade in New York City. The parade included members of all four branches of service, as well as members of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), New York Police Department (NYPD) and veterans from all major conflicts that the United States has been involved with since World War Two



A Free Syrian Army fighter lifts weights inside a room in Aleppo's Karm al-Jabal district

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A girl rides a bicycle among damaged buildings and vehicles along a street in the besieged area of Homs, Syria



Lady Gaga arrives for the 2013 Glamour Women of the Year Award at Carnegie Hall in New York

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A car is crushed by a tree and a lamppost uprooted by strong wind caused by Typhoon Haiyan in Sanya city, China



Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visits the Asha Sadan Residential Home in Mumbai, India

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Author Julia Donaldson holds some dolls after volunteers put the finishing touches to a world record attempt at the longest chain of paper dolls ever at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The event was organised to coincide with the launch of a book called The Paper Dolls, written by acclaimed author Julia Donaldson, and involved 45,000 dolls being submitted from as far apart as Brazil and Hong Kong



Polish nationalists burn a symbol of tolerance during the 'March of Independence'. The main target of the rioters appeared to have been any symbol of left-wing, liberal views, but for some Poles the Russian embassy is a symbol of repression during decades of Soviet domination

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Laid-off cleaning staff from the Ministry of Finance protest outside the ministry in Athens, during the meeting between Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras and EU, ECB and IMF officials



A black rhino is airlifted by helicopter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, as part of a WWF conservation campaign to protect the species from poachers

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Nobel laureate Peter Higgs poses during the opening of the Large Hadron Collider exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The exhibit opens to the public tomorrow



Up in smoke: Afghan security officials watch as 20 tons of opium, heroin and hashish plus cans of alcohol are set on fire during a drug burning ceremony on the outskirts of Kabul



Cambodian anti-riot police arrest a protester during a clash between police and garment workers in Phnom Penh. One woman was shot dead and several injured in violent clashes

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A boy dressed like the Hindu God Shiva at the Pushkar Fair, in Rajasthan state, India



A child holds a bottle of water as he walks in the rain in the typhoon-devastated city of Tacloban, Philippines

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Furnaces used to make charcoal from wood discarded by the illegal logging and lumber industries are seen from a police helicopter during the "Hileia Patria" operation against sawmills and loggers who trade in illegally-extracted wood from the Alto Guama River indigenous reserve in Nova Esperanca do Piria, Para State, Brazil, September 29, 2013. The Amazon rainforest is being eaten away at by deforestation, much of which takes place as areas are burnt by large fires to clear land for agriculture. Initial data from Brazil's space agency suggests that destruction of the vast rainforest - the largest in the world - spiked by more than a third over the past year, wiping out an area more than twice the size of the city of Los Angeles



A woman cries as a protest leader addresses the crowd at the Democracy monument in central Bangkok where tens of thousands gathered in a protest against a government-backed amnesty bill, November 11, 2013.

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Indian Air force personnel perform a drill during raising day celebrations of the Goalpara Sainik School at Goalpara, Assam state, India. The Sainik Schools are a system of schools established with the objective of preparing students to lead as officers in the Defense Services of the country



The 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud', by Francis Bacon has been sold at auction in New York for $142.4 million (almost £90 million

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A natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible, is seen in this NASA handout taken from the Cassini spacecraft. The image captures 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across Saturn and its inner ring system, including all of Saturn's rings out to the E ring, which is Saturn's second outermost ring. Cassini's



An aerial view of the destruction in part of Homs, Syria



An Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim man gashes his forehead with a sword before the religious festival of Ashura in Najaf, 160km (100 miles) south of Baghdad. Iraqi forces tightened security in and around the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Tuesday ahead of Ashura on Thursday. Kerbala expects around a million pilgrims to converge on the city, south of Baghdad, for the culmination of Ashura on Thursday, when Shiite Muslims commemorate the slaying of the prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein in Kerbala in 680 AD. Ashura, the most important day in the Shi'ite calendar, has become a show of strength for a majority whose public worship was repressed by Saddam Hussein



Solo woman rower Mylene Paquette of Canada celebrates as she arrives at Lorient harbour. Paquette reaches Brittany after more than 140 days at sea, to become the first North American woman to row solo accross the Atlantic

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Bobby Thompson, who authorities have identified as Harvard-trained attorney John Donald Cody, enters the courtroom in Cleveland. Thompson, the mysterious defendant charged in a $100 million, cross-country veterans charity fraud, has balked at testifying at his trial and has asked for time to decide. Thompson is charged with looting the United States Navy Veterans Association charity that he ran in Tampa



the stunning colours of Colorado in Autumn



Sir Tony Robinson holds his medal after being knighted by the Duke of Cambridge

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Pity this young survivor using the remains of a house as shelter from rain in Tacloban. Authorities estimate the storm may have killed 10,000 or more across the country



A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up position as he points his weapon through a hole in a bedroom wall in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria. A reminder of ordinary daily life before the civil war.



The political body language of an agreement of co-operation being reached between visiting Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and his Vietnamese counterpart, Truong Tan Sang, in Hanoi



More photogenic sculpture: Chicago's first snow fall of the season sticks to Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate (also known as The Bean) in Milennium Park

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Tacloban in ruins







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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney takes a drink of water as he leads the bank's quarterly inflation report news conference at the Bank of England in London



A student drinks a packet of milk as she wades through flood waters in Lopang Domba Elementary School in Serang, Indonesia



A girl plays with a skipping rope next to a pile of rubbish surrounding containers during the ninth day of a garbage collectors strike in Madrid, Spain



Chelewa with her newborn baby. The mother lost another baby last year after crushing her in a tragic accident



Employees work at a saltern in Rizhao, Shandong province in China



Members of Hamas security forces march along the streets in Gaza City

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One of seven statues reeanacting General MacArthur's historic landing in the Philippines is seen toppled on Nov. 12, 2013, after it was hit by strong winds during Typhoon Haiyan

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Waiting for aid