World News in Pictures

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Stranded window washers hang after the carriage came dislodged from cables along side One World Trade Center in New York November 12, 2014.

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LONDON: The world's tallest and shortest men came face to face -- well, face to shin -- on Thursday to celebrate the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day.
0.55m v 2.52m

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A protester, wearing a mask depicting Australian PM Tony Abbott, and dressed as a lifeguard, calls for global equality among nations outside the venue site of the annual G20 leaders summit in Brisbane. Leaders depicted are (L-R) Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, South African President Jacob Zuma and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.





Participants vote during the first session of the new local parliament of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.





The Dome of the Rock is seen in the background as Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills during Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City.





Students listen to U.S. President Barack Obama speak at Yangon University in Yangon, Myanmar.





Egmont National Park in New Zealand with Mt. Taranaki at its center is seen in a Landsat 8 satellite image taken July 3, 2014 and released by NASA, Friday. The image is from the book "Sanctuary: Exploring the World's Protected Areas from Space."

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Very nice, folks....

Thanks!

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Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott and US President Barack Obama meet Jimbelung the koala before the start of the first G20 meeting in Brisbane, Australia, November 15, 2014.
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A boy jumps over a whale carcass as workers prepare a grave for the whale's burial on Popoyo Beach, in Tola, Nicaragua, Saturday, Nov 15, 2014. The stranded whale was discovered Friday morning on Nicaragua's southern Pacific coast where a group of people tried in vain to push it back into the sea. The whale died Friday night.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Keep it going folks, you're doing Mr L proud.

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Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway poses with the "victory reindeer" Lars, named after his father, after winning the men's slalom event during the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup race in Levi, Kittila.





Recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine load debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Hrabove, Ukraine four months after the plane was brought down.





A woman shouts slogans using a megaphone during a demonstration stage in support of the independence of the Western Sahara in Madrid as the 39th European Conference for support and Solidarity with the Saharawi People (EUCOCO) is held. The Western Sahara is a territory bordered by Morocco and Algeria and disputed by Spain and Morocco who both claim sovereignty.





A Bantam Minorca looks out from its cage at the National Poultry Show, hosted by 'The Poultry Club of Great Britain' and held at The International Centre in Telford, Shropshire.





Employees stand behind one of Napoleon's hat at its auction in Fontainebleau, South of Paris. Napoleon Bonaparte's famous bicorn hat was sold 1.5 million euros, $1,930,000.

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Russia's Elena Ilinykh and Ruslan Zhiganshin perform during the exhibition gala at the Rostelecom Cup ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Moscow November 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov)


Carabinieri divers and Fire brigades at work during the search operations for a missing person after torrential rain in Serra Ricco', near Genoa, Italy, November 16, 2014. A wave of storms and torrential rain is hitting many parts of northern Italy. (EPA/LUCA ZENNARO)


Cleveland Browns defensive back K'Waun Williams (36) breaks up a pass in the end zone against Houston Texans wide receiver Damaris Johnson in the first quarter of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)


Ghost statues by artist Jakub Hadrava are placed at the St. George's church near Plzen on November 16, 2014 in Lukova, Czech Republic. Artist Jakub Hadrava created 32 plaster life-size ghost statues, which symbolize Sudeten Germans who lived in the village. (Matej Divizna/Getty Images)

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Palestinian protesters sit atop a section of Israel's controversial barrier that separates the West Bank town of Abu Dis from Jerusalem.





Thousands of colourful notes are displayed on "Lennon Wall" as a couple carrying a yellow umbrella, a symbol of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement, walks past at the Admiralty protest site in Hong Kong.





A digger is used to dump eggs and chickens into a container at a poultry farm, where a highly contagious strain of bird flu was found by Dutch authorities, in Hekendorp, Ntherlands.





People wearing masks march through the city center to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Prague, Czech Republic.





Demonstrators show symbolic red cards to Czech President Milos Zeman during a protest rally in Prague, Czech Republic.





A man grooms his mini poodle after competition at the 2014 China International Pet Show in Beijing. The China International Pet Show (CIPS) will take place from November 17 to 20.

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People shop at the market in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk as artillery fire continues to rock the eastern Ukraine's pro-Russian rebel bastion.





Women take part in a protest along a main street in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The demonstrators were demanding justice for a woman who was attacked and stripped recently in Nairobi by men who claimed that she was dressed indecently.

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People, one wearing a mask depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, march through the city center to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Prague November 17, 2014. Czech Republic marks the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which led to the fall of the communist regime 25 years ago, on Monday. (REUTERS/David W Cerny)


Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with models of trucks during an interactive demonstration of transportation logistics during her visit to the Future Logistics Living Lab in Sydney, November 17, 2014. Merkel is in Sydney following the G20 leaders Summit in Brisbane. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)


A man wearing a face mask stands on a bridge in front of the financial district of Pudong on a hazy day, in Shanghai November 17, 2014. (REUTERS/Aly Song)


An athlete competes in the Air Sports Paragliding Men's Individual Accuracy during the 2014 Asian Beach Games at Chaofa Mine on November 17, 2014 in Phuket, Thailand. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)


A tattoo expert and a policeman (L) point at one of the pictures of body parts found in parcels as they address reporters in Bangkok November 17, 2014. Thai police said on Monday two Americans suspected of trying to send infant and adult body parts in parcels to the United States had fled the country. A baby's head, a baby's foot sliced into three parts, a heart and a "sheet of skin" with tattoo markings were found in parcels on Saturday after staff at a shipping office in Bangkok scanned the packages, police said. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)


Smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following an airstrike by the US led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border Monday, Nov. 17, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)


Police tape and warning signs are seen outside a duck farm in Nafferton, northern England November 17, 2014. Bird flu found on a duck farm in northern England might be linked to a highly contagious strain of the disease found this weekend at a poultry farm in the central Netherlands, as well as a case early this month in Germany. In the British case, the virus was discovered at a duck farm in North Yorkshire. (REUTERS/Phil Noble)

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NatGeo photographers work to document "The President" a 3200 year old giant sequoia.

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Sumo wrestler Chiyomaru, left, gets a slap on his face from Georgian-born Tochinoshin at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, in Fukuoka, western Japan, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)


Building employees dismantle a barricade outside Citic Tower in accordance with a court injunction to clear up part of the protest site, outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong November 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu)


Swans are caught in a small lock after being rounded up from Hamburg's inner city lake Alster November 18, 2014. Every year the swans are collected from waterways around the northern German city of Hamburg and taken to winter quarters where they are fed and cared for until the spring. (REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer)


Members of the cultural group "Ngati Ranana Maori' from London perfom in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, November 18, 2014. Portraits are on display for the first time outside of New Zealand in the exhibition 'Gottfried Lindauer: The Maori Portraits' which runs from November 20, 2014 until April 12, 2015. (EPA/MATTHIAS BALK)


Shoppers walk past a Buddhist monk asking for alms in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. The news Monday that the economy contracted 1.6 percent in annual terms in July to September, following a 7.1 percent decline the previous quarter, virtually ensures that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will decide Tuesday to delay a tax hike planned for October 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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A man sets fire to the door of Mexico City's National Palace during a Nov. 8 demonstration. On Nov. 7, Mexican officials announced that 43 missing students were likely murdered and their remains incinerated.
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A model poses during the Kepri Fashion Carnival in Bintan Island, Indonesia, Nov. 8.




Members of the Syrian Civil Defense run to the site of an alleged government airstrike in the northern city of Aleppo, Nov. 11. On Thursday, Foreign Policy's Gopal Ratnam reported that the U.S. government "is edging closer to establishing a safe zone in northern Syria that will allow rebel fighters to remain in the country without being forced out" by the Assad regime and other militant groups.




Zambian Air Force jets perform a fly-by during the state funeral of late Zambian President Michael Sata in Lusaka, Nov. 11.




Residents and survivors release lanterns during a memorial service to commemorate the first anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines, Nov. 8.

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An Indonesian student protester runs after he caught fire while throwing a molotov cocktail towards police during a protest against the new president's decision to hike fuel prices this week in Makassar, South Sulawesi Province November 19, 2014. (REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad)


Rag pickers collect recyclable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi November 19, 2014. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)


Demonstrators break through barricades in Parliament Square in front of the Houses of Parliament, as they participate in a protest against student loans and in favor of free education, in central London November 19, 2014. (REUTERS/Peter Nicholls)


Protesters use umbrellas and shields against police after they tried to break into the Legislative Council in Hong Kong early Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Protesters clashed with police early Wednesday after they tried to break into Hong Kong's Legislative Council building. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)


Ayanna Williams displays her 23 inch (58 centimeter) nails at a book launch in London, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. The 56 year old stars in a book entitled 'Ripley's Believe it or Not! 2015 Annual, Reality Shock', a compendium of strange but true facts and stories. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)


A plane negotiates its way through the snow at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Buffalo, N.Y., as a lake-effect snowstorm with freezing temperatures hit the area Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Temperatures fell to freezing or below at recording stations in all 50 states on Tuesday morning, from the highest elevations in the mountains of Hawaii to the snow-paralyzed Buffalo area in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)

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Indian slum children pose for a photograph, as the world celebrates Universal Children Day, in Mumbai, India, 20 November 2014. Universal Children's Day is observed every year on 20 November as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children. (EPA/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI)


SanDisk Corp. founder Eli Harari reacts before being awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by U.S. President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on November 20, 2014. Harari was the inventor of flash storage technology. (REUTERS/Larry Downing)


Student Natchacha Kongudom flashes a three-finger salute inspired by the movie "The Hunger Games" in front of a billboard of the film outside the Siam Paragon cinema in Bangkok November 20, 2014. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)


Runners make their way to the start at Wincanton racecourse on November 20, 2014 in Wincanton, England. (Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)


An aerial view shows a sinkhole 3.5 km (2 miles) to the east of Solikamsk-2 mine in Perm region, November 20, 2014. Shares in Russia's Uralkali, the world's top potash producer, fell sharply for a second day on Wednesday after a mine accident that could reduce global supplies and push up prices of the crop nutrient worldwide. The sinkhole stretches 30 by 40 metres. (REUTERS/Press service of Uralkali company/Handout)


Yasui Toshiki of Japan competes in the semi-final of the Men's Wakeboard during the 2014 Asian Beach Games at Bangneow Dam on November 20, 2014 in Phuket, Thailand. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)


Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at a monument to Russian Czar Alexander I during an unveiling ceremony in Alexander Gardens at the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. Czar Alexander I reigned as Emperor of Russia from March 23, 1801 to 1 Dec. 1, 1825. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)


A farmer harvest olives at the Domaine le Rocher des Fees, near Vendemian, southern France, 20 November 2014. Due to cool summer temperatures, lot of rains and proliferation of the olive fly and moth in southern France they expect losses between 40 to 60 percent of the crop. (EPA/GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO)

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Christian devotees hold candles as they go around the St. Mary Catholics Church in Yangon, Myanmar, November 21, 2014. Thousands of Christian devotees participate in the 500th Jubilee Year of the Presence of Catholics Church in Myanmar. (EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING)


China's President Xi Jinping (R) walks with New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key, while being escorted to a lunch by a Maori warrior, in Auckland, November 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Nigel Marple)


The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft is set on its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome November 21, 2014. The Soyuz is scheduled to blast off with Anton Shkaplerov of Russia, Terry Virts of the U.S. and Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy to the International Space Station on November 24, 2014. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov)


Children of Spain's Duchess of Alba Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, Maria Eugenia Martinez de Irujo (L), Cayetano Luis Martinez (2nd R) and Alfonso Martinez (R) and other relatives cry as they leave the townhall for her funeral in the Andalusian capital of Seville November 21, 2014. Spain's 18th Duchess of Alba, who died on Thursday aged 88, was one of Europe's wealthiest and most titled aristocrats, the owner of fabulous palaces and priceless works of art. She died after a short illness, surrounded by family in the 14th century Palacio de Duenas in Seville. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)


Oil lamps offered by devotees illuminate the Bagmati River flowing through the premises of the Pashupatinath Temple, during the Bala Chaturdashi festival, in Kathmandu, November 21, 2014. The festival is celebrated by the worshippers by lighting oil lamps and scattering seven types of grains known as "sat biu" honouring the departed along a route at the temple. (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)


In this photo provided by the Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Cuban doctor Felix Baez Sarria, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, arrives on a gurney at the Geneva University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Baez, a member of the 165-person medical team Cuba sent to Sierra Leone to help with the Ebola outbreak, caught the disease when he rushed to help a patient who was falling over. (AP Photo/Julien Gregorio, Geneva University Hospital)


A building under construction is seen amidst smog on a polluted day in Shenyang, Liaoning province November 21, 2014. Hurt by a cooling property sector, erratic foreign demand and slackening domestic investment growth, China's economy is seen posting its weakest annual growth in 24 years this year at 7.4 percent. (REUTERS/Jacky Chen)


Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as "Jokowi", center, and his wife Iriana, center left, helps a student graduate take a selfie with a smartphone after attending a graduation ceremony for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme of his son Kaesang Pangarep, top right, at the Anglo Chinese School (International), in Singapore, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Jokowi flew to Singapore to attend the graduation of his youngest son Kaesang Pangarep. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)


Filipino journalists and militant groups carry torches and images of victims during a protest rally marking the killings of journalists in Manila, Philippines, November 21, 2014. Journalists and protesters paraded with images of journalists killed, as they marked the Maguindanao Massacre which left 57 people dead in 2009. (EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN)


An aisle is drifted over and seats are filled with snow at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y. Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Snowed out in Buffalo, the Bills are heading to Detroit to play their "home" NFL football game against the New York Jets on Monday night, Nov. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)

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Participants cheer and dance as they throw colored powder into the air during the Color Run in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014. Dubbed “The Happiest 5k on the planet,” the Color Run is a 5-kilometer fun run event that sees participants go through a few "color stations" where they are doused with colored powder. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)


Mountains are reflected in a small lake on a sunny autumn day in the western Austrian village of Seefeld, west of Innsbruck November 23, 2014. (REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler)


A woman holds a dressed cat during the exhibition "Autumn-2014" in Minsk, November 23, 2014. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)


Switzerland's Roger Federer reacts after winning his Davis Cup final singles tennis match against France's Richard Gasquet at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d'Ascq, near Lille, November 23, 2014. Roger Federer beat Richard Gasquet on Sunday to give Switzerland their first Davis Cup title with a 3-1 victory over hosts France in the final. (REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes)


Ivan Abrosimov, 78, a member of a local winter swimmers' club, rolls around in snow before bathing in the Yenisei River in sub-zero temperatures in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November 23, 2014. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)


A man stands in a house damaged by recent shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, November 23, 2014. (REUTERS/Antonio Bronic)


Chris Algieri of the U.S. falls as he takes a punch from Manny Pacquiao (L) of the Philippines during their World Boxing Organisation (WBO) 12-round welterweight title fight at the Venetian Macao hotel in Macau November 23, 2014. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu)


An aerial view shows rescue workers investigating at collapsed houses after an earthquake in Hakuba town, Nagano prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 23, 2014. The earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted central Japan on Saturday evening, temporarily trapping 21 people when their homes collapsed and leaving 13 people injured, police and public broadcaster NHK said. (REUTERS/Kyodo)

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Mist and frost lingers in fields surrounding the village of Evercreech as the winter sun begins to rise on November 24, 2014 in Somerset, England. Weather forecasters are predicting that the UK is set to see a significant drop in temperature this week bringing the first widespread frost of the season with temperatures dropping as low as -5C (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)


Iraqi soldiers patrol a street in Sa'adiya town northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, November 24, 2014. Local media reports that Iraqi Army backed by Shiite militias and airstrikes carried out by the international anti-IS coalition retook the town of Sa'adiya in the eastern province of Diyala from Islamic State fighters. (EPA)


Rescue workers searching for the victims of a bus crash in Bheri river, Jajarkot District, about 400 km west of the capital Kathmandu, Nepal, November 24, 2014. (EPA/BHIM BSHADUR SINGH)


A topless activist of women's rights group Femen holds a European flag as she demonstrates inside Strasbourg's Cathedral on the eve of Pope Francis' visit to European institutions, in Strasbourg, November 24, 2014. Pope Francis will address the European Parliament and the Council of Europe on Tuesday in Strasbourg. The words read, "anti Secular Europe". (REUTERS/Vincent Kessler)


Retired paramilitary policemen, who conduct the daily national flag raising and lowering ceremony on Tiananmen Square, salute to a Chinese national flag during a farewell ceremony in Beijing, November 24, 2014. (REUTERS)


The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew of Anton Shkaplerov of Russia, Terry Virts of the U.S. and Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome November 24, 2014. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov)


A worker uses a metal cutter as others carry dismantled parts of decommissioned Indian Navy Ship INS Vikrant at a ship breaking yard in Mumbai November 24, 2014. (REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)


Workers, near smoke from a flare, block an entrance of the port of Antwerp, one of the world's biggest port, during a strike in Antwerp November 24, 2014. A strike in parts of Belgium on Monday disrupted rail services and one of Europe's largest ports as trade unions and workers voice their anger over austerity measures announced by the country's new government. (REUTERS/Yves Herman)

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Chaos returned to the streets of Ferguson, Mo. after a grand jury declined to indict a police officer in the death of Michael Brown, November 24, 2014.

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Tibetan children gather outside makeshift tents at a relief center in Kangding on Nov. 23 after an earthquake struck the day before.




Soldiers wearing fatigues of the 2nd Armored Division and Alsacians commemorate the 70th anniversary of Strasbourg's liberation by posing in front of the Cathedral of Strasbourg, where French photographer Roger Viollet photographed the end of German occupation in the city in November 1944.




A demonstrator in Ferguson, Missouri, stands next to a boarded up business on Nov. 22 while protesting the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.




Fire burns along a highway in a deforested section of the Amazon basin in Ze Doca, Brazil, Nov. 22.

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Fabulous images, Kitty and Sumo!!

Thanks for the continued effort.

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Thousands walk to the funeral of cricketer Philip Hughes.




Protesters hold a "die in" in Central Station in response to a "no case to answer" verdict in the police killing of Eric Garner





Tugce Albayrak funeral: Thousands mourn in Germany for young woman beaten to death for coming to the aid of 2 harassed girls




NASA readies for the launch of the new Orion spacecraft.

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Astronaut Reid Wiseman stretching his legs




Street art in Oakland CA




Grozny burns in new rebel attacks



A dust storm envelopes Bedourie QLD.




A time lapse shot of wild summer storms hitting Sydney.

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Palestinian honor guard carries the coffin of the late cabinet member Ziad Abu Ein during the funeral procession at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.



A surfer rides a huge wave during a tow-in surfing session at the Praia do Norte or North beach, in Nazare, Portugal.



A wave crashes behind Todd Linehan on the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, Dec. 10, 2014



More storms for Sydney, or an alien ship is landing..


Military cadets take pictures of themselves during a ceremony celebrating the birthday of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok.



A Palestinian protester runs for cover as an Israeli military vehicle sprays a foul-smelling spray known as "skunk" during clashes



Miss South Africa and the 2014 Miss World, Rolene Strauss, reacts after being crowned during the grand final of the Miss World 2014 pageant at the Excel London ICC Auditorium in London.




David Wong, a 41-year-old cellist, performs in front of a wall posted with messages of support for pro-democracy protesters at the Admiralty district, Hong Kong.




Members of Iraqi security forces and Shi'ite fighters eat on their vehicle on the outskirts of Baiji, north of Baghdad, Dec. 8, 2014



A 13-month-old chimp named Fumo carries a Christmas present of food treats in wrapping paper under his arm during a Christmas-themed feeding time at Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo, Australia.