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'Red Bull Revolutions in Sound' took over the London Eye in a celebration of UK club culture as 30 of the most famous clubs span discs in the 30 capsules with the event being streamed live on www.revolutionsinsound.com



Fireworks illuminate the sky as what is claimed to be Britain's tallest artificial Christmas tree is lit at the Cheshire Oaks outlet village near Ellesmere Port in north west England. Measuring 27.5m tall and 9.7m wide at its base organisers claim that it is Britain's tallest artificial Christmas tree

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A Royal Air Force 99 Sqn C-17 transport plane departs RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, carrying UK Aid supplies bound for Cebu in the Philippines to help aid the relief effort following the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan



Stuffed lligators which have been seized by UK Border Force officers are held near the Queen's Warehouse in London. The seized materials, which are either forbidden to be imported into the UK or have incorrect documentation, are impounded by Border Force staff operating under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)

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The Viking Apocolypse - predicted for 22nd February 2014 - was heralded with the sound of an ancient horn reverberating across the rooftops of York



Confiscated decorative ivory is piled together in preparation to be destroyed during an event at the National Wildlife Property Repository at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colorado. Six tons of banned elephant ivory was destroyed after being accumulated over the past 25 years, seized during undercover investigations of organized smuggling operations or confiscated at the U.S. border



A fleet of trains is getting on board to support the Movember campaign - by donning a giant black moustache on the front of its vehicles. Moustaches have been fitted on 20 South West Trains on the London Waterloo to Reading line. The Movember charity raises money to fight prostate and testicular cancer and raise awareness about mental health issues

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks during a council meeting at City Hall in Toronto



A Lebanese Shiite smokes a cigarette as he bleeds from his head from self inflicted wounds during Ashoura in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon. Thursday's commemorations marked the climax of Ashoura, the yearly mourning period in which Shiite Muslims remember the seventh century death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein, in a battle in the central city of Karbala



A gas pipeline explosion created a wall of flames near the village of Jankow Przygodzki that reportedly killed at least two people and injured more than 10 others in western Poland

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Firefighters stand next to burning tyres as they take part in a protest against alleged shortcomings in the national firefighting program in Lille, northern France



Commonwealth heads of states pose for an official group picture with Prince Charles (front row, 2nd R) and host Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa (front row, 2nd L) during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo

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(From left) England's Alastair Cook, Graeme Swann, Boyd Rankin, Michael Carberry, Ian Bell and Johnny Bairstow field in the slips during an international match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney



A Commuter cycles in central London. The deaths of five cyclists in just nine days on the roads this month in London have prompted calls for the city's mayor Boris Johnson to speed up road safety measures in the capital



Sri Lankan men in traditional costume pose for a photograph before the first working session of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall in Colombo. Britain's Prince Charles formally opened a Commonwealth summit in Colombo whose build-up has been dogged by a dispute over rights abuses at the end of Sri Lanka's ethnic war

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Rafa Cabrera-Bello of Spain hits out of a bunker during the second round of the World Tour Championship golf tournament at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates



A Filipino officer dispenses mosquito poison at a damaged residential area in the super typhoon devastated city of Tacloban, Leyte province, Philippines. International aid poured in for the Philippines as authorities stepped up efforts to reach survivors driven to looting after one of the world s strongest typhoons devastated their towns



Break on through to the other side: A Palestinian with a sledgehammer looks through a hole he and several other activists made through the controversial Israeli separation wall next to a main highway leading into Jerusalem, outside the West Bank village of Bir Nabala

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British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to villagers of Internally displaced peoples camp at Chunnakam village, in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, hundreds of ethnic Tamils protested in the main northern city of Jaffna before Cameron's arrival, demanding answers about the thousands who went missing near the war's end in 2009



Pakistani Ibrahim Mohammed, 42, who was displaced with his family from Pakistan's tribal region of Mohmand due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, wraps himself an his son Mashal, 1, with a shawl to avoid the evening cold, while sitting in front of his new home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan



Demostrators and police forces clash during a student rally in central Naples, Italy. Students were protesting all over the country against the government's austeriity measures and cuts in the education system planed in the 2014 budget bill



A cocktail party: Anti-government protesters sit by the roadside with molotov cocktails as they wait for others to join during clashes after the Ashura procession in the village of Sanabis west of Manama. Hundreds of anti-government protesters, after finishing their Ashura procession, marched towards riot police and clashes, throwing molotov cocktails and strobes to which riot police responded with tear gas, bird-shots and stun-grenades to disperse them

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Under pressure: Mayor Rob Ford adjusts his tie as he makes his way to the council chamber in Toronto. The City Council voted overwhelmingly to strip Ford of some of his powers in the latest attempt to box in the brash leader who has rebuffed pressure to resign over his drinking and drug use. Ford vowed to fight it in court. The council passed the motion 39-3



French actor Marion Cotillard (right) and Greenpeace activists protest inside a mock prison cell, in support of the Arctic 30, during a protest at Palais-Royal in Paris



Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency officials look on as a recently seized stash of marijuana is burned in Paynseville, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The marijuana was smuggled into the country from neighbouring Sierra Leone by a member of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's motorcade

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Protests against the French government's environment tax are spreading across France. Riots in Brittany two weeks ago forced Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to indefinitely suspend the introduction of a green tax on trucks. Tonight farmers and winemakers erect a barricade on the main road into Arles in the southern region of the country



A recent photograph shows the construction progress of the Estadio das Dunas built to host FIFA 2014



Barry Humphries performs in his farewell tour as Dame Edna during the press night performance of Barry Humphries Eat, Pray, Laugh! at the London Palladium

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Sachin Tendulkar's Test retirement: how India is honouring him

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A Shi'ite Muslim woman gets her child gashed with a knife during a Muharram procession to mark Ashura in the old quarters of Delhi November 15, 2013. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the seventh century battle of Kerbala



Greece's Kostas Katsouranis (top) jumps onto Kostas Mitroglou as they celebrate Mitroglou's goal against Romania during their 2014 World Cup qualifying playoff first leg soccer match at Karaiskaki stadium in Piraeus, near Athens November 15, 2013



Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans against the military and interior ministry, while gesturing with four fingers, during a protest in front of barbed wire, army soldiers and the riot police at El-Thadiya presidential palace in Cairo, November 15, 2013. Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi staged one of their largest protest marches in weeks on Friday, a day after Egypt's military-backed government lifted a three month state of emergency. Thousands of demonstrators marched in different neighborhoods of Cairo and in several cities around the country. The "Rabaa" or "four" gesture is in reference to the police clearing of Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp on August 14

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Rescue workers and onlookers stand next to derailed coaches at the site of a train accident near Nashik in the western Indian state of Maharashtra November 15, 2013. Three people were killed and dozens were injured after the passenger train derailed in Maharashtra, local media reported on Friday



A pedestrian walks by a fence outside Number One Regional Tuberculosis Hospital of the General Directorate of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk November 15, 2013. Pussy Riot punk band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has asked Russia's Supreme Court to throw out her conviction and two-year prison sentence, her lawyer Irina Khrunova said on Thursday. Tolokonnikova, 24, started a hunger strike in September, demanding a transfer from a prison where she said that a official had threatened her life and that inmates faced inhumane conditions including 17-hour work days. Prison authorities said on October 18 that Tolokonnikova would be moved, and Khrunova said there were indications she had been transferred to a prison in Siberia, about 3,600 km (2,250 miles) east of Moscow, but that she was unable to confirm it. According to local media on November 14, Tolokonnikova was escorted to Krasnoyarsk' s Number One Regional Tuberculosis Hospital.

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Actor Alec Baldwin shoves a photographer and tells him to move out of his way after he arrived in his SUV at the building where he lives in New York November 15, 2013. Baldwin assaulted a reporter earlier in the day, according to local media. In the earlier incident, he smacked a mobile phone from the reporter’s hands and shoved him against a car



A protester against the government-backed amnesty bill shouts slogans as she joins others in a rally at Ratchaprasong intersection, in the heart of Bangkok's main shopping district November 15, 2013. An escalation of mass street rallies in Bangkok could deepen divisions in polarised Thailand and threaten the stability of a government feeling the backlash of a political gambit that it might now be regretting. Protesters gathered to rally against the bill, which critics say is an attempt by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to whitewash the crimes of her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, and bring him home without facing a two-year jail term handed down in 2008 for graft



A '1:12' flag is fixed outside a window of a house in Zurich November 11, 2013. Switzerland will vote on November 24, on the salary initiative '1:12', to limit the pay of executives to 12 times that of a company's lowest paid employee



Relatives stand by candles lit on a mass grave, where they buried 17 members of their Songalia family who died when Super Typhoon Haiyan hit Leyte, by the side of a road south of Tacloban November 15, 2013. The death toll from one of the world's most powerful typhoons surged on Friday, but the aid effort was still so patchy bodies lay uncollected and thousands tried desperately to evacuate stricken communities across the central Philippines

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Families wait for evacuation from the airport after the super typhoon devastated the city of Tacloban, Philippines, on Nov. 15

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An area of the Amazon rain forest which has been slashed and burned stands next to a section of virgin forest, as seen from a police helicopter during an 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, September 29, 2013







Police officers guard Alejandro after arresting him







Chainsaw operators (L-R) Andre, Antonio, and Alejandro pose after being arrested for illegally cutting down trees in virgin Amazon rain forest,

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Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano spews pyroclastic smoke in Medan, Sumatra, on Nov. 14, 2013

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Jason Gavern, of the US, tries to land a punch on Michael Sprott, of Great Britain, during the heavyweight Prizefighter final at York Hall in Bethnal Green, east London. Sprott was the winner

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Students in the Bulgarian capital Sofia continued to protest against the government. At the country's biggest university they chained the doors and declared "total and effective occupation" to demand the government's resignation



Spain's Dani Sordo and co-driver Carlos Del Barrio during a night stage on day one of the World Rally Championship of Great Britain in Gwydyr