2014 – Images of DECEMBER - Dec 01 - Dec. 08

2014 – Images of DECEMBER
Dec. 01 – Dec. 08
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December 13, 2014 1

Nov. 20 - 30 , 2014
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December 13, 2014 2

This Nov. 20, 2014 photo shows an area controlled by the Islamic State group, past the Qada Azadi
roundabout, foreground, in Kobani, Syria. Amid the wasteland and destroyed buildings, a sense of
camaraderie has developed among the town’s defenders who have doggedly fought off militant
advances for more than two months. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin) Nov. 20, 2014
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Nov. 24, 2014
Photographer
Stringer .
Location
DAMASCUS, Syria
Reuters / Monday, November 24, 2014
A rebel fighter aims his weapon as he takes
a position at the frontline against forces
loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in
Maysaloun neighborhood in the old city of
Aleppo, November 24, 2014.
REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
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Nov. 25, 2014
Photographer
Stringer .
Location
Latakia, Syria
Reuters / Tuesday, November 25, 2014
A rebel fighter carries ammunition as he
heads towards his position near the
frontline against forces loyal to Syria's
president Bashar Al-Assad in the Jabal al-
Akrad area in Syria's northwestern
Latakia province, November 25, 2014.
REUTERS/Alaa Khweled
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Nov. 27, 2014
Photographer
Hosam Katan
Location
ALEPPO, Syria
Reuters / Thursday, November 27, 2014
Fighters from the Noureddine Zanki
movement, which operates under the
Free Syrian Army, rest inside a room
near the frontline against forces loyal
to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in
Aleppo's al-Rashideen neighborhood,
November 27, 2014. REUTERS/Hosam
Katan
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Photographer
Hosam Katan
Location
ALEPPO, Syria
Reuters / Sunday, November 30, 2014
Locally made shells are launched by Free Syrian
Army fighters towards forces loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad in the Handarat area,
north of Aleppo November 30, 2014.
Nov. 30, 2014
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Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Hosam Katan
Location
ALEPPO, Syria
Free Syrian Army fighters fire an anti-aircraft
weapon towards forces loyal to
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the
Handarat area, north of Aleppo.
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Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Stringer .
Location
ALEPPO, Syria
Free Syrian Army fighters take shooting
positions during clashes with forces loyal to
Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in Old
Aleppo, November 30, 2014.
REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
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December 13, 2014 9

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Mahmoud Hebbo
Location
ALEPPO, Syria
Reuters / Sunday, November 30,
2014
An injured girl reacts during what
activists said were air strikes by
forces loyal to Syria's President
Bashar Al-Assad, in the Bab al-Hadid
district of Aleppo November 30,
2014.
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December 13, 2014 10

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
Lopburi, Thailand
2014
A terminally ill patient raises his
arm in a hospice for those dying of
AIDS at the Buddhist temple Wat
Prabat Nampu in Lopburi province,
north of Bangkok, Thailand.

Photographer
Bobby Yip
Location
HONG KONG, China
A pro-democracy protester blocks a
riot policeman during a clash outside
the government headquarters in
Hong Kong December 1, 2014.
Nov. 30, 2014

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Tyrone Siu
Location
HONG KONG, China
2014
Police use pepper spray during
clashes with pro-democracy
protesters close to the chief
executive office in Hong Kong,
November 30, 2014.

Photographer
Ronen Zvulun
Location
JERUSALEM, Israel
A burnt wall is seen in a torched
classroom in an Arab-Jewish school in
Jerusalem November 30, 2014. Suspected
Jewish extremists set fire to the
classroom, police said, targeting a symbol
of co-existence in a city on edge over a
recent surge in violence.
Nov. 30, 2014

Photographer
Sheng Li
Location
CONGJIANG, China
Two bulls fight as villagers watch
during an ethnic Dong traditional
bullfighting contest in Congjiang
county, Guizhou province, November
29, 2014.
Nov. 30, 2014

Photographer
Siphiwe Sibeko
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Nine-year-old Tumelo holds his grandmother's hand after taking his
medication at Nkosi's Haven, south of Johannesburg November 28,
2014. Nkosi's Haven provides residential care for destitute HIV-positive
mothers and their children, whether HIV-positive or not.
Nov. 30, 2014

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Adrees Latif
Location
FERGUSON, United States
An image of 18-year-old Michael Brown
is seen on the tie of his father Michael
Brown Sr. as he attends Sunday service
under a makeshift tent next to the
destroyed Flood Christian Church in
Ferguson, Missouri November 30, 2014.

Photographer
Alex Lee
Location
GUANGZHOU, China
2014
Flamingos are seen in a nature
reserve park in Panyu district south
of Guangzhou, Guangdong province,
November 30, 2014.
Nov. 30, 2014

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Darren Staples
Location
KEELE, United Kingdom
A competitor throws during the UK
Christmas Tree Throwing
Championships in Keele, central
England, November 30, 2014.

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Adrees Latif
Location
FERGUSON, United States
2014
A protester shouts at police as he
blocks traffic before being arrested
outside the Ferguson Police Station
in Ferguson, Missouri November
29, 2014.

Photographer
Mark Blinch
Location
VANCOUVER, Canada
The Grey Cup splits into two pieces as Calgary
Stampeders' Matt Walter celebrates in the
locker room after his team defeated the
Hamilton Tiger Cats in the CFL's 102nd Grey
Cup football championship in Vancouver,
British Columbia, November 30, 2014.
Nov. 30, 2014

Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
Lopburi, Thailand
Terminally ill patients rest in their
beds in a hospice for those dying of
AIDS at the Buddhist temple Wat
Prabat Nampu in Lopburi province,
north of Bangkok November 30, 2014.
Nov. 30, 2014

Photographer
Mark Blinch
Location
VANCOUVER, Canada
Calgary Stampeders' Nik Lewis (82) jumps over
Hamilton Tiger Cats' Brandon Stewart (9) while
running the football in the first half during the
CFL's 102nd Grey Cup football championship in
Vancouver, British Columbia, November 30,
2014.
Nov. 30, 2014

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
2014
Marine Le Pen, France's National
Front political party leader, reacts
after being re-elected during their
congress in Lyon November 30,
2014.

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Alessandro Bianchi
Location
ROME, Italy
2014
AS Roma's Radja Nainggolan
stretches before the start of his
Italian Serie A soccer match against
Inter Milan at the Olympic stadium
in Rome November 30, 2014.

Photographer
Tyrone Siu
Location
HONGKONG, China
Pro-democracy protesters sleep at a tunnel
blocked by protesters near the office of the
Chief Executive in Hong Kong December 1,
2014.
Nov. 30, 2014

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Stoyan Nenov
Location
ISTANBUL, Turkey
Reuters / Sunday, November
30, 2014
Pope Francis is seen through a
window aboard his plane as he
leaves Istanbul, November 30,
2014.

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
USA Today Sports
Location
St. Louis, United States
St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey (12), wide
receiver Tavon Austin (11), tight end Jared Cook (89), wide
receiver Chris Givens (13) and wide receiver Kenny Britt (81)
put their hands up to show support for Michael Brown before
a game against the Oakland Raiders at the Edward Jones Dome
in St. Louis, Missouri. REUTERS/USA Today Sports/Jeff Curry

Nov. 30, 2014
Photographer
Bobby Yip
Location
HONG KONG, China
2014
Riot police use a water cannon to
disperse protesters during clashes
outside the government
headquarters in Hong Kong.

Dec. 1 , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Indians walk though a tunnel
decorated with murals during the
Climate Change Conference in
Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014.
Delegates from more than 190
countries will meet in Lima for
two weeks to work on drafts for a
global climate deal that is
supposed to be adopted next
year in Paris. (AP Photo/Rodrigo
Abd)

Photographer
Jorge Lopez
Location
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico
Reuters / Monday, December 01, 2014
A masked CETEG (State Coordinator of Teachers
of Guerrero) member loots a vending machine
during a protest demanding the government
find of missing students of the Ayotzinapa
Teacher Training College Raul Isidro Burgos, at
the General Attorney building in Chilpancingo,
Guerrero, Mexico.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stefan Wermuth
Location
LONDON, United Kingdom
Comedian Russell Brand (C) holds a
banner during a protest by residents
and supporters of the New Era housing
estate, in central London. The housing
estate residents, in Hoxton, east
London, fear they could face higher
rents after the estate was bought earlier
in the year by an investment group,
local media reported.

Photographer
Jorge Lopez
Location
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico
A CETEG (State Coordinator of Teachers of
Guerrero) member walks with a replica rifle during
a protest demanding the government find of
missing students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher
Training College Raul Isidro Burgos, in Chilpancingo,
Guerrero, Mexico.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Mohammed Salem
Location
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories
Reuters / Monday, December 01,
2014
Palestinians warm themselves by a
fire near the ruins of houses which
witnesses said were destroyed by
Israeli shelling during the most
recent conflict between Israel and
Hamas, in the east of Gaza City.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Denis Balibouse
Location
GENEVA, Switzerland
An element of the installation "Voyageurs"
by French artist Cedric Le Borgne sits atop
building top at Place Bel Air in Geneva.

Photographer
Ilya Naymushin
Location
KRASNOYARSK, Russia
Members of the "Skipper" yacht club
dressed as Father Frost, the Russian
equivalent of Santa Claus, sail a yacht
to mark the end of the sailboat season
on the Yenisei River, outside Russia's
Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November
30, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Photographer
William Hong
Location
SUZHOU, China
A monkey cowers as its trainer Qi Defang
approaches during training for a circus in
Suzhou, Anhui province, November 29,
2014. Suzhou is known as the hometown of
circus troupes in China and has more than
300 circus troupes.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Danish Siddiqui
Location
MUMBAI, India
A volunteer pins a red ribbon on the blouse of a
sex worker, as her child looks on, during an
event to mark World AIDS Day in Kamathipura,
Mumbai's red light district, December 1, 2014.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Ronen Zvulun
Location
EFRAT, Palestinian Territories
Israeli soldiers stand at the scene of a stabbing
attack near the West Bank Jewish settlement of
Efrat, part of the Gush Etzion bloc, December 1,
2014. A Palestinian woman stabbed and slightly
injured an Israeli in the occupied West Bank
and was then shot and wounded by security
forces, the military and police said.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
Idlib, Syria
Children, who are internally displaced
due to fighting between rebels and
forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, walk past tents at the Jarjanaz
refugee camp in the southern
countryside of Idlib, Syria November 30,
2014.

Photographer
Olivia Harris
Location
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2014
London's Mayor Boris Johnson
rides on the monorail during an
official visit to Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia December 1, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Photographer
Ilya Naymushin
Location
KRASNOYARSK, Russia
Members of the "Skipper" yacht club dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus,
greet the crew of another boat as they sail a yacht to mark the end of the sailboat season, with the air
temperature at about minus 18 degrees Celsius (minus 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit), on the Yenisei River,
outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November 30, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Adrees Latif
Location
ST. LOUIS, United States
2014
Student activists stage a 'die-in' as
part of the nationwide "Hands up,
walk out" protest, demanding
justice for the fatal shooting of
Michael Brown, at Washington
University in St. Louis.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Patrick Fallon
Location
LOS ANGELES, United States
2014
An LAPD motorcycle officer uses his
baton to push back demonstrators as
his colleagues detain a man during a
rally against the Missouri grand jury's
decision to not indict Darren Wilson
in his fatal shooting of Michael Brown
and the LAPD's fatal shooting of Ezell
Ford, in Los Angeles, California.

Photos by the Honduran
President's Office announced
that the Christmas tree because
of people standing together
established a new world record
with the largest number of
people in the square of the
capital, Tegucigalpa, on
December 1, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Photographer
TT News Agency
Location
STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Swedish Member of Parliament BarbroWesterholm (L)
speaks to former U.S. NSA contractor Edward Snowden,
shown on a livestream from Moscow, during the Right
Livelihood Award ceremony at the second chamber hall at
the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. Snowden was
awarded the Right Livelihood Honorary Award for "his
courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of
state surveillance violating basic democratic processes
and...more
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Issei Kato
Location
Soma, Japan
Reuters / Monday, December
01, 2014
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe eats a local grilled fish
during his official campaign
kick-off for the December 14
lower house election, at the
Soma Haragama fishing port in
Soma, Fukushima prefecture.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Carlo Allegri
Location
New York, United States
Chris Martin performs with U2 during a
surprise concert in support of World AIDS
Day in Times Square in New York.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi
Location
Sanaa, Yemen
A poster of Abdul Karim Jedban, a late
member of the Yemeni parliament, is
seen on a water tank damaged by an
explosion of a bomb planted at the
gate of a house belonging to a Shi'ite
Houthi in Sanaa. The poster reads,
"The martyr Dr. Abdul Karim Jedban."

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Radu Sigheti
Location
BUCHAREST, Romania
A member of the air force helps her
colleague with her make-up before a
military parade celebrating Romania's
National Day in Bucharest.

Photographer
Pilar Olivares
Location
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The statue of Christ the Redeemer is lit
up in red to promote the "Test, Treat,
Live Better" awareness campaign
marking World AIDS Day in Rio de
Janeiro.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Henry Romero
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
A protester pushing his bicycle yells slogans
while walking underneath a red cloth during
a protest in support of the 43 missing
trainee teachers in Mexico City December 1,
2014.

Dec .2 ,2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Ivan Alvarado
Location
SANTIAGO, Chile
Reuters / Tuesday, December 02, 2014
A sculptural artwork depicting a hooded high school student shooting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and headless presidents is seen at the
Contemporary Art Museum in Santiago, Chile December 2, 2014. The artwork, part of the "El ladrillo angular" (the angular brick) exhibition, portrays a student
fighting against the ongoing continuity of dictatorship because of a political and economic system which has been impossible to...more

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Jim Young
Location
WEBSTER GROVE, United States
Reuters / Tuesday, December 02,
2014
A protester argues with police
officers during a protest over the
grand jury verdict in the shooting
death of Michael Brown, in
Webster Grove, Missouri,
December 2, 2014.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
Location
CUSCO, Peru
Reuters / Tuesday, December
02, 2014
Llamas are seen in front of
the Inca citadel of Machu
Picchu in Cusco December 2,
2014.

Photographer
Yves Herman
Location
BRUSSELS, Belgium
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attend a
NATO foreign ministers meeting at the
Alliance's headquarters in Brussels December
2, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Photographer
Danish Ismail
Location
RAJWARA, India
Kashmiri women wait in a queue to cast their
vote outside a polling booth during the second
phase of the state assembly election in
Rajwara, north of Srinagar.
Dec. , 2014

A Syrian refugee girl sits on the mud at a refugee camp in the city of Al-Faour of
Lebanon near the border with Syria.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Lufthansa employees wait for
customers beside Christmas
decoration at the airport in
Munich, southern Germany,
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. German
airline Lufthansa said it has
cancelled about half of its
flights after pilots went on
strike in an ongoing dispute
over retirement benefits. (AP
Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Dec. , 2014
Fireman approach the flames as a fire
rages near a mosque on the edge of
Lions Head mountain near the city of
Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec.
2, 2014. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

Dec. , 2014
Naga tribal men in
traditional attire wait to
perform a dance during the
Hornbill festival at the
Kisama village in Nagaland,
India, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.
The 10-day long festival
named after the Hornbill
bird is one of the biggest
festivals of India’s northeast
that showcases the rich
tradition and cultural
heritage of the indigenous
Nagas. (AP Photo/Anupam
Nath)

The men of the Naga tribe performed a traditional dance festival in the village of
horny Beak in Kisama in Nagaland, India. The Festival lasts for 10 days was named
species of hornbills and is one of the largest festivals in the northeast of India,
introduced the traditions and rich cultural heritage of the indigenous of Naga.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014

A woman and her daughter must however turtle but without success after the
donation for the monks near the train tracks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Dec. , 2014

British theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking
attends a symposium in Amsterdam on May 23, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Jonathan Ernst
Location
WASHINGTON, United States
2014
People gather to watch the lighting
of U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, an
88-foot white spruce from the
Chippewa National Forest in Cass
Lake, Minnesota, in Washington.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Danish Siddiqui
Location
MUMBAI, India
02, 2014
Indian Navy soldiers play
drums during Navy Day
celebrations, marking their
battle at Karachi Harbour
during the India-Pakistan war
in 1971, in Mumbai.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Heinz-Peter Bader
Location
KOTTES, Austria
Ice-covered leafs of a tree hang over a
roadside shrine near Kottes in northern
Austria.

Photographer
Mahmoud Hebbo
Location
ALEPPO, Syria
A participant runs past a damaged
building as he competes in a running
race along a street in Aleppo's Bustan
al-Qasr neighborhood, a rebel-controlled
area.
Dec. , 2014

Photographer
Carlo Allegri
Location
A man who gave his name as Wildcat works out
on NYPD crowd control barricades in the rain in
Times Square in New York.
Dec. , 2014

Photographer
Tomas Bravo
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
A demonstrator throws a firebomb at
the windows of an ATM facility during
a protest in support of the 43 missing
trainee teachers in Mexico City.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Umit Bektas
Location
ANKARA, Turkey
2014
Students of Tevfik Ileri Imam Hatip
School climb flights of stairs as they
leave their classrooms for a break in
Ankara November 18, 2014.

Photographer
Bobby Yip
Location
HONG KONG, China
Student leader Joshua Wong makes a
phone call during a hunger strike outside
the government headquarters in Hong
Kong December 2, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Nacho Doce
Location
NAZARE PAULISTA, Brazil
2014
A drought-related cactus
installation called "Desert of
Cantareira" by Brazilian artist and
activist Mundano is seen at
Atibainha dam, part of the
Cantareira reservoir, during a
drought in Nazare Paulista, Sao
Paulo December 2, 2014.

Dec. , 2014
A Syrian refugee boy stands outside his tent
at a refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese
Town of Al-Faour near the border with
Syria, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.
Syrian refugees in Lebanon reacted with
panic Tuesday to news that the U.N. was
suspending aid to 1.7 million refugees due
to lack of funds a decision officials said
threatens to starve thousands of families
and add pressure on already strained
hosting countries. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Photographer
Chaiwat Subprasom
Location
Bangkok, Thailand
Thai Royal Guards march in front of the Grand
Palace, during a military parade as a part of a
celebration for the upcoming birthday of
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in
Bangkok. The revered King, the world's longest
reigning monarch, will turn 87-years-old on
December 5.
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Eduard Korniyenko
Location
Stavropol, Russia
2014
A man in a wheelchair is reflected in
a mirror, as he watches a news
broadcast showing Russia's
President Vladimir Putin speaking at
a news conference during his visit to
Turkey, at a gerontological center in
Stavropol, southern Russia.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Amit Dave
Location
AHMEDABAD, India
Reuters / Tuesday,
December 02, 2014
A woman pours vermillion
powder on the body of
Sonu, a female stray dog, as
part of a ritual before her
burial in Ahmedabad, India.
According to the residents,
Sonu guarded the
neighborhood for 18 years
and was a favorite of all the
residents.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Danish Ismail
Location
KULANGHAM, India
An Indian paramilitary trooper keeps
guard near a polling station during the
second phase of the state assembly
election in Kulangham, north of Srinagar.

Dec. , 2014
In this photo taken with
a slow shutter speed,
Siegmar Klotz of Italy
skies toward the finish
during a men’s World
Cup downhill skiing
training run Tuesday,
Dec. 2, 2014, in Beaver
Creek, Colo. (AP
Photo/John Locher)

Photographer
STRINGER El SALVADOR
Location
San Salvador, El Salvador
2014
Salvadoran workers build a
Christmas tree at the Gerardo
Barrios Square in San Salvador
December 2, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
CHONGQING, China
02, 2014
A newlywed couple kiss during
a photo shoot, as an assistant
runs away after lifting the veil,
in Chongqing municipality,
December 1, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Former Prime Minister and leader of the Fatherland party Yulia Tymoshenko,
center, and lawmakers from her party vote during a parliament session in Kiev,
Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament has approved the formation
of a new government, bringing an end to weeks of behind-the-scenes political
wrangling following an October election that ushered in a group of ardently pro-
Western parties. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Dec. , 2014

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso
02, 2014
Men bury coffins of six people
killed during the October 30
and 31 popular uprising, during
a funeral service in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer Spain
Location
MELILLA, Spain
2014
African migrants sit atop a border
fence, as Spanish Civil Guard
officers stand under them during
an attempt to cross into Spanish
territories, between Morocco and
Spain's north African enclave of
Melilla December 2, 2014.

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Susana Vera
Location
MADRID, Spain
2014
Melchorita Garcia, who is at risk of
being evicted from her home by the
end of the year, cries as she watches
how Jose Antonio Giraldo Zacarias,
44, (not pictured) is told that his
eviction has been temporarily
suspended in Madrid December 2,
2014. Giraldo Zacarias, a former
landscape worker for 28 years,
stopped making his rent payments to
the Municipal Housing and Land
Company (EMVS) in 2011, when he
became unemployed. His...more

Photographer
POOL New
Location
JERUSALEM, Israel
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu is pictured during a news
conference at his office in Jerusalem
December 2, 2014.
Dec. , 2014

Photographer
Suzanne Plunkett
Location
Reuters / Tuesday,
December 02, 2014
Singer Ariana Grande
performs during the 2014
Victoria's Secret Fashion
Show in London.
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A model presents a creation as singer Taylor Swift performs.
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A model presents a
creation at the 2014
Victoria's Secret Fashion
Show in London.

A model presents a creation at
the 2014 Victoria's Secret
Fashion Show.
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Kashmiri Muslims watch the funeral procession of Indian paramilitary soldier
Muhammad Shafi Bhat in Buran, some 22 miles north of Srinagar, India, on Dec. 3.
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A Secret Service Agent is seen through tinted and patterned glass as he stands in
front of the door to a room where President Barack Obama was meeting with
leading CEOs to discuss ways to promote the economy and create jobs during his
last two years in office, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, at the Business Roundtable
Headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Flowers and a picture cover the
grave of Tugce Albayrak in Bad-
Soden Salmuenster, Germany,
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Tugce
had been in a coma since mid-
November following an
altercation at a restaurant in
Offenbach near Frankfurt. She
died Friday, her 23rd birthday,
after her family gave doctors
permission to switch off her life
support. (AP Photo/Michael
Probst)
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Dec. , 2014
A Palestnian crane removes the rubble of
Jamal Abdelnaser UNRWA School which
was destroyed during the recent conflict
between Israel and Hamas in Shijaiyah,
neighborhood in Gaza City, in the northern
Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. The
first large-scale project to remove rubble
from the most recent war in the Gaz Strip
started Wednesday, a step perceived as
notable on the long path of rebuilding. The
project is taking place in Shijaiyah , east
Gaza City, one of three areas where Israeli
artillery shells destroyed or damaged tens
of thousands of houses. Sweden is paying
$3.2 million for this project through UNDPís
Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian
People, where officials hope to crush and
clear 140,000 tons of rubble in Shijaiyah in
one year. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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Dec. , 2014
A man reads the newspaper on
the waterfront in the Urca
neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 3,
2014. Urca is a small and
charming neighborhood located
at the foot of the Sugar loaf
mountain and surrounded by
the Guanabara Bay. (AP
Photo/Felipe Dana)
December 13, 2014 117

Dec. , 2014
A man steps on loose cigarettes near
the site of Eric Garner’s death after it
was announced that the New York
police officer involved in the death of
Garner is not being indicted in the
borough of Staten Island in New York,
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. A grand jury
cleared the white New York City police
officer Wednesday in the videotaped
chokehold death of Garner, an
unarmed black man, who had been
stopped on suspicion of selling loose,
untaxed cigarettes, a lawyer for the
victim’s family said. A video shot by an
onlooker and widely viewed on the
Internet showed the 43-year-old
Garner telling a group of police officers
to leave him alone as they tried to
arrest him. The city medical examiner
ruled Garner’s death a homicide and
found that a chokehold contributed to
it. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
December 13, 2014 118

A member of museum staff poses for a picture with the most complete Stegosaurus fossil ever discovered,
on display at the Natural History Museum in London, England, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. The 150 million
year old specimen is similar in size to a 4×4 vehicle and is made up of over 300 bones. It was discovered in
2003 at the Red Canyon Ranch in Wyoming, USA. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
Dec. , 2014
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A neighbour looks inside the apartment as Esther Gimenez Gimenez, 31 years old, not
pictured, waits for the police to arrive during her eviction in Madrid, Spain,
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Gimenez Gimenez and her husband Guillermo Vazquez
Alamo, 32 years old, have three children: Maria Isabel 6 years old, Aitana 2 years old,
and Naomi 4 months old. They occupy a BBVA bank apartment, that was left empty
after a previous eviction. They could not afford to pay rent with their main income
coming from state benefits of euro 530 ($ 652). The eviction was postponed until April
9. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki
Dec. , 2014
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A man rows his boat on the River Ganges in the early morning fog on the outskirts
of Allahabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Several parts of north India
continue to experience cold weather conditions, according to local news reports.
(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Antonio Bronic
Location
Slovyanoserbsk, Ukraine
Reuters / Wednesday, December
03, 2014
Patients are seen in a hallway at
the regional psycho-neurological
hospital on the outskirts of
Slovyanoserbsk, in a territory
controlled by "Lugansk People's
Republic" (LPR), eastern Ukraine,
December 1, 2014. The hospital is
caught in the crossfire in
separatist-held territory near the
frontline.
December 13, 2014 122

Photographer
Carlo Allegri
Location
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 03, 2014
Gwen Carr, mother of the late
Eric Garner, listens as civil
rights activist Reverend Al
Sharpton (not pictured) speaks
at the National Action Network
in Harlem, New York.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Mohamed Azakir
Location
RAS BAALBEK,
Lebanon
December 03, 2014
A window with broken
glass overlooks the
Lebanese-Syrian
border as seen from a
Lebanese military
post, near the site of
an ambush where
gunmen killed at least
six Lebanese soldiers,
in the mountainous
border town of Ras
Baalbek.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Nacho Doce
Location
NAZARE PAULISTA, Brazil
December 03, 2014
A Brazilian flag is seen on the
cracked ground of Atibainha
dam, part of the Cantareira
reservoir, during a drought in
Nazare Paulista, Sao Paulo
state.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Ronen Zvulun
Location
JERUSALEM, Israel
December 03, 2014
Alia Tunisi, a first grade
school teacher, adjusts the
skullcap of one of her
students during reading
hour at the Hand in Hand
Arab Jewish bilingual school
in Jerusalem.
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Photographer
Stringer .
Location
AKKAR, Lebanon
Reuters / Wednesday, December 03, 2014
The mother (2nd R) and family members
of Lebanese army soldier Ali Mohammad,
who was killed during an ambush in Ras
Baalbek when gunmen killed at least six
Lebanese soldiers, mourn during his
funeral in his hometown of Habshit in
Akkar.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Marcelo del Pozo
Location
SEVILLE, Spain
December 03, 2014
Andalusian horsemen wait
before taking part in a
morphological contest for
colts of three years during
the Sicab International Pre
Horse Fair in the
Andalusian capital of
Seville.
December 13, 2014 128

Photographer
Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi
Location
Sanaa, Yemen
Rescuers search for survivors at the
residence of the Iranian ambassador after
a suicide attacker drove a car laden with
explosives into the residence in Sanaa.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Dinuka Liyanawatte
Location
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka
03, 2014
A ground worker runs over a
cover, after the third ODI (One
Day International) cricket match
between England and Sri Lanka
was stopped due to rain, in
Hambantota.
December 13, 2014 130

Photographer
Hannibal Hanschke
Location
Berlin, Germany
Reuters / Wednesday, December 03,
2014
A shovel is placed over coal briquettes
during a protest in front of the
chancellery in Berlin. Germany's
cabinet will agree plans to cut CO2
emissions by up to 78 million tonnes by
2020, pushing operators to shut some
coal-fired plants, to help Europe's
biggest economy meet ambitious
targets to fight climate change.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Jim Young
Location
ST. LOUIS, United States
A protester yells as he is detained during a
demonstration against police violence and
the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner
case, in front of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S.
Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Heinz-Peter Bader
Location
SCHNEEBERG, Austria
December 03, 2014
A sign for the village
of Schneeberg,
translated as Snow
Mountain, is covered
with ice, in northern
Austria, December 3,
2014.
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Photographer
Ammar Awad
Location
MAALE ADUMIM, Palestinian
Territories
2014
Israeli police forces detain a
suspected Palestinian at a
supermarket, where another
Palestinian stabbed two people
according to police and an
ambulance service, near an Israeli
settlement in the occupied West
Bank December 3, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
POOL New
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
03, 2014
Gregory Hughes (front), the father
of Australian cricketer Phillip
Hughes, cries as he carries his son's
casket past mourners after his
funeral service in the town of
Macksville, Australia, December 3,
2014.
December 13, 2014 135

Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
Idlib, Syria
2014
Members of al Qaeda's Nusra Front
drive in a convoy as they tour
villages, which they said they have
seized control of from Syrian rebel
factions, in the southern countryside
of Idlib, December 2, 2014.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
Idlib, Syria
03, 2014
A member of al Qaeda's Nusra
Front carries his weapon as he
stands in an olive tree field, near
villages which the Nusra Front said
they have seized control of from
Syrian rebel factions, in the
southern countryside of Idlib,
December 2, 2014.
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Photographer
Ralph Orlowski
Location
Bad Soden-Salmuenster,
Germany
December 03, 2014
A mourner cries at the
cemetery before the
burial of late student
Tugce Albayrak in Bad
Soden-Salmuenster,
December 3, 2014. Tugce
Albayrak, 23, was beaten
up in mid-November in
front of a fast food in
Offenbach near Frankfurt,
as she tried to defend
two girls. She was in
coma since then and died
on November 28 when
her family allowed
doctors to switch off her
life support, on the day of
her birthday.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Enrique Marcarian
Location
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
A seven-year-old boy, who preferred to give only his first
name as Benjamin, bandages a horse as he prepares for
his polo lessons at the Puesto Viejo Ranch in Canuelas,
outside Buenos Aires.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Mike Segar
Location
Lighting the Rockefeller Christmas tree
NEW YORK, United States
December 03, 2014
The 82nd Rockefeller
Center Christmas tree is
seen shortly after being lit
during the annual
ceremony at Rockefeller
Center, in midtown
Manhattan in New York
City, December 3, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
Reuters / Friday, November 07,
2014
A worker prepares an 85-foot-tall
Norway Spruce from Hemlock
Township, Pennsylvania to be
hoisted into position as the 2014
Rockefeller Center Christmas
Tree in New York November 7,
2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
Reuters / Friday,
November 07, 2014
Workers hoist the 85-
foot-tall Norway Spruce
from Hemlock Township,
Pennsylvania into
position as the 2014
Rockefeller Center
Christmas Tree in New
York November 7, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
Reuters / Friday, November 07, 2014
Workers hoist the 2014 Rockefeller Center
Christmas Tree in New York November 7, 2014.
December 13, 2014 143

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Bobby Yip
Location
HONG KONG, China
(L-R) Cardinal Joseph Zen, former head of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong, walks with Occupy Central civil disobedience founders Reverend Chu Yiu-ming,
Chinese University sociology professor Chan Kin-man and University of Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai as they arrive at the Central Police Station to
voluntarily surrender themselves to the police in Hong Kong December 3, 2014.
December 13, 2014 144

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Beawiharta Beawiharta
Location
JAKARTA, Indonesia
December 03, 2014
A volunteer clears rubbish
from the Ciliwung River after
flooding last week, in the
Jatinegara district of Jakarta,
December 3, 2014.
December 13, 2014 145

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Dinuka Liyanawatte
Location
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka
December 03, 2014
The field is seen after the third
ODI (One Day International)
cricket match between England
and Sri Lanka was stopped due
to rain, in Hambantota
December 3, 2014.
December 13, 2014 146

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
Idlib, Syria
2014
Men suspected of fighting against al
Qaeda's Nusra Front sit inside a room,
after being detained by Nusra Front
members, in the southern countryside of
Idlib, December 2, 2014.
December 13, 2014 147

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Umit Bektas
Location
ANKARA, Turkey
2014
A Syrian refugee boy pauses as he
carries his sister to their house in
Hacibayram district of Ankara
November 21, 2014. The graffiti on the
wall reads, "He is now a soldier."
December 13, 2014 148

Photographer
Adrees Latif
Location
A police officer stands over activists,
demanding justice for the death of Eric
Garner, as they stage a 'die-in' during rush
hour at Grand Central Terminal in the
Manhattan borough of New York on
December 3, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. 4 , 2014
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Photographer
Rupak De Chowdhuri
Location
KOLKATA, India
Reuters / Thursday, December
04, 2014
Taramuni Ray, 62, cries as she
sits on the debris from her
burnt hut after a fire occurred
at a slum in Kolkata.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Nir Elias
Location
AVIHAYIL, Israel
Reuters / Thursday, December 04,
2014
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu attends a re-interment
ceremony for Lieutenant-Colonel
John Henry Patterson and his wife
Frances in the agricultural
cooperative of Avihayil north of
Netanya. Patterson, a British
commander of the Jewish Legion
during World War I, died in 1947 and
his ashes were brought to Israel and
re-buried.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Siphiwe Sibeko
Location
SOWETO, South Africa
2014
Posters of various newspapers
paying tribute after the death of
former South African President
Nelson Mandela are seen ahead
of his first death anniversary, in
Soweto.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
LIGHTHOUSE BEACH, Australia
2014
A camel yawns as a tourist checks
images on her camera following a ride
on a camel safari alongside the Pacific
Ocean on Lighthouse Beach, north of
Sydney.
December 13, 2014 154

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Yuri Gripas
Location
2014
President Barack Obama dances
with participants during the 92nd
annual National Christmas Tree
Lighting on the Ellipse near the
White House in Washington.
December 13, 2014 155

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Danish Siddiqui
Location
MUMBAI, India
2014
Indian Navy soldiers demonstrate
their skills as they play drums during
Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai.
December 13, 2014 156

Photographer
Ivan Alvarado
Location
SANTIAGO, Chile
Reuters / Thursday, December 04, 2014
A student supporter is detained by a riot
police officer during a demonstration by
teachers in Santiago, Chile.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 157

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
ERIC THAYER
Location
2014
A protester holds a sign up to a bus
window in Manhattan as thousands
take to the streets of New York
demanding justice for the death of
Eric Garner.
December 13, 2014 158

Photographer
GUS RUELAS
Location
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres speaks as
singer Pharrell Williams is honored by a star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los
Angeles, California.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Marcelo del Pozo
Location
SEVILLE, Spain
An Andalusian horseman leaves after
competing in a morphological contest for
stallions of four years during the Sicab
International Pre Horse Fair in the
Andalusian capital of Seville.
December 13, 2014 160

Photographer
Brian Snyder
Location
BOSTON, United States
A demonstrator protests recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers in
the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, at Boston Common in Boston,
Massachusetts December 4, 2014.REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
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An empty gravel over the protesters while they block the
road for the location to build a tourist village project in the
forest near the Chambaran Roybon, France. After being
postponed several times since the year 2007, the project
finally went ahead, but the protesters said it would be
disastrous for the environment.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 164

Those who survived the super typhoon, some people are still living in tents, to
evacuate to safer places with their belongings in the town of Tanauan, Leyte
province, central Philippines. Forecasters said Typhoon Hagupit will advance into
Western Center of the country at the end of this week.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 165

A worker attached to the names of the victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean
in 2004 and over the wall of the tsunami Museum 10th anniversary occurs this
deadly catastrophe in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 166

A Yemeni University student wipe tears in Sana'a medical school in
commemoration of one year after the attack on the Yemeni Defence Ministry,
killing many who worked in a hospital located within the complex.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
In this photo taken with a slow shutter
speed, the big wheel is illuminated as
part of Christmas lights on the Champs
Elysees, in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014.
(AP Photo/Francois Mori)
December 13, 2014 168

A mask lies along a path at a homeless
encampment known as The Jungle
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in San Jose,
Calif. Police and social-workers on
Thursday began clearing away one of
the nation’s largest homeless
encampments, a cluster of flimsy tents
and plywood shelters that once housed
more than 200 people in the heart of
California’s wealthy Silicon Valley. (AP
Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 169

Chinese military band members leave after performing at a welcome ceremony
for South African President Jacob Zuma at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,
China, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
A xenon light illuminates
NASA’s Orion spaceship early
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in
Cape Canaveral, Fla. Orion is
scheduled to lift off later
today on a United Launch
Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket
on its first unmanned orbital
test flight. (AP Photo/Chris
O’Meara)
December 13, 2014 171

Dec. , 2014
A man dressed as the superhero
Captain Planet stands outside a
conference room used by the
Climate Change Conference in
Lima, Peru, Thursday, Dec. 4,
2014. A recent study by a top
Brazilian climate scientist,
Antonio Nobre, draws together
data from multiple researchers
to show that the Amazon, due
to decades of deforestation,
may be closer to a tipping point
than the government has
acknowledged and that the
changes could be a threat to
climates around the globe. (AP
Photo/Martin Mejia)
December 13, 2014 172

Protesters rallying against a grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer
involved in the death of Eric Garner gather in Foley Square, Thursday, Dec. 4,
2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Russian President Vladimir
Putin is on a TV screen at a
shop in Moscow, Russia, on
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014,
giving his annual state of
the nation address in the
Kremlin. Russian President
Vladimir Putin has
defended the Kremlin’s
aggressive foreign policy,
saying the actions are
necessary for his country’s
survival. (AP Photo/Ivan
Sekretarev)
December 13, 2014 174

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Marko Djurica
Location
MAJDANPEK, Serbia
2014
Lazar and his sister Andjelka sit by a
candle in their home in Majdanpek,
as electricity workers struggled
through snow, ice and treacherous
terrain to restore power to a town
left shivering without power,
heating or running water for a
fourth day.
December 13, 2014 175

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Location
CUZCO, Peru
A view of ancient, terraced salt ponds at
the Maras mines in Cuzco, Peru.
December 13, 2014 176

Photographer
Location
CUZCO, Peru
A view of salt ponds at the Maras mines in Cuzco.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 177

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Ralph Orlowski
Location
Frankfurt, Germany
2014
European Central Bank (ECB)
President Mario Draghi addresses a
news conference for the first time in
the ECB's new 1.3 billion euro
headquarters in Frankfurt.
December 13, 2014 178

Photographer
Scott Audette
Location
Cape Canaveral, United States
The Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the
Orion spacecraft sits on the launch pad
awaiting liftoff in the sunrise at the Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 179

Photographer
Bobby Yip
Location
HONG KONG, China
2014
Student leader Joshua Wong,
covered with a blanket, looks on
during the third day of his hunger
strike in a tent outside the
government headquarters in Hong
Kong.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
ERIC THAYER
Location
2014
A NYPD policeman reacts next to
people protesting against the
Staten Island death of Eric Garner
during an arrest in July, in
midtown Manhattan, New York.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Suhaib Salem
Location
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories
Members of Palestinian security forces
loyal to Hamas march during a graduation
ceremony in Gaza City.
December 13, 2014 182

Photographer
Aly Song
Location
HANGZHOU, China
2014
Folk artist Han Xiaoming demonstrates
painting with his tongue in Hangzhou,
Zhejiang province. Han dips his tongue
in ink to paint on paper, and uses his
fingers to fill in final adjustments. The
artist also uses a paintbrush held with
his mouth and utilizes fish and
vegetables as paint tools, local media
reported.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Stefan Wermuth
Location
IVER HEATH, United Kingdom
Actors Lea Seydoux, Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci
pose on stage during an event to mark the start of
production for the new James Bond film "Spectre", at
Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, southern England.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
Reuters / Thursday,
December 04, 2014
The Press House burns as
militants attack in Grozny,
December 4, 2014.
Street battle in Grozny Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 185

Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
The burnt exterior of the Press House, a local media agency, is seen in the
Chechen capital Grozny, after at least six gunmen and three policemen were
killed in gun battles when the building was stormed.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 186

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
2014
A man looks into a burnt-out car near
the Press House building, a local media
agency, after a gun fight between
gunmen and policemen in the Chechen
capital Grozny.
December 13, 2014 187

Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
Armoured personnel carriers (APC) are
seen on a street in Grozny, December 4,
2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
Reuters / Thursday,
December 04, 2014
Chechen Interior Ministry
servicemen stand guard
near a market building
damaged during fighting
between unknown
gunmen and police, in
Grozny, December 4, 2014.
Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
Police stand guard at the site of the counter-terrorism
operation near the Press House, in
Grozny, December 4, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 189

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
A local media building known as the Press
House burns as militants attack in Grozny,
December 4, 2014.
December 13, 2014 190

Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
2014
A burnt-out car is seen near the
Press House building in Grozny,
December 4, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
2014
Police stand guard near firefighters
extinguishing a fire at a market near
the Press House building in Grozny,
December 4, 2014.
December 13, 2014 192

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
04, 2014
A Chechen Interior Ministry
servicemen stands guard at
the site of the counter-terrorism
operation, near the
Press House in Grozny,
December 4, 2014.
December 13, 2014 193

Photographer
Stringer Russia
Location
Grozny, Russia
04, 2014
The burnt exterior of the Press
House is seen in Grozny,
December 4, 2014.
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Dec. , 2014
Christian slums of Islamabad
Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
04, 2014
Girls talk to each other in their
one-room shack while their
grandmother sits outside, in a
Christian slum in Islamabad.
December 13, 2014 195

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Reuters / Thursday,
December 04, 2014
A man plays with his son
as he sits in his one-room
shack at a Christian slum in
Islamabad.
December 13, 2014 196

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
04, 2014
A girl looks over at her house
at a Christian slum in
Islamabad December 4, 2014.
December 13, 2014 197

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
2014
A woman cooks during a power
shortage at her house at a
Christian slum in Islamabad
December 4, 2014
December 13, 2014 198

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
04, 2014
A woman stands at her
house's doorstep at a Christian
slum in Islamabad December
4, 2014.
December 13, 2014 199

Photographer
Shannon Stapleton
Location
A demonstrator restrains another as protesters clash with police in
Times Square as they protest a grand jury decision not to charge a
New York policeman in the choking death of Eric Garner, in New
York December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer .
Location
BEER ORA, Israel
04, 2014
Crude oil streams through the
desert in south Israel, near the
village of Beer Ora, north of
Eilat, flooding 200 acres of a
desert nature reserve.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
Bangkok, Thailand
Reuters / Friday, December 05, 2014
Well-wishers look toward the building
where Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej
is residing at Siriraj hospital in Bangkok as
people gather to pray for his health and
celebrate his birthday December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
December 13, 2014 204

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
Bangkok, Thailand
A well-wisher cries under the building
where Thailand's King Bhumibol
Adulyadej is residing at Siriraj hospital
in Bangkok as people gather to pray for
his health and celebrate his birthday.
The king canceled a public appearance
on his 87th birthday on the advice of
doctors, disappointing thousands
camped outside the hospital hoping for
a glimpse of the world's longest-reigning
monarch.
December 13, 2014 205

Hachiro Okonogi, center, the ruling
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
candidate for a Kanagawa district,
delivers a speech atop a vehicle
decorated with his name banners
and photo in front of a billboard
pasted with posters of local
candidates from different political
parties during a lower house
election campaign rally at dusk in
Yokohama, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the
LDP dissolved the lower house of
parliament on Nov. 20, forcing a
snap poll on Dec. 14. (AP
Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 206

Ebola health care workers carry the
body of a man suspected of dying
from the Ebola virus in a small village
Gbah on the outskirts of Monrovia,
Liberia, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. As
officials struggle to contain the
biggest-ever Ebola outbreak in West
Africa, their efforts are being
complicated by another problem,
bad data that could further hamper
the already fractured response. (AP
Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
A burned-out market
pavilion seen through a
bullet riddled broken
window in central Grozny,
Russia, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014.
Security forces in the capital
of Russia’s North Caucasus
republic of Chechnya
stormed two buildings
yesterday, Dec. 4, including a
school, during fierce gun
battles with militants that
left at least 19 dead,
authorities said. (AP
Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
December 13, 2014 208

Residents take shelter inside the
provincial capital of Surigao city close
to central Philippines on Friday, Dec.
5, 2014 in anticipation of typhoon
Hagupit which is expected to hit land
Saturday afternoon. A wide swath of
the Philippines, including the capital
Manila, braced Friday for a
dangerously erratic and powerful
typhoon approaching from the
Pacific, about a year after the
country was lashed by Typhoon
Haiyan that left more than 7,300
people dead. (AP Photo/Erwin
Mascarinas)
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 209

Protesters march on a highway in
a steady drizzle on the final day of
a 7-day march Friday, Dec. 5,
2014, in Jefferson City, Mo. Scores
of people protesting the police
shooting of Michael Brown
arrived Friday at the Missouri
Capitol, completing a 130-mile
march from the shooting site in
the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
An elderly Indian patient who went
blind following a cataract surgery,
performed at a free medical camp run
by a charity, walks into an eye ward of a
hospital with the help of a walking stick
in Amritsar, India, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014.
Authorities ordered an investigation
Friday after at least 24 poor and elderly
people went blind following cataract
surgeries performed at a free medical
camp run by a charity in northern India.
(AP Photo/Sanjeev Syal)
December 13, 2014 211

Dec. , 2014
Sana, a 30-day-old Afghan girl, sleeps on her
grandmother’s lap in her home on the
outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec.
5, 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
December 13, 2014 212

Photographer
Alaa Khweled
Location
LATAKIA, Syria
A rebel fighter fires a Grad long distance
shell towards forces loyal to Syria's
president Bashar Al-Assad located in the
city of Jableh at the Syrian coast, from Jabal
al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern
Latakia province December 4, 2014.
REUTERS/Alaa Khweled
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 213

Photographer
Rick Stevens
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
Reuters / Friday, December 05,
2014
Lightning can be seen as a large
storm front crosses over the
Sydney suburb of Wakehurst
December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Rick
Stevens
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 214

Photographer
Antonio Bronic
Location
Donetsk, Ukraine
2014
Galina Bayeva cries with her son
and husband next to the body of
her father Vladimir Churilov who
was killed by recent shelling at the
Azotny district in Donetsk, eastern
Ukraine, December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 215

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Elizabeth Shafiroff
Location
Reuters / Friday,
December 05, 2014
A New York Police
Department helicopter
points its lights toward
protesters demanding
justice for Eric Garner as
they enter the Brooklyn
Bridge from Manhattan,
New York December 4,
2014. REUTERS/Elizabeth
Shafiroff
December 13, 2014 216

Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
2014
View of Color or Not installation by
artist Yves Moreaux at the Saint-
Jean Cathedral during the
rehearsal for the Festival of Lights
in central Lyon late in the night
December 4, 2014.
REUTERS/Robert Pratta
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 217

Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
"Lyon, Terre aux lumieres" installation
by artists Gilbert Coudene and Etienne
Guiol.
Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 218

Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
The Basilica of Fourviere with a mirror ball.
December 13, 2014 219

Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
2014
"Laniakea" installation by artists
Jerome Donna and Simon
Milleret-Godet.
Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 220

Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
2014
A giant incandescent light bulb, as
part of the "Incandescence"
installation by artist Severine
Fontaine.
December 13, 2014 221

Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
Reuters / Friday,
December 05, 2014
"Color or Not" installation
by artist Yves Moreaux at
the Saint-Jean Cathedral.
Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 222

Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
2014
"Lyon, Terre aux lumieres"
installation by artists Gilbert
Coudene and Etienne Guiol.
December 13, 2014 223

Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
Reuters / Friday, December
05, 2014
"Jardin d'Hiver" installation
by artist Christophe
Martine.
Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 224

Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
2014
"Les Pockets (Pocket Lights)"
installation by collective Tilt.
Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 225

Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
"Hi Striker" installation by Collectiv
Beam'Art on the facade of the
courthouse.
Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 226

Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
2014
View of Jardin d'Hiver
installation by artist
Christophe Martine during the
rehearsal for the Festival of
Lights in central Lyon late in
the night December 4, 2014.
REUTERS/Robert Pratta
December 13, 2014 227

Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
05, 2014
"Reves de nuit" installation
by artist Damien Fontaine.
Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 228

Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
Reuters / Friday,
December 05, 2014
"Lyon, Terre aux
lumieres" installation by
artists Gilbert Coudene
and Etienne Guiol.
December 13, 2014 229

Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
05, 2014
"Lyon, Terre aux lumieres"
installation by artists Gilbert
Coudene and Etienne Guiol.
December 13, 2014 230

Photographer
Robert Pratta
Location
LYON, France
2014
"Hi Striker" installation by
Collectif Beam'Art.
Dec. , 2014
Lighting up Lyon
December 13, 2014 231

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
MANDERA, Kenya
A man rides in a donkey cart past
Kenya policemen as he crosses from
Kenya into Somalia at the border
town of Mandera December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
December 13, 2014 232

Photographer
NASA NASA
Location
CAPE CANAVERAL, United States
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy
rocket with NASA's Orion spacecraft
mounted atop is seen in this handout
photo after the Mobile Service Tower
was finished rolling back early on
December 4, 2014, at Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station's Space Launch
Complex 37, Florida.
Dec. , 2014
Liftoff for Orion
Liftoff for Orion
December 13, 2014 233

Photographer
Steve Nesius
Location
CAPE CANAVERAL, United States
2014
The Mobile Service Tower rolls back
from the Delta IV Heavy with the
Orion spacecraft on launch pad 37B at
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in
Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 4,
2014
Dec. , 2014
Liftoff for Orion
December 13, 2014 234

Dec. , 2014
Liftoff for Orion
Photographer
Mike Brown
Location
Cape Canaveral, United States
The Delta IV Heavy rocket with the
Orion spacecraft lifts off from the
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in
Cape Canaveral, Florida December 5,
2014.
December 13, 2014 235

Photographer
Steve Nesius
Location
Cape Canaveral, United
States
Reuters / Friday,
December 05, 2014
The Delta IV Heavy rocket
with the Orion spacecraft
lifts off from the Cape
Canaveral Air Force
Station in Cape
Canaveral, Florida
December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Steve Nesius
Dec. , 2014
Liftoff for Orion
December 13, 2014 236

A Palestinian rally run seek shelter when Israeli military vehicles sprayed slightly
smelly in the clash after a rally protesting Israel occupied Palestinian land in the
village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the West Bank.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 237

A Buddha statue is on display at a shopping center in Beijing. The art work of the
sculptor Chinese Yang Tao includes a total of 628 red ropes and about 70 meters.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
A supporter of the regime
ruling the Egyptian flag
stand before military
vehicles on Tahrir square in
Cairo in a protest against
the ruling of the Court
condone murder against
President Hosni Mubarak.
December 13, 2014 239

A model of the Capitol made entirely from the various wood types in the U.S.
Botanic Gardens in Washington.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 240

High school students laid
wreaths in celebration of a
five-day loss of South African
President Nelson Mandela at
the foot of the world's largest
statue of Mandela in Pretoria.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 241

The scene after a car bomb explosion in the area of Shia in Sadr City, Baghdad,
Iraq. A series of car bombings occurred across Iraq, killing dozens of people on
Thursday
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 242

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
on a sunny fall day in Tokyo, Japan.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 243

Art set "Rêves de nuit" by artist
Damien Fontaine during the
Festival of light in the center of
Lyon, France. The Festival of light
with the works from around the
world lasted from 5 to 8 December,
2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Art set "Black Vulture" by artist Cristina Planas either side of the road in a
natural conservation area in the South. The vulture, tied up the Palm trees have
died, representing the waste collection workers from different areas of the city
and Congress of climate change of the United Nations about to take place. Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 245

Activists in Noel outfits in a campaign to draw attention to the violation of
human rights in the cultivation of cocoa farms in West Africa, in front of the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Elizabeth Shafiroff
Location
2014
Protesters, demanding justice for
Eric Garner, hold placards while
shouting slogans in Foley Square,
New York December 4, 2014.
REUTERS/Elizabeth Shafiroff
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
NONE, Syria
Orphans attend a gathering
organized by Douma charity
organization for orphans in Douma ,
near Damascus December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
December 13, 2014 248

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Bobby Yip
Location
HONG KONG, China
Student leader Joshua Wong, who
has undergone more than 90 hours
on a hunger strike, speaks to
journalists beside other four
students on hunger strike, outside
the government headquarters in
Hong Kong December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Bobby Yip
December 13, 2014 249

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Rupak De Chowdhuri
Location
KOLKATA, India
A man jumps to head a ball during his
soccer practice in a public park on a
foggy morning in Kolkata December 5,
2014. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
December 13, 2014 250

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Eduard Korniyenko
Location
Stavropol, Russia
2014
An elderly woman sits on a
bench during a religious
procession in Stavropol,
southern Russia, December 5,
2014. REUTERS/Eduard
Korniyenko
December 13, 2014 251

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, Japan
2014
A woman takes pictures of a tree
in Shinjuku Gyoen National
Garden on a sunny autumn day
in Tokyo December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
December 13, 2014 252

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Fabian Bimmer
Location
HAMBURG, Germany
05, 2014
Kamchatka Brown Bear
Mascha stands beside a
Christmas tree, decorated
with fruits and fish, at
Hagenbecks zoo in Hamburg,
northern Germany,
December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
December 13, 2014 253

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
David W Cerny
Location
PRAGUE, Czech Republic
05, 2014
People walk under trees
decorated with Christmas
lights on the eve of Saint
Nicholas Day at the Old Town
Square in Prague December
5, 2014. REUTERS/David W
Cerny
December 13, 2014 254

Photographer
Andrew Winning
Location
The full moon rises behind the Shard
building in London December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Andrew Winning
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, Cuba
2014
Girls wait to perform ballet at the
Prado Boulevard in downtown
Havana, December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
December 13, 2014 256

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, Cuba
2014
A boy plays on a street in
downtown Havana, December 5,
2014. REUTERS/Alexandre
Meneghini
December 13, 2014 257

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
STRINGER Mexico
Location
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico
People react as a man burns after he
was set alight with the help of a fellow
protester during a protest in Tuxtla
Gutierrez, in the Mexican state of
Chiapas December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Rene Arauxo
December 13, 2014 258

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Mohamad Torokman
Location
BILIN, Palestinian Territories
A Palestinian protester throws back a
tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops
during clashes following a
demonstration against Jewish
settlements in the West Bank village of
Bilin, near Ramallah December 5, 2014.
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
December 13, 2014 259

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
Women perform the "Hands-Up Don't
Shoot" action in their car as protesters
walk by during a march for chokehold
death victim Eric Garner in New York
December 5, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
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Dec. 6 , 2014
December 13, 2014 261

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Brendan McDermid
Location
Reuters / Saturday, December
06, 2014
Half-brother of Akai Gurley,
Malaki Palmer, is aided by his
father Ken Palmer as he makes a
reading during Gurley's funeral
at the Brown Memorial Baptist
Church in Brooklyn, New York
December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
December 13, 2014 262

Photographer
ERIC THAYER
Location
Reuters / Saturday, December 06,
2014
A protester is taken into custody
along FDR Drive in Manhattan in New
York City as thousands of
demonstrators took to the streets of
New York demanding justice for the
death of Eric Garner December 5,
2014. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Patrick Fallon
Location
2014
Logan Browning, with duct tape over
her mouth, joins demonstrators
protesting against police violence,
including the July chokehold death of
unarmed black man Eric Garner in
New York, as they march near the
area where LAPD shot an assault
suspect on December 5, in
Hollywood, California December 6,
2014. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon
December 13, 2014 264

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
MANDERA, Kenya
Reuters / Saturday, December 06, 2014
George Mwangi and Joel Warvare
Karinga, who survived the Somali
militant Islamist group al Shabaab
attack last Tuesday, stand in the spot
where militants killed 36 non-Muslim
workers at a quarry near the town of
Mandera, at the Kenya-Somalia border
December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
December 13, 2014 265

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Alexandros Avramidis
Location
THESSALONIKI, Greece
2014
Riot police are seen through a cloud
of smoke during clashes with
masked youths who occupied the
Labour Center of Thessaloniki
December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis
December 13, 2014 266

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Alexandros Avramidis
Location
THESSALONIKI, Greece
Riot police clash with masked youths
occupying the Labour Center of
Thessaloniki December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis
December 13, 2014 267

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Neil Hall
Location
London, United Kingdom
Demonstrator Carla Mastroianni feeds her baby
Sienna during a protest in support of
breastfeeding in public, outside Claridge's hotel in
London December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Neil Hall
December 13, 2014 268

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Grigory Dukor
Location
St. Petersburg, Russia
Reuters / Saturday, December
06, 2014
Visitors look at the headless,
reclining sculpture of the river
god Ilissos at the State
Hermitage Museum as part of
its 250th anniversary
celebration in St Petersburg,
December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
December 13, 2014 269

Photographer
POOL New
Location
Kabul, Afghanistan
2014
Afghanistan's President Ashraf
Ghani reaches out to shake hands
with U.S. Secretary of Defense
Chuck Hagel during an arrival
ceremony at the Presidential
Palace in Kabul December 6, 2014.
REUTERS
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 270

Photographer
Handout .
Location
VALE DO ITAJAI, Brazil
An undated handout photo released by Santa
Catarina State Police on December 6, 2014 shows a
swastika at the bottom of a swimming pool in Vale
do Itajai, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. According to
local media reports, police officers in a helicopter
taking part in an anti-kidnapping operation spotted
the Nazi symbol by chance. A subsequent police
investigation revealed that the swastika had been
there for 13 years. No charges have...more
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 271

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
BEIJING, China
Female delegates take selfies with Alibaba Group
Executive Chairman Jack Ma as he arrives for the
Fifth Conference of Zhejiang Chamber of
Commerce in Beijing, December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 272

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Eddie Keogh
Location
Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Stoke City's Charlie Adam gets a yellow
card for this foul on Arsenal's Alexis
Sanchez during their English Premier
League soccer match in Stoke, northern
England December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
December 13, 2014 273

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
CAIRO, Egypt
Reuters / Saturday,
December 06, 2014
Fans of Egypt's Al Ahly light
flares during their African
Confederations Cup final
soccer match against Ivory
Coast's Sewe Sport at Cairo
stadium, December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah
Dalsh
December 13, 2014 274

Photographer
Gonzalo Fuentes
Location
Paris, France
Paris St Germain's Ezequiel Lavezzi reacts next to
FC Nantes' goalkeeper Remy Riou during their
French Ligue 1 soccer match at Parc des Princes
stadium in Paris December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 275

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Darren Staples
Location
2014
Sergio Aguero of Manchester City
reacts as he walks off the pitch after
sustaining an injury during their
English Premier League soccer
match against Everton at the Etihad
Stadium in Manchester, December 6,
2014. REUTERS/Darren Staples
December 13, 2014 276

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Neil Hall
Location
London, United Kingdom
2014
Participants dressed in Santa
costumes sing during the annual
SantaCon event in London December
6, 2014. REUTERS/Neil Hall
December 13, 2014 277

Photographer
Shailesh Andrade
Location
MUMBAI, India
People get their eyes tested at a free eye-care
camp on the occasion of Indian
politician Babasaheb Ambedkar's death
anniversary in Mumbai December 6,
2014. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 278

Photographer
Mariana Bazo
Location
LIMA, Peru
Reuters / Saturday,
December 06, 2014
A monkey skull necklace
hangs around the neck
on an indigenous leader,
of the Shipibo people
from the Peruvian
Amazon, as he waits to
take part in a formation
to highlight the rights of
indigenous people, at
Agua Dulce beach in
Lima's Chorrillos district,
December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/ Mariana Bazo
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 279

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Brendan McDermid
Location
Reuters / Saturday,
December 06, 2014
Family members embrace
following the funeral for Akai
Gurley at the Brown
Memorial Baptist Church in
Brooklyn, New York
December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Brendan
McDermid
December 13, 2014 280

Photographer
Patrick Fallon
Location
LOS ANGELES, United
States
Reuters / Saturday,
December 06, 2014
Marilyn Monroe impersonator
April Q. Russell joins
demonstrators protesting
against police violence,
including the July chokehold
death of unarmed black man
Eric Garner in New York, as
they march near the area
where LAPD shot an assault
suspect, in Hollywood,
California December 6, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 281

Dec. 7 , 2014
December 13, 2014 282

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Mark Wilson
Location
FOB Gamberi, Afghanistan
Reuters / Sunday, December 07, 2014
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
speaks to American troops during a visit
to Forward Operating Base Gamberi
December 7, 2014. Hagel met with
troops in Afghanistan on what is likely
his last visit there before stepping down
from his post, and one day after he
announced that the U.S. will keep up to
1,000 more soldiers in Afghanistan a
year longer than previously planned.
December 13, 2014 283

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Jorge Lopez
Location
EL PERICON, Mexico
Reuters / Sunday, December 07,
2014
Edith Mora Mora Venancio, sister of
Alexander Mora Venancio, mourns
next to others women at their house
in El Pericon, December 6, 2014.
Forensics identified the remains of
Alexander Mora Venancio, one of the
43 missing students of Ayotzinapa
Teacher Training College Raul Isidro
Burgos.
December 13, 2014 284

Photographer
Noah Berger
Location
BERKELEY, United States
A protester flees as police officers try to
disperse a crowd comprised largely of
student demonstrators during a protest
against police violence in the U.S., in
Berkeley, California early December 7, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 285

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Maxim Shemetov
Location
Donetsk region, Ukraine
2014
A man and a child walk in the
snow at the destroyed war
memorial at Savur-Mohyla, a hill
east of the city of Donetsk,
December 7, 2014.
December 13, 2014 286

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Noah Berger
Location
BERKELEY, United States
Protesters retreat while police officers
deploy teargas to disperse a crowd
comprised largely of student protesters
during a protest against police violence in
the U.S., in Berkeley, California December
7, 2014.
December 13, 2014 287

Photographer
Bobby Yip
Location
HONG KONG, China
Huge protest banners block a main
road along with tents set up by pro-democracy
protesters outside the
government headquarters at
Admiralty in Hong Kong December 7,
2014. The Chinese characters on the
banners read, "Support the students. I
want real universal suffrage. Civil
disobedience. C Y step down" .
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 288

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer Philippines
Location
ALBAY, Philippines
Reuters / Sunday,
December 07, 2014
Strong winds and waves
brought by Typhoon
Hagupit pound the
seawall in Legazpi City,
Albay province southern
Luzon December 7,
2014.
December 13, 2014 289

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer Philippines
Location
MANILA, Philippines
Reuters / Sunday, December
07, 2014
Children look out of a
window at an evacuation
center for the coastal
community, to shelter from
Typhoon Hagupit, near
Manila, December 8, 2014.
REUTERS/Cheryl Gagalac
December 13, 2014 290

Photographer
Dado Ruvic
Location
ZENICA, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Reuters / Sunday,
December 07, 2014
A member of the Imperial
Russian Ballet waits to
perform Tchaikovsky's
"Swan Lake" at Arena hall
in Zenica, Bosnia
December 7, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
December 13, 2014 291

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
Thousands of runners in Father Christmas
suits pose for a group photo after
completing an annual Santa fun run from
Darling Harbour to the Sydney Opera
House, December 7, 2014.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Hugh Gentry
Location
HONOLULU, United States
Pearl Harbor survivors wait for ceremonies honoring
the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor to
start at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National
Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii December 7, 2014.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Jonathan Ernst
Location
2014
President Barack Obama gives a
thumbs-up as he and first lady
Michelle Obama arrive in their
box to celebrate the 2014
Kennedy Center honorees
including actor Tom Hanks (2nd L)
and comedienne Lily Tomlin (L), at
the Kennedy Center in
Washington, December 7, 2014.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Olivia Harris
Location
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A Vietnamese fan wipes blood on his
head after scuffles between fans during
the first leg of the Suzuki Cup 2014 semi-final
match between Vietnam and
Malaysia at Shah Alam stadium in Kuala
Lumpur December 7, 2014.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Sergei Karpukhin
Location
Khimki, Russia
2014
Spectators await the start of a
cinema screening at a Kinostar De
Lux Multiplex in the Moscow suburb
of Khimki, December 7, 2014.
Furniture retailer IKEA has converted
one of the cinema halls, completely
replacing standard seats with their
furniture, according to local media.
There are 17 double beds fitted in
the hall, which was renamed to "It
wakes love".
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Photographer
Nacho Doce
Location
SAO CAETANO DO SUL, Brazil
2014
Vitor Martins poses as he puts on
his Santa outfit inside his house,
before a performance with
children in Sao Caetano do Sul's
town square, near Sao Paulo,
December 7, 2014. Martins has
dressed as Santa Claus, working
at shopping centers and various
events, for fifteen years, and has
94 percent of his body covered in
tattoos, with several in reference
to Christmas.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
POOL New
Location
Britain's Prince William, Duke of
Cambridge, and his wife Catherine,
Duchess of Cambridge, arrive at the
Carlyle hotel in New York, December 7,
2014. Prince William and his wife Kate are
on their first visit to New York City, a
whirlwind trip that includes visits to a
Harlem child development center and the
September 11 Monument and Museum.
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Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
CHONGQING, China
Four men cover their faces while being
photographed at a police station in
Chongqing municipality, December 6,
2014. The men were brought into
police station for questioning after
local residents accused them as frauds,
begging for money at public areas
pretending to be migrant workers who
couldn't afford train tickets to go home
for the Spring Festival. They were
released after writing self-criticism
letters and promised to behave...more
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Jonathan Alcorn
Location
PASADENA, United States
(L-R) Pastor Greg Waybright speaks with Emmanuel
(son), Matthew Huang, Grace Huang and Josiah (son)
during their first public appearance after leaving Qatar,
at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, California
December 7, 2014. The couple was convicted and later
cleared of wrongdoing in the death of their adopted
African-born daughter in Qatar and left the Gulf Arab
state after a travel ban was lifted, ending a nearly two-year
ordeal,...more
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Dec. 8 , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
A fighter from the self-styled
Donestk People's Republic
(DPR) stands guard at the
Savur-Mohyla monument to
Red Army soldiers who died
during World War Two near
the eastern Ukrainian city of
Snizhne. The DPR held a
ceremony there on Sunday in
memory of pro-Russian
rebels who have died fighting
the Ukrainian army this year.
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Dec. , 2014
Locals enjoy a jug of beer at an annual
beer festival in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi.
The popular Bia Hoi draught beer was
given away free at the event.
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American swimmer Ryan Lochte competes in the men's 100m individual medley
at the World Swimming Championships in Doha, Qatar. He took bronze with a
time of 51.24, but saw the record he set in Istanbul in 2012 beaten by 0.05
seconds by Germany's Markus Deibler, Dec. , 2014 who won gold with a time of 50.66.
December 13, 2014 304

More than 250 firefighters battle a massive blaze in downtown Los Angeles at an
apartment building under construction next to the 110 Freeway, a major road in
the city.
Dec. , 2014
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People push a car stuck on the A93 in north-east Scotland. The UK Met Office
has issued a yellow warning in Scotland, with snow forecast across much of the
country.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
A member of the Somali
security forces stands guard
during an operation against al-
Shabab in Mogadishu. Security
has improved in Somalia's
capital in recent years but the
Islamist militant group has
been blamed for a series of
bomb attacks in recent weeks,
including one targeting a
United Nations convoy last
week.
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Dec. , 2014
Three-month-old baby
orangutan Bulu Mata
preparation is taken to his new
home, Monkey World of
Dorset, England, from the Zoo
in Budapest, Hungary.
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Dec. , 2014
A man runs with a “toro
encuetado,” a structure
resembling a bull and covered
with exploding fireworks, as part
of the celebrations in honor of
the Virgin of the Immaculate
Conception on her feast day in
Managua, Nicaragua, early
Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The Virgin
of the Immaculate Conception is
Nicaragua’s patron saint. (AP
Photo/Esteban Felix)
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A Los Angeles city firefighter works amid the ruins of a raging fire that destroyed
a massive apartment complex under construction in downtown Los Angeles early
Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. It was one of two destructive early morning fires in the
city. The other heavily damaged a building that houses multiple businesses in a
neighborhood a couple miles away. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Janine Motta, of Manalapan, N.J., stands in a field not
far from where hunters are watching for bears near
the Whittingham Wildlife Management Area,
Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, in Fredon, N.J. The last of New
Jersey’s five state-sponsored bear hunts began
Monday, as wildlife officials and opponents of the
hunt sparred over whether the hunt has been
effective and should be renewed. (AP Photo/Mel
Evans)
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Dec. , 2014
People and a statue are
silhouetted against the sun
on the harbour in Oslo,
Norway, Monday, Dec. 8,
2014. The Nobel Peace
Prize will be presented to
and shared between the
youngest Nobel Prize
winner ever, Taliban attack
survivor Malala Yousafzai
and Indian children’s rights
activist Kailash Satyarthi in
a ceremony in Oslo on
Wednesday. (AP
Photo/Matt Dunham)
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A woman attends a night light show, in Lyon,
central France, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, as part
of the Festival of Lights. Millions of visitors
come into the city to watch the four-day event.
(AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Texas’ Empress Davenport is introduces before
an NCAA college basketball game against
Southern, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, in Austin,
Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Dec. , 2014
Two police officers chat in front of the
tent which was set up by pro-democracy
protesters at the occupied
area outside government
headquarters in Hong Kong Monday,
Dec. 8, 2014. Leaders of the Hong Kong
Federation of Students, representing
those studying at colleges, said last
Thursday that they were considering a
retreat from the protest sites and
expect to come to a decision soon. (AP
Photo/Kin Cheung)
December 13, 2014 315

Photograph of Australian environmental agencies shows that one in six children
dead sperm whale washed ashore in South Australia.
Dec. , 2014
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Greenpeace activists stood next to the text content with calling for use of
renewable energy in the future, besides the great Hummingbird pictures over
more ground in Nazca, Peru.
Dec. , 2014
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Supporters of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi waiting for him to speak
at a meeting of the jugal-essential local before the election in Srinagar, the Indian
Kashmir region under control.
Dec. , 2014
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A person sitting on the sea fishing in the port of Muara Baru in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Dec. , 2014
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Christmas globe erected at Manezhnaya square,
outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
2014
A coalition of faith leaders from
the Micah Institute at the New
York Theological Seminary
perform a spontaneous Die-In
protest at New York City Hall in
response to police violence in
New York.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Adnan Abidi
Location
NEW DELHI, India
Policemen run along with driver Shiv
Kumar Yadav (C) who is accused of a
rape outside a court in New Delhi,
December 8, 2014. U.S. online ride-hailing
service Uber has been banned
from operating in the Indian capital
after a female passenger accused one
of its drivers of rape, a case that has
reignited a debate about the safety of
women in the South Asian nation.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Adnan Abidi
Location
NEW DELHI, India
Policemen escort driver Shiv Kumar
Yadav (3rd R in black jacket) who is
accused of a rape outside a court in
New Delhi December 8, 2014. U.S.
online ride-hailing service Uber has
been banned from operating in the
Indian capital after a female passenger
accused one of its drivers of rape, a case
that has reignited a debate about the
safety of women in the South Asian
nation.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MANILA, Philippines
Reuters / Monday, December
08, 2014
A general view of damaged
houses swept by Typhoon
Hagupit in Eastern Samar, in
central Philippines, December 8,
2014.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Ahmed Saad
Location
BAIJI, Iraq
Members of Iraqi security forces and
Shiite fighters eat on their vehicle on
the outskirts of Baiji, north of
Baghdad, December 8, 2014.
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Gene Blevins
Location
Flames spread from a massive fire at the sight of a seven-story downtown
apartment complex under construction in Los Angeles, December 8, 2014.
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Photographer
Feisal Omar
Location
MOGADISHU, Somalia
Blindfolded suspects crouch as they are
detained during a security operation in
Hodan district of the capital Mogadishu,
December 8, 2014, against suspected
militant Islamist group al Shabaab
sympathisers.
Dec. , 2014
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Dec. , 2014
Photographer
POOL New
Location
Kuwait City, Kuwait
2014
A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter from
Bravo Co 2/147th AVN Renegades
flies support for U.S. Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel over Kuwait
City, December 8, 2014. Hagel flew
out to Camp Buehring to visit with
troops stationed there.
REUTERS/Mark Wilson/Pool
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328

Dec. , 2014
Photographer
Danish Siddiqui
Location
MUMBAI, India
Reuters / Monday,
December 08, 2014
Five-year-old Sonu holds
balloons as he helps his
father at a fair in
Mumbai, December 8,
2014.
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Photographer
Mike Hutchings
Location
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Ami Denborg (C), sister of Anni Dewani,
leaves a court with family members in
Cape Town December 8, 2014. The South
African court cleared Shrien Dewani on
Monday of charges that he paid hitmen to
kill his wife while they were on
honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Patrick Fallon
Location
Actor Tyrese Gibson and daughter Shayla Somer join
demonstrators protesting against police violence,
including the July chokehold death of unarmed black
man Eric Garner in New York, as they march near the
area where LAPD shot an assault suspect, in Hollywood,
California December 6, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
MANDERA, Kenya
A plainclothes policewoman searches
female passengers, traveling to Nairobi,
for weapons in Mandera at the Kenya-
Somalia border December 8, 2014.
Dec. , 2014
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Photographer
STRINGER Iraq
Location
NAJAF, Iraq
Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims walk to the holy city
of Kerbala, ahead of the holy Shi'ite ritual
of Arbaeen, in Najaf, Iraq, December 8,
2014. Arbaeen falls 40 days after the holy
day of Ashura.
Dec. , 2014
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