2015 - Pictures of the month_DECEMBER -Dec 16 - Dec 22

2015
Pictures of the month : DECEMBER
Dec. 16 – Dec. 22
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January 10, 2016 1
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Photographer
Valentyn Ogirenko
Location
ODESSA, UKRAINE
Reuters / Friday, December 11, 2015
Darth Mykolaiovych Vader, who is dressed as the 'Star Wars' character Darth Vader, poses for
a picture as he does embroidery at his apartments in Odessa, Ukraine, December 2, 2015.
Darth Vader was bent on galactic domination, but his Ukrainian namesake enjoys more
mundane pursuits: local politics, walking the family dog and a spot of embroidery. The
Ukrainian citizen, who has changed his name to Darth Mykolaiovych Vader, ran for...moreJanuary 10, 2016 2

A photographer prepares to take
pictures of the annual Geminid
meteor shower on the Elva Hill, in
Maira Valley, near Cuneo, northern
Italy, on Dec. 12.
MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP - Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 3

Men dressed as Santa
Claus belly up to the bar
during the annual
SantaCon pub crawl on
Dec. 12 in Brooklyn, New
York. Hundreds of revelers
take part in the annual
holiday pub crawl, though
some local bars and
businesses have banned
participants in an effort to
avoid the typically rowdy
SantaCon crowds.
Stephanie Keith / Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 4

Nghi Van Nguyen, left, grandmother
of Tin Nguyen, weeps over her
granddaughter's coffin at her
funeral on Dec. 12 in Santa Ana,
California. Tin Nguyen was killed in
the shootings in San Bernardino on
Dec. 2.
Gallery: San Bernardino Victim
Yvette Velasco Mourned at First
Funeral
Ed Crisostomo / AP
January 10, 2016 5

Fishermen take advantage of
unseasonably warm weather on
the Delaware River on Dec. 13,
near Yardley, Pennsylvania.
Mel Evans / AP
January 10, 2016 6

Kyle Blessing hugs his fiancee, Petty Officer 2nd Class Sophie
Mulkey, left, as Petty Officer 2nd Class Dan Ravo kisses his
girlfriend, Kelly Rancier, alongside the guided-missile destroyer
McFaul after returning to the naval station in Norfolk, Virginia, on
Dec. 14, following an eight-month deployment.
Bill Tiernan / The Virginian-Pilot via AP
January 10, 2016 7

An armed Kurdish militant walks
in the Okmeydani district of
Istanbul during a demonstration
against recent curfews imposed
on Kurdish towns on Dec.15. The
Turkish government has been
waging a relentless offensive
aimed at crippling the rebel
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
which has staged a string of
attacks against security forces in
Turkey since a two-year-old
ceasefire fell apart in late July.
CAGDAS ERDOGAN / AFP - Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 8

January 10, 2016 9
Dec. 16 , 2015

Piles of life jackets used by refugees and migrants to cross the Aegean sea from the Turkish
coast remain stacked on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Dec. 16, 2015. Greek
authorities say two people have drowned and 83 others have been rescued after a wooden
boat crammed with refugees sank in the Aegean Sea off the eastern Greek island of Lesbos.
Santi Palacios / AP- Dec 16
January 10, 2016 10

Photographer
Alkis Konstantinidis
Location
ATHENS, GREECE
Reuters / Wednesday, December 16,
2015
A migrant boy runs while holding a
balloon outside the Tae Kwon Do
stadium at the southern suburb of
Faliro in Athens, Greece, December
16, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis
Konstantinidis
January 10, 2016 11

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
2015
Baseball player Brayan Pena, (C), salutes
children at the Latinoamericano stadium
in Havana, December 16, 2015. Cuban
baseball defectors joined a Major League
Baseball goodwill tour offering clinics for
children in an unprecedented act of
baseball diplomacy. REUTERS/Alexandre
Meneghini
January 10, 2016 12

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures
as he speaks at a campaign rally on Wednesday in Mesa,
Ariz.
Ross D. Franklin / AP-Dec 16
January 10, 2016 13

People walk on a bridge as Christmas lights illuminate the Darsena dei Navigli, the
neighborhood named for the canals that run through this area of Milan, Italy on Wednesday.
Antonio Calanni / AP- Dec 16
January 10, 2016 14

People exercise as the sun rises in Kandawgyi park in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday. The
150-acre Kandawgyi lake surrounded by a 110-acre park is a major recreation area for Yangon
residence during the dry and relatively cool months of December to February.
Gemunu Amarasinghe / AP- Dec 16
January 10, 2016 15

Men in ceremonial uniforms use ropes to pull a carriage transporting the royal urn
containing the remains of Thailand's most senior Buddhist monk, the late Supreme Patriarch
Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara, in Bangkok on Wednesday. Thousands of people lined the
streets of downtown Bangkok on December 16 as the carriage transported the royal urn of
the late Supreme Patriarch, who died in 2013 at the age of 100, ahead of the cremation
ceremony.
CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 16

Photographer
Tyrone Siu
Location
HONG KONG, China
Reuters / Wednesday, December
16, 2015
Private housing blocks are seen in
Hong Kong, China December 15,
2015. Hong Kong is bracing for
greater economic challenges as the
prospect of a new cycle of interest
rate rises drives fears of capital
outflows that could put further
pressure on the Asian financial
hub. Hong Kong's property market,
which has seen prices more than
double since 2008, had already
slowed in anticipation of a local
rate hike, and analysts say a
further...more
January 10, 2016 17

Rain falls at the Christmas market
in Frankfurt, Germany, on Dec.
16.
FRANK RUMPENHORST / EPA
January 10, 2016 18

Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 16, 2015
Workers at a warehouse
move a crate after the
building's roof was torn off
during a rare tornado in the
Sydney suburb of Kurnell,
December 16, 2015.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
January 10, 2016 19

Refining Islamic State oil
Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
16, 2015
Men work at a makeshift oil
refinery site in Marchmarin
town, southern countryside of
Idlib, Syria December 16, 2015.
The refinery site, owned by
Yousef Ayoub, 34, has been
active for 4 months. Ayoub says
that he gets the crude oil from
Islamic State-controlled areas in
Deir al-Zor province and Iraq.
The price for a barrel of crude
oil varies and is controlled by
the Islamic State, but it is
currently at $44 dollars per
barrel, he...more
January 10, 2016 20

Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
16, 2015
A youth works at a makeshift oil
refinery site in Marchmarin town,
southern countryside of Idlib,
Syria December 16, 2015. Islamic
State is looking at potentially
vulnerable oil assets in Libya and
elsewhere outside its Syria
stronghold, where the militant
group controls about roughly 80
percent of the oil and gas fields, a
senior U.S. official said.
REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
January 10, 2016 21

Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
16, 2015
Yousef Ayoub (L), 34, works at a
makeshift oil refinery site in
Marchmarin town, southern
countryside of Idlib, Syria
December 16, 2015. The United
States recently targeted fuel
trucks, part of a broadening of its
strikes on Islamic State's oil
wealth that the U.S. official said
had showed anecdotal signs of
raising the costs of Islamic State's
oil operations. REUTERS/Khalil
Ashawi
January 10, 2016 22

Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
Reuters / Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Men work at a makeshift oil refinery site in Marchmarin
town, southern countryside of Idlib, Syria December 16,
2015. After Turkey downed a Russian fighter jet last month,
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had intelligence
that large amounts of oil and petroleum products were
moving across the border from Islamic State territories to
Turkey. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
January 10, 2016 23

Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
16, 2015
Yousef Ayoub, 34, uncovers a
container for the final fuel product
at a makeshift oil refinery site in
December 16, 2015. The son of
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan
has denied Russian allegations that
he and his family were profiting
from the illegal smuggling of oil
from Islamic State-held territory.
January 10, 2016 24

Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
16, 2015
The final fuel product is pictured
at a makeshift oil refinery site in
December 16, 2015.
January 10, 2016 25

Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
December 16, 2015
Yousef Ayoub (L), 34, works at a
makeshift oil refinery site in
December 16, 2015.
January 10, 2016 26

Mali's Syrian refugees
Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
BAMAKO, MALI
16, 2015
Syrian refugee Ali Jaafar and his
son Mohamed leave the room he
shares with at least five other
people in a house where dozens of
Syrian refugees live in Bamako,
Mali, December 15, 2015. About
90 Syrian refugees live in Mali's
capital Bamako, some for as long
as two years, according to another
refugee. REUTERS/Joe Penney
January 10, 2016 27

Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
BAMAKO, MALI
December 16, 2015
Syrian refugee children
walk in front of an auto
garage in Bamako, Mali,
December 15, 2015.
There are several dozen
refugees living in one
house, and some work
at an auto garage run by
a Lebanese family.
REUTERS/Joe Penney
January 10, 2016 28

Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
BAMAKO, MALI
Reuters /
Wednesday,
December 16, 2015
Syrian refugees and
their Malian
colleague gather
under a thatched
roof tent in front of
an auto garage in
Bamako, Mali,
December 15, 2015.
Many of the
refugees have
claimed asylum in
Mali. REUTERS/Joe
Penney
January 10, 2016 29

Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
BAMAKO, MALI
December 16, 2015
Syrian refugee children
wave to the camera in
Bamako, Mali, December
15, 2015. REUTERS/Joe
Penney
January 10, 2016 30

Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
BAMAKO, MALI
December 16, 2015
Syrian refugee Ali Jaafar (L),
Mohamed Jaafar (baby) pose
for a picture with Ali's Malian
colleague at an auto garage,
Mahmoud Dicko, in Bamako,
Mali, December 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Joe Penney
January 10, 2016 31

Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
BAMAKO, MALI
Syrian refugee Yaser Jaafar holds up his request
for asylum in front of other refugees in
Bamako, Mali, December 15, 2015. Jaafar said
they came to Bamako from Turkey and
received a visa upon arrival at the airport. He
said their trip was facilitated by a Lebanese
man and that they would like to leave to go to
Europe but don't have any money and have
been refused entry at different Western
embassies in Mali. REUTERS/Joe Penney
January 10, 2016 32

Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
BAMAKO, MALI
16, 2015
Syrian refugees and their Malian
colleague watch a video on a cell
phone under a thatched roof tent
in Bamako, Mali, December 15,
2015. REUTERS/Joe Penney
January 10, 2016 33

Photographer
Joe Penney
Location
BAMAKO, MALI
16, 2015
Syrian refugees pose for a picture
in Bamako, Mali, December 15,
2015. REUTERS/Joe Penney
January 10, 2016 34

Photographer
Bryan Woolston
Location
BALTIMORE, UNITED STATES
2015
Deputies with Baltimore City
Sheriff's Office arrest a protestor
outside the courthouse in Baltimore,
December 16, 2015. A Maryland
judge declared a mistrial on
Wednesday in the trial of the first of
six Baltimore police officers charged
in the death of Freddie Gray, whose
killing sparked riots and arson in the
city in April. The jury had
deliberated for 16 hours on whether
the officer, William Porter, was
guilty of involuntary...more
January 10, 2016 35

Photographer
Lucas Jackson
Location
NEW YORK, United States
2015
Traders work on the floor of the New
York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shortly
after the announcement that the
U.S. Federal Reserve had hiked
interest rates for the first time in
nearly a decade in New York,
December 16, 2015. The U.S. central
bank's policy-setting committee
raised the range of its benchmark
interest rate by a quarter of a
percentage point to between 0.25
percent and 0.50 percent, ending a
lengthy debate about whether
the...more
January 10, 2016 36

Photographer
Fredy Builes
Location
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
2015
People take pictures near illuminated
Christmas decorations on a street in
Medellin, Colombia December 16,
2015. REUTERS/Fredy Builes
January 10, 2016 37

Photographer
Abhishek Chinnappa
Location
BENGALURU, India
2015
A worker with his face covered rests on
a tarpaulin at a construction site of a
residential complex in Bengaluru, India
December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Abhishek
N. Chinnappa
January 10, 2016 38

Photographer
Benoit Tessier
Location
MARNE-LA-VALLEE, France
Characters of Star Wars take part in an
event held for the release of the film "Star
Wars: The Force Awakens" in Disneyland
Paris in Marne-la-Vallee, France, December
16, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
January 10, 2016 39

Photographer
Alaa Faqir
Location
DERAA, SYRIA
16, 2015
Muthanna Islamic Movement
members inspect what they say is a
Russian made military surveillance
drone which they claimed to have
shot down in Sheikh Meskeen near
Deraa, Syria December 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir
January 10, 2016 40

Photographer
Denis Balibouse
Location
LAUSANNE, Switzerland
December 16, 2015
A ferry crosses Lake Geneva
near Lausanne, Switzerland
December 16, 2015.
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
January 10, 2016 41

Photographer
Fabrizio Bensch
Location
BERLIN, Germany
2015
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
attends a session of the German
lower house of parliament, the
Bundestag in Berlin, Germany,
December 16, 2015.
REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
January 10, 2016 42

Photographer
Dylan Martinez
Location
LONDON, United Kingdom
16, 2015
Enthusiasts, one wearing a
Chewbacca costume, wait to spot
members of the cast at the
European Premiere of Star Wars,
The Force Awakens in Leicester
Square, London, December 16,
2015. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
January 10, 2016 43

Photographer
Ueslei Marcelino
Location
BRASILIA, Brazil
December 16, 2015
A Brazilian indian attends a
protest against the Proposed
Constitutional Amendment
(PEC 215), in front of the
National Congress in Brasilia,
Brazil, December 16, 2015. PEC
215 proposes the transfer of
power to demarcate indigenous
lands to the Brazilian National
Congress. REUTERS/Ueslei
Marcelino
January 10, 2016 44

Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
YANTAI, China
2015
A man rides a bicycle along a street
during a snowfall in Yantai,
Shandong province, December 16,
2015. REUTERS/Stringer
January 10, 2016 45

Photographer
Fayaz Aziz
Location
PESHAWAR, Pakistan
16, 2015
The mother of Uzair, an Army
Public School victim, touches his
picture in a gallery of the victims
at a ceremony on the anniversary
of the Taliban attack on the
school in Peshawar, Pakistan
December 16, 2015. REUTERS/
Fayaz Aziz
January 10, 2016 46

Photographer
Alkis Konstantinidis
Location
ATHENS, GREECE
16, 2015
The hands of temporarily
detained migrants are seen
through a police bus window as
they leave the Tae Kwon Do
stadium at the southern suburb
of Faliro in Athens, Greece,
December 16, 2015.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
January 10, 2016 47

January 10, 2016 48
Dec. 17 , 2015

Daffodils at the Olympic Park in London. The mild temperatures left the season are causing
some flowers bloom early and some ice ceased operation.
January 10, 2016 49

Farmers working on fields in the District of Van Thanh city, Zhejiang Province, China.
January 10, 2016 50

A woman taking pictures with decorative Christmas lights in
Chongye stream in downtown Seoul, South Korea.
January 10, 2016 51

Lindor Kerby, a Radio reporter Tele Timoun, was helping protesters after the peacekeeping
troops of the United Nations from Brazil spray during a demonstration protesting the
country's Electoral Council, to mark the 25th anniversary of the first democratic elections in
1990 , in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 16 December, 2015.
January 10, 2016 52

January 10, 2016 53
A boy displaced leave Saada province, northwest of the
capital Sana'a with his family, waiting to be found in
food aid Sana'a, Yemen.

Ancient temples of ancient
Parthenon on Acropolis appears
behind the rope Christmas lights in
the center of Athens, Greece.
January 10, 2016 54

Refugees and migrants on a dinghy
approach the Greek island of Lesbos
on Dec. 17.
According to the International
Organization for Migration, more
than 920,000 people have entered
the EU so far this year. The influx
has overwhelmed national border
guards and reception capacities,
notably in Greece, where some
770,000 migrants have arrived, most
of them from Turkey.
Santi Palacios / AP
January 10, 2016 55

Photographer
Rupak De Chowdhuri
Location
KOLKATA, India
Reuters / Thursday,
December 17, 2015
A performer balances
himself on a set of knives
during a special preview
as part of Christmas
celebrations at the Ajanta
circus in Kolkata, India,
December 17, 2015.
REUTERS/Rupak De
Chowdhuri
January 10, 2016 56

Photographer
Mario Anzuoni
Location
HOLLYWOOD, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Thursday, December 17,
2015
Caroline Ritter from Australia
arrives for her wedding ceremony
escorted by a person dressed as
the character of Darth Vader from
Star Wars in the forecourt of the
TCL Chinese Theatre in
Hollywood, California December
17, 2015. REUTERS/Mario
Anzuoni
January 10, 2016 57

Photographer
Shannon Stapleton
Location
Seattle, United States
Reuters / Thursday,
December 17, 2015
Kadee Ingram, 28, holds her
son Sean, 2, at SHARE/WHEEL
Tent City 3 outside Seattle,
Washington October 13,
2015. Ingram lost her job,
and soon afterwards her
partner Renee lost her job. "It
got (to) the point where we
couldn't get a job fast enough
and we lost our apartment,"
Ingram said. "Coming here,
we really like it, being outside
especially, we feel safe. We
wish we would have known
about it sooner."
REUTERS/Shannon...more
January 10, 2016 58

Photographer
Antara Photo Agency
Location
BATAM, Indonesia
Reuters / Thursday, December
17, 2015
An Indonesia rescue team
approaches the sunken Antigua
and Barbuda flagged freighter
MV Thorco Cloud which sank
after colliding with a tanker the
night before, in the Singapore
Strait off the Indonesian island
of Batam December 17, 2015 in
this photo taken by Antara Foto.
REUTERS/M N Kanwa/Antara
Foto
January 10, 2016 59

Photographer
Ruben Sprich
Location
ZURICH, Switzerland
Reuters / Thursday,
December 17, 2015
Suspended FIFA President
Sepp Blatter arrives at the
FIFA headquarters in
Zurich, Switzerland
December 17, 2015.
REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
January 10, 2016 60

Photographer
Location
CHENGDU, CHINA
16, 2015
The interior of a room is pictured
at a holding centre of the People's
Procuratorate of Sichuan province
for officials suspected of
corruption, in Chengdu, Sichuan
province, China, December 10,
2015. Padded cells to prevent
suicide and soft spoons that
cannot be made into weapons
await officials suspected of
corruption in one holding centre
in southwestern China, in unusual
images of China's graft fight
carried by a state-run...more
January 10, 2016 61

Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
2015
Medics treat injured people inside
a field hospital after what activists
said were air and missile strikes in
the Douma neighborhood of
Damascus, Syria December 13,
2015. Douma in Syria, an area
controlled by rebels fighting to
topple President Bashar al-Assad,
has been shelled continuously for
the past three years. The injured
are taken to basements and
shelters transformed into field
hospitals run by medical staff who
have stayed...more
January 10, 2016 62

Photographer
Jon Nazca
Location
TORREMOLINOS, Spain
2015
A woman is comforted by Spain's
Socialist Party (PSOE) leader
Pedro Sanchez, one of the four
leading candidates for Spain's
national election, as she cries at
the end of an election campaign
rally in Torremolinos, southern
Spain, December 17, 2015.
REUTERS/Jon Nazca
January 10, 2016 63

Photographer
Jorge Lopez
Location
GUATEMALA, Guatemala
17, 2015
A man dressed as a character
from Star Wars enters the
bathroom during an event held
for the release of the film "Star
Wars: The Force Awakens" at a
movie theater in Guatemala
City, December 16, 2015.
REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
January 10, 2016 64

Photographer
Yves Herman
Location
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Reuters / Thursday, December 17, 2015
British Prime Minister David Cameron
(C) talks with Cyprus President Nicos
Anastasiades (R) at the start of a
European Union leaders summit in
Brussels, December 17, 2015. EU leaders
are due to discuss on the migrant crisis
and Cameron's demands for reform of
the bloc ahead of a referendum he plans
to hold by the end of 2017 on Britain's
continued memebership. REUTERS/Yves
Herman
January 10, 2016 65

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA
Reuters / Thursday,
December 17, 2015
Swimmers jump off a jetty
to escape the summer heat
at Henley Beach, west of
Adelaide, December 17,
2015. Australia's Bureau of
Meterology recorded a
temperature of 42.9 degrees
Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit) in
the Adelaide area on
Thursday. REUTERS/Ben
Macmahon/AAP
January 10, 2016 66

Photographer
MAXIM ZMEYEV
Location
MOSCOW, Russia
2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin
speaks during his annual end-of-year
news conference in Moscow, Russia,
December 17, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim
Zmeyev
January 10, 2016 67

Photographer
Kevin Lamarque
Location
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES
17, 2015
A woman looks out from her
umbrella as she walks pass a
huge Christmas tree on a rainy
afternoon in Washington,
December 17, 2015.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
January 10, 2016 68

Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
17, 2015
A baby lies in a neonatal unit
in a field hospital in the
Douma neighborhood of
Damascus, Syria December 8,
2015. Douma in Syria, an area
controlled by rebels fighting
to topple President Bashar al-
Assad, has been shelled
continuously for the past
three years. The injured are
taken to basements and
shelters transformed into field
hospitals run by medical staff
who have stayed in the
battered neighbourhood of
Damascus....more
January 10, 2016 69

Photographer
Shannon Stapleton
Location
Seattle, United States
2015
A general view is seen of the
unsanctioned homeless tent
encampment Nickelsville in Seattle,
Washington October 8, 2015. At
homeless encampments from
Seattle, Washington state to Las
Cruces, New Mexico, residents live
away from the dangers of life on the
streets, saying the stability helps
them work towards their goals.
Despite a shortage of affordable
housing for the poor and budget
constraints on social welfare
programmes, many...more
January 10, 2016 70

Photographer
Oswaldo Rivas
Location
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA
Reuters / Thursday,
December 17, 2015
A man dressed as Santa
Claus waits to have his
photo taken with people at
Lake Malecon in Managua,
Nicaragua December 17,
2015. REUTERS/Oswaldo
Rivas
January 10, 2016 71

Photographer
Lucy Nicholson
Location
TORRANCE, United States
17, 2015
Holiday lights are seen on a
home in the Sleepy Hollow
area of Torrance, California,
United States, December 15,
2015. In many neighborhoods
of Los Angeles, homeowners
compete for the most lavish
and creative holiday light
displays. Torrance's Sleepy
Hollow is one such
neighborhood where every
home outdoes the next: surfing
Santas, life-size nativity scenes,
ferris wheels, and giant
inflatable snowmen line the
lawns on every...more
January 10, 2016 72

Photographer
Lucy Nicholson
Location
Reuters / Thursday,
December 17, 2015
Christmas lights are seen
on a home in the Sleepy
Hollow area of Torrance,
California, United States,
December 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
January 10, 2016 73

Photographer
Lucy Nicholson
Location
TORRANCE, United
States
Reuters / Thursday,
December 17, 2015
Holiday lights are seen
on a home in the
Sleepy Hollow area of
Torrance, California,
United States,
December 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Lucy
Nicholson
January 10, 2016 74

Photographer
Lucy Nicholson
Location
LOS ANGELES, United States
17, 2015
Christmas lights are seen on a
home in Los Angeles,
December 15, 2015.
January 10, 2016 75

Photographer
Lucy Nicholson
Location
17, 2015
Christmas lights are seen on a
home in the Sleepy Hollow
neighborhood of Torrance,
December 15, 2015.
January 10, 2016 76

Photographer
Reuters Staff
17, 2015
Chelsea manager Jose
Mourinho celebrates with his
medal after winning the
Barclays Premier League May
24, 2015. Action Images via
Reuters / Tony O'Brien Livepic
January 10, 2016 77

Photographer
Lucas Jackson
Location
17, 2015
Martin Shkreli (C), chief
executive officer of Turing
Pharmaceuticals and KaloBios
Pharmaceuticals Inc, departs
the U.S. Federal Court after an
arraignment following him
being charged in a federal
indictment filed in Brooklyn
relating to his management of
hedge fund MSMB Capital
Management and
biopharmaceutical company
Retrophin Inc. in New York
December 17, 2015.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
January 10, 2016 78

Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, SYRIA
An injured boy who is undergoing surgery, after he was
injured in what activists said was an airstrike by forces loyal
to Syria's president Bashar al-Assad, rests inside a field
hospital in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria
December 5, 2015. Douma in Syria, an area controlled by
rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, has been
shelled continuously for the past three years. The injured are
taken to basements and...moreJanuary 10, 2016 79

People enjoy rides at the funfair "Jours de Fetes" inside the Grand Palais in Paris as part of
holiday activities in the French capital on Dec. 17. 2015.
PHILIPPE WOJAZER / Reuters
January 10, 2016 80

A migrant or refugee enters the
trailer of a truck after having cut
the tarpaulin roof outside the
Eurotunnel in Calais, France on
Thursday. A growing number of
migrants seeking to reach Britain
are trying to leave from the
Belgian port of Zeebrugge,
prosecutors and police said on
December 16, with people
finding it increasingly hard to
make the dangerous crossing
from France's Calais.
PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP - Getty
Images- Dec 17
January 10, 2016 81

Mourners carry the body of
Palestinian woman Samah
Abdullah during her funeral in
the village of Ammuriya on
Thursday. Abdullah was
wounded after she was shot
by Israeli security forces about
three weeks ago at the
Hawara checkpoint in the
northern West Bank and died
Wednesday from her injuries.
JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP -
Getty Images-Dec 17
January 10, 2016 82

Pope Francis, whose 79th
birthday is today, blows
out a candle on a cake
during a special audience
with members of Italian
Catholic Action
movement at the Vatican,
on Thursday.
Osservatore Romano via
Reuters-Dec 17
January 10, 2016 83

North Korean leader Kim
Jong-Un is accompanied by
commanding officers of the
Korean People's Army
visiting the Kumsusan
Palace where his father Kim
Jong-Il lies in state in
Pyongyang on the
memorial day of Kim Jong-
Il in an image released on
by North Korea's official
Korean Central News
Agency on Thursday.
Korean Central News
Agency via AFP - Getty
Images-Dec 17
January 10, 2016 84

Members of Royal Saudi Hawks Air Force Aerobatic team perform with Hawk planes during
the Al-Ain Air Championship at Al-Ain airport, United Arab Emirates on Thursday. The event
runs from December 17 to 19.
ALI HAIDER / EPA- dec 17
January 10, 2016 85

Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager under fire for buying a pharmaceutical
company and ratcheting up the price of a life-saving drug, is escorted by law enforcement
agents in New York on Thursday, after being taken into custody following a securities probe.
A seven-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court Thursday charged Shkreli with
conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud.
- Dec 17
Craig Ruttle / APJanuary 10, 2016 86

Photographer
Neil Hall
Location
17, 2015
An aircraft comes in to land
over a car park at Gatwick
Airport in southern Britain,
December 17, 2015.
REUTERS/Neil Hall
January 10, 2016 87

Photographer
David Mercado
Location
POOPO LAKE, BOLIVIA
Boats of fishermen are seen on the dried Poopo
lakebed in the Oruro Department, south of La Paz,
Bolivia, December 17, 2015. Lake Poopo in Bolivia,
the Andean nation's formerly second largest after the
famed Titicaca, has dried up entirely. With the water
now gone, animals have died off in the millions,
according to studies. And the local families, having
lost much of their sustenance, have been forced to
migrate. REUTERS/David...more
January 10, 2016 88

January 10, 2016 89
Dec. 18 , 2015

One woman Christmas decoration for shop
Windows in the city of Kiev, Ukraine
January 10, 2016 90

Christmas decorations on the streets of a medieval
mountain village, North of the city of Nice, France.
January 10, 2016 91

Palestinians throw stones fled to
find shelter after Israeli security
forces smoke cay in the clashes
following a protest next to the wall
that separates the Israeli's
controversial in the city of
Bethlehem in the West Bank.
January 10, 2016 92

A picture of Mother Teresa on a
candle placed on her Tomb in a
special mass in the city of Kolkata,
India. On Friday the Pope Francis
recognized the second miracle was
said by this nun brings, paving the
way for her to be canonized.
January 10, 2016 93

An archive of the city examine a painting in
the Paris Archives Center after being
removed from an unofficial Memorial at
one of the places attacked Islam in
November in Paris.
January 10, 2016 94

Contestants in the opening maneuvers of browsing for the final round of contest of Miss
world in Sanya city, Hainan Province, China. The Miss World Finals will start on Saturday.
January 10, 2016 95

Pictures of the Earth taken from a spaceship to fly
in orbit around the Moon by NASA.
January 10, 2016 96

An older local woman standing on a beach on Lesbos island of Greece, next to a pile of
jackets, after refugees and immigrants coming from the Turkish coast.
January 10, 2016 97

The miners left after the
last shift at Kellingley
Colliery mine in on the last
activity in the North of the
city of Yorkshire, England.
Kellingley mine is the last
deep coal mine closed in
Britain, closing the
centuries coal mining in
Britain.
January 10, 2016 98

A protester with red paint hand indicates the anger in a rally demanding that the Turkish
troops withdrew from northern Iraq, in the city of Basra, 550 km southeast of the capital,
Baghdad, Iraq. Turkey has soldiers near the city of Mosul since last year, but the new soldiers
are the next thing last week has caused outrage.
January 10, 2016 99

People walking on the beach in Biarritz, Southwest France, along the Atlantic ocean
temperatures in France to rise up the extraordinary level of 20 degrees Celsius.
January 10, 2016 100

Bus drivers blocked traffic in a demonstration in the Port
Maillot, one at the gateway to Paris, France.
January 10, 2016 101

Photographer
Stefan Wermuth
Location
Reuters / Friday, December 18,
2015
Lana Lecash, 21-months old,
reacts during a visit to meet actor
John Field, dressed as Santa
Claus, at a Christmas grotto at
the Wetland Centre in London,
Britain, December 5, 2015. When
Father Christmas is not at home
with the reindeer preparing for
his big sleigh-ride, he likes to play
practical jokes on the children
who visit him asking for presents.
Field, 66, a former teacher turned
actor, has taken on the role of
Santa for...more
January 10, 2016 102

Photographer
Issei Kato
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Reuters / Friday, December
18, 2015
Moviegoers wait before the
first showing of the movie
"Star Wars: The Force
Awakens" outside a movie
theater in Tokyo, Japan,
December 18, 2015.
REUTERS/Issei Kato
January 10, 2016 103

Photographer
Kim Kyung Hoon
Location
BEIJING, CHINA
18, 2015
A man riding a truck yawns
in Beijing, China, December
18, 2015. REUTERS/Kim
Kyung-Hoon
January 10, 2016 104

Photographer
Kim Hong-Ji
Location
SEOUL, South Korea
2015
A diver dressed in a Santa Claus
costume performs during an
event celebrating the upcoming
Christmas holiday at Lotte World
Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea,
December 18, 2015.
REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
January 10, 2016 105

Photographer
Naseem Mohammed Bny
Huthil
Location
DOHA, Qatar
18, 2015
Paratroopers from the
Qatari armed forces take
part in Qatar's National Day
celebrations in Doha
December 18, 2015.
REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon
January 10, 2016 106

Photographer
Philippe Wojazer
Location
PARIS, France
2015
A Paris city archivist holds a
French flag with the message 'I
am Paris' as he collects the
notes, poems and drawings left
by passers-by at an informal
memorial in front of the"Casa
Nostra" pizzeria, one of the sites
of the November shooting
attacks, in Paris, France,
December 18, 2015, more than a
month after the shooting attacks
which killed 130 people in the
French capital.
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
Forever remembering the Paris attacks
January 10, 2016 107

Photographer
Philippe Wojazer
Location
PARIS, France
2015
A view shows an informal
memorial before the arrival of
Paris city archival teams to
collect the notes, poems and
drawings left by passers-by in
front of the"Casa Nostra"
pizzeria, one of the sites of the
November shooting attacks, in
Paris, France, December 18,
2015. REUTERS/Philippe
Wojazer
January 10, 2016 108

Photographer
Philippe Wojazer
Location
PARIS, France
Reuters / Friday, December 18, 2015
Paris city archival team collect the notes,
poems and drawings left by passers-by at an
informal memorial in front of the"Casa
Nostra" pizzeria, one of the sites of the
November shooting attacks, in Paris, France,
December 18, 2015. REUTERS/Philippe
Wojazer
January 10, 2016 109

Photographer
Philippe Wojazer
Location
PARIS, France
18, 2015
Paris city archival and
sanitation teams collect
the notes, poems and
drawings left by passers-by
at an informal memorial in
front of the"Casa Nostra"
pizzeria, one of the sites of
the November shooting
attacks, in Paris, France,
December 18, 2015.
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
January 10, 2016 110

Britain's last deep coal mine
Photographer
POOL New
Location
KELLINGLEY, United
Kingdom
Reuters / Friday,
December 18, 2015
Miners leave after
working the final shift
at Kellingley Colliery on
its last day of operation
in north Yorkshire,
England, December 18,
2015. REUTERS/Oli
Scarff/Pool
January 10, 2016 111

Photographer
Phil Noble
Location
KELLINGLEY, United Kingdom
18, 2015
A graffitied For Sale sits under
the road sign for Kellingley
Colliery on its last day of
operation in north Yorkshire,
England, December 18, 2015.
REUTERS/Phil Noble
January 10, 2016 112

Photographer
POOL New
Location
KELLINGLEY, United Kingdom
2015
Miners leave after working the final
shift at Kellingley Colliery on its last
day of operation in north Yorkshire,
England, December 18, 2015.
REUTERS/Oli Scarff/Pool
January 10, 2016 113

Moses' Mountain views
Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
Saint Catherine, Egypt
2015
A tourist watches the sunrise
and prays outside a church on
the summit of Mount Moses,
near the city of Saint
Catherine, in the Sinai
Peninsula, south of Egypt,
December 9, 2015. According
to the Bible the mountain is
where Moses received the ten
commandments from God.
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
January 10, 2016 114

Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
Reuters / Friday,
December 18, 2015
Tourists watch the sunrise
and pray outside a church
on the summit of Mount
Moses, near the city of
Saint Catherine, in the
Sinai Peninsula, south of
Egypt, December 9, 2015.
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah
Dalsh
January 10, 2016 115

Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
2015
People walk in front of the tree
which Moses was believed to have
slept under, before he met God,
inside Saint Catherine's monastery,
in the Sinai Peninsula, south of
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dals
January 10, 2016 116

Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
18, 2015
Bedouin mountain guides
make their way down from
the summit of Mount
Moses, near the city of
Saint Catherine, in the
Sinai Peninsula, south of
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah
Dalsh
January 10, 2016 117

Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
2015
Tourists and worshipers warm
themselves before climbing to the
last stage at the summit of Mount
Moses, near the city of Saint
Catherine, in the Sinai Peninsula,
south of Egypt, December 9, 2015.
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
January 10, 2016 118

January 10, 2016 119
Dec. 19 , 2015

Bostjan Kline of Slovenia competes in the FIS Alpine
Skiing World Cup Men's Super G on Friday in Val
Gardena, northern Italy.
OLIVIER MORIN / AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 120

A Palestinian protester hurls a
rock at Israeli security forces
during clashes near Shejaiya, an
eastern district of Gaza City
along the border with Israel on
Friday.
MAHMUD HAMS / AFP - Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 121

Coal miners finish the
final shift before closure
at the Kellingley Colliery
in Yorkshire, northern
England, on Friday. The
shutdown of the mine in
Yorkshire in northern
England closes a 200-year
chapter of Britain's
industrial history.
JOHN GILES / AFP - Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 122

The Prince Felipe science
museum is reflected as people
queue to attend a campaign
rally led by Spanish Prime
Minister and People's Party
(PP) leader Mariano Rajoy at
the City of Arts and Sciences
ahead of Spain's general
election in Valencia, Spain, on
Friday.
MARCELO DEL POZO / Reuters
January 10, 2016 123

Israeli security forces fire
tear gas and different kinds
of bullets towards
Palestinian stone throwers
during clashes following a
demonstration next to the
Israeli controversial
separation wall in the West
Bank city of Bethlehem on
Friday.
THOMAS COEX / AFP - Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 124

Mireia Lalaguna Rozo of
Spain reacts after winning
the new title at the Miss
World at the Grand Finale in
Sanya, in southern China's
Hainan province.
Contestants from over 110
countries compete in the
final of the 65th Miss World
Competition.
JOHANNES EISELE / AFP -
Getty Images
January 10, 2016 125

Star Wars fans raise their
lightsabers during
Lightsaber Battle LA in
Pershing Square in
downtown Los Angeles.
(AFP)
ROBYN BECK / AFP - Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 126

A man prepares decorations ahead
of the birthday of Prophet
Mohammed in Sidon, south
Lebanon.
ALI HASHISHO / Reuters
January 10, 2016 127

A Lebanese couple takes a selfie in front men and women wearing Santa Claus costumes
during a parade for Christmas, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.
Hussein Malla / APJanuary 10, 2016 128

People stand around the18th-century
Baroque-style Trevi fountain before the
start of a show to promote Rome's
candidacy for the 2024 Olympic Games in
Rome. The cities in the bid to host the
2024 Olympics are Budapest, Hamburg,
Los Angeles, Paris and Rome.
GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 129

Iraqi mourners carry
the body of one of the
soldiers who were
killed the previous
day in a so-called
friendly fire from a
U.S. led coalition
aircraft west of
Baghdad, during a
funeral in the Shiite
holy city of Najaf.
HAIDAR HAMDANI /
AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 130

Search Crews work in the area where an avalanche hit several houses in Longyearbyen,
Norway. It is unclear whether any people are trapped in the buildings or under the snow.
EPA
January 10, 2016 131

Camels walk along sand dunes in the Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in the desert near the
city of Madinat Zayed, west of Abu Dhabi. The festival, which attracts participants from
around the Gulf region, includes a camel beauty contest, a display of UAE handcrafts and
other activities aimed at promoting the country's folklore.
KARIM SAHIB / AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 132

Swedish ski resort hosts refugees
Photographer
Ints Kalnins
Location
RIKSGRANSEN, SWEDEN
Reuters / Saturday,
December 19, 2015
Refugees use smartphones
in the lobby of their camp
December 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Ints KalninsJanuary 10, 2016 133

Photographer
Ints Kalnins
Location
RIKSGRANSEN, SWEDEN
Reuters / Saturday, December
19, 2015
A refugee girl looks outside of
her camp December 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
January 10, 2016 134

Photographer
Ints Kalnins
Location
RIKSGRANSEN, SWEDEN
Reuters / Saturday,
December 19, 2015
A refugee takes a selfie at
the front of his camp at a
hotel touted as the
world's most northerly ski
resort in Riksgransen,
Sweden, December 15,
2015. REUTERS/Ints
Kalnins
January 10, 2016 135

Photographer
Rebecca Naden
Location
LANGLAND BAY, UNITED
KINGDOM
Reuters / Saturday, December
19, 2015
A member of the Langland
Board Surfers group takes part
in a Surfing Santa competition
at Langland Bay in Gower,
Wales, December 19, 2015.
REUTERS/Rebecca Naden
January 10, 2016 136

January 10, 2016 137
Dec. 20 , 2015

Back to school in Benghazi
Photographer
Esam Al-Fetori
Location
BENGHAZI, Libya
Reuters / Sunday, December
20, 2015
A schoolboy attends a
lesson at a school that
reopened after a gap of
more than a year and a half
because of clashes in
Benghazi, Libya December
20, 2015. REUTERS/Esam
Omran Al-Fetori
January 10, 2016 138

Photographer
Esam Al-Fetori
Location
BENGHAZI, Libya
20, 2015
Students stand in a line at a
school that reopened after a
gap of more than a year and a
half because of clashes in
Benghazi December 20, 2015.
REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-
Fetori
January 10, 2016 139

Photographer
Esam Al-Fetori
Location
BENGHAZI, Libya
20, 2015
Students stand in lines at a
school that reopened after a
gap of more than a year and
a half because of clashes in
Benghazi December 20,
2015. REUTERS/Esam Omran
Al-Fetori
January 10, 2016 140

Firefighters used flashlights to search for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings after a
landslide in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, on 20-12-2015.January 10, 2016 141

Firefighters look on as smoke
rises in front of a damaged
building at the site of the
landslide.
China's state broadcaster
China Central Television, or
CCTV, said that the buildings
buried included two workers'
dormitories.
Tyrone Siu / Reuters
January 10, 2016 142

Firefighters search for survivors near a
damaged building at the site of the landslide
in Shenzhen, China on Dec. 20. At least 7
people were rescued, and an area 24,000
square yards was covered with soil, the
Ministry of Public Security's firefighting
bureau said in an online statement.
Tyrone Siu / Reuters
January 10, 2016 143

A massive landslide buried 22
buildings in Shenzhen, Guangdong
Province, China on Dec. 20, 2015.
Three people were injured and at
least 27 people remain missing as of
8:50 PM. local time, authorities said.
Read: Huge China Landslide Buries
Factories, Dorms: 27 Missing
via AP
January 10, 2016 144

Rescuers approached a collapsed
building following the landslide in
Shenzhen, searching for survivors on
Dec. 20.
via AP
January 10, 2016 145

Rescuers and dogs search
for survivors amongst
collapsed buildings at
night on Dec. 20. The
state-controlled media
Xinhua News Agency
reported that "Chinese
President Xi Jinping and
Premier Li Keqiang have
ordered immediate
rescue efforts" after the
landslide.
via APJanuary 10, 2016 146

Excavators are deployed as
firefighters and rescuers
continue looking for survivors at
night on Dec. 20.
AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 147

A destroyed building
stands on the mud after
the landslide in Shenzhen,
Guangdong province,
China on Dec. 20.
AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 148

Photographer
Tyrone Siu
Location
SHENZHEN, CHINA
Reuters / Sunday, December 20,
2015
Firefighters search for survivors
among the debris of collapsed
buildings after a landslide hit an
industrial park in Shenzhen,
Guangzhou, China, December 20,
2015. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
January 10, 2016 149

A place is said to be of Russian planes raided the city of Idlib, Syria, on 20 December, 2015.
January 10, 2016 150

An Israeli paddle on the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, on 20 December, 2015.
January 10, 2016 151

Photographer
Adnan Abidi
Location
NEW DELHI, INDIA
2015
A policeman detains a
demonstrator during a protest
against the release of a juvenile
rape convict, in New Delhi,
India, December 20, 2015. The
youngest of six people convicted
of the 2012 gang rape of a
woman, in a case that shocked
India, was freed on Sunday, a
lawyer said, after a court
refused to extend his three-year
sentence. The case turned a
global spotlight on the
treatment of women in India,
where police say a rape
is...more
January 10, 2016 152

Photographer
Eduardo Munoz
Location
Reuters / Sunday, December 20, 2015
A woman half-dressed as the Statue of
Liberty holds a banner to protest
against Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump, outside of
his office in Manhattan, New York,
December 20, 2015. REUTERS/Eduardo
Munoz
January 10, 2016 153

Photographer
Ammar Abdullah
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
2015
A rescue worker holds an injured
boy after what activists said were
airstrikes carried out by the
Russian air force in Idlib city,
Syria December 20, 2015.
REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
January 10, 2016 154

Photographer
Eric Gaillard
Location
NICE, France
20, 2015
A man dressed as a Santa
Claus takes part in the
traditional Christmas bath
during an unusually warm
winter day in Nice,
southeastern France,
December 20, 2015.
REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
January 10, 2016 155

Photographer
Norsk Telegrambyra AS
Location
Longyearbyen, Norway
20, 2015
Lights are left on inside a car
which was jammed between
two houses pushed together
by the force of Saturday's
avalanche which hit the
Norwegian town of
Longyearbyen, the biggest
settlement on the Arctic
archipelago of Svalbard,
roughly midway between the
North Pole and the
northernmost tip of Europe,
December 20, 2015.
REUTERS/Tore Meek/NTB
Scanpix
January 10, 2016 156

Photographer
Kim Kyung Hoon
Location
BEIJING, CHINA
2015
Models painted in camouflage
colours to blend in with the
background pose for Chinese
artist Liu Bolin's artwork
"Dongji", or Winter Solstice, on
the second day after China's
capital Beijing issued its second
ever "red alert" for air
pollution, in Beijing, China,
December 20, 2015. In this
artwork, Liu wants to express
his concerns about China and
its people, including air
pollution problem, Liu told
Reuters. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-
Hoon
January 10, 2016 157

Photographer
Yves Herman
Location
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
2015
Brussels' Grand Place is illuminated
during a light show as part of
"Winter Wonders" festivities in
central Brussels, Belgium
December 7, 2015. The humble
Christmas tree has a rich history,
from evergreen trees used to
symbolise eternal life in Ancient
Egypt to tree worship among pagan
Europeans. The modern version
has its origins in Germany, where
the song "O Tannenbaum" is still a
festive favourite. Today the
traditional tree...more
January 10, 2016 158

Photographer
Darrin Zammit Lupi
Location
Valletta, Malta
2015
Drivers take part in a demolition
derby organised by the Malta
Motor Sports Association to
raise funds for charity in Ta' Qali,
outside Valletta, Malta,
December 20, 2015. The drivers
have one ultimate aim - that
their vehicle, or what's left of it,
remains the only one
standing.REUTERS/Darrin
Zammit Lupi
January 10, 2016 159

Photographer
Sergio Perez
Location
MADRID, Spain
Reuters / Sunday,
December 20, 2015
Podemos (We Can) party
supporters react as party
leader Pablo Iglesias and
other members address the
crowd after results were
announced in Spain's
general election in Madrid,
REUTERS/Sergio PerezJanuary 10, 2016 160

Photographer
Dado Ruvic
Location
ZENICA, BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA
20, 2015
A woman walks on the
Smetovi mountain range
near Zenica, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, December 20,
2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
January 10, 2016 161

Photographer
Marcelo del Pozo
Location
MADRID, Spain
2015
Spain's Prime Minister and
People's Party (PP) candidate
Mariano Rajoy gestures while
addressing supporters from a
balcony at the party
headquarters next to his wife
Elvira Fernandez after results
were announced in Spain's
general election in Madrid,
REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo
January 10, 2016 162

Photographer
Reuters Staff
FC Barcelona celebrate winning the FIFA
Club World Cup Final at International
Stadium Yokohama, JapanSunday,
December 20, 2015. Reuters / Thomas
Peter Livepic
January 10, 2016 163

Photographer
Location
SHENZHEN, China
20, 2015
Firefighters stand next to
collapsed buildings after a
landslide hit an industrial park
in Shenzhen, Guangdong
province, China December 20,
January 10, 2016 164

Photographer
Tyrone Siu
Location
SHENZHEN, China
Reuters / Sunday,
December 20, 2015
Firefighters search for
survivors among the debris
of collapsed buildings after
a landslide hit an industrial
park in Shenzhen,
Guangdong province, China
December 20, 2015.
REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
January 10, 2016 165

Photographer
Steve Marcus
Location
LAS VEGAS, UNITED
STATES
Reuters / Sunday,
December 20, 2015
Miss Colombia Ariadna
Gutierrez (L) stands by
as Miss Universe 2014
Paulina Vegas transfers
the crown to winner
Miss Philippines Pia
Alonzo Wurtzbach (R)
during the 2015 Miss
Universe Pageant in Las
Vegas, Nevada,
December 20, 2015.
Miss Colombia was
originally announced
as the winner but the
host Steve Harvey said
he made a mistake
when reading the card.
REUTERS/Steve Marcus
January 10, 2016 166

Photographer
Steve Marcus
Location
LAS VEGAS, UNITED STATES
Host Steve Harvey (far L) speaks as Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez (L),
Miss Universe 2014 Paulina Vega (C) and Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo
Wurtzbach listen onstage during the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant in Las
Vegas, Nevada, December 20, 2015. Miss Colombia was originally
announced as the winner but Harvey said he made a mistake when
reading the card. Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach is the actual
winner. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
January 10, 2016 168

Photographer
Steve Marcus
Location
20, 2015
Host Steve Harvey (L) speaks
to the audience after Miss
Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez
(R) was crowned Miss
Universe December 20, 2015.
January 10, 2016 169

The comforting contestants
Miss Colombia, Ariadna
Gutierrez (middle right)
after she was mistakenly
awarded the Miss Universe
Crown in the Miss Universe
pageant in Las Vegas, on
December 20, 2015.
Comedian Steve Harvey had
misread when announced
the Runner a, Miss
Colombia, the winner
before the Crown was
removed and put on top of
Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo
Wurtzbach, left.
January 10, 2016 170

Photographer
Steve Marcus
Location
20, 2015
A card showing Miss
Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez
as first runner-up and Miss
Philippines Pia Alonzo
Wurtzbach as the winner is
displayed on a video screen
during the 2015 Miss
Universe Pageant December
20, 2015. REUTERS/Steve
Marcus
January 10, 2016 171

Photographer
Steve Marcus
Location
Reuters / Sunday,
December 20, 2015
Miss Philippines Pia
Alonzo Wurtzbach (R)
reacts next to Miss USA
Olivia Jordan after it was
announced that she won
the 2015 Miss Universe
Pageant, December 20,
2015. REUTERS/Steve
Marcus
January 10, 2016 172

Photographer
Steve Marcus
Location
2015
Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez
(L) stands by as Miss Universe
2014 Paulina Vega (C) transfers
the crown to winner Miss
Philippines Pia Alonzo
Wurtzbach, December 20, 2015.
January 10, 2016 173

Photographer
Fabrizio Bensch
Location
BERLIN, Germany
Reuters / Sunday,
December 13, 2015
A man dressed as a Santa
Claus poses on top of the
Kollhoff Tower at
Potsdamer Platz square in
Berlin, Germany, December
13, 2015 REUTERS/Fabrizio
Bensch
January 10, 2016 174
Santa Claus is coming to town

Photographer
Reuters Photographer
Location
MANAUS, BRAZIL
20, 2015
Claudionor Jose de Deus,
wearing a Santa Claus
costume, waves to people on
a boat in the Amazon River,
in rural Manaus, Brazil,
December 19, 2015. Jose de
Deus is part of a volunteer
group that distributes toys to
children from poor
neighborhoods and riverside
communities that are distant
from the city.
REUTERS/Bruno Kell
January 10, 2016 175

Photographer
Eric Gaillard
Location
NICE, France
2015
A man dressed as a Santa Claus
takes part in the traditional
Christmas bath during an
unusually warm winter day in
Nice, southeastern France,
December 20, 2015.
REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
January 10, 2016 176

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
NAJAF, Iraq
Reuters / Sunday,
December 20, 2015
A volunteer wearing a
Santa Claus costume
distributes presents to
children at a poor
community in Najaf, south
of Baghdad, December 19,
2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-
Marjani
January 10, 2016 177

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
NAJAF, Iraq
A volunteer wearing Santa Claus costume
distributes presents to children at a poor
community in Najaf, south of Baghdad, December
19, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
January 10, 2016 178

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
NAJAF, Iraq
20, 2015
Volunteers wearing Santa
Claus costumes distribute
presents to children at a poor
neighborhood in Najaf, south
of Baghdad, December 19,
Marjani
January 10, 2016 179

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
NAJAF, Iraq
20, 2015
Volunteers wearing Santa Claus
costumes distribute presents to
the poor in Najaf, south of
Baghdad, Iraq December 19,
2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
January 10, 2016 180

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
NAJAF, Iraq
20, 2015
A volunteer wearing a Santa
Claus costume distributes
presents to children at a poor
community in Najaf, south of
Baghdad, Iraq December 19,
Marjani
January 10, 2016 181

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Dec. 21 , 2015

Santa Claus is coming to town
Photographer
Ammar Awad
Location
JERUSALEM, Israel
Reuters / Monday, December
21, 2015
Israeli-Arab Issa Kassissieh
wears a Santa Claus costume as
he rides a camel and poses for
the media during an annual
Christmas tree distribution by
the Jerusalem municipality on
the Mount of Olives in
Jerusalem. The Dome of the
Rock is seen in the background.
December 21, 2015.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad
January 10, 2016 183

Photographer
Location
SHENZHEN, China
21, 2015
Firefighters take a rest near
collapsed buildings at the site of
a landslide at an industrial park
province, China, December 21,
January 10, 2016 185

President Barack Obama and first
lady Michelle Obama danced with
Stormtrooper character and robot
R2-D2 in the movie ' Star Wars ' in
the diplomatic reception Room of
the White House on 18 December,
2015.
January 10, 2016 186

A faithful lit candles
inside the Church
before Christmas,
Christmas in the city of
Bethlehem in the West
Bank.
January 10, 2016 187

An orangutan named "Pacquiao" Santa hats
taking a "Christmas party" animals at the Zoo
in suburban Malabon, Malabon North of
Manila, Philippines.
January 10, 2016 188

People walk on a street lamp
decorated for Christmas and
the new year in downtown
Moscow, Russia.
January 10, 2016 189

Photographer
Kevin Lamarque
Location
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Monday, December 21,
2015
Security personnel keep watch as
Attorney General Loretta Lynch
and FBI Director James Comey
attend the annual Pan Am
103/Lockerbie Memorial Service
at Arlington Cemetery in
Washington, December 21, 2015.
On this day in 1988, Pan Am
flight 103 was blown up by a
bomb over Lockerbie, killing a
total of 270 people.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
January 10, 2016 190

A young girl stands outside a
temporary shelter at a camp for
the displaced in Kabul,
Afghanistan. According to the
United Nations, the number of
internally displaced Afghans was
683,000 by mid-2014, a number
expected to climb to 900,000 by
the end of 2015, as unrest
continues in the country after
several offensives by the Taliban in
various provinces leading to large
Afghan army losses.
HEDAYTULLAH AMID / EPA
January 10, 2016 191

An Indian fisherman arrested by the Pakistani
authorities is held in a cell in Karachi, Pakistan. Some
66 Indian fishermen were arrested on Monday after
the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) held eleven
fishing boats for illegally entering the country's
territorial waters in the Arabian Sea, police officials
said.
SHAHZAIB AKBER / EPA
January 10, 2016 192

Floodwaters cover an area of Pampanga, suburban Manila. The death toll from two storms
which battered the Philippines rose to 45 on Sunday as several towns remained under water
and rain kept falling in northern regions, disaster monitoring officials said.
NOEL CELIS / AFP - Getty ImagesJanuary 10, 2016 193

A thick layer of fog covers Sarajevo, the capital of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
FEHIIM DEMIR / EPA
January 10, 2016 194

Clouds glow red at sunrise over the eastern Alps, as viewed from Biessenhofen, Germany.
KARL-JOSEF HILDENBRAND / EPA
January 10, 2016 195

Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter arrives for a news conference to respond to the FIFA
ethics committee's verdict in Zurich. FIFA's ethics committee banned Sepp Blatter and Michel
Platini for eight years from all soccer-related activities in verdicts announced Monday.
PATRICK B. KRAEMER / EPA
January 10, 2016 196

A woman cries as she checks
the passengers list of a capsized
ferry at a crisis center in Siwa,
South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The
search restarted Monday for at
least 74 people still missing
after a boat sank off
Indonesia's Sulawesi island
over the weekend. At least 41
people have been found alive
and three others died after the
accident in Bone Bay on Dec.
19. The fiberglass ship was
carrying 118 people, including
10 crew members. It departed
Saturday morning from Kolaka
in North Sulawesi for Siwa, on
what should have been a six-
hour journey.
EPA
January 10, 2016 197

Children play in a park with
decorative lights for Christmas and
new year in Kiev, Ukraine.
January 10, 2016 198

An immigrant to
come across a
picture of graffiti
artist Banksy, in the
entrance to the
refugee camp Calais
in Calais, France.
January 10, 2016 199

Kalaniopua Young, 32, originally from Hawaii, poses outside her tent at Tent City 3 on Oct.
12, 2015. "This is a choice I made to live here. I was lonely and depressed living in an
apartment. I feel much better here with the social interaction and friendships. There is a
direct democracy here with immediate results that differ from traditional bureaucracy."
SHANNON STAPLETON / ReutersJanuary 10, 2016 200

Photographer
Lucy Nicholson
Location
LOS ANGELES, United States
21, 2015
Stacie McDonough, 51, poses
for a portrait by her tent at a
homeless motorhome and
tent encampment near LAX
airport in Los Angeles,
October 26, 2015.
McDonough is an army
veteran with a college degree
who was recently made
homeless. Los Angeles is
grappling with a massive
homelessness problem, as
forecasted El Nino
downpours threaten to add
to the misery of thousands of
people who sleep on the
streets....more
January 10, 2016 201

Photographer
David Becker
Location
Reuters / Monday, December 21, 2015
Las Vegas police investigate along the Las
Vegas Strip following a traffic accident in
front of the Planet Hollywood Hotel in Las
Vegas, Nevada, near the hotel and casino
where the Miss Universe pageant was
being held, December 20, 2015.
REUTERS/David Becker
January 10, 2016 202

Photographer
Location
SHENZHEN, CHINA
Reuters / Monday,
December 21, 2015
An aerial view shows the
site of a landslide which hit
an industrial park in
Shenzhen, Guangdong
province, China, December
21, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
January 10, 2016 203

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
BEIJING, China
21, 2015
Two-year-old Pengpeng
receives nebulizer therapy on
the third day after China's
capital Beijing issued its
second ever "red alert" for air
pollution, at the New Century
International Children�s
Hospital, in Beijing, China
December 21, 2015.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
January 10, 2016 204

Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, JAPAN
2015
A TV technician talks with his
newsroom about the signal
strength a device is transmitting
from the news conference room
on 39th floor of the Toshiba head
office as the sun sets over Tokyo,
Japan, December 21, 2015.
Japan's Toshiba Corp said on
Monday it will cut nearly 7,000
consumer electronics jobs after a
$1.3 billion accounting scandal, in
an overhaul that will streamline
the sprawling conglomerate into
a company focused on...more
January 10, 2016 205

Photographer
Joe Skipper
Location
Cape Canaveral, United States
2015
The first stage of the SpaceX Falcon
9 rocket returns to land in a time
exposure at Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, on the launcher's
first mission since a June failure, in
Cape Canaveral, Florida, December
21, 2015. The rocket carried a
payload of eleven satellites owned
by Orbcomm, a New Jersey-based
communications company.
REUTERS/Joe Skipper
January 10, 2016 206

Photographer
Arnd Wiegmann
Location
ZURICH, Switzerland
Reuters / Monday,
December 21, 2015
FIFA's suspended president
Sepp Blatter holds a news
conference in Zurich,
Switzerland, December 21,
2015. REUTERS/Arnd
Wiegmann
January 10, 2016 207

Photographer
Kim Kyung Hoon
Location
SHENZEN, CHINA
21, 2015
An evacuee rests in a shelter set
up at a gymnasium near the
industrial park hit by a landslide
province, China December 21,
2015. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-
Hoon
January 10, 2016 208

Photographer
Mohamad Torokman
Location
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories
2015
A man decorates a tree with spent
tear gas canisters that Palestinians
said were fired by Israeli troops
during clashes with Palestinian
protesters, ahead of Christmas in
the West Bank city of Bethlehem
December 21, 2015.
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
January 10, 2016 209

Photographer
Kevork Djansezian
Location
HOLLYWOOD, UNITED
STATES
Reuters / Monday,
December 21, 2015
Filmmaker Quentin
Tarantino (L) sings happy
birthday to actor and event
emcee Samuel L. Jackson
before the unveiling of his
star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame in Hollywood,
California, December 21,
2015. REUTERS/Kevork
DjansezianJanuary 10, 2016 210

Photographer
Ismail Zetouni
Location
TRIPOLI, LIBYA
Reuters / Monday, December 21, 2015
Bags containing a body of two migrants,
who died after a boat sank off the coast,
lay in a navy base in Tripoli, Libya,
December 21, 2015. REUTERS/Ismail
Zitouny
January 10, 2016 211

Photographer
David Mdzinarishvili
Location
GORI, Georgia
21, 2015
A man carries a portrait of
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
while marching during a rally to
mark Stalin's birthday
anniversary at his hometown in
Gori, Georgia, December 21,
2015. REUTERS/David
Mdzinarishvili
January 10, 2016 212

Photographer
Mark Blinch
Location
Toronto, CANADA
21, 2015
Revelers take part in the 26th
Annual Kensington Market
Winter Solstice Parade as
they burn a giant hand
structure in Toronto, Canada
December 21, 2015.
REUTERS/Mark Blinch
January 10, 2016 213

Photographer
Jonathan Ernst
Location
KAILUA, UNITED STATES
2015
President Barack Obama celebrates
after chipping in on the 18th green
to end his round of golf with
friends at the Mid-Pacific Country
Club in Kailua, Hawaii December
21, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
January 10, 2016 214

Iraqi soldiers occupied the positions in Northern Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) West of
Baghdad, Iraq, on December 21, 2015.
January 10, 2016 215

Rescue workers search for survivors at the scene after a RAID in
Idlib, Syria. Dec 21January 10, 2016 216

See How Germany Welcomes Thousands of Refugees
January 10, 2016 217
DEC. 2015

Refugees and migrants waiting to be registered as asylum seekers in Berlin, Germany, Dec.
2015. Each day at the State Office for Health and Social Affairs, known locally as Landesamt
für Gesundheit und Soziales, or LAGeSo, hundreds of new refugees and migrants arrive to get
registered and receive legal documentation to remain in the country. Germany is expecting to
receive over 1,000,000 people by the end of the year.
January 10, 2016 218

Noor Haidar from Aleppo, Syria, with her son Mohamed (right), daughter Rahaf Haidar (left)
and Iraqi friend Saif Jassim (center) waiting to be registered as asylum seekers in Berlin,
Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 219

Refugees and migrants waiting to be registered at a Berlin government office as asylum
seekers. Berlin, Germany, Dec. 2015.January 10, 2016 220

Refugees and migrants waiting to be registered as asylum seekers
in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 221

Refugees stay at a new emergency shelter in a sports hall in the districts of Prenzlauer Berg, a
locality in northeaster Berlin, and one of many shelters in Berlin run by People's Solidarity
(Volkssolidarität) a charitable association founded in 1945. Berlin, Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 222

Refugees play football with the locals near a new emergency shelter in a sports hall in the
districts of Prenzlauer Berg, one of many shelters in Berlin run by People's Solidarity. Berlin,
Germany, Dec. 2015.January 10, 2016 223

Refugees stay at a new emergency shelter in a sports hall in the
districts of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 224

Children of refugees and asylum
seekers at the kindergarden of the
emergency shelter at a former
administrative building in the
district of Marzahn, one of many
shelters in Berlin run by People's
Solidarity. Berlin, Germany, Dec.
2015.
January 10, 2016 225

Refugees stay at the emergency shelter in a sports hall, in the
districts of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 226

Refugees stay at the emergency shelter in a sports hall, in the districts of
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 227

Empty emergency shelter in the district of Moabit, ready to accommodate refugees arriving
over the weekend when the State Office for Public Health is closed. Berlin, Germany, Dec. 2015
January 10, 2016 228

A Syrian family from Aleppo stay at an emergency shelter at a former administrative building
in the districts of Marzahn, one of many shelters in Berlin run by People's Solidarity. Berlin,
Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 229

Refugees in the new
emergency shelter in a
sports hall in the
districts of Prenzlauer
Berg, Berlin, Germany,
Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 230

An asylum seeker prays on the floor of a
shelter in Prenzlauer Berg. Some 200
refugees were housed in less than two
hours by German volunteers. Berlin,
Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 231

Cabins and tents are set up inside hangers of the former Berlin Tempelhof Airport, now to be
used as temporary shelter for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin. Germany, Dec.
2015.
Used by the Nazis and once one of the world's largest buildings, today the Berlin Tempelhof
Airport has been transformed into a major shelter for refugees and asylum seekers.January 10, 2016 232

Refugees, migrants and
asylum seekers found shelter
in the former Berlin
Tempelhof Airport, Germany,
Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 233

Refugees, migrants and asylum
seekers found shelter in the
former Berlin Tempelhof Airport,
Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 234

Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers found
shelter in the former Berlin Tempelhof
Airport, Germany, Dec. 2015.
January 10, 2016 235

Refugees and migrants waiting to be registered
as asylum seekers in Berlin, Germany, Dec.
2015.
January 10, 2016 236

January 10, 2016 237
Dec. 22 , 2015

Photographer
Kieran Doherty
Location
SALISBURY, United Kingdom
Reuters / Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Revelers celebrate the winter solstice at
Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in southern
England December 22, 2015. Stonehenge is
a celebrated venue of festivities during the
winter solstice - the shortest day of the year
in the northern hemisphere - and it attracts
thousands of revelers, spiritualists and
tourists. Druids, a pagan religious order
dating back to Celtic Britain, believe
Stonehenge was a center of spiritualism
more than...more
January 10, 2016 238

Photographer
Hannibal Hanschke
Location
Berlin, Germany
Reuters / Tuesday, December
22, 2015
Blooming cherry trees are seen
during winter time in Berlin,
Germany, December 22, 2015.
REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
January 10, 2016 239

Photographer
Aziz Taher
Location
BEIRUT, LEBANON
Students dressed up as Christmas gifts
take part in a Christmas parade in
Beirut, Lebanon, December 22, 2015.
REUTERS/Aziz TaherJanuary 10, 2016 240

Photographer
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Location
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories
A Palestinian boy looks through the gate of Rafah
border crossing during a rally calling on Egyptian
authorities to open the crossing, in Rafah in the
southern Gaza Strip December 22, 2015. Egypt has
kept its Rafah crossing largely shut since Cairo's
Islamist president was toppled by the army in 2013.
Since then, it opened the crossing partially and on a
few occasions to allow thousands of Palestinians to
travel in and out of the...more
January 10, 2016 241

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch spacecraft (left) from
the launch pad which then returns a response
(right) in continuous shooting photos from
time to time at the Cape Canaveral Air Force
Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on
December 21, 2015. Dec 22
January 10, 2016 242

Photographer
Joe Skipper
Location
CAPE CANAVERAL, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Tuesday, December 22,
2015
A remodeled version of the SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at the Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station,
December 21, 2015. REUTERS/Joe
Skipper
January 10, 2016 243

Photographer
Joe Skipper
Location
CAPE CANAVERAL, UNITED
STATES
22, 2015
A remodeled version of the
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off
at the Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, December 21,
2015. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
January 10, 2016 244

A parade participant
winter solstice the 26th
Annual Kensington
Market in Toronto,
Canada, on December 21,
2015.
January 10, 2016 245

A motor boat sails along the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about minus 4 degrees
Fahrenheit, outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on Tuesday.
January 10, 2016 246

Sunrise behind the Temple of Karnak in the
winter solstice at Luxor in southern Egypt.
Dec 22
January 10, 2016 247

A people dressed with the words
calling for oan write up that goes on a
road in Beijing, China. Dec 22
January 10, 2016 248

Suburbs of the city of Ahmedabad, India. Dec 22January 10, 2016 249

Susie Ro Prater leads the Shakti Sings choir as druids, pagans and revelers gather in the center of
Stonehenge, hoping to see the sun rise, as they take part in a winter solstice ceremony at the ancient
neolithic monument of Stonehenge near Amesbury on Tuesday in Wiltshire, England. Despite a
forecast for rain, a large crowd gathered at the famous historic stone circle - a UNESCO listed ancient
monument - to celebrate the sunrise closest to the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year - the
event is claimed to be more important in the pagan calendar than the summer solstice, because it
marks the 're-birth' of the Sun for the New Year.
Matt Cardy / Getty ImagesJanuary 10, 2016 250

U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Bergdahl leaves the courthouse on Tuesday, after his arraignment
hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C. Bergdahl, who disappeared in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held
by the Taliban for five years, was scheduled to appear Tuesday before a military judge on
charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
Andrew Craft / The Fayetteville Observer via APJanuary 10, 2016 251

A man takes a picture of fog covering
Lake Geneva in the Swiss-French Alps as
the sun sets at Jongny above Vevey,
Switzerland on Tuesday.
CYRIL ZINGARO / EPA
January 10, 2016 252

A Bosnian woman walks on the
street during fog in Sarajevo,
Bosnia on Tuesday. Local
authorities in Sarajevo have
advised people to reduce
movement in the mornings and
evenings due of air pollution.
Amel Emric / AP
January 10, 2016 253

A general view shows a garbage-
filled area in Beirut, Lebanon on
Tuesday. Lebanon's cabinet on
Monday agreed to export the
country's waste in a move that
could end a crisis that led to a
wave of protests and threatened
the downfall of the government.
AZIZ TAHER / Reuters
January 10, 2016 254

Vendors wait for customers to buy
Christmas lanterns, known locally as
'parol,' on display along a street in
Manila on Tuesday. Parol are star-
shaped Christmas lanterns patterned
to resemble the Star of Bethlehem,
and are made from bamboo covered
with paper. They are displayed in
houses, offices, buildings, and streets,
and according to Filipino tradition
and beliefs, also represent the victory
of light over darkness.
NOEL CELIS / AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 255

A person watches the
sunrise along Diablo beach
on the first day of summer in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on
Tuesday.
MARCELO SAYAO / EPA
January 10, 2016 256

The Moscow GUM State Department is
decorated with New Year and Christmas lights
and is reflected in a wall of a skating rink at
Red Square in Moscow, Russia on Tuesday. It's
usually the cold that's bitter in Moscow in
December, but this year in an unusual warm
spell, temperatures have climbed as high as 50
degrees Fahrenheit. In the Russian capital in
recent days, a joke began circulating on the
Internet: This was nature's compensation for
Russians being unable to take vacations in
Egypt and Turkey this year — two top
destinations for Russian winter holidays.
Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP
January 10, 2016 257

An art installation made
from the lifeboat with
three life jackets-name is '
Flight ' by artist Arabella
Dorman-hanging in
between St. James's
Church, Piccadilly,
London. Dec 22
January 10, 2016 258

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
BEKAA, LEBANON
2015
Aisha, 15, (L, who asked to
withhold her last name), a Syrian
refugee from Raqqa, waits with a
fellow refugee while harvesting
cannabis in the Bekaa valley,
Lebanon October 19, 2015. Syrian
refugees work to harvest and
process spiky-leafed cannabis
plants in neighboring Lebanon�s
Bekaa Valley. Often farmers of
cotton and wheat back home in
Raqqa province - now the de
facto capital of Islamic State - the
conflict in Syria drove
them...more
January 10, 2016 259

Photographer
Wolfgang Rattay
Location
WINTERBERG, Germany
2015
Visitors ski on a piste made with
artificial snow by a snow cannon
during warm weather in the
western German ski resort of
Winterberg some 80km southeast
of Dortmund, Germany December
22, 2015. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
January 10, 2016 260

Photographer
China Daily China Daily
Information Corp - CDIC
Location
HARBIN, CHINA
2015
People work on a snow sculpture
at the International Snow
Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin,
Heilongjiang province, China
December 22, 2015.
REUTERS/China Daily
January 10, 2016 261

A worshiper prays inside the cave,
where Virgin Mary is believed to have
given birth to Jesus, under the Church
of Nativity in the West Bank town of
Bethlehem.
Yesterday in Pictures: December 22
AMMAR AWAD / Reuters-
January 10, 2016 262

Photographer
Navesh Chitrakar
Location
KATHMANDU, NEPAL
22, 2015
Cotton is seen on the hair of a
migrant worker from India as
he makes a blanket from
recycled cotton in Kathmandu,
Nepal December 22, 2015.
REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
January 10, 2016 263

Photographer
Ricardo Moraes
Location
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
A woman gets into the waters on
Leblon beach at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
December 22, 2015. With the arrival of
summer in the southern hemisphere,
average daytime temperatures in Rio
have reached into the mid-to-upper
38's Celsius (upper 100's Fahrenheit),
local media reported.
REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
January 10, 2016 264

Photographer
Khalil Ashawi
Location
IDLIB, SYRIA
A man adjusts plastic strings, used to
produce mats, inside a mat factory in
the rebel-controlled area of
Maarshureen town in Idlib province,
Syria, December 22, 2015. The town is
known for the significant number of
mat factories which exports its
production mainly to nearby Iraq
through checkpoints controlled by
insurgents. But in the past months the
business has declined due to heavy
airstrikes against insurgents, vendors
said....more
January 10, 2016 265

Photographer
David W Cerny
Location
PRAGUE, Czech Republic
2015
People take part in a four
minute flash mob pillow fight at
the Old Town Square in Prague,
December 22, 2015.
REUTERS/David W Cerny
January 10, 2016 266

Photographer
Jon Nazca
Location
VILLANUEVA DE LA CONCEPCION, Spain
Winners hold a lottery ticket showing
the first prize winning number, 79140, of
Spain's Christmas Lottery "El Gordo"
(The Fat One) as they celebrate in
Villanueva de la Concepcion, near
Malaga, Spain, December 22, 2015.
REUTERS/Jon Nazca
January 10, 2016 267

Photographer
Marcos Brindicci
Location
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
A man crosses the street as
demonstrators march towards Plaza de
Mayo square during a protest against
economic policies implemented by
Argentina's President Mauricio Macri in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 22,
2015. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci
January 10, 2016 268

Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, JAPAN
Japan's Emperor Akihito (3rd L), flanked by
other members of the royal family, waves to
well-wishers who gathered to celebrate his
82nd birthday in Tokyo, Japan, December
23, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
January 10, 2016 269

Photographer
Marco Bello
Location
CARACAS, Venezuela
Women talk while seated under images of
Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez, national
hero Simon Bolivar (2nd R) and Venezuela's
current President Nicolas Maduro (R), close to
the National Assembly building that was in
session in Caracas December 22, 2015.
REUTERS/Marco Bello
January 10, 2016 270

Photographer
NASA NASA
Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Kopra
performs a spacewalk outside the
International Space Station in this
December 21, 2015 NASA handout photo.
Kopra and Expedition 46 Commander Scott
Kelly successfully moved the International
Space Station's mobile transporter rail car
ahead of the December 23, 2015 docking
of a Russian cargo supply spacecraft.
REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters
January 10, 2016 271

Photographer
Ivan Alvarado
Location
SANTIAGO, CHILE
A student dressed as a character from the movie Star
Wars holds up a representation of Chile's constitution
during a protest against the government to demand
universal free education and changes in the education
system in Santiago, Chile, December 22, 2015. The words
on the book read "Chile's Imperial Constitution".
REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
January 10, 2016 272

Photographer
Russell Boyce
Location
BRIGHTON, UNITED KINGDOM
22, 2015
A woman walks her dog in
driving rain past the remains of
the West Pier on Brighton
beach, Britain December 22,
2015. REUTERS/Russell Boyce
January 10, 2016 273

Photographer
Kim Kyung Hoon
Location
SHENZEN, CHINA
Excavators are seen during rescue
operations at an industrial estate hit
by a landslide in Shenzhen,
Guangdong province, China December
23, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
January 10, 2016 274

Photographer
Location
SHENZHEN, CHINA
22, 2015
Rescuers carry a 19-year-old
survivor on a stretcher after
he was found under a
collapsed building at the site
of a landslide which hit an
industrial park on Sunday, in
Shenzhen, Guangdong
province, December 23, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 10, 2016 275

Photographer
Location
SHENZHEN, CHINA
2015
A woman (3rd L), who is a relative
of several missing people, cries at
the site of a landslide which hit an
industrial park on Sunday in
Shenzhen, Guangdong province,
China, December 22, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 10, 2016 276

Photographer
Kim Kyung Hoon
Location
SHENZEN, CHINA
2015
An evacuee takes a rest in a shelter
set up at a gymnasium near the
industrial park hit by a landslide in
Shenzhen, Guangdong province,
December 22, 2015. REUTERS/Kim
Kyung-Hoon
January 10, 2016 277

Photographer
Kieran Doherty
Location
SALISBURY, United Kingdom
22, 2015
Revellers carry their duvet as
they celebrate the winter
solstice at Stonehenge on
Salisbury Plain in southern
England December 22, 2015.
Stonehenge is a celebrated
venue of festivities during the
winter solstice - the shortest
day of the year in the northern
hemisphere - and it attracts
thousands of revellers,
spiritualists and tourists.
Druids, a pagan religious order
dating back to Celtic Britain,
believe Stonehenge was a
centre...more
January 10, 2016 278

Photographer
Juan Carlos Ulate
Location
PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica
2015
A Cuban migrant looks at his
mobile phone at a border post
with Panama in Paso Canoas,
Costa Rica, December 22, 2015.
Hundreds of Cubans are stranded
on the border between Costa
Rica and Panama, after the
government of Costa Rica
decided not to give them more
transit visas, according to local
media. REUTERS/Juan Carlos
Ulate
January 10, 2016 279

January 10, 2016 280
Twinkling Lights Spread Holiday Cheer Around the World
Dec . 2015

New York City
Holiday lights shine on the 83rd Rockefeller
Center Christmas tree on Dec. 2. The humble
Christmas tree has a rich history, from
evergreen trees used to symbolize eternal life
in Ancient Egypt to tree worship among
pagan Europeans. The modern version has its
origins in Germany, where the song "O
Tannenbaum" is still a festive favorite.January 10, 2016 281

London
Shoppers walk along South
Molton Street on Dec. 8.
Ben Pruchnie / Getty Images
January 10, 2016 282

London
A giant bauble and stars hang over
Carnaby Street on Dec. 8. British
retailers are hoping for a rise in
sales over the Christmas period
after November's Black Friday sales
failed to boost turnover.
Ben Pruchnie / Getty Images
January 10, 2016 283

Beirut
Fireworks light the sky as a
Christmas tree designed by
Lebanese fashion designer Elie
Saab is lit in front of the Al-Amin
Mosque in Lebanon's capital on
Dec. 11.
ANWAR AMRO / AFP - Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 284

Colorado Springs
Menorahs of all shapes and
sizes are lit by those attending
a Hanukkah service at the
Temple Beit Torah on Dec. 11.
The annual tradition by the
local temple was held on the
6th night of Hanukkah.
Jerilee Bennett / AP
January 10, 2016 285

Brussels
A light show decorates the
Grand Place in Brussels on Dec.
12.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP
January 10, 2016 286

Nice, France
A giant Santa Claus stands on the
"Promenade des Anglais" on Dec.
12.
VALERY HACHE / AFP - Getty
Images
January 10, 2016 287

Brussels
Visitors tour the Christmas market
on Dec. 12.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP
January 10, 2016 288

Hamburg, Germany
Streams of people visit the
Christmas market in front of
the town hall on Dec. 12.
DANIEL BOCKWOLDT / EPA
January 10, 2016 289

Mumbai, India
A Rabbi lights a Menorah to
celebrate the Jewish festival of
Hanukkah on Dec. 13.
Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival
of Lights, celebrates the revolt
of the Maccabees in 165 BCE
against the Syrian-Greek forces
that had been occupying the
Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
DIVYAKANT SOLANKI / EPA
January 10, 2016 290

Medford, New Jersey
People gather to see the annual
holiday lights display at the
home of Amber Merefield on
Dec. 13. Started by her parents,
the annual tradition has dazzled
crowds in southern New Jersey
for years, but could be coming
to an end. Merefield says she
will be leaving the state soon
for her job.
Mel Evans / AP
January 10, 2016 291

Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Muslim women take a selfie
in front of a Christmas tree at
a mall Dec. 13. The spirit of
Christmas is felt very much in
Muslim-dominated Malaysia,
as shopping malls in
Malaysia have decorated
their premises with
Christmas trees, lights, and
Santa Clauses as a chance to
boost year-end sales.
Joshua Paul / AP
January 10, 2016 292

Zagreb, Croatia
Ban Jelacic Square is lit up
with Christmas lights on Dec.
13. With an ice sculpture
festival, brass band fanfares
and a huge skating rink,
Croatia's capital is pulling in
growing numbers of winter
tourists in the hope of
cheering its struggling
economy.
STR / AFP - Getty Images
January 10, 2016 293

Paris
Christmas decorations
illuminate the Champs
Elysees in front of the Arc
de Triomphe on Dec. 14.
Christophe Ena / AP
January 10, 2016 294

Burnham-on-Sea,
England
People admire Christmas
lights on a house Dec. 14.
The neighborhood's annual
display raises tens of
thousands of pounds for
various charities, including a
local cancer hospital.
Matt Cardy / Getty Images
January 10, 2016 295

Bad Vilbel, Germany
A chain of lights hangs around
a sales booth to illuminate
Christmas trees for sale in a
field in the early morning of
Dec. 15.
FRANK RUMPENHORST / AFP -
Getty Images
January 10, 2016 296

National Harbor, Maryland
Children stand in front of a nativity
scene made entirely of ice, part of the
ICE! event just outside of Washington,
on Dec. 15. The walk-through holiday
attraction is kept at a chilly 9 degrees
and contains two million pounds of
hand-carved holiday themed ice
sculptures and five ice slides.
KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters
January 10, 2016 297

Las Pinas, Philippines
Catholics attend the
traditional Misa de Gallo
(Dawn Mass) during a
downpour from typhoon
Melor in front of a church on
Dec. 16. The Dawn Mass is
held for nine consecutive days
prior to Christmas Day.
MARK R. CRISTINO / EPA
January 10, 2016 298

Milan
People cross a bridge as
Christmas lights illuminate
the Darsena dei Navigli, the
neighborhood named for
the canals, on Dec. 16.
Antonio Calanni / AP
January 10, 2016 299

Hildesheim,
Germany
Lights illuminate the
Christmas market in the
historic town square on
Dec. 16.
JULIAN
SCHRATENSCHULTE / EPA
January 10, 2016 300

Medellin,
Colombia
People take pictures
in front of Christmas
decorations on Dec.
16.
FREDY BUILES /
Reuters
January 10, 2016 301

Minsk, Belarus
A couple embraces in
Oktyabrskaya Square on Dec. 17.
VASILY FEDOSENKO / Reuters
January 10, 2016 302

Monaco
Decorated Christmas
trees stand in front of
the Monte Carlo
Casino on Dec. 17.
Lionel Cironneau / AP
January 10, 2016 303

Moscow
A couple walks past decorations
on Dec. 18.
SERGEI KARPUKHIN / Reuters
January 10, 2016 304

Durham, North
Carolina
Santa welcomes
passengers on the Santa
Train at the Museum of
Life and Science campus
on Dec. 20.
Bernard Thomas / The
Herald-Sun via AP
January 10, 2016 305

Moscow
Manezhnaya Square is
illuminated to celebrate the
holiday on Dec. 20.
Alexander Zemlianichenko /
AP
January 10, 2016 306

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2015
January 10, 2016 307

James Nachtwey: "The Nepalese mountain people were stoic and accepting when dealing
with the destruction of their villages. But when faced with the loss of a loved one, such as
Bishnu Gurung's infant daughter, Rejina Gurung, the expressions of grief were so intense and
primal, it felt as if the mountains themselves were weeping."
This photo was taken in the village of Gumda in the Gorkha district on May 8, 2015.January 10, 2016 308

Supporters of the
presidential candidate
Muhammadu Buhari and his
All Progressive Congress hits
another supporter with a
motorbike during
celebrations in Kano March
31, 2015. Nigeria's opposition
APC declared an election
victory on Tuesday for former
military ruler Buhari and said
Africa's most populous
nation was witnessing history
with its first democratic
transfer of power.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
January 10, 2016 309

Properties surrounded by desert
in Rancho Mirage, Calif., April 3,
2015. The state?s history as a
frontier of prosperity and
glamour faces an uncertain
future as the fourth year of
severe water shortages has
prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to
mandate a 25 percent reduction
in non-agricultural water use.
(Damon Winter/The New York
Times)
January 10, 2016 310

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS -
FILE - A paramilitary police officer
investigates the scene before carrying the
lifeless body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi
from the sea shore, near the beach resort
of Bodrum, Turkey, early Wednesday, Sept.
2, 2015. A number of migrants are known
to have died and some are still reported
missing, after boats carrying them to the
Greek island of Kos capsized. (AP
Photo/DHA, File) TURKEY OUT
January 10, 2016 311

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