2014 – Images of DECEMBER - Dec 09 - Dec 15

2014 – Images of DECEMBER
Dec .9 – Dec. 15
December 19, 2014 1
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December 19, 2014 2
Dec. 8 , 2014
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Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
MANDERA, Kenya
Reuters / Monday, December 08, 2014
A girl stands in line in front of a bus with other
passengers travelling to Nairobi, as they wait to
be searched for weapons by Kenyan police, in
the town of Mandera at the Kenya-Somalia
border, December 8, 2014.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
XI'AN, China
Reuters / Monday, December
08, 2014
A kindergarten is seen
surrounded by rubble at a
demolition site in Xi'An,
Shaanxi province, December 8,
2014. According to local
government, the kindergarten
has been running without
license and will be forced to
shut down.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
POOL New
Location
London, United Kingdom
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron
sits on the floor as he joins students for
"An Hour of Coding" at Number 10
Downing Street in London December 8,
2014.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
NEW YORK, United States
Reuters / Monday, December 08,
2014
A protester pauses during a march
against police violence in New
York, December 7, 2014.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
Jacky Naegelen
Location
DRANCY, France
Detail view of a wood railway boxcar at the Drancy internment
camp memorial in Drancy, near Paris December 8, 2014. France
said it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the
United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by
French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that
protects it from future U.S. Litigation. About 76,000 Jews were
arrested in France during World War Two and transported
in...more
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
Stringer .
Location
DAMASCUS, Syria
An injured man lies at a field hospital
with a prescription treatment paper
placed on his stomach after what
activists said was an airstrike by forces
loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-
Assad in the Duma neighborhood of
Damascus December 8, 2014.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
Cathal McNaughton
Location
BELFAST, United Kingdom
A memorial for Brian McKinney is seen at
the site where his body was discovered in
1999 at Colgagh bog, Inniskeen,
November 4, 2014. McKinney disappeared
on the May 25, 1978, aged 22. His body
was located on June 29, 1999 at Colgagh
bog, Inniskeen.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
Darren Staples
Location
BUXTON, United
Kingdom
Reuters / Monday,
December 08, 2014
Footprints and cycle
tracks are seen on a
snowy road in Buxton,
central England
December 8, 2014.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
Gene Blevins
Location
LOS ANGELES, United States
2014
Los Angeles city firefighters battle a
massive fire at a seven-story
downtown apartment complex
under construction in Los Angeles,
California December 8, 2014.
Dec. 8, 2014

Photographer
Tomas Bravo
Location
Veracruz, Mexico
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (L) and
her Uruguayan counterpart Jose Mujica
attend an event where people were
honored with the "Mexico Prize of Science
and Technology" and the closure of the
forum "Rethinking Ibero America: Building
a future" in Veracruz December 8, 2014.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
USA Today Sports
Location
Brooklyn, United States
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge with
Dikembe Mutombo (left center) during
the game between the Brooklyn Nets
and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Barclays
Center in Brooklyn, New York,
December 8, 2014.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Photographer
Jonathan Alcorn
Location
LOS ANGELES, United
States
Reuters / Monday,
December 08, 2014
Firefighters stand on
lanes of the 110 freeway
near smoldering hot
spots of a large fire that
consumed an apartment
building that was under
construction in Los
Angeles, California
December 8, 2014.
Dec. 8, 2014
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Dec. 9 ,2014
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Caua Aquino, 11, wearing a police uniform, stands among crosses placed by the
NGO Rio de Paz during a protest on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Aquino is the son of a police officer who was also
participating in the protest, honoring friends. A total of 152 black wooden crosses
were planted on the sands of Copacabana beach in memory of police officers
killed in Rio de Janeiro state between 2013 and 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Dec. 9, 2014

President Barack Obama shakes hands in the crowd after speaking at the Senior
Executive Service, composed of the senior leadership of the Federal workforce,
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, in Washington. Obama is launching a leadership program
for future government career executives with a goal of giving potential managers
multi-agency experiences and breaking out of a tradition of promoting senior
bureaucrats from within their own agencies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Dec. 9, 2014

Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai, left, and Kailash
Satyarthi attend a press conference in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Dec. 9,
2014. The Nobel Peace Prize will be presented to and shared
between the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, 17-year-old Taliban
attack survivor Malala Yousafzai and Indian children’s rights activist
Kailash Satyarthi in a ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday. (AP
Photo/Matt Dunham)
Dec. 9, 2014

A dancer walks before a
performance at the Climate
Change Conference in Lima,
Peru, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014.
Delegates from more than 190
countries are meeting in Lima,
to work on drafts for a global
climate deal that is supposed
to be adopted next year in
Paris. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Dec. 9, 2014

View of the bridge leading to Mont-
Saint-Michel designed by Austrian-born
architect Dietmar Feichtinger, in Mont
Saint Michel, western France, Tuesday,
Dec. 9, 2014. The new bridge leading
out from the coastline to the historic
Mont Saint-Michel island commune
allow the sea to flow across the estuary,
transforming the Mont back into a real
island for the first time in over a
century. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Dec. 9, 2014

A man wearing a mask to protect himself
from pollutant is reflected on an advertising
billboard poster installed at a bus stand in
Beijing, China Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. (AP
Photo/Andy Wong)
Dec. 9, 2014

A bodybuilder flexes his muscles
before participating in the 6th World
Body Building and Physique Sports
Competition in Mumbai, India,
Tuesday, Dec 9, 2014. (AP
Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Danish Siddiqui
Location
MUMBAI, India
Reuters / Tuesday, December 09,
2014
A competitor waits to get onstage
during the 6th World Body Building
and Physique Sports competition in
Mumbai December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Birds fly past as a man rows his boat in
River Yamuna in the morning in New
Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014.
Clogged with garbage, sewage and
industrial runoff, the Yamuna, which is
one of India’s major rivers, is also one of
the most polluted. (AP Photo/Bernat
Armangue)
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Kevin Lamarque
Location
NASHVILLE, United States
Reuters / Tuesday, December 09, 2014
President Barack Obama cleans up a drink
which spilled as he was having his picture
taken with the couple at the table during a
stop at a Mexican Restaurant in Nashville,
Tennessee December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Mohammad Ismail
Location
KABUL, Afghanistan
2014
Abbas Alizada, who calls himself
the Afghan Bruce Lee, poses for the
media in front of the destroyed
Darul Aman Palace in Kabul
December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Murad Sezer
Location
ISTANBUL, Turkey
Reuters / Tuesday,
December 09, 2014
Galatasaray's Semih Kaya
challenges Arsenal's Yaya
Sanogo during their
Champions League Group D
soccer match at Ali Sami Yen
Spor Kompleksi in Istanbul
December 9, 2014.
REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Carlos Barria
Location
SHANGHAI, China
Reuters / Tuesday, December
09, 2014
A woman punches during a
boxing class at Princess
Women's Boxing Club in
Shanghai December 3, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
KCNA KCNA
Location
PYONGYANG, North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses during a photo session with participants
in the Second Meeting of KPA Exemplary Servicemen's Families.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Deanna Dent
Location
PHOENIX, United States
2014
The daughter of Rumain Brisbon
begins crying as she kneels in
prayer outside the Phoenix Police
Department, the week after he was
shot dead by police, in Phoenix,
Arizona December 8, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Akhtar Soomro
Location
MEERAN PUR, Pakistan
A boy pushes a donkey cart loaded with bundles of
cotton blooms that were collected by women cotton
pickers in Meeran Pur village, north of Karachi
September 25, 2014. Women make up the bulk of
Pakistan's half a million cotton producers, but labor
rights activists say they are often exploited by
overseers, who often withhold their wages and may
subject some of them to sexual harassment. Many
women work in Pakistan's cotton fields...more
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Deanna Dent
Location
PHOENIX, United States
2014
Protesters confront police
outside the Phoenix Police
Department the week after an
unarmed man was shot dead by
police, in Phoenix, Arizona
December 8, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Erik de Castro
Location
DOLORES, Philippines
2014
An aerial view of toppled coconut
trees by a remote village following
Typhoon Hagupit is seen in Dolores,
Eastern Samar, central Philippines,
December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Antara Photo Agency
Location
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia
2014
A visitor take pictures of the names of
tsunami victims on the ceiling of the
Aceh Tsunami Museum in Banda
Aceh, December 9, 2014. The Aceh
Tsunami Museum is a four-story
structure designed by Indonesian
architect Ridwan Kamil and is built to
commemorate the victims of the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and
tsunami.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Amir Cohen
Location
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel
A nano Bible is displayed at TowerJazz Semiconductor in Migdal Haemek in northern Israel October 29, 2014.
The nano-sized New Testament, containing the original Greek version of the New Testament on a chip smaller
than five by five millimeters, has been nominated for the Guinness Book of Records as the World's Smallest
Bible, the Israeli company said.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Alessandro Bianchi
Location
Padua, Italy
A prison baker prepares panettone cakes at Pasticceria Giotto in Padua's Due Palazzi prison December 2, 2014. White-
coated bakers are chopping nuts, dipping pastry into liquid chocolate and hanging freshly baked panettone Christmas cake
upside down to preserve its domed shape. But when one of the all-male team steps outside to smoke, he is in a barred
enclosure attached to Padua prison. Sweet smells have wafted through this...more
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Sergio Moraes
Location
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
09, 2014
A police officer walks among
crosses planted by the NGO
Rio de Paz (Peace Rio) on
Copacabana beach, in memory
of police officers killed in Rio
de Janeiro December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Hamad I Mohammed
Location
MANAMA, Bahrain
The reflection of a man is seen on a shattered car windscreen after a bomb blast
in the village of Karzakan, southwest of the capital Manama, December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

A policeman has been killed near Bahrain's capital, Manama, in a bomb attack the
authorities have blamed on Lebanon-based Shia Hezbollah militants. The bomb
had exploded on Monday night in Damistan as the officer had been "doing his
duty", the interior ministry said, describing it as a "terrorist attack".
Dec. 9, 2014

A 13-month-old chimp named Fumo carries a
Christmas present of food treats in wrapping
paper under his arm during a Christmas-themed
feeding time at Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo.
Dec. 9, 2014

Snow-covered trees are seen in the
morning mist by the bank of Songhua
river in Jilin, in north-east China.
Dec. 9, 2014

A worker walks through the partially
completed Crossrail tunnel at Bond Street
station in London. A total of 26 miles (42km)
of train tunnels are being built beneath the
streets of the capital by eight tunnelling
machines.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Kai Pfaffenbach
Location
COLOGNE, Germany
Reuters / Tuesday,
December 09, 2014
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel is congratulated by
Hesse's state Premier Volker
Bouffier on her re-election
as leader of the Christian
Democratic Union (CDU)
party in Cologne December
9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

The sister of Anni Dewani, Ami Denborg (left), weeps as she makes a statement to
the press following the decision to throw out the case against British
businessman Shrien Dewani who had been charged with the murder of his wife.
The 34-year-old had always denied plotting to arrange the shooting of his bride in
the back of their taxi while on honeymoon in November 2010.
Dec. 9, 2014

A large fire at an apartment building under construction lights up the sky near
near Los Angeles City Hall. More than 250 firefighters responded to the fire.
Dec. 9, 2014

The Met Office has issued a yellow "be aware" warning for most of the UK for
later on Tuesday, plus Wednesday and early on Thursday.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Gary Cameron
Location
WASHINGTON, United States
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-
NV) speaks to reporters on the upcoming
budget battle on Capitol Hill in
Washington December 9, 2014.
Congressional negotiators unveiled a
$1.1 trillion spending bill that aims to
avoid a government shutdown and punts
an immigration showdown between
Republicans and President Obama until
February.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MONROVIA, Liberia
Reuters / Tuesday,
December 09, 2014
A sick man is carried away
to be tested for Ebola after
collapsing on a street in
Monrovia December 9,
2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Athit Perawongmetha
Location
HONG KONG, China
David Wong, a 41-year-old cellist,
performs on a vehicle bridge filled with
tents set up by pro-democracy protesters
at the financial Central district in Hong
Kong December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Erik de Castro
Location
DOLORES, Philippines
2014
Typhoon victims wait for relief
supplies on a beach in a remote
village in Dolores, Eastern Samar,
central Philippines December 9,
2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Pichi Chuang
Location
TAOYUAN, Taiwan
09, 2014
A protester scuffles with
police officers while Chen
Deming, president of China's
Association for Relations
Across the Taiwan Straits
(ARATS), arrives for an an
eight-day visit, at Taoyuan
International Airport,
northern Taiwan, December 9,
2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
David Mdzinarishvili
Location
TBILISI, Georgia
Servicemen from the 23rd battalion of the II
infantry brigade of the Georgian Armed
Forces stand during a farewell ceremony at
the Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi
December 9, 2014. According to Georgia's
Defence Ministry, one company of the
battalion departs to shift change another
Georgian unit as a part of the EUFOR-RCA
European Union military operation in the
Central African Republic.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
POOL New
Location
Baghdad, Iraq
Reuters / Tuesday,
December 09, 2014
U.S. Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel wears body
armor as he steps off a
helicopter in Baghdad
December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Mike Segar
Location
2014
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
and her husband Prince William,
Duke of Cambridge, place flowers
at the edge of the South pool of
the National September 11
Memorial & Museum at the World
Trade Center site in New York,
December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

Photographer
Susana Vera
Location
MADRID, Spain
09, 2014
Real Madrid's Gareth Bale gets
hit in the face by the elbow of
Ludogorets' Georgi Terziev
during their Champions
League Group B soccer match
at Santiago Bernabeu stadium
in Madrid December 9, 2014.
Dec. 9, 2014

A man who cut the stone blocks from the United States to take Part in the
International Ice Festival in Harbin in Harbin, Heilongjiang province in the
northeast of China, on December 9, 2014. This annual Festival began on January
5, 2015 and last for a month.
Dec. 9, 2014

Dec . 10 , 2014

Christmas lights illuminate the Medellin River in Colombia.
Dec. 10, 2014

Actress Evangeline Lilly attends the premiere of
her latest film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the
Five Armies, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood,
California.
Dec. 10, 2014

Australia captain Michael
Clarke (right) shakes hands
with his teammate Steve
Smith, after reaching their
100-run partnership. Both
went on to score centuries in
the first test match against
India, two weeks after the
death of close friend Phillip
Hughes, whose test cap
number - 408 - was painted
on the turf.
Dec. 10, 2014

BBC weather presenter Carol
Kirkwood said it would be a
"wild" day from north Wales
northwards, while it would be
"blustery" further south.
Here, Neil Sharrock and his
dog Ted walk along the beach
in Blackpool, buffeted by high
winds.
Dec. 10, 2014

Pakistani education activist
Malala Yousafzai (left) and
Indian child rights
campaigner Kailash
Satyarthi (right) arrive at
the ceremony in Oslo in
which they will be
presented with the Nobel
Peace Prize
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Suzanne Plunkett
Location
OSLO, Norway
Reuters / Wednesday,
December 10, 2014
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Malala Yousafzai poses with
the medal and the diploma
during the Nobel Peace
Prize awards ceremony at
the City Hall in Oslo
December 10, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Competitors flex their muscles during the World Body Building and Physique
Sports competition in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
Dec. 10, 2014

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron
stands under the entrance gates to
Auschwitz, during a visit to the former Nazi
death camp in Poland.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Mohamad Torokman
Location
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories
Reuters / Wednesday, December 10,
2014
Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein (L)
scuffles with an Israeli border policeman
near the West Bank city of Ramallah
December 10, 2014. Abu Ein died shortly
after being hit by Israeli soldiers during a
protest in the occupied West Bank, a
Reuters photographer who witnessed
the incident and a Palestinian medic
said. Ziad Abu Ein, a minister without
portfolio who was in his early 50s, was
rushed by ambulance from the scene, in
the...more
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Baz Ratner
Location
BE'ER ORA, Israel
December 10, 2014
A polluted area caused by
an oil spill is seen at the
Evrona desert reserve, near
the Red Sea resort city of
Eilat December 10, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Eric Gaillard
Location
MONACO, Monaco
December 10, 2014
Carabiniers of Monaco's
Prince Albert II fire
canons to announce the
birth of twins of Prince
Albert II of Monoco and
Charlene, in front of the
Monaco Palace
December 10, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
Panama City, Panama
December 10, 2014
People take pictures as
tugboats help a barge
transporting the last
rolling gate for the new
locks on the Pacific side
of the Panama Canal
through the Miraflores
locks in Panama City
December 10, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
David Gray
Location
DARWIN, Australia
December 10, 2014
Australian Aboriginal hunter Roy
Gaykamangu of the Yolngu
people carries a crocodile he
has just shot dead along the
edge of a billabong near the
'out station' of Yathalamarra,
located on the outksirts of
Ramingining in East Arnhem
Land November 22, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Siegfried Modola
Location
Baringo County, Kenya
Reuters / Wednesday, December 10, 2014
A man holds a girl as she tries to escape when
she realized she is to to be married, about 80
km (50 miles) from the town of Marigat in
Baringo County December 7, 2014. As Pokot
tradition dictates, the future husband arrived
to her family home with a group of men to
collect the girl. The men arrived with the last
settled dowry of livestock for the girl's family. In
this case it was 20 goats, three camels and 10
cows, given during a...more
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Stephen Lam
Location
BERKELEY, United States
Fallen merchandises are seen inside a supermarket after it was looted by a small
group of protesters during a largely peaceful march against the New York City grand
jury decision to not indict in the death of Eric Garner in Berkeley, California December
10, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Jacky Naegelen
Location
VILLACOUBLAY, France
French President Francois Hollande and former hostage Serge Lazarevic hug each other after Lazarevic,
who was kidnapped in northern Mali, was freed by al Qaeda's North African wing after nearly three
years, at the Villacoublay military airport, near Paris, December 10, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Vasily Fedosenko
Location
NONE, United Kingdom
December 10, 2014
A woman pushes a pram
with a child as heavy fog
covered streets in a small
town of Zaslavl, northwest
of Minsk, December 10,
2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Siegfried Modola
Location
BARINGO COUNTY, Kenya
Pokot girls attired with traditional jewellery
stand in a circle during an initiation ceremony of
over a hundred girls passing over into
womanhood, about 80 km (50 miles) from the
town of Marigat in Baringo County December 6,
2014. The ceremony lasts one night and through
the next day. Before the ceremony, as Pokot
tradition dictates, the girls are secluded for over
a month, out of sight of the men in the
community. The ceremony...more
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
China Daily China Daily Information
Corp - CDIC
Location
YIWU, China
2014
A man wearing a Christmas hat poses
for photographer at a factory
producing Christmas decorations in
Yiwu, Zhejiang province, December
4, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Ilya Naymushin
Location
BORODINO, Russia
December 10, 2014
A general view shows the
Borodinsky opencast coal
mine, near the Siberian
town of Borodino, east of
Krasnoyarsk, December 9,
2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
CAIRO, Egypt
Faisel, 16, a member of Egyptian parkour
group "EGY PK", practices a jump in front
of the Pyramid of Khufu, the largest of
the Great Pyramids of Giza, on the
outskirts of Cairo, December 9, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
China Daily China Daily
Information Corp - CDIC
Location
WUHAN, China
December 10, 2014
Yinfeng Hotel collapses as it
is being demolished by
explosives in Wuhan, Hubei
province, December 9,
2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Mahmoud Hebbo
Location
ALEPPO, Syria
December 10, 2014
People walk past damaged
buildings in Aleppo's al-
Shaar district, December
10, 2014.
REUTERS/Mahmoud Hebbo
Inside SYRIA

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
DERAA, Syria
The word Steadfast is seen on a graffiti
on a damaged building in al-Manshiyeh
neighbourhood in Deraa, December 7,
2014. REUTERS/Wsam Almokdad
Inside SYRIA

Photographer
Bassam Khabieh
Location
DAMASCUS, Syria
Reuters / Tuesday, March
11, 2014
Civilians walk past rubble
and damaged buildings in
the Duma neighbourhood
of Damascus, March 10,
2014. REUTERS/Bassam
Khabieh
Inside SYRIA

Photographer
Mahmoud Hebbo
Location
ALEPPO, Syria
Reuters / Saturday,
December 06, 2014
A bus blocks a road amid
damage on the Salah Al-Din
neighbourhood frontline in
Aleppo, December 6, 2014.
REUTERS/Mahmoud Hebbo
Inside SYRIA

A Tibetan sister was mother dressed in
an event of the Tibetan refugee
community in Nepal, the 25th
anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize in
October for the exiled spiritual leader
the Dalai Lama and international human
rights Day 66th in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Dec. 10, 2014

Một người biểu tình ngồi trên chướng ngại vật tại khu vực
bị chiếm đóng bên ngoài trụ sở chính quyền ở Hong
Kong.
Dec. 10, 2014

The spacecraft
Commander Expedition
42 Barry Wilmore taken
photographs of the Great
Lakes region in the
central United States
from the international
space station.
Dec. 10, 2014

Langtang mountain range above the Kathmandu Valley hidden under the clouds,
as seen from the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, Nepal Bhanjyang.
Dec. 10, 2014

Tibetan exile Monks stand before a wall painted with the Tibetan flag at an event
held to celebrate the 25th year of the Dalai Lama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. The event also marked fifty-five
years of the spiritual leader’s life in exile. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha).
Dec. 10, 2014

Activist, Antonio Perez Martinez, 53 years old, unemployed, and other housing rights
campaigners wait inside Elvira Reyes Mariano’s apartment to stop her and her family’s eviction
in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. The landlord’s loss of the apartment to Bankia
bank is causing Reyes Mariano and her family’s eviction. Reyes Mariano lives with her husband
Soltero Rodriguez Cuevas, 44 years old, both unemployed, her sister and their three kids. They
continued to occupy a foreclosed Bankia bank apartment after their landlord left as they could
not afford to pay rent and they are now trying to negotiate to pay a low rent to the bank. The
eviction was postponed with the help of the housing rights activists. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Dec. 10, 2014

An opposition activist is detained by
Cuban security officers before the start
of a march marking International
Human Rights Day in Havana, Cuba,
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. The march
was organized by the “Damas de
Blanco,” or Women in White, a pro-
democracy group of women activists.
The demonstrators where picked up by
the police as soon as they arrived,
while hundreds of pro-government
loyalist sang patriotic songs and
slogans. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Dec. 10, 2014

A couple passes a mist covered Mikhaylivsky Cathedral in
central Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. (AP
Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
Dec. 10, 2014

Sameer Singh, 12, works at a jewelry workshop where he
earns US$ 32 a month, in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Dec.
10, 2014. Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai from
Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India on Tuesday stressed
the importance of uniting people across borders and
religions by educating children and freeing them from
poverty. The Nobel laureates, who split the $1.1 million
award, were cited for working to protect children from
slavery, extremism and child labor at great risk to their own
lives. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Dec. 10, 2014

A woman walks through the snow with a dog, not seen, in Washington Park on
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. A slow-moving coastal storm has dumped
more than a foot of snow on parts of upstate New York, knocking out power to more
than 10,000 utility customers, closing or causing delayed starts for scores of schools
and shutting down a Syracuse-area highway. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)Dec. 10, 2014

Protesters pose for photographs on a barricade at the
occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong
Kong Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Hong Kong’s dwindling
number of pro-democracy protesters vowed Wednesday to
stay until the last minute before authorities clear them off a
highway where they’ve been camped out for more than two
months. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Dec. 10, 2014

Civil Code books thrown by lawyers fixed on a statue as justice officials
demonstrate to protest against the new “Macron’s law” in Paris, Wednesday, Dec.
10, 2014. Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron presented Wednesday a new
bundle of policies that aim mainly to free up France’s notoriously inflexible labor
rules and regulations. (AP Photo/Francois Mori )
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Baz Ratner
Location
BE'ER ORA, Israel
2014
The polluted area caused by an oil
spill is seen at the Evrona desert
reserve, near the Red Sea resort city
of Eilat December 10, 2014. Ecologists
said it could take years to clean up
the massive oil spill that flooded an
Israeli nature reserve with up to five
million liters of crude and threatened
to spread to the Red Sea shore and
neighboring Jordan.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
POOL New
Location
LOS ANGELES, United States
An overview shows the aftermath of the
1.3 million-square-foot Da Vinci residential
complex that was destroyed by fire in Los
Angeles, California December 10, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
Reuters / Wednesday, December
10, 2014
A man stands in falling snow
following a news conference
where members of Justice League
NYC presented a list of demands
at City Hall in New York December
10, 2014. The league, made up of
of juvenile and criminal justice
advocates, artists and experts, and
formerly incarcerated individuals,
presented the list in response to
the failure of a Staten Island
Grand Jury to indict police officer
Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold
death of...more
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
2014
Commuters walk by a "die-in" during a
small march at Grand Central Station
for chokehold death victim Eric Garner
in New York December 10, 2014.
Dec. 10, 2014

Photographer
Andrew Kelly
Location
December 10, 2014
A street performer dressed
as the Statue of Liberty
stands amongst light snow
in Times Square in New
York December 10, 2014.
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Photographer
Stringer .
Location
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Reuters / Wednesday, December
10, 2014
Fans of Argentina's River Plate
celebrate before their Copa
Sudamericana soccer match
finals against Colombia's
Atletico Nacional in Buenos
Aires December 10, 2014.
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Photographer
Rafael Marchante
Location
Nazare, Portugal
Reuters / Thursday, December 11,
2014
A surfer drops in on a large wave at
Praia do Norte, in Nazare December
11, 2014. Praia do Norte beach has
gained popularity with big wave
surfers since Hawaiian surfer
Garrett McNamara broke a world
record for the largest wave surfed
here in 2011.
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Photographer
Mohamad Torokman
Location
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories
Reuters / Thursday, December 11,
2014
The daughter of Palestinian minister
Ziad Abu Ein mourns over his body
during his funeral in the West Bank city
of Ramallah December 11, 2014.
Thousands of mourners turned out for
a Palestinian state funeral for a
minister who died after being grabbed
by the neck by an Israeli policeman at
a West Bank protest.
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Photographer
Athit Perawongmetha
Location
HONG KONG, China
Reuters / Thursday, December
11, 2014
Police officers walk in an area,
previously blocked by pro-
democracy supporters, after
clearing the protest site near the
government headquarters
building at the financial Central
district in Hong Kong December
11, 2014.
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Protesters laying down while
locking arms each other
confront police officers at the
occupied area outside
government headquarters in
Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 11,
2014. Hong Kong police on
Thursday took away
demonstrators who refused to
leave the main pro-democracy
protest camp and tore down
their tents in a final push to
retake streets occupied by
activists for two and a half
months. (AP Photo/Kin
Cheung)
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Members of the Palestinian national security forces carry the body of Palestinian
Cabinet member Ziad Abu Ain during his funeral in the West Bank city of
Ramallah, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Israeli and Palestinian pathologists disagreed
Thursday on whether a blow to the body or a bad heart was the main cause of
death of the Palestinian Cabinet minister who collapsed shortly after scuffling
with Israeli troops during a West Bank protest. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 107

A cardinal attends a funeral mass for late Argentine Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia, in St.
Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Dec. 11, 2014
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Indian fishermen sit behind bars in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2104.
Pakistan's coast guard arrested 58 Indian fishermen over encroaching into
Pakistani waters, official said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 109

A surfer rides a huge wave during a tow-
in surfing session at the Praia do Norte
or North beach, in Nazare, Portugal,
Thursday, Dec, 11, 2014. The beach has
become a famous break point for big
waves riders around the world. (AP
Photo/Francisco Seco)
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A turtle swims in the aquarium in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. (AP
Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Dec. 11, 2014
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A guard stands in front of the
Monaco Palace after the
announcement of the birth of
Monaco royal twins Gabriella
Therese Marie and Jacques Honore
Rainier at the Palace in Monaco,
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. For the
first time since Monaco was
founded in the 13th century, its
royal family gave birth to twins on
Wednesday, and dozens of cannons
were fired to celebrate. Monaco's
Princess Charlene had a girl first
and a boy second, but the boy will
be the principality's future ruler,
reflecting the male priority of
Monaco's laws of succession. (AP
Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
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Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
Alexandria, Egypt
Reuters / Thursday, December 11, 2014
People crowd onto a slide at a public beach
during a hot day in the Mediterranean city of
Alexandria September 5, 2014. El Max, in
Alexandria, where hundreds of boats dart
through the canals, has been called the
"Venice of Egypt" for its waterways and
relaxed atmosphere.
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Photographer
Mario Anzuoni
Location
HOLLYWOOD, United States
11, 2014
Cast members Reese
Witherspoon and Joaquin
Phoenix greet each other at
the premiere of "Inherent
Vice" at TCL Chinese theater
in Hollywood, California
December 10, 2014.
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Photographer
Noah Berger
Location
OAKLAND, United States
11, 2014
An undercover police officer,
who had been marching with
anti-police demonstrators,
aims his gun at protesters
after some in the crowd
attacked him and his partner
in Oakland, California
December 10, 2014.
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A horse sled on a snowy morning in a training
session on the track at Saratoga in Saratoga
Springs, New York.
Dec. 11, 2014
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Fencers practise at the Martyrs of Barbados gymnasium in Havana. About 100
students train at the gymnasium, named after the two dozen Cuban fencers who
were among those killed in 1976 when a bomb blew up a Cubana airliner soon
after taking from Barbados.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 118

People look at a car
balancing on the edge of a
hole that appeared in
Zhenjiang, Jiangsu
province, in China. The
street collapsed on Friday
morning.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 119

Varun Aaron of India (right) celebrates with
Wriddhiman Saha after bowling Michael
Warner of Australia - though the delivery was
deemed a no-ball after a replay during day
four of the first Test match at Adelaide Oval.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 120

Labourers help construct a bridge over the River Yamuna for a rail project in
Delhi, India.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 121

Samantha Cameron, wife of Britain's Prime Minister
David Cameron, stands with children from the Save
the Children Christmas Jumper Day outside 10
Downing Street in London.Dec. 11, 2014
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Soldiers carry the coffin of Queen Fabiola of Belgium into the Saint Michael and
Saint Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. Born Fabiola de Mora y Aragon in Madrid, she
was the widow of King Baudouin and reigned as queen consort from 1960 until
his death in 1993.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 123

A house collapses into the sea
at Washaway Beach,
Washington, as a storm hits the
region causing widespread
disruption.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 124

Fans hold mobile phones up during a power cut in the Europa League game
between Tottenham Hotspur and Besiktas. Besiktas won 1-0, meaning the north
London team will face a tougher draw in the next round.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 125

A member of Christie's
auction house staff poses
with a pair of
"adamantium" claws
made for Australian actor
Hugh Jackman's role as
Wolverine in the X-Men:
The Last Stand film. The
claws are estimated to
sell for more than
£10,000 at Christie's
biannual pop culture sale
in London.
Dec. 11, 2014
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You came across the
Christmas
decoration lights in
Vienna, Austria.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 127

A dog playing in the snow-covered Park
in Moscow, Russia.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 128

People dressed as Father Frost, the
character is equivalent to the old
man and the girl, Noel Snow
waiting to participate in the
contest "Yolka-fest-2014" in Minsk,
Belarus.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 129

Despite the small paper, the symbol of the democratic movement, in the area being occupied
by protesters in the shopping district Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Police have detained nearly
250 protesters on Thursday and releases most of the main protest venue near the Trade Center,
put an end to more than two months of street protests.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 130

Muslim Shia pilgrims gathered in the city of Kerbala Arbain holiday greeting,
southwest of Baghdad. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims dressed in black from
across Iraq converged on this city a day before Arbain on Saturday, marking the
end of 40 anniversary of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 131

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko
attached a flower poppy up table name
honors World War I during a visit to the
Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 132

The Palestinian militants of
al-Qassam Ezzedine brigades,
the armed wing of Hamas, in
a parade celebrating 27 years
this Islamic movement, which
in the Nuseirat refugee camp
in central Gaza Strip.
Dec. 11, 2014
December 19, 2014 133

A guard stood guard near a sculpture depicting the victims in Nanjing massacre
Memorial, in Jiangsu Province in Eastern China, ahead of a ceremony to mark the
first National Memorial Day in China for the Japanese massacre of civilians in
Nanjing in 1937.
Dec. 11, 2014
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Dec. 11 , 2014
December 19, 2014 135

A protester holding the flare in a general strike in Rome by several unions called
for. The Union protested the Law Act the making of Italian Prime Matteo Renzi in
order to reform the labor market by allowing companies to hire and fire
employees more easily.
Dec. 12, 2014
December 19, 2014 136

A worker standing on a pile of rocks and mud after a landslide struck down at
least eight homes in the rain at Camarillo Springs, California, United States of
America.A worker standing on a pile of rocks and mud after a landslide struck
down at least eight homes in the rain at Camarillo Springs, California, United
States of America.Dec. 12, 2014
December 19, 2014 137

The cab of the Uber protested the ban
taxis this online service in New Delhi,
India. The ban comes after the arrest of a
driver Uber in New Delhi accused of rape
and led many international investors
worried because on the Indian
counterpart of Uber as Ola and
TaxiForSure.
Dec. 12, 2014
December 19, 2014 138

King of Belgium Philippe and Mathilde and Prince Lorenz left the funeral of trying
the Queen Fabiola at the Church of St. Michael and St. Gudula, Brussels. Queen
Fabiola died on 5 December, at age 86.
Dec. 12, 2014
December 19, 2014 139

Staff members prepare to
hang the painting "Mona
Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci
first exhibition at The Arts
House in Singapore. The
first Gala world premiere
will take place from
January 12 to January 2,
2015.
Dec. 12, 2014
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ALTERNATIVE CROP OF
MVD101 - Adel bin
Muhammad El Ouerghi
from Tunisia, a former
Guantanamo prisoner,
peers through the window
of the home where he's
living in Montevideo,
Uruguay, Friday, Dec. 12,
2014. El Ouerghi is one of
six prisoners who were
held for 12 years at
Guantanamo Bay who
arrived to Uruguay on
Sunday as refugees amid a
renewed push by President
Barack Obama to close the
prison. (AP Photo/Matilde
Campodonico)
Dec. 12, 2014
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Photographer
Danish Siddiqui
Location
MUMBAI, India
Reuters / Friday, December 12, 2014
A cinema goer watches Bollywood
movie "Dilwale Dulhania Le
Jayenge" (The Big Hearted Will Take
the Bride), starring actor Shah Rukh
Khan, inside Maratha Mandir
theatre in Mumbai December 11,
2014. The movie, released in
October 1995, has set a record of
completing 1000 weeks of
continuous screening at a cinema, a
feat unmatched by any other
Bollywood movies. A
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Photographer
Mario Anzuoni
Location
BEVERLY HILLS, United States
Reuters / Friday, December 12,
2014
Singer Rihanna and her
grandfather Lionel Braithwaite
share a laugh at the First Annual
Diamond Ball fundraising event
at The Vineyard in Beverly Hills,
Dec. 12, 2014
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Photographer
Lucas Jackson
Location
GAMBERI, Afghanistan
A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Cavalry
Regiment walks with the unit's
Afghan interpreter before a mission
near forward operating base
Gamberi in the Laghman province of
Afghanistan December 11, 2014
Dec. 12, 2014
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Activists perform as heads of state, from left,
President Barack Obama, Australia's Prime
Minister Tony Abbott, Canada's Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, China's President Xi Jinping,
India's Narendra Modi, Russia's President
Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe during the Climate Change
Conference COP20 in Lima Peru, Friday, Dec.
12, 2014. The boat's sign reads in Spanish
"Leave behind emissions. Climatic agreement."
Delegates from more than 190 countries are
meeting in Lima to work on drafts for a global
climate deal that is supposed to be adopted
next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Dec. 12, 2014
December 19, 2014 145

A balloon decorated shrine to
the Virgin of Guadalupe stands in
front of a body shop in Mexico
City, Friday Dec. 12, 2014. Every
year thousands upon thousands
of faithful flock to the Basilica of
Guadalupe to pay their respects
but just as importantly, little
shrines built in parking lots,
places of work, street medians,
playgrounds and any imaginable
corner of a world of concrete
and asphalt are colorfully
decorated with flowers, balloons
and confetti on the Virgin's feast
day as neighbors gather around
the altars to share a small
breakfast, sing happy birthday to
the Virgin, light fire-crackers and
some just come to have a quiet
prayer. (AP Photo/Eduardo
Verdugo)
Dec. 12, 2014
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A donkey stands in a snow covered field in Divis
Mountain in West Belfast, Northern Ireland,
Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Bitter cold weather has
swept across many parts of the UK and Ireland as
temperatures drop. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Dec. 12, 2014
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Protesters perform during a
demonstration against what they call
porn censorship, across from the
Houses of Parliament in central
London, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. The
sex simulation protest was planned
by opponents of what they call new
'censorship' legislation banning
several sex acts from online porn
videos filmed in the UK in a bid to
crack down on ''harmful' content.
(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Dec. 12, 2014
December 19, 2014 148

Shiite faithful pilgrims gather between the holy shrine of Imam Hussein and the holy shrine of Imam Abbas, in the
background, during the preparations for the Muslim festival of Arbaeen in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80
kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. The holiday marks the end of the 40-day mourning period after
the anniversary of the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. (AP Photo/Hadi
Mizban)Dec. 12, 2014
December 19, 2014 149

A boy refreshes himself under a shower from
the summer heat on Copabana beach in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. (AP
Photo/Felipe Dana)
Dec. 12, 2014
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Photographer
Jonathan Alcorn
Location
CAMARILLO SPRINGS, United States
A TV news crew files a report behind damaged
homes after a mud slide overtook at least 18 homes
during heavy rains in Camarillo Springs, California
December 12, 2014.
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Photographer
Lee Celano
Location
NEW ORLEANS, United States
2014
A woman uses her smart
phone in the pool at the
Country Club in New Orleans,
Louisiana November 30, 2014.
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Photographer
Stefan Wermuth
Location
London, United Kingdom
2014
Protesters take part in a
demonstration against new laws
on pornography outside
parliament in central London
December 12, 2014.
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Photographer
Andres Stapff
Location
Montevideo, Uruguay
Former Guantanamo detainee Adel bin
Muhammad El Ouerghi (L) from Tunisia
gestures while holding a mate cup next to an
unidentified member of Uruguay's central
workers union Pit-Cn while standing on a
balcony in a neighbourhood in Montevideo,
Uruguay, December 12, 2014.
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Dec. 13 , 2014
December 19, 2014 155

Photographer
STRINGER Iraq
Location
KERBALA, Iraq
Reuters / Saturday, December 13, 2014
Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims reach out to touch the tomb of Imam al-Abbas located
inside the Imam al-Abbas shrine to mark Arbain in the holy city of Kerbala,
southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, December 13, 2014.
Dec. 13, 2014
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Photographer
Omar Sobhani
Location
KABUL, Afghanistan
Reuters / Saturday, December
13, 2014
Afghan security forces inspect at
the site of a suicide attack in
Kabul December 13, 2014.
Dec. 13, 2014
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Photographer
Thomas Mukoya
Location
KAJIADO, Kenya
Reuters / Saturday, December 13, 2014
Maasai morans sing traditional songs
and jump before the Maasai Olympics
2014 at the Sidai Oleng wildlife
sanctuary at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro
near the Kenya-Tanzania border in
Kajiado December 13, 2014.
Dec. 13, 2014
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Photographer
Toby Melville
Location
LONDON, United Kingdom
Reuters / Saturday,
December 13, 2014
A competitor takes part in
the Fancy Dress December
Dip at Parliament Hill Lido in
north London, December 13,
2014.
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Dec. 14 , 2014
December 19, 2014 160

Matilde Apioas, 66, weeps in front of the dock while waiting for news of her son,
a diver disappeared during the shipwreck, in the Caribbean port of Puerto
Cabezas, also known as Bilwi, Nicaragua, Sunday Dec. 14, 2104. Rescue crews
have found the fishing boat that capsized last week with 50 people aboard and
are still searching for crew members who remain missing, authorities said Sunday.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Dec. 14, 2014
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Hostage situation in Sydney
Dec. 14, 2014
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Hostage situation in
Sydney

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that although the incident was
"deeply concerning", the police were well equipped to deal with it.
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Sydney

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Sydney

Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
Reuters / Sunday, December 14, 2014
Police officers position themselves at a
corner near Lindt cafe in Martin Place,
where hostages are being held, in central
Sydney December 15, 2014.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
Dec. 14, 2014
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Sydney

Dec. 14, 2014
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Sydney

Earlier in the day five
people were seen running
from the cafe in Martin
Place.
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Sydney

Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
2014
A hostage runs towards a police
officer outside Lindt cafe, where
other hostages are being held, in
Martin Place in central Sydney,
Australia, December 15, 2014.
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Sydney

Photographer
Athit Perawongmetha
Location
HONG KONG, China
2014
Pro-democracy protesters comfort
each other after leaving with their
belonging outside the Legislative
Council building in the Admiralty
district in Hong Kong, December
15, 2014.
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Sydney

Photographer
David Gray
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
Paramedics remove an injured woman on a
stretcher from the Lindt cafe, where
hostages were being held, at Martin Place
in central Sydney December 16, 2014.
REUTERS/David Gray
Dec. 15, 2014
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Sydney

Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
2014
Hostages run past a police officer
(C) near Lindt Cafe, at Martin Place
in central Sydney December 16,
2014. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Sydney

Photographer
David Gray
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
Paramedics remove a person, with
bloodstains on the blankets covering the
person, on a stretcher from the Lindt cafe,
where hostages were being held, at Martin
Place in central Sydney December 16, 2014.
REUTERS/David Gray
Dec. 15, 2014
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Sydney

Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
Sydney resident Kate Golder cries as she
observes the site of a Sydney cafe siege
after it ended in Martin Place, December
16, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Reed
Dec. 15, 2014
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Sydney

Photographer
Jason Reed
Location
SYDNEY, Australia
15, 2014
Police rescue personnel carry an
injured woman from the Lindt
cafe, where hostages are being
held, at Martin Place in central
Sydney December 16, 2014.
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Sydney

The gunman has been named as
Iranian self-styled cleric Man Haron
Monis, who received political asylum in
Australia in 1996 and was on bail on a
number of charges.
A female employee manages to escape
from the Lindt Chocolate cafe in Martin
Place, Sydney, Dec. 15, 2014 after a
gunman took dozens of people
hostage.
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Sydney

Photographer
POOL New
Location
Rome, Italy
Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laugh during
their meeting at Villa Taverna in Rome,
Italy, December 14, 2014.
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Photographer
Stephen Lam
Location
OAKLAND, United States
Reuters / Sunday, December 14,
2014
A woman pleads to be released by
the police after she was surrounded
during an evening demonstration
against police violence in Oakland,
Dec. 14, 2014
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Photographer
Jonathan Ernst
Location
WASHINGTON, United States
President Barack Obama, first lady
Michelle Obama and their daughters
Malia (R) and Sasha (not pictured) greet
children with gifts as they arrive for the
taping of the "Christmas in Washington"
television special to benefit the
Children's National Medical Center in
Washington December 14, 2014.
Dec. 14, 2014
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Photographer
Jorge Lopez
Location
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico
Reuters / Sunday, December
14, 2014
An injured federal police officer
(bottom R) is seen as people
chase after a car which
reversed away after running
over civilians, federal police
officers, and journalists, during
clashes in Chilpancingo,
Guerrero, Mexico, December
14, 2014.
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Photographer
Ilya Naymushin
Location
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
A man passes a house built upside-
down in Russia's Siberian city of
Krasnoyarsk, December 14, 2014. The
house was constructed as an attraction
for local residents and tourists.
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Photographer
Hannibal Hanschke
Location
Berlin, Germany
A man dressed as a Santa Claus poses at
the front of the Kollhoff Tower at
Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin,
Germany, December 14, 2014.
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Photographer
Beawiharta Beawiharta
Location
JAKARTA, Indonesia
2014
Indonesian Christians hold
candles during a Christmas mass
prayer session at Gelora Bung
Karno stadium in Jakarta,
December 13, 2014.
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Photographer
Suhaib Salem
Location
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories
2014
A Palestinian member of al-
Qassam Brigades, the armed wing
of the Hamas movement, displays
a weapon during a military
parade marking the 27th
anniversary of Hamas' founding,
in Gaza City December 14, 2014.
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Photographer
STRINGER Mexico
Location
Uruapan, Mexico
2014
Vigilantes stand guard next to a
bridge during a blockade on a
highway near the town of
Uruapan in Michoacan state,
Mexico, December 14, 2014.
REUTERS/Alan Ortega
Dec. 14, 2014
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Photographer
Tyrone Siu
Location
HONG KONG, China
Workers remove a logo left by pro-
democracy protesters in the shape of an
umbrella, a symbol of the Occupy Central
civil disobedience movement, during a
clearance at the last "Occupy" protest site
blocking a main road at Causeway Bay
shopping district in Hong Kong December
15, 2014. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Dec. 14, 2014
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Photographer
Issei Kato
Location
TOKYO, Japan
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is
also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic
Party, pauses as he puts a rosette on a
name of a candidate who is expected to
win, at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo,
December 14, 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Dec. 14, 2014
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Photographer
Issei Kato
Location
TOKYO, Japan
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Liberal
Democratic Party candidate Miki Yamada during an election
night event at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo, December 14,
2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Dec. 14, 2014
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Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, Japan
2014
Election officials carry ballot boxes
as they run up stairs to a counting
centre in Tokyo December 14,
2014. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Dec. 14, 2014
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December 19, 2014 189

Photographer
MAXIM ZMEYEV
Location
Moscow, Russia
15, 2014
People take pictures inside a
giant Christmas ball, part of
New Year and Christmas
holiday season decorations,
in central Moscow, December
15, 2014.
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 190

US President Barack Obama with first lady Michelle and their daughters take part
in the recording of the Christmas in Washington television special to benefit
Children's National Medical Center in the capital.
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 191

Racing Club's footballers celebrate with the Argentine First Division tournament
trophy after defeating Godoy Cruz in Buenos Aires.
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 192

Delegates rest during a break at the UN Climate
Change Conference in Lima, Peru. Despite an
overrun, United Nations members reached an
agreement on how countries should tackle
climate change.
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 193

Labourers unload potatoes from a supply truck at a
wholesale vegetable market in the western Indian
city of Ahmedabad.
A man works on a stairway during a snowfall in
Seoul, South Korea
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 194

Leonardo da Vinci's "Earlier Mona Lisa" painting is to go on show for the first
time, at the Arts House in Singapore.
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 195

Lewis Hamilton (right) has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014. The 29-
year-old Mercedes driver won his second Formula 1 world title this season and joined an
exclusive club by becoming the fourth Briton to win the drivers' championship at least twice.
Hamilton is seen here with BBC present Gary Lineker.
A woman stands next to Leonardo da Vinci's Earlier Mona Lisa painting during a news
conference at a media preview ahead of its exhibition at The Arts House in SingaporeDec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 196

A man works on a stairway during a snowfall in Seoul, South Korea.
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 197

A soldier takes part in a re-enactment to mark the 70th anniversary of the
Battle of the Ardennes, also known as the Battle of the Bulge, in Recogne,
Belgium. During the winter of 1944-45 Nazi Germany launched a massive land
offensive in a last-ditch attempt to reverse the course of World War Two.
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 198

Photographer
Bob Strong
Location
HALEAKALA NATIONAL PARK, United
States
Visitors gather to watch the sunrise on
the 10,023 feet summit of the
Haleakala volcano on the Hawaiian
island of Maui December 15, 2014.
REUTERS/Bob Strong
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 199

Photographer
Navesh Chitrakar
Location
Bhaktapur, Nepal
15, 2014
A woman is silhouetted as she
walks along a street in the
ancient city of Bhaktapur, near
Nepal's capital Kathmandu,
December 15, 2014.
REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 200

Photographer
Maxim Shemetov
Location
Donetsk region, Ukraine
2014
A man rides his bicycle past the
wreckage of MH17, a Malaysia
Airlines Boeing 777 plane, at the
site of the plane crash near the
village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in
Donetsk region, Ukraine,
December 15, 2014.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 201

Photographer
Hasan Shaaban
Location
BEIRUT, Lebanon
2014
Wadha al-Sayyed, wife of captive
Lebanese soldier Khaled Moqbel,
protests for his release and
government action, near burning
tyres blocking a road in Beirut,
December 15, 2014.
REUTERS/Hasan Shaaban
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 202

Photographer
Rentsendorj Bazarsukh
Location
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia
A car overturns during the Master
Cross Race 2014 at Suuj Uul, outside
Ulan Bator, Mongolia, December 14,
2014. REUTERS/B. Rentsendorj
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 203

Photographer
Larry Downing
Location
Washington, United States
2014
President Barack Obama shakes
hands after he talks at Joint Base
McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey,
December 15, 2014. REUTERS/Larry
Downing
Dec. 15, 2014
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Photographer
Phil Noble
Location
LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom
A detail of a resin sculpture, called "All
Together Now", by artist Andrew Edward's
is seen after being unveiled in the remains
of St Luke's Church in Liverpool, northern
England December 15 , 2014. The
sculpture, depicting the Christmas Day
football match between German and
British soldiers fighting on the front line in
World War One in 1914, will be displayed
in the church that was damaged during
German bombing of Liverpool in...more
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 205

Photographer
Aly Song
Location
SHANGHAI, China
Reuters / Monday,
December 15, 2014
An investor looks at a
computer screen showing
stock information an a
brokerage house in
Shanghai,China, December
15, 2014. REUTERS/Aly
Song
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 206

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
Qamishli, Syria
2014
A refugee from the minority Yazidi
sect wraps himself with a blanket as
he stands on a muddy path during
wintry weather at Nowruz refugee
camp in Qamishli, northeastern Syria
December 14, 2014.
REUTERS/Massoud Mohammed
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 207

Photographer
Kim Hong-Ji
Location
SEOUL, South Korea
Policemen take shelter under umbrellas as
they stand guard during snowfall in winter
at Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul,
South Korea, December 15, 2014.
REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 208

Photographer
Maxim Shemetov
Location
Donetsk region, Ukraine
2014
A man stands next to a pro-Russian
separatist's tank riding near the
village of Rozsypne (Rassypnoye),
eastern Ukraine, December 15,
2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 209

Photographer
Lucas Jackson
Location
GAMBERI, Afghanistan
2014
A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Cavalry
Regiment walks with his rifle, after
returning from a mission at forward
operating base Gamberi, in the
Laghman province of Afghanistan,
December 15, 2014. REUTERS/Lucas
Jackson
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 210

An Indian laborer carries a
sack full of vegetables at a
wholesale vegetable market
in old parts of New Delhi,
India, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014.
Old Delhi despite of being
extremely crowded and
dilapidated still serves as the
symbolic heart of the city.
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 211

A girl sits under an art installation depicting a gorilla entitled
‘Silver Back’ by artist David Mach, as she poses for the
photographers during a press preview of a themed auction
that features the animal as artistic inspiration, entitled
‘Creatures Great and Small’, in London, Monday, Dec. 15,
2014. The two-meter tall gorilla by the Turner Prize
nominated artist is the third of an edition of three, the first
of which holds the Guinness World Record for the largest art
installation made entirely from coat hangers. The sale
scheduled for Dec. 17, 2014, explores animals across a
diverse range of mediums and styles, from intricate carving
details in 19th century furniture through to contemporary
sculpture, according to Christie’s auction house. (AP
Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 212

A man stands by tombstones carrying
names of Romanian military personnel
killed in fighting around the Otopeni
airport during the anticommunist
uprising 25 years ago, outside
Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Dec. 15,
2014. The uprising, which left more
than thousands dead, and ended the
rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who
was executed, started in the western
Romanian town of Timisoara on Dec.
16, 1989. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 213

Acid attack victims Rupa, 19, center, and Ritu 18, sit on a hunger strike demanding strict
laws to deal with acid attacks, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Both are victims
of acid attacks by their relatives. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 214

Plain clothed police officers detain a man who was trying to set up a tent to
mourn and commemorate the fighters killed in Syrian city of Ayn al-Arab or
Kobani, in southern Turkish city of Adana, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. (AP
Photo/Hurriyet)
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 215

Aristides Apolo, 58 years old and unemployed, passes his belongings to his friend, Israel Plaza, as he prepares to leave after the
police surrounded the apartment to evict him and his partner, in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. The landlord’s loss of the
apartment to a Bankia bank caused Apolo and his partner Mercedes Pincay’s eviction. Apolo, lived with 50 year old Pincay, in a
foreclosed apartment that was owned by her sister who stopped paying her mortgage fees. Pincay and Apolo remained in the
apartment as they could not afford to pay rent due to their financial situation as well as health issues as Pincay is recovering from
breast cancer. The eviction was carried out. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Dec. 15, 2014
December 19, 2014 216
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