November 02, 2014
1 Two people read the ballot before entering the voting cabin, in Bucharest, Romania. Romanians were voting Sunday to elect a new leader as President Traian Basescu steps down after 10 years, with the prime minister favored to win in the nation of 19 million.
2 A pro-democracy protester looks from inside her tent in the part of Hong Kong's financial central district protesters are occupying in China.
3 A Filipino girl walks along a display of missing persons during a gathering of relatives of missing left-wing activists in Manila, Philippines, as they observe All Souls Day.
4 Mireia Belmonte of Spain swims to win the women's 200m butterfly event of the FINA Swimming World Cup at the Aquatic Center in Singapore.
5 Opposition leaders gather during a protest at the Place de la Nation in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, calls for the departure of the military.
6 A model presents a creation from Toni & Guy 2015 Hairstyling Trends collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing.
7 Hairstylists demonstrate their hair cutting skills on models' hair on the catwalk during a showcase of Toni & Guy 2015 Hairstyling Trends collection at China Fashion Week in Beijing.
8 A woman takes a "selfie" at a sunflower field in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok, Thailand.
9 Runners cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the start of the New York City Marathon in New York.
10 Shepherds lead their sheep through the center of Madrid, Spain. Shepherds guided a flock of 2,000 sheep through Madrid’s streets in defense of ancient grazing, droving and migration rights increasingly threatened by urban sprawl and modern agricultural practices.
11 A pro-Russian separatist stands guard during the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic leadership and local parliamentary elections at a polling station in the settlement of Telmanovo, south from Donetsk.
12 Sampdoria midfielder Luca Rizzo, left, scores a goal during a Serie A soccer match between Sampdoria and Fiorentina, in Genoa, Italy.
November 03, 2014
1 One World Trade Center stands between the transportation hub (L), still under construction, and 7 World Trade Center (R) in New York.
2 A worker grinds an iron window frame used in a dairy machine at a manufacturing unit in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
3 Daredevil Nik Wallenda makes his tightrope walk uphill at a 19-degree angle, from the Marina City west tower across the Chicago River to the top of the Leo Burnett Building, past the Aqua Building (background), in Chicago, Nov. 2, 2014.
4 Participants throw colored powders as they take part in the Color Run in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Nov. 2, 2014. The Color Run is a 5K, untimed race held in cities worldwide, with the aim of promoting healthy living.
5 A human skull sits on a concrete block at the National cemetery during a Voodoo ritual that pays tribute to Baron Samdi and the Gede family of spirits during Day of the Dead celebrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 2, 2014.
6 Shiite Muslims take part in a traditional mourning event to mark Ashura in the northern Iraqi holy city of Najaf. Ashura mourns the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammed, who was killed by armies of the Yazid near Karbala in 680 AD.
7 An oak tree is painted with a face in Magdeburg, eastern Germany.
8 A Kurdish refugee boy from the Syrian town of Kobani holds onto a fence that surrounds a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Turkey.
9 A donkey fell into a manhole in Pratteln near Basel, northern Switzerland, November 1, 2014. Only slightly injured, the animal was rescued from its awkward position by the local fire brigade.
10 A Nepalese Buddhist devotee leaves the Golden Temple after offering prayers near Patan Durbar square in Lalitpur, about five kilometers southeast of Kathmandu.
11 A Bahraini baby, laid for a blessing in a bassinet that is part of a living diorama, plays with ornaments, ahead of the Ashoura holiday during the month of Muharram, in Malkiya, Bahrain.
12 Rurik George Caton Jutting, (R) is escorted by police officers in a police van after appearing in a court in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police said they had charged the 29-tear-old British man with killing two women.
November 04, 2014
1 U.S. voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Alhambra, California. Months of campaign promises, partisan charges and a seemingly endless flood of political ads and mailers will finally come to an end Tuesday as voters make their choices.
2 Goods confiscated by men, who say they were hired by the Islamic State to monitor the quality of goods in markets, are set on fire in central Raqqa, Syria.
3 Russian nationalists carry flags of Donetsk People's Republic during a march in support of pro-Russian separatists fighting with Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine in Moscow to mark People's Unity Day, a public holiday in Russia.
4 An Iranian woman stands in front of the painted wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran where a demonstration took place marking the anniversary of 35 years after Islamist students stormed the embassy compound, then holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
5 Members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) perform the flag off ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah Border Post.
6 Kenneth Fok Kai-kong (C), grandson of Hong Kong late billionaire tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung, takes part in an anti-Occupy Central rally at Hong Kong's financial Central district. Thousands of protesters remain camped out in a sea of tents on a major highway close to government headquarters in Admiralty and in lesser numbers in the shopping and densely populated districts of Causeway Bay and Mong Kok.
7 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims bleed after hitting their foreheads with swords and beating themselves as they commemorate Ashoura in Baghdad. More than one million Shi'ite Muslims gathered at shrines and mosques across the country for the religious ritual.
8 Smoke rises from explosions demolishing houses on the Egyptian side of the border town of Rafah as seen from the Palestinian side in the southern Gaza Strip. With dynamite and heavy machinery, Egypt's army has been demolishing homes along its border with Gaza, after the military ordered residents out last week to make way for a planned buffer zone meant to stop militants and smugglers.
9 Gallery assistants pose for pictures with John Pasche's 1971 'Tongue and Lip Design' logo, commissioned by Mick Jagger, at a photocall for a retrospective of students' artwork, titled "GraphicsRCA: Fifty Years" at the Royal College of Arts in London, Nov.
10 A chef prepares a snack during the final phase of the tenth edition of the National Skewers and Tapas competition held in Valladolid, Spain.
11 Spanish model, Raquel Bonilla, 22, poses inside an elevator as she wears a creation by Myriam Hurtado during an urban photo shoot, part of the Andalucia de Moda (Andalusia Fashion) in Seville, southern Spain.
12 Sydney's Opera House and a the cruise ship are seen alongside giraffes in their enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. According to Taronga's conservation society, there are an estimated 80,000 giraffes remaining in the wild with the 30 percent drop in numbers over the past decade directly due to poaching for bush meat and habitat encroachment by humans.
13 Rowers practice in their boat ahead of the annual Water Festival on the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians will celebrate the Water Festival from Nov. 5-7.
14 The Reichstag, German lower house of Parliament, is seen through autumnal trees in Berlin.
November 05, 2014
1 Pakistani students in Islamabad protest the November 2 suicide bombing that killed at least 55 people on the Wagah border. The blast tore through crowds of spectators leaving the daily joint Pakistan-India military ceremony that closes the border checkpoint.
2 An aerial view of the French World War I Military Cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette memorial in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, northern France. The cemetery is the largest French military cemetery with more than 40,000 soldiers buried here.
3 A wet, cobblestone street is seen during a rainy day in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 4. Heavy rains caused by a cluster of storms killed at least seven people in Haiti and caused major flooding in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
4 Turkish soldiers walk on a hillside overlooking the Syrian town of Kobani, near the Turkey-Syria border.
5 A hippopotamus at the Los Angeles zoo gave birth last week, surprising zoo officials, since the hippo was on birth control. Mara and her as-yet-unnamed calf are seen in the November 1 photo released by the zoo. It's the first hippopotamus born at the zoo in 26 years.
6 Liverpool and Real Madrid players jump for a ball during their Champions League Group B soccer match in Madrid.
7 People fill out their ballots at a polling place at a swimming pool on Election Day in Los Angeles.
8 Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown walks offstage after conceding to Governor-elect Larry Hogan during an election night gathering.
November 06, 2014
1 An Indian Sikh devotee takes a dip in the holy sarover (water tank) at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
2 Druze women mourn during the funeral of Israeli border police officer Jedan Assad in the village of Beit Jann in Israel's northern Galilee.
3 A demonstrator stands in front of burning vehicles during clashes between riot police and demonstrators in central Brussels, Belgium.
4 Britain's Prince Harry listens as the ‘Last Post’ sounds, ahead of a two minutes’ silence as he visited the Westminster Field of Remembrance in London.
5 The logo of Spanish airport operator AENA is displayed on screens above boarding gates at Terminal 4 of Madrid's Adolfo Suarez Barajas airport.
6 Models display creations by Priyo Oktaviano during the Jakarta Fashion Week 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
7 A full moon rises over the Turkish-Syrian border line close to the Syrian town of Kobani.
8 Ecuador’s Emelec fans cheer for their team during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Nov. 5, 2014.
9 The original cast of The Love Boat (right to left: Captain Ed Perrin, Cynthia Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan, Ted Lange, Fred Grandy, Bernie Kopell, and Gavin MacLeod) officially christened the Regal Princess at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Nov. 5.
10 A giant Christmas tree installed upside down stands in the middle of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris ahead of the holiday season in the French capital.
November 07, 2014
1 A girl holds a doll as refugees wait for the funeral convoy of a 19 year-old Syrian Kurdish fighter girl to pass by the camps in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border.
2 Argentina's Estudiantes de La Plata's Guido Carrillo celebrates his goal against Argentina's River Plate at a Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
3 Boys jump from a cut-off foot bridge, which was damaged by Typhoon Haiyan, in Tacloban City in central Philippines. Almost 25,000 people still live in tents, shelters and bunkhouses in the hardest hit regions. The Philippines are preparing to commemorate
4 People walk on and around a digital mosaic of photographs of people, depicting British Army private James Ernest Beaney, killed during World War One, outside the BBC headquarters in central London.
5 Bound branches of the 2014 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree are untied as it rests on Rockefeller Plaza, in New York. The 82nd annual tree, decorated with 45,000 multi-colored LEDs on 5 miles of wire, is scheduled to be lit during ceremonies December 3.
6 Men, dressed in historical uniforms, march past a serviceman during a military parade in Red Square in Moscow.
7 A laborer takes a break at a coal dump site outside Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, November 6.
8 Oxford Street in London is illuminated after singer Cheryl Fernandez-Versini switched on the Oxford Street Christmas Lights in London Lights.
9 A woman, dressed as a game character called Draenei, attends the BlizzCon, the fan-centric celebration of video game publisher Blizzard in Anaheim, Calif.
10 A rebel fighter runs through dust towards an area damaged by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by warplanes loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo.
November 09, 2014
1 People stroll past and take pictures next to the installation 'Lichtgrenze' (Border of Light) along the East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany.
2 Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his daughter Irina Virganskaya attend a ceremony organized by the Berlin Senate to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Gendarmenmarkt concert house in Berlin, Germany.
3 Visitors gather on the 'Strasse des 17. Juni' boulevard in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.
4 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II listens during the service of remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London. The annual service is to remember those who have lost their lives serving in the Armed Forces.
5 A great egret flies over Cocibolca Lake also known as Lake Nicaragua in Granada, Nov 8, 2014.
6 A friar plays Frisbee at Piazza Santi Apostoli in Rome.
7 A man walks his dog past the National Capitol Columns at the US National Arboretum in Washington, DC. They were originally built as part of the east portico of the Capitol in 1828, long before the familiar Capitol dome was completed. The arrangement of twenty-two columns are now placed amid 20 acres (8.1 ha) of open meadow, known as the Ellipse Meadow.
8 A person in a disguise sits on a sidewalk holding a candle during a protest denouncing the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers in Mexico City, Nov. 8, 2014.
9 A parishioner with a pet arrives for a religious service in the church of Sainte Rita in Paris, famous for its religious services devoted to animals.
10 A twin white truffle weighing a total of 1 kilograms is pictured after being sold for 100,000 euros to a buyer from Hong Kong during the World Alba White Truffles Auction in Grinzane Cavour in northwestern Italy.
11 Israeli riot police officers clash with Israeli Arab during a protest over the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Arab Israeli who appeared in video footage to be retreating from police, in the Arab village of Kfar Kana, northern Israel.
November 10, 2014
1 A horse is silhouetted against the morning sky on a meadow in Luehnde near Hannover, northern Germany.
2 A woman takes a photo of a fire that was set to demolished huts at Taghyeer (Change) Square, where pro-democracy protesters had camped to demand a regime change in 2011, in Sana'a.
3 A fireworks show takes place during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing.
4 Turkey's team competes in the third-place fight at the Men's Kata Team competition at the 22nd Karate World Championships in Bremen, Germany, Sunday.
5 Judith Zoungnana, a Burkina Faso policewoman, smiles during a graduation ceremony from a security training course that included participants from several African and Commonwealth countries in Cairo, Egypt.
6 Oyuna Batuyeva, right, 23, of Buryatia and Anna Schelukhina, 20, of Krasnoyarsk region prepare backstage before the final show of the 8th Miss Asia-Siberia international amateur beauty and talents contest in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Sunday.
7 Volunteers with the veterans advocacy group Team Red White and Blue unfurl a large American flag at the National September 11 Memorial in New York Sunday.
8 People attend a ceremony at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Turkish Republic’s founder, marking the anniversary of his death in Ankara.
9 Mexico City university students collected money for the families of 43 missing teacher trainees, who were allegedly killed and their remains burned, placing the money in plastic cups in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Sunday.
10 A female fighter of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) uses a pair of binoculars as she looks toward areas controlled by Islamic State fighters in the southern countryside of Ras al-Ain Sunday.
11 New York Jets free safety Jaiquawn Jarrett (37) tackles Pittsburgh Steelers' Antonio Brown (84) during the first half of an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday.
12 Light shines through the skylight above the pavilion entrance of the Fulton Center transit hub on the day of its official opening in New York City Sunday.
November 12, 2014
1 Members of a Chinese honor guard prepare to welcome Peru's President Ollanta Humala inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
2 A partially collapsed scaffolding hangs from 1 World Trade Center in New York. Two window washers were stuck on scaffolding 69 stories above street level before they were rescued after workers broke windows and pulled them to safety.
3 An airplane leaves a light trail as it flies over the snow covered Nordkette mountains behind the city of Innsbruck, Austria.
4 Left to right, China's Premier Li Keqiang, Myanmar's President Thein Sein, U.S. President Barack Obama and Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak hold hands as they pose for family photo before the gala dinner at the 25th ASEAN Summit in Myanmar.
5 A fellow protester wipes the eye of Gerardo Orue as he lies crucified outside Brazil's embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay. Former workers of a company contracted to build the Itaipu Dam on the Brazil-Paraguay border are demanding compensation for those let go.
6 Participants attending an event aimed at breaking the Guinness World Record for the most people having breakfast in bed eat their breakfast in a ballroom in Shanghai.
7 Napoleon expert Jean Claude Dey presents Napoleon's hat from the Napoleonic collection of the Palais de Monaco, in Fontainebleau, south of Paris. The collection, gathered by Prince Louis II, will go on sale next week.
8 Richard Espinal pauses during his walk to work to photograph fog blanketing New York City.
9 After a 22-mile journey from the Launch Abort System Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, the Orion Spacecraft arrives at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The test flight for Orion is scheduled to launch on December 4.
10 Syrian Civil Defense workers and pedestrians clear debris after an alleged air strike by Syrian government forces in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
11 The Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol is partially covered during renovations as Congress returns for the lame duck session following a sweep for the GOP in the midterm elections.
12 French National Center for Space Studies President Jean-Yves Le Gall, French President Francois Hollande and former French astronaut Claudie Haignere wear 3-D glasses at the Cite des Sciences at La Villette in Paris as they follow the successful landing of of the Philae lander on comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
November 13, 2014
1 U.S. President Barack Obama takes part in a bilateral meeting with Myanmar's President Thein Sein at the Presidential Palace in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
2 French President Francois Hollande, second left, looks toward Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel as he leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris after their meeting.
3 Relatives of missing Pakistanis wear Guy Fawkes masks as they observe Baloch Martyrs Day in Quetta.
4 Members of U.S. 2-8 CAV, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division take part in a joint attack combat military exercise with Poland's 1st Mechanized Battalion of the 7th Coastal Defence Brigade near Drawsko-Pomorskie.
5 United Parcel Service (UPS) pilots picket to bring attention to their ongoing labor contract negotiations outside of the 2014 UPS investor conference in New York.
6 Members of the British team who participate at the Dogdance European championships pose at the pet fair opening press conference 'Animal' in Stuttgart, Germany.
7 A visitor looks at a digital reproduction of El Greco's "View and Plan of Toledo with map" during the exhibition "Friends and patrons of El Greco in Toledo" at the Benaki museum in Athens.
8 Kei Nishikori of Japan plays a shot to David Ferrer of Spain during their ATP World Tour finals Group B at the O2 Arena in London.
9 Australia's Wallabies' player Israel Folau attends a training session at Stade Jean Moulin in Suresnes, Western Paris. France will face Australia's Wallabies team in an international test match at the Stade de France on Saturday.
10 A man watches a test flight of the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 experimental aircraft, piloted by Swiss Bertrand Piccard, in Payerne. The aircraft, weighing 2.4 tons with a wingspan of 72 meters, is fitted with more than 17,000 solar cells.
November 14, 2014
1 A protester, wearing a mask depicting Australian PM Tony Abbott, and dressed as a lifeguard, calls for global equality among nations outside the venue site of the annual G20 leaders summit in Brisbane. Leaders depicted are (L-R) Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, South African President Jacob Zuma and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2 Participants vote during the first session of the new local parliament of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
3 The Dome of the Rock is seen in the background as Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills during Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City.
4 Students listen to U.S. President Barack Obama speak at Yangon University in Yangon, Myanmar.
5 Egmont National Park in New Zealand with Mt. Taranaki at its center is seen in a Landsat 8 satellite image taken July 3, 2014 and released by NASA, Friday. The image is from the book "Sanctuary: Exploring the World's Protected Areas from Space." (NASA/USGS)
6 Russian Gen. Vladimir Shamatov, second from left observes Russian-Serbian joint anti-terrorist exercise Srem 2014, at Nikinci training ground, 60 kilometers west of Belgrade, Serbia.
7 Omar Abdul-Malik prays alone as the Washington National Cathedral and five Muslim groups hold the first celebration of Muslim Friday Prayers, Jumaa, in the Cathedral's North Transept in Washington, D.C.
8 A woman makes traditional Korean side dish kimchi, or fermented cabbage, during the 2014 Seoul Kimchi Making and Sharing Festival at Seoul City Hall Plaza in Seoul, South Korea. More than 2,300 volunteers made 250 tons of kimchi to give away to needy people during the winter season.
9 An Indian schoolboy (R) cries and he and schoolmates, dressed up as India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, pose during a photo event for Children's Day celebrations at a school in Amritsar, India's northwestern state of Punjab.
10 People shout slogans in support of compatriots living abroad who were turned away as they tried to vote in the first round of a presidential election, during a rally in Bucharest, Romania. Romania's leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta is widely expected to win the presidential election in a Nov. 16 run-off vote against his opponent Klaus Iohannis.
11 Sonja Enz of the Stapferhaus, an event place for contemporary exhibitions, holds coins in her hands as she sits in a room filled with four million Swiss five-cent coins during a media preview of the exhibition "Geld - Jenseits von Gut und Boese" (Money - Beyond Good and Evil) in the town of Lenzburg west of Zurich.
12 Participants in an amateur "Running in Color" event approach the finish line of a five-kilometer (three-mile) race in Tel Aviv, Israel. Inspired by the Hindu Holi festival, the race involved participants running along a course dotted with locations where colored powders were thrown over the runners. The event was held to raise awareness about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
13 A Sotheby's employee poses with artist Barbara Hepworth's "Vertical Form (St Ives)" at Sotheby's auction house in London. The piece is estimated to achieve 200,000 pounds sterling ($315,000 US) when it is auctioned next week.
14 Adnan Khan directs his horse to perform in an attempt to attract people visiting Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan. Khan earns his living by providing horse rides to customers visiting the beach.
November 16, 2014
1 Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway poses with the "victory reindeer" Lars, named after his father, after winning the men's slalom event during the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup race in Levi, Kittila.
2 Recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine load debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Hrabove, Ukraine four months after the plane was brought down.
3 A woman shouts slogans using a megaphone during a demonstration stage in support of the independence of the Western Sahara in Madrid as the 39th European Conference for support and Solidarity with the Saharawi People (EUCOCO) is held. The Western Sahara is a territory bordered by Morocco and Algeria and disputed by Spain and Morocco who both claim sovereignty.
4 A demonstrator wears a picture of Michael Brown as she joins with others alongside a highway overpass to voice their opinions as the area awaits a grand jury decision near Ferguson, Missouri, Nov. 15, 2014.
5 A Bantam Minorca looks out from its cage at the National Poultry Show, hosted by 'The Poultry Club of Great Britain' and held at The International Centre in Telford, Shropshire.
6 Cast member Brad Pitt takes pictures with fans as he promotes the movie "Fury" in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 15, 2014.
7 Employees stand behind one of Napoleon's hat at its auction in Fontainebleau, South of Paris. Napoleon Bonaparte's famous bicorn hat was sold 1.5 million euros, $1,930,000.
8 A runner douses himself with water during the Marabana 2014 half marathon race in Cuba.
9 U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott hold koalas during a photo opportunity on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 15, 2014.
10 Georgia Tech fans sing a school song before the start of an NCAA college football game against Clemson, Nov. 15, 2014, in Atlanta.
11 Indian owner of Bharat Industries, Niyazahmed Shaikh peers through coiled finished steel wires from scrap steel strips at his factory in Viramgam, some 60 kms from Ahmedabad. Bharat Industries at Viramgam makes recycled steel wires, used in the construction of buildings, nails, staple pins and so on, from scrap steel strips purchased from big steel manufacturing units from India and China.
12 A tractor shovel pushes a whale carcass into a recently dug grave on Popoyo beach, in Tola, Nicaragua, Nov. 15, 2014.
13 A woman goes to swim in the Mediterranean sea in Nice, southeastern France. Temperatures in the French Riviera rose to 19 degrees Celsius (66 Fahrenheit).
14 Filipino children play with a machine gun mounted on a Philippine UH-1H military helicopter during a static display to celebrate the 75th year anniversary of the Department of National Defense at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in suburban Quezon City, Philippines.
15 A Palestinian woman gestures as it rains near a house that was destroyed during the 50-day Gaza war between Israel and Hamas-led militants in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip.
November 17, 2014
1 Palestinian protesters sit atop a section of Israel's controversial barrier that separates the West Bank town of Abu Dis from Jerusalem.
2 Thousands of colourful notes are displayed on "Lennon Wall" as a couple carrying a yellow umbrella, a symbol of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement, walks past at the Admiralty protest site in Hong Kong.
3 A man checks damages in his flooded alley near Vigevano, Italy as the river Ticino overflowed after heavy rains, Nov. 16, 2014.
4 A digger is used to dump eggs and chickens into a container at a poultry farm, where a highly contagious strain of bird flu was found by Dutch authorities, in Hekendorp, Netherlands.
5 People wearing masks march through the city center to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Prague, Czech Republic.
6 Demonstrators show symbolic red cards to Czech President Milos Zeman during a protest rally in Prague, Czech Republic.
7 A man grooms his mini poodle after competition at the 2014 China International Pet Show in Beijing. The China International Pet Show (CIPS) will take place November 17-20.
8 Women take part in a protest along a main street in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The demonstrators were demanding justice for a woman who was attacked and stripped recently in Nairobi by men who claimed that she was dressed indecently.
9 Workers lifted by a crane to clean the windows of an office building are seen next to a statue of Don Juan de Borbon, grandfather of Spanish King Felipe in Madrid.
10 A woman baths her child at a slum in front of the newly built apartments of the "Minha Casa, Minha Vida" (My House, My Life) housing program in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
11 People shop at the market in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk as artillery fire continues to rock the eastern Ukraine's pro-Russian rebel bastion.
12 Residents of the Prtrovskiy neighborhood of Donetsk sit in a shelter. Most of the people in the shelter have been taking refuge for over four months flowing constant shelling during fighting between the Kremlin-backed rebels in the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic and Ukranian government troops.
November 18, 2014
1 A doctor uses a smartphone to take a photo of a child with facial deformity before surgery at the Vietnam Cuba hospital in Hanoi.
2 Eighteen-year-old American Neha Gupta poses with Dutch King Willem Alexander (l) after receiving the KidsRights Children's Peace Prize from South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu (r) in The Hague, Netherlands.
3 Greenpeace activists dumped a load of sawdust in front of the Caixa Economica Federal Bank headquarters, to protest illegal logging, in Brasilia, Brazil. Greenpeace accuses the bank of financing illegal logging activities in the Amazon.
4 A man stops in front of a coffee shop along a flooded street after heavy rains hit northern Italy for the last few days in Omegna, Italy.
5 Parts of New York are measuring the season's first big snowfall in feet, rather than inches, as nearly 3 feet blanketed the Buffalo area, forcing the closure of a 105-mile stretch of the state Thruway.
6 An Indonesian police officer fires his tear gas launcher to disperse protesters during a rally against the fuel price hikes in Makassar, Indonesia.
7 An Israeli border policeman fires a tear gas canister during clashes with Palestinian protesters, outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
8 A Palestinian uses a slingshot to throws back a tear gas canister that was fired by Israeli troops during clashes with Israeli soldiers, outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
9 A vendor waits to load Indonesian rupiah banknotes into a vehicle at Bank Mandiri headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia.
10 A man pedals his bicycle with a cart full of native abaca fans, which he will deliver to a market, in Manila, Philippines.
11 Mexico's Paul Aguilar controls the ball during their international friendly soccer match against Belarus in Borisov.
12 The wreckage of a small twin-engine cargo plane lies where the aircraft crashed into a home on Chicago's southwest side. The Aero Commander 500 had taken off from Midway International Airport and it slammed into the front of the home and plunged into the basement.
13 A tourist makes her way at the archaeological site of the Temple of the Olympian Zeus in Athens, Greece.
14 A Syrian Kurdish refugee child from the Kobani area sits inside a tractor tire at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border.
15 Mourners attend the funerals of Aryeh Kupinsky, Cary William Levine, and Avraham Goldberg, three of the four people killed in a shooting attack in a synagogue in Jerusalem.
November 19, 2014
1 Snowdrifts create a beautiful setting as a man tries to dig out his driveway on Bowen Rd in Lancaster, N.Y. A lake-effect snow storm dumped over five feet of snow in areas across Western New York. Another two to three feet of snow is expected in the area, bringing snow totals to over 100 inches, almost a years' worth of snow in three days.
2 Students dismantle security barriers placed by British police on Parliament Square during a protest against university tuition fees in London.
3 A Syrian Kurdish refugee woman from the Kobani area holds a baby at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters.
4 Pakistani children, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, play cricket in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
5 A protester rests as others hold shields after they tried to break into the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. Protesters clashed with police early Wednesday after they tried to break into Hong Kong's Legislative Council building.
6 Broken glass is seen after protesters broke at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. Protesters clashed with police early Wednesday after they tried to break into Hong Kong's Legislative Council building.
7 Druze men and relatives attend the funeral of Druze Israeli police officer Zidan Sif in the Druze village of Yanuh-Jat, northern Israel. Sif, 30, died of his wounds on Tuesday after two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people in the city’s bloodiest attack in years.
8 Tourists take photographs on their tablets and smart phone of a statue of 'Paddington Bear' on the platform at Paddington railway station in London.
9 A farmer winnows paddy crops at a field on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura.
10 A group of foreign tourists wearing traditional Japanese kimonos walk through a torii gate, the entrance of a shrine, in Nihonbashi shopping and office district in Tokyo.
11 Billed as Times Square's largest and most expensive digital billboard, a new megascreen is debuted in front of the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York City, Nov. 18, 2014 .
12 Dean Clark embraces Frida, a female Chihuahua, as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issues a special commendation naming Frida "Mayor of San Francisco for a Day" in San Francisco, California, Nov. 18, 2014. Frida, a previously unknown female Chihuahua, has won her first political office, being named Mayor of San Francisco for the day as part of a campaign to support the city's animal shelter.
13 A tourist is seen through a soap bubble as she takes a picture at Comercio square in downtown Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 18, 2014.
14 Indian followers leave the ashram of self-styled 'godman' Rampal Maharaj in Hisar, some 175 kilometres (108 miles) north of New Delhi. Police discovered five bodies after storming the ashram of a wanted guru in northern India where thousands of followers have been holed up for days, as a sixth supporter died in hospital.
November 20, 2014
1 A Portuguese fighter jet, left, and a Canadian fighter jet participating in NATO's Baltic Air Policing Mission operate in Lithuanian airspace. NATO, which has 16 fighter jets in the region monitoring Baltic airspace, said it regularly launches jets to identify "unknown or potentially hostile aircraft" in the proximity of national airspace.
2 Volunteers use a paddle raft to move an elderly woman to a safe place at Jatinegara district in Jakarta, Indonesia. Heavy rain caused flooding in some parts of the capital.
3 Local workers transport a piece of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 wreckage at the site of the plane crash near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine.
4 Bathers raise their glasses, containing 2014 vintage Beaujolais Nouveau wine, at a "wine spa" in Hakone town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 100 kilometers west of Tokyo after an embargo on the wine was removed.
5 Ayanna Williams displays her 23 inch (58 centimeter) nails at a book launch in London on Nov. 19, 2014. The 56-year-old stars in a book entitled 'Ripley's Believe it or Not! 2015 Annual, Reality Shock', a compendium of strange but true facts and stories.
6 Britain's Prince Harry, center, plays in the Sentebale Polo Cup presented by the Royal Salute World Polo at the Ghantoot Polo Club in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
7 Satguru Rampalji Maharaj, a self-styled "godman" is escorted to the high court after his arrest, in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. A self-styled Indian religious leader was charged with sedition and waging war against the state after a days-long siege of his sprawling compound ended in his arrest along with 450 hardcore followers.
8 A vehicle, with a large chunk of snow on its top, drives along Route 20 after digging out after a massive snow fall in Lancaster, New York on Nov. 19, 2014. Another two to three feet of snow is expected in the area.
9 A girl gives a ball to a humanoid robot during the International Conference on Humanoid Robots in Madrid, Spain on Nov. 19, 2014.
10 Matthias Broda, inventor and designer of the wooden e-bike, holds a prototype on a street in Berlin. The wooden e-bike produced by German company Aceteam from ash wood, will be launched on the market by spring 2015 and will cost around 3,950 euro ($4,950).
11 An Indonesian student protester runs after he caught fire while throwing a molotov cocktail towards police during a protest against the new president's decision to hike fuel prices this week in Makassar, South Sulawesi Province on Nov. 19, 2014.
12 A Ukrainian seller stands amongst clothes in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
13 A man takes pictures of a sculpture entitled "Woman with Shopping, 2013" by Australian sculptor Ron Mueck during a preview of his exhibition at the Pinacoteca Museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 19, 2014. The exhibition will run from Nov. 20, 2014 to Feb. 22, 2015.
14 Mascots from other editions of the Summer Olympic Games Fu Niu Lele (L-R) (Beijing 2008) Wenlock (London 2012), Misha (Moscow 1980), Mandeville (London 2012) and Athena (Athens 2004) pose for pictures at the International airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is the first time that mascots from previous Olympic games are visiting the current Olympic host city, ahead of the first public appearance of the 2016 mascots.
November 21, 2014
1 Students wear a mask of Indonesia President Joko Widodo with a long nose as protest against fuel price hikes outside the presidential palace in Jakarta. Widodo announced a sharp increase in fuel prices on Monday, saying costly government subsidies would be better spent on infrastructure and development.
2 Dump trucks wait to unload snow removed from neighborhoods after heavy lake-effect snowstorms at the Central Terminal in Buffalo, New York. A snowfall that brought huge drifts and closed roads finally ended Friday.
3 People take part in a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainians marked the first anniversary of pro-European Union (EU) mass protests which caused a change in the country's leadership and brought Ukraine closer to the EU.
4 Myanmar Catholic nuns and priests hold candles as they gather for the 500th Jubilee Year of the presence of the Catholic Church in Myanmar, in Yangon.
5 French Davis Cup fans hold a giant flag as they cheer on France's Gael Monfils during his Davis Cup final singles tennis match against Switzerland's Roger Federer at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d'Ascq, near Lille.
6 People take photos of Russia's Soyuz-FG booster rocket with the space capsule Soyuz TMA-15M that will carry a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS), at the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled for Monday.
7 Supporters of Tunisian presidential candidate Beji Caid Essebsi (portrait), shout slogans and wave flags on Bourguiba Avenue in the capital, Tunis, during an campaign rally ahead of the upcoming presidential elections on Nov. 23.
8 People walk under a lamppost turned into a yellow umbrella near the main stage of the protest site of the Admiralty district of Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters are at a crossroads as public support fades after nearly two months of glacial traffic and street clashes.
9 Oil lamps offered by devotees illuminate the Bagmati River flowing through the grounds of the Pashupatinath Temple, during the Bala Chaturdashi festival, in Kathmandu, Nepal. The festival is celebrated by lighting the lamps and scattering seven types of grains known as "sat biu" honoring the departed.
10 People cycle along a street during a biking tour to promote cycling as an environmentally-friendly means of transport, in Damascus, Syria.
11 A shopper is seen through Christmas decorations as he uses his smartphone to take a photo at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The spirit of Christmas is felt very much in Muslim-dominated Malaysia as shopping malls decorate their premises to help boost year-end sales.
12 Dense fog lies over the harbor in Husum, northern Germany. The weather forecast predicts rainy weather for upcoming days.
13 Fisherman Estelito Marijuan, 58, arranges dried fish at Manila Bay, the Philippines. World Fisheries Day is commemorated every Nov. 21 and was established to draw attention to overfishing, habitat destruction and other serious threats to the sustainability of marine and freshwater resources.
14 Christmas market decorations are pictured in front of the television tower in Berlin, Germany.
15 An aerial view of Vermelha beach is seen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
November 23, 2014
1 An Indian transgender activist blows bubbles during the annual Bengaluru Pride march in Bangalore . The annual march is aimed at ending violence and opression based gender identity and sexual orientation.
2 The Swiss team celebrates after defeating France in the Davis Cup final at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Lille, northern France. Switzerland won 3-1 and wins the Davis Cup.
3 A local resident leaves after picking up her belongings from her collapsed house after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the area the night before, in Hakuba, some 300 kms northwest of Tokyo, Nagano prefecture.
4 A horse stands on a paddock backdropped by the Alps near Apfeltrang, southern Germany.
5 Slain reporter's wife Edita Tiamzon and National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Director Nonoy Espina circle an exhibit depicting fallen victims of the Maguindanao massacre, in Quezon City. (Simone Orendain/VOA)
6 Buddhist monks holding bowls sit on chairs before civilians offer dried food into the bowls in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands of Buddhist monks took part in the event co-organized by government and private sector aimed at collecting supplies and dried foods for monks and civil servants working in the troubled southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla.
7 A Pakistani family prepares food outside their home on the outskirts of Lahore.
8 Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain carries the British flag after he wins the Abu Dhab Formula one at the Yas Marina racetrack in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
9 A student wearing white clown makeup with the Spanish word for "justice" written on the side of his face, stands outside the Attorney General's office in Mexico City, Nov. 22, 2014, following a massive gathering in the capital's main plaza Zocalo to demand that authorities find 43 missing college students.
November 24, 2014
1 Male children and elders belonging to the ethnic Gayo tribe perform a traditional Saman dance during a ceremony in Gayo Lues highland district in Indonesia's Aceh province.
2 A worker uses a metal cutter as others carry to the dismantled parts of a decommissioned Indian Navy Ship INS Vikrant at a ship breaking yard in Mumbai.
3 A boy wearing a Doraemon t-shirt stands in front of a Christmas tree made up of Japanese Manga character Doraemon at a shopping mall in the central business district in Singapore.
4 Students have lunch outdoors at a primary school in Tongguan village, Liping county, Guizhou province, China.
5 An election official writes counted votes on a board at a polling station in Tunis, Tunisia.
6 Rebel fighters aim their weapons at forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Maysaloun neighborhood in the old city of Aleppo.
7 Visitors walk through a silver grass field at the Sky Park in Seoul, South Korea.
8 A Bangladeshi woman cries for her missing relative on the second anniversary of the fire at Tazreen Fashions that killed over 100 workers, outside its factory in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
9 People walk along an alley of plane trees in Frankfurt, Germany.
10 A ship sails in the Mediterranean Sea during a lightning strike, as seen from the Israeli coastal village of Mikhmoret, north of Tel Aviv.
11 A woman carries a boy covered with a mask and a plastic bag to protect against the rain in Shanghai, China.
12 A woman reflects in the water of a creek as she walks past a small bridge at the Hanau-Wilhelmsbad state park in Hanau near Frankfurt am Main, western Germany.
13 Residents of Guelmim, south western Morocco, standing on top of vehicles while stranded by rising waters. Government reports that heavy flooding in the south has killed at least 17 people with another 18 missing after heavy rains over the weekend.
14 The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-15M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
15 Top high school students attend an annual award ceremony organized by Yemen's Education Ministry in Sana'a.
16 Taylor Swift performs "Blank Space" during the 42nd American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California, Nov. 23, 2014.
November 25, 2014
1 Pope Francis delivers his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France.
2 A monk chants a Buddhist mantra in front of a public lottery counter in Tokyo, Japan. Lottery stand owners hire monks to conduct ritual purification on their stands for a big win.
3 A police officer guards a closed street along West Florissant Ave, where protesters and looters rampaged businesses following the grand jury decision not to indict a white policeman who shot dead the unarmed black teen Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri.
4 A row of cars burn at a used car lot during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson has been struggling to return to normal after Micahel Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, on Aug. 9. A grand jury declined to indict officer Wilson.
5 An Iraqi man reacts at the site of a car bomb explosion in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
6 Kashmiris stand in queue to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of voting to the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections at Shadipora, outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.
7 Remy Cordonnier, a librarian in the northern town of Saint-Omer, near Calais, France, carefully shows an example of a valuable Shakespeare "First Folio", a collection of some of his plays, dating from 1623. Around 230 copies of the First Folio are known to exist in collections or in private hands around the world.
8 Smog envelops buildings on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi.
9 A boulder made of synthetic material called "To be in Limbo“ hangs from the ceiling of the 20-meter high Jesuit Church in Vienna, Austria.
10 Miss World 2013, Megan Young of the Philippines (C), poses with 2014 event finalists during a publicity launch in central London November 25, 2014. The final of the 2014 edition of the pageant will take place in London on Dec. 14.
11 Alex Little (R) and Miranda Jenatka view a light installation at Kew Gardens in west London.
November 26, 2014
1 A macaw stands in the window ledge of an apartment, waiting to be fed by the apartment owner, in Caracas, Venezuela.
2 Instructors simulate the arrest of rhinoceros poachers with trainee dogs at the Paramount Group Anti-Poaching training and K9 (canine) academy in Magaliesberg, South Africa.
3 A passerby frightened by police action is helped on a pavement at Mongkok shopping district in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police cleared one of the largest protest sites that has choked the city for months, arresting scores of pro-democracy activists.
4 A motorcyclist and child ride against wind in snow in Balikun, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Nov. 25, 2014.
5 Stranded window washers hang on the side of a hotel in downtown Santiago, Chile. Firefighters rescued two window washers caught on a dangling scaffolding at a height of 50 meters. No injuries were reported according to media.
6 A woman reacts at a crime scene where seven men had been murdered during a middle school graduation party in the town of Acajutla, Nov. 25, 2014. Suspected gang members in El Salvador shot dead seven men and a woman during the party, police said.
7 Police follow protesters during a march in Los Angeles, California, following Monday's grand jury decision in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Nov. 25, 2014.
8 An Afghan laborer works at a charcoal shop on the outskirts of Kabul.
9 Angelina Jolie poses for a photograph with two Chelsea pensioners as she arrives for the UK premiere of "Unbroken" in central London, Nov. 25, 2014.
November 27, 2014
1 A Power Ranger balloon cruises along Central Park West during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, in New York.
2 U.S. President Barack Obama, right, with daughter Sasha, carries on the Thanksgiving tradition of saving a turkey from the dinner table with a "presidential pardon" of 'Cheese' in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Nov. 26, 2014.
3 An ethnic Miao man shaves with a sickle in the morning at the village of Basha in Congjiang county, Guizhou province, China.
4 A flock of brant geese (branta bernicla) flies over a field near Altfriedland, eastern Germany.
5 A Somali woman walks past the wreckage of a car after a bomb attack killed an engineer working with a Turkish company in Mogadishu.
6 The Spanish illusionist named Peter III, top right, walks over an ancient aqueduct around 500 meters (0, 31 mile) with his head covered with a hood and his body wrapped in chains while people look on, in Noain, northern Spain. Pedro walked the half-mile in 52 minutes.
7 A Red Cross volunteer carries a child just disembarked from a crippled freighter carrying hundreds of refugees trying to migrate to Europe, at the coastal Cretan port of Ierapetra, Greece.
8 Stuntmen perform on the eve of the sacrificial ceremony for the "Gadhimai Mela" festival in Bariyapur. The festival renowned for its large number of animal sacrifices, is held every five years at the Gadhimai Temple where devotees from Nepal and bordering India will sacrifice buffaloes, goats and birds while offering prayers to Gadhimai, the goddess of power.
9 Children hold flags during a rehearsal parade in Osogbo, southwest Nigeria, on the eve of Osun state Governor Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola's inauguration for a second term in office, Nov. 26, 2014.
10 Sheep are gathered in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris during a demonstration of shepherds against the protection of wolves in France.
November 28, 2014
1 Gates emerge from the water during tests of an experimental project intended to protect Venice from floods.
2 River Plate fans light flares as they cheer before of the Copa Sudamericana second leg semi-final soccer match against Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires.
3 Pope Francis pauses after laying a wreath at the grave site of the Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Ankara.
4 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip watch a gymnastics display during a visit to Holyport College in England.
5 The sister of a Lebanese soldier kidnapped by Islamic State militants, cries as she sits on the ground, demanding that the government negotiate with the militants.
6 First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia welcome the Official White House Christmas Tree to the White House.
7 People shout slogans against the military and interior ministry, during an Islamist protest in the Cairo suburb of Matariya.
8 A visitor takes a photo in a tunnel of lights as people admire the seasonal illumination displays "Canyon d'Azur" in Tokyo's Shiodome business district.
9 A man poses for a photo in front of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" at China's National Museum in Beijing.
10 Shoppers wrestle over a television on "Black Friday" at a store in London. British stores were awash with discounts Friday as more retailers than ever embraced U.S.-style "Black Friday" promotions.
November 30, 2014
1 Cairo University students shout slogans against the government after the verdict of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's trial, at the university's campus in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Protests erupted at universities across the country, condemning a court decision to drop criminal charges against Mubarak.
2 Pope Francis (L) kisses Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I after they signed a joint statement at St. George Church, the principal Greek Orthodox cathedral in Istanbul as part of a three-day visit in Turkey.
3 Afghan children sit near their home in Herat. As winter sets in across Central Asia, many Afghans struggle to provide adequate food and shelter for their families.
4 An overloaded vehicle transports people returning from the "Gadhimai Mela" festival held in Bariyapur, Nov. 29, 2014. Sword-wielding Hindu devotees in Nepal began slaughtering thousands of animals and birds in a ritual sacrifice, ignoring calls by animal rights activists to halt what they described as the world's largest such exercise.
5 Free Syrian Army fighters fire an anti-aircraft weapon towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Handarat area, north of Aleppo.
6 Flamingos are seen in a nature reserve park in Panyu district south of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.
7 People walk on a bridge near damaged cars after the river Massane flooded the city of Argeles-sur-Mer in southern France, due to heavy rains.
8 An artiste performs on the first day of a fair organized by GUM departmental store for the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations at Moscow's Red Square, Russia, Nov. 29, 2014.
9 Big-wave surfer Kealii Mamala of Hawaii drops in on a large wave at Praia do Norte, in Nazare, Portugal, Nov. 29, 2014.
10 Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khaliavin of Russia perform during the gale exhibition of the NHK Trophy figure skating in Osaka, western Japan.
11 People watch as the cement structure of a 50-year-old illegally built hotel is blown up on the Sorrento coast in southern Italy.
12 Kurdish people make the V sign while standing on a tree as they rally near the border with Syria in Sanliurfa, Turkey.
13 A man takes part in the UK Christmas Tree Throwing Championships held at Keele Christmas Tree Farm in central England.
14 A model presents a creation made with organic elements by Colombian designer Juan Pablo Garzon during BioFashion show in Cali, Colombia, Nov. 29, 2014.
