Nov. 10, 2013
Residents cover their nose from the smell of dead bodies in Tacloban, Philippines. The city remains littered with debris from damaged homes as many complain of a shortage of food, water and electricity since Typhoon Haiyan slammed into their province.
Bullit Marquez / AP
Nov. 10, 2013
Thousands of homes were destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines. As rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged villages along the coast, where the death toll is as yet unknown, survivors foraged for food as supplies dwindled or searched for loved ones.
Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
Nov. 11, 2013
In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, people walk among debris next to a ship that washed ashore at Anibong in Tacloban, Philippines. Hundreds of soldiers and police in the city were trying to contain looting.
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Nov. 10, 2013
Survivors stay in their damaged house after Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban, Philippines.
Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
Nov. 10, 2013
Residents flee Kuta Gugung village, Indonesia, after an eruption of Mount Sinabung. The volcano erupted twice Sunday, but no casualties were reported.
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Nov. 10, 2013
A boy holds cymbals as Muslims participate in a procession of flags in memory of Abbas Alamdar, brother of Imam Hussein, on the fifth day of Muharaam in Ajmer, India. Muharram is a month of mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Hussein, the grandson of prophet Muhammad.
Deepak Sharma / AP
Nov. 10, 2013
A Shiite beats himself with chains and blades in a ritual ahead of the Ashura holiday outside the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul. At this shrine two years ago, during the same celebration, a suicide bomber killed scores of worshipers.
Anja Niedringhaus / AP
Nov. 9, 2013
Diana Harris, center, prays over Charlesha Smith during a morning corporate prayer rally at "A Day of Prayer, Praise and Healing Explosion" at Levitt Shell, hosted by the Prayer Garden of Memphis in Memphis. Twenty-four Memphis area ministers prayed on twenty-four of the top issues facing the city and its residents. The afternoon featured a gospel concert with national and local artists.
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Nov. 11, 2013
A traditional Indian performer appears at the cultural museum in Kochi on Day 6 of Britain’s Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s official visit to India.
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Nov. 10, 2013
Runners participate in the Color Run in Santiago, Chile. About 15,000 people took part in the 5K race, during which participants are blasted with colored powder, organizers said.
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Nov. 11, 2013
A reveler celebrates the start of the Carnival season in Duesseldor, Germany. The season begins in November and runs through Ash Wednesday.
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Nov. 10, 2013
Blue paint falls from the eyes of a vandalized statue in Madrid.
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP
Nov. 10, 2013
Free Syrian Army fighters prepare to fire what they said is a locally made weapon toward forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa, Syria.
Nour Fourat / Reuters
Nov. 9, 2013
A rebel fighter carries an improvised explosive device in Aleppo, Syria. Rebels retook a strategic base in the northern Aleppo province, as shelling killed at least 11 people in nearby Aleppo city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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Nov. 10, 2013
A veteran holds a flame of the remembrance as he takes part in a ceremony held in tribute to seven unknown soldiers at the Faubourg-Pave French Cemetery in Verdun, eastern France.
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Nov. 11, 2013
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, a member of the international space station crew, holds the Olympic torch after the Soyuz TMA-09M capsule landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Members of the crew had taken the torch for Russia’s 2014 Sochi Games on a spacewalk.
Shamil Zhumatov / AP
Nov. 9, 2013
Visitors take pictures of a model at the Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. The theme was "Healthy Sex and a Happy Family," and the three-day event featured number of shows and lectures. Similar events are becoming increasingly common in China as part of a shift in traditional attitudes toward sex, according to Chinese media.
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Nov. 10, 2013
Nakia Moreno, 30, of Miami, who goes by the stage name Shanaya Bright, gets dollars from customers while performing at a Sunday brunch drag-queen show at the Palace South Beach restaurant and bar in Miami Beach.
Lynne Sladky / AP
Nov. 9, 2013
Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo of the United States, right, crowns Miss Universe 2013, Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler, during the pageant in Moscow.
Pavel Golovkin / AP
Nov. 9, 2013
Revelers set a bull's horns ablaze during the “Toro de Jubilo” Fire Bull Festival in Medinaceli, Spain. The event is a tradition from the Bronze Age; a bull is tied to a pylon, and flammable balls attached to the bull's horns are set on fire before the animal released. Revelers dodge the bull when it comes close, until the flammable material is consumed. The bull is covered with a thick layer of mud on its back and face to protect it from burns.
Andres Kudacki / AP
Nov. 10, 2013
Al Ahly fans cheer during the African Champions League second-leg final match between Egypt’s Al Ahly soccer club and South Africa's Orlando Pirates, at the Arab Contractors stadium in Cairo.
Osama Abdel Naby / AP
Nov. 9, 2013
Pat Seitas, dressed in mid-19th-century clothes, waves goodbye to her husband, a crew member for the world's oldest active sailing ship, the Star of India, as it heads out on a morning sail to celebrate its 150th birthday in San Diego. According to the Maritime Museum of San Diego, the 212-foot-long vessel was built at Ramsey shipyard on the Isle of Man in Britain and was named the Euterpe when it was launched in 1863.
Mike Blake / Reuters
Nov. 9, 2013
A man carries mattresses to Congo at the Bunagana border crossing in Uganda. A fresh influx of refugees has arrived at the transit center after fighting between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army broke out last week. The rebels surrendered to the Ugandan army and have been isolated in Rugwerero village, west of the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Isaac Kasamani / AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 8, 2013
Kenya Wildlife Service wardens prepare to load a tranquilized white rhinoceros into a cage for relocation at Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya's Rift Valley, 99 miles west of Nairobi. After implanting radio transmitters into their horns to track the animals and notching their ears, KWS is translocating 13 white rhinos to Ruma National Park, in the Lambwe Valley, to reestablish their population.
Thomas Mukoya / Reuters
This artist’s rendering, recently released by NASA, shows Kepler-11, a sunlike star around which six planets orbit. A planet-hunting telescope has found more than 50 potential planets that initially appear to be in habitable zones.
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A photo provided by NASA on Nov. 8 shows the NGC 6946, a medium-size, face-on spiral galaxy that is about 22 million light-years from Earth. In the past century, eight supernovas have been observed exploding in the arms of this galaxy. Chandra observations, in purple, have revealed three of the oldest supernovas ever detected in X-rays, giving more credence to the galaxy’s nickname, the “Fireworks Galaxy,” NASA said. This composite image also includes optical data from the Gemini Observatory in red, yellow and cyan.
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