• Embraced in death. The bodies of these garment factory workers were found after a building collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taslima Akhter
    Embraced in death. The bodies of these garment factory workers were found after a building collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taslima Akhter
  • A survivor walks among the debris of houses destroyed by typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, the Philippines. Noel Celis / AFP
    A survivor walks among the debris of houses destroyed by typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, the Philippines. Noel Celis / AFP
  • Protesters hide from security forces, unseen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo. Khalil Hamra / AP
    Protesters hide from security forces, unseen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo. Khalil Hamra / AP
  • A Syrian rebel aims his weapon during clashes with government forces in the streets near Aleppo’s international airport in northern Syria. Stephen Boitano / AFP
    A Syrian rebel aims his weapon during clashes with government forces in the streets near Aleppo’s international airport in northern Syria. Stephen Boitano / AFP
  • Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Nairobi’s Westgate shopping centre. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
    Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Nairobi’s Westgate shopping centre. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
  • People watch participants from balconies as they run in front of Alcurrucen's bulls during the first bull run of the San Fermin Festival, on July 7 in Pamplona, northern Spain. Pedro Armestre / AFP
    People watch participants from balconies as they run in front of Alcurrucen's bulls during the first bull run of the San Fermin Festival, on July 7 in Pamplona, northern Spain. Pedro Armestre / AFP
  • A Bangladeshi soldier following the announcement of his death penalty at a special court in Dhaka. The court sentenced at least 150 soldiers to death and jailed hundreds more over a 2009 military mutiny that left scores of top officers massacred. Munir uz Zaman / AFP
    A Bangladeshi soldier following the announcement of his death penalty at a special court in Dhaka. The court sentenced at least 150 soldiers to death and jailed hundreds more over a 2009 military mutiny that left scores of top officers massacred. Munir uz Zaman / AFP
  • Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives killed in a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar. Muhammed Muheisen / AP
    Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives killed in a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar. Muhammed Muheisen / AP
  • Amina, a Syrian woman who fled fighting in Aleppo, takes shelter inside an abandoned building with her sick five-month-old daughter, Asma, on the outskirts of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo. Giovanni Diffidenti / AFP
    Amina, a Syrian woman who fled fighting in Aleppo, takes shelter inside an abandoned building with her sick five-month-old daughter, Asma, on the outskirts of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo. Giovanni Diffidenti / AFP
  • US President Barack Obama (right) and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for a selfie with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (centre) as US First Lady Michelle Obama follows late South African president Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. Roberto Schmidt / AFP
    US President Barack Obama (right) and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for a selfie with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (centre) as US First Lady Michelle Obama follows late South African president Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. Roberto Schmidt / AFP
  • Visitors take pictures of tidal waves during Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Chance Chan / Reuters
    Visitors take pictures of tidal waves during Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Chance Chan / Reuters
  • Mnikelo Ndagankulu overlooks former South African president Nelson Mandela’s final resting place in his ancestral home of Qunu. Roberto Schmidt / AFP
    Mnikelo Ndagankulu overlooks former South African president Nelson Mandela’s final resting place in his ancestral home of Qunu. Roberto Schmidt / AFP
  • Afghan boys play with toy guns on the first day of Eid Al Adha in Jalalabad. Parwiz / Reuters
    Afghan boys play with toy guns on the first day of Eid Al Adha in Jalalabad. Parwiz / Reuters
  • The Costa Concordia lies on its side next to Giglio Island before being rolled off the seabed and onto underwater platforms. Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters
    The Costa Concordia lies on its side next to Giglio Island before being rolled off the seabed and onto underwater platforms. Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters
  • A Syrian man with more than half of his body burnt from an airstrike leaves a field hospital to return home in Idlib province, northern Syria. AP
    A Syrian man with more than half of his body burnt from an airstrike leaves a field hospital to return home in Idlib province, northern Syria. AP
  • An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded youth as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi. Mohammed Abdel Moneim / AFP
    An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded youth as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi. Mohammed Abdel Moneim / AFP

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December 30, 2013

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