In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
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Palestinians celebrate what they say is a victory over Israel after an eight-day conflict in Gaza City.. Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement agreed on Wednesday to an Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire to halt an eight-day conflict around the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and five Israelis. Suhaib Salem/Reuters
A turkey looks around its enclosure at Seven Acres Farm in North Reading, Massachusetts one day before the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Brian Snyder/Reuters
A child looks at a dinosaur sculpture designed by Chinese artist Sui Jianguo at the 798 Art District in Beijing. The 798 Art District, often compared to New York City's Greenwich Village, is a thriving community of about 400 galleries, shops and restaurants on the eastern edge of Beijing housed in a complex of former electronics factories built with the help of East Germany in the 1950s. Lee Jin-man/AP
The wax figure of Barack Obama is joined in a mock up of the Oval Office, by other figures of some of his biggest celebrity supporters, George Clooney, seated, Rihanna and Morgan Freeman, right, alongside food placed on the Resolute Desk, to mark his fourth Thanksgiving in office at Madame Tussauds in central London. Joel Ryan/Invision/AP
A fisherwoman collects fish at Central Europe's biggest fish pond complex in the Great Hungarian Plain at Hortobagy, 200km (124 miles) east of Budapest. Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
An Egyptian protester pauses during clashes with security forces, unseen, in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian protesters firebombed one of the offices of satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera and attacked a police chief who tried to negotiate an end to three days of violent protests in central Cairo. Arabic on the mural reads, "bread, freedom, social justice," and "erase and I'll draw again." Ahmed Gomaa/AP
Coptic Orthodox priests attend a Wednesday audience led by Pope Benedict XVI at the Paul VI hall in Vatican. Pope Benedict urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make "courageous decisions" to end the Gaza conflict, saying it risked spilling over into the rest of the Middle East. Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
A North Korean man repairs a street lamp on the streets of Onchon county in South Phyongan province, North Korea. Ng Han Guan/AP
A half-opened balcony window is seen in a building in Getafe, on the outskirts of Madrid. Spain is considering offering rich investors from countries such as Russia and China the right to settle in return for them buying up property in the stagnant housing sector. Sergio Perez/Reuters
Turkish workers work to reinforce the border fence between the northern Syrian town of Ras al-Ain and the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province. NATO member states have agreed to supply Turkey with an advanced Patriot missile system to defend against Syrian attacks and talks on its deployment are in the final stage, Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
An elderly supporter of India's main opposition Bhartiya Janata Party listens to a speaker, unseen, during a protest against Foreign Direct Investment in New Delhi, India. Altaf Qadri/AP
An Israeli soldier, atop a tank, looks at fighter jets circling over an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) staging area near the northern Gaza border. Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
A Palestinian relative cries during the funeral of Mohammed al-Koumi in Gaza City. Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinian journalists in their cars on Tuesday, a Gaza health official and the head of the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV said. Israel acknowledged targeting the men, claiming they had ties to militants. Bernat Armangue/AP
US Army Spc. Jonathan Covington greets his 10-month-old son Hunter after returning from a deployment in Afghanistan on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, at Fort Carson, Colo. About 150 soldiers from Covington's unit, the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, arrived home on Tuesday. Brennan Linsley/AP
An Indian woman lays in a cart with her children after waking up at the annual Pushkar Fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India. The annual camel and livestock fair attracts thousands of livestock dealers who bring thousands of camels, horses, and cattle. Kevin Frayer/AP
An abandoned placard is left standing in a pile of leaves during a student protest against British government reforms to further higher education, including higher fees, in London. Matt Dunham/AP
The Mars rover Curiosity drove 83 feet eastward during the 102nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission on November 18, 2012 in this handout image courtesy of NASA. JPL-Caltech/NASA/AP
Pupils watch the effect produced by liquid nitrogen during a demonstration at a local grammar school in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Ivan Timofeenko and Pavel Pankin, students from the Siberian Federal University, specialize in applied mathematics and physics and have conducted experiments aimed at the popularization of the exact sciences, for the pupils of the 7th grade at the "Universe" grammar school. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
Children wear traditional revolutionary costumes as they participate in the celebration of the 102nd anniversary of the Mexican Revolution in Quebrantadero November 20, 2012. Margarito Perez Retana /Reuters
(From l.-r.) Liverpool's Joe Cole, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher warm up during a training session at the club's Melwood training complex in Liverpool, northern England. Phil Noble/Reuters
Member of the European Parliament Licia Ronzulli of Italy takes part with her daughter Vittoria in a voting session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Vincent Kessler/Reuters
A boy sells balloons outside the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the targets of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India. India executed the lone surviving Pakistani gunman from the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai early Wednesday. Rafiq Maqbool/AP
Gelli Ann Dayrit, 19, sleeps while waiting for a bus at Union Station in Los Angeles. Feeling the pinch of the sluggish economic recovery, many Americans setting out on the nation's annual Thanksgiving migration had to sacrifice summer vacations, rely on relatives for airfare or scour the Web for travel deals to ensure they made it home. Jae C. Hong/AP
A M23 rebel guards weapons returned by the government's army in Goma city. Rebel forces in eastern Congo said they planned to take control of the whole of the vast central African country after they captured the eastern town of Goma while United Nations peacekeepers looked on. James Akena/Reuters
Internally displaced Somali women play a game of traditional stones outside their makeshift shelter at a camp in Hodan district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Feisal Omar/Reuters
Martial arts group TAL performs a non-verbal martial arts demonstration in the Korean traditional art of Taekwondo during the opening ceremony of the K-art hall Taekwondo Theatre in Seoul, South Korea. Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Nurses carry newborn babies as they take cover under a table during an earthquake drill at Manila Doctors Hospital in Manila, Philippines. Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
The sun rises over South Westnedge Avenue after a heavy fog settled over Kalamazoo, Mich. Mark Bugnaski/The Kalamazoo Gazette/AP
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Iran hangs spies: Two Iranian men were executed Sunday, convicted of working for the CIA and Israel's Mossad spy agency.
Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported.
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