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Nov. 26, 2012
An ethnic Miao woman carries baskets of embroidered items to show guests on the first day of the Guzang Festival in Leishan county, southeast Guizhou province, China. Guzang Festival, during which the Miao people commemorate their ancestors once every 13 years, is one of the biggest traditional festivals for the Miao. “Gu” means “drum,” and “zang” means “to bury.” The complicated rites consist of a series of great ceremonies, including the Zhaolong (inviting the dragon), Xinggu (awakening the drum), Yinggu (welcoming the drum), Shenniu (inspecting the cattle) and the white drum ritual, which is a significant sacrifice marking the end of the festival. The Miao believe wooden drums made of maple trees are where their ancestors’ souls rest, so they gather under the holy maple and communicate with their ancestors through drumming and dancing.
Sheng Li
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Reuters
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A picture taken with a long exposure time shows one of Berlin’s landmarks, a TV tower behind a big wheel, at a Christmas market.
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Nov. 26, 2012
The traditional Christmas market at Roemerberg opens in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Nov. 27, 2012
A 50-year-old gravedigger, who wanted to be identified only as Mr. Sim, exhumes a grave at Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore. Starting early next year, workers with heavy machinery will begin constructing an eight-lane highway across the small country’s oldest major cemetery, overriding the objections of nature lovers and heritage buffs. Singapore, with its 5.3 million people crammed onto an island less than half the size of London, is already more densely populated than rival Asian business center Hong Kong, making permanent burial space unfeasible.
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Nov. 23, 2012
A man dressed in traditional Perchten costume and mask performs during a Perchten festival in the western Austrian village of Heitwerwang, 56 miles west of Innsbruck. Each year in November and January, people in the western Austria regions dress up in Perchten (also known in some regions as Krampus or Tuifl) costumes and parade through the streets to perform a 1,500-year-old pagan ritual to disperse the ghosts of winter. Each handmade traditional costume, consisting of as many as 14 sheep or goat skins, takes three dressmakers one day to produce. Some 15 hours are needed for a woodcarver to sculpt each demon mask, which is made from stone pine wood with goat horns attached.
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
A scavenger takes a break after collecting plastic materials from a garbage-strewn canal in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Nov. 27, 2012
A swimmer stops short of a red algae bloom at Sydney’s Clovelly Beach, which closed some beaches for swimming, including Bondi Beach, for a period of time. While the red algae, known as Noctiluca scintillans or sea sparkle, has no toxic effects, people are advised to avoid swimming in areas with discolored water because the algae, which can be high in ammonia, can cause skin irritation.
William West
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 27, 2012
An Indian Sikh Nihang, or warrior, performs a fire-breathing act at a demonstration during a procession from Sri Akal Takhat to the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the eve of the 543rd birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev. Guru Nanak was the founder of the religion of Sikhism and the first of 10 Sikh gurus.
Narinder Nanu
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 27, 2012
A photo provided by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute shows the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), also called the Naro-1, as it is moved to a launchpad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea. The country’s first space rocket is set to blast off on Nov. 29. The institute developed the two-stage rocket jointly with Russia’s Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 26, 2012
Egyptians attend the funeral of Gaber Salah, who was killed in clashes with security forces in Cairo. Thousands of Egyptians on Monday gathered in Tahrir Square to attend the funeral of Salah, who was severely injured during clashes with security forces last week and died Sunday night.
Hussein Tallal
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AP
Nov. 26, 2012
Egyptian activists and members of the April 6 movement carry the coffin of Gaber Salah, an activist who died after he was critically injured in clashes near Cairo's Tahrir Square last week, during his funeral at Tahrir Square. Salah, a member of the April 6 movement known by his nickname Jika, was fatally hurt in confrontations between police and protesters on Mohammed Mahmud street, where protesters had been marking the first anniversary of deadly clashes.
Gianluigi Guercia
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Nov. 27, 2012
A Palestinian man smokes a water pipe next to a mural of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Jenin. Palestinian authorities on Tuesday opened Yasser Arafat’s grave and foreign experts took samples from his remains as part of an attempt, eight years after the iconic leader’s mysterious death, to determine whether he was poisoned, as relatives and some political successors have claimed.
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AP
Nov. 27, 2012
Bangladeshis prepare to bury the bodies of some of the victims of Saturday’s fire in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh held a day of mourning Tuesday for the 112 people killed in the weekend fire at the factory, and labor groups planned more protests to demand better worker safety in an industry notorious for operating in firetraps.
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Nov. 26, 2012
Promess Bitibo, 12, who was injured by bullet wounds to the abdomen on Nov. 19, grimaces as he is being dressed by a nurse at the Heal Africa hospital in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Regional leaders meeting in Uganda called for an end to the advance by M23 rebels toward Congo’s capital and also urged the Congolese government to sit down with rebel leaders as residents fled some towns for fear of more fighting between the rebels and the army.
Jerome Delay
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AP
Nov. 27, 2012
Former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright, left, signs copies of her book “Prague Winter” for fans in the bookshop Selexys Verwijs in The Hague.
Phil Nijhuis
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Nov. 26, 2012
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth meets a sniper from the Household Cavalry during a visit to Combermere Barracks in Windsor, southern England.
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Reuters
Nov. 26, 2012
Lady Gaga, right, signs autographs for fans outside a hotel in Asuncion, Paraguay. The American pop diva is on tour in South America.
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Nov. 26, 2012
Argentine pole dancer Valentino Dezzotti competes in the Pole Dance South America 2012 competition in Buenos Aires.
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Nov. 26, 2012
A police officer uses a shield to protect himself from milk being projected by dairy farmers during a protest in Brussels against European Union agricultural policies. Farmers demonstrated at the European Parliament in Brussels today with tractors and fake cows, calling on political leaders to act on falling milk prices caused by overproduction in Europe.
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Nov. 26, 2012
Workers erect the 2012 Capitol Christmas tree, a 73-foot Engelmann spruce from the White River National Forest, near Meeker, Colo., at the Capitol in Washington. The 74-year-old tree will be decorated with more than 5,000 handmade ornaments and will be illuminated on Dec. 4.
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Nov. 26, 2012
Low clouds are seen over frost-covered trees in Idaho Springs, Colo.
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Nov. 26, 2012
A man paddles his kayak by a fountain that resembles a geyser during sunset at Ada Ciganlija Lake in Belgrade, Serbia.
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