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2 Local people helping unload a helicopter, the first aid to reach the remote community after Typhoon Haiyan. Mahagnau village, Leyte, Philippines, November 20, 2013. © Sean Sutton / MAG / Panos Pictures # 3 Winter in Bayan Khoshuu, a poor district known as the yurt neighborhood, in Ulan Bator. Winter temperatures go down to 40° or 50º C ( 40°/ 60° F) forcing thousands to burn vast quantities of coal for heating, leaving a thick cloud of smoke over the city, and causing serious diseases from air pollution. In winter Ulan Bator is one of the most polluted cities in the world. © Olivier Laban-Mattei / The Mongolian Project / MYOP # 4 January 22, 2014 Riot police leaving the area near Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium after the crackdown on protesters in central Kiev. © Maxim Dondyuk Winner of the Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award 2014 # 5 Kiev, Khreshchatyk Avenue, December 9, 2013, 9.29 am.Two Cossacks on a barricade manned by pro-EU activists near Independence Square. © Guillaume Herbaut / Institute # 6 Monrovia, Liberia, July 23, 2003. A soldier loyal to the government shouting a battle cry after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key frontline bridge. Clashes continued in Monrovia, despite a call for a cease-fire by the leaders of the LURD rebel group. © Chris Hondros / Getty Images # 7 Baidoa, Somalia, 1992. The shadow cast by US Marines entering the town of Baidoa, hit by famine and held by bandits. © Yunghi Kim # 8 Tolosa, island of Leyte, eastern Philippines, November 18, 2013. A religious procession ten days after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the area. According to United Nations estimates, 13 million people were affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan, and 1.9 million lost their homes. © Philippe Lopez / Agence France-Presse # 9 Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) moving towards another eagle on the beach, in a fight over food. Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, July 2010. © Klaus Nigge / National Geographic Creative for National Geographic Magazine # 10 Kurigram District, Bangladesh, 2012. Severe flooding hit more than 400 000 people in Kurigram district. Khushi, who is camping by the dam with her family, can only reflect on the loss while the flood takes its toll. From the series “Life on Water – Bangladesh Floods.” "This award gave me great exposure in the photography world" © Rasel Chowdhury, Ian Parry Scholarship Winner 2011 # 11 A woman sewing in a workshop set up inside her apartment. © Jorge Silva / Reuters # 12 Central African Republic, December 15, 2013. Men from the Popular Rebel Movement of the Central African Armed Forces [Mouvement de révolte des forces armées centrafricaines pour le peuple], a mainly Christian group, being given military training in a school in a suburb of Bangui. © Michaël Zumstein / Agence VU for Le Monde # 13 A grieving relative of Sept-Abel Sangomalet, a 20-year-old Christian killed by Muslims who entered the family home and stabbed him in his sleep. © William Daniels / Panos Pictures Winner of the Humanitarian Visa d’or award – International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2014 # 14 Sergeant Jennifer Norris was 21 when she joined the US Air Force, and was drugged and raped by her recruiter at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Nancy Parrish, President of the association “Protect Our Defenders,” is seen comforting her after she testified at the hearing of the US House Committee on Armed Services on Capitol Hill. © Mary F. Calvert / Zuma Press Canon Female Photojournalist Award 2013 presented by the AFJ # 15 Vista Hermosa (Beautiful View) prison, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, March 2013. A routine check by members of the Carro, an armed group of inmates who guard the prison. Wilmer Brizuela (Wilmito, the Pran) is the unchallenged leader and maintains that his management of the prison, with nearly 2000 inmates, is more humane than the official system of the Venezuelan prison authorities, who have been widely criticized by human rights groups. The security tower in the background, keeping watch for any escapees, is manned by a member of the military. © Sebastián Liste / NOOR for Time Magazine and Fotopres "La Caixa" Grant # 16 San Lorenzo, Santa Fe province, Argentina, April 2014 A cargo ship transporting corn at San Lorenzo port, one of the world’s busiest grain shipping ports. © Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Reportage by Getty Images # 17 Langa Township, Western Cape, South Africa, May 2012 Sunday afternoon in central Langa, when men drink, children play, and church groups perform music. © Anne Rearick / Agence VU # 18 A doctor and nurse on board the Matvey Mudrov recording an electroencephalogram of Nadegda Gaskevitch who struck her head in a fall in 2003 and now needs regular treatment. © William Daniels / Panos Pictures / National Geographic Magazine # 19 Hili, West Bengal, India, on the border with Bangladesh. Between rounds by the Border Security Force, two Bangladeshi women cross the wall between the countries. They enter the country empty-handed and leave laden down with smuggled goods. Indian BSF troops accuse the Bangladeshi border guards of letting them through, thus forcing the BSF troops to take more violent action. © Gaël Turine / Agence VU' # 20 Since the riots in June 2012, more than 140 000 Rohingyas, the Muslim minority community in Burma, have been living in camps for internally displaced persons in Arakan state. Sittwe, Burma (Myanmar), August 2013. © Bruno Amsellem / Signatures # 21 A Libyan rebel urging people to leave as shells fired by Gadhafi's forces landed on the front outside Bin Jawaad, 150 km east of Sirte. Central Libya, March 29, 2011. © Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press # 22 March 9, 1973. After the Paris Peace Accords signed on January 27, 1973, the greatest exchange of prisoners in the Vietnam War took place in the Spring of 1973, near Thach Han River (Quang Tri province). Here the North Vietnamese prisoners released by the South Vietnamese are running towards their comrades in arms. South Vietnamese flags can be seen flying in the background. © Chu Chi Thành # 23 November 16, 1967. The aging militiaman, Tran Van Ong, from Duc Ninh (Quang Ninh district, Quang Binh province), after bringing down an F4H Phantom Fighter. © Chu Chi Thành # 24 1970. The radio team with a North Vietnamese Army attack group during the offensive on the city of Quang Tri. © Doan Công Tinh # 25 A radio operator with the North Vietnamese Army on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. © Hua Kiem # 26 North Vietnamese assault troops on the offensive. © Hua Kiem # 27 1966. Nguyen Thi Hien (19), head of the militia squad in Yen Vuc (Ham Rong district, Thanh Hoa province), survived more than 800 air raids, and was buried alive four times in B 52 bomber attacks. © Maï Nam # 28 September 4, 1966, Vinh Phuc province. A U.S. plane shot down by civil defense forces. © Maï Nam # Malala Yousafzai acknowledges the crowd at a press conference at the Library of Birmingham after being announced as a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 10, 2014 in Birmingham, England. The 17-year-old Pakistani campaigner, who lives in Britain where she received medical treatment following an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012, was jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize with Kailash Satyarthi from India. Chair of the Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland made the announcement in Oslo, commending Malala for her ‘heroic struggle’ as a spokesperson for girls’ rights to education. A woman crawls towards the body of her sister as Ebola burial team members take her for cremation on October 10, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. The woman had died outside her home earlier in the morning while trying to walk to a treatment center, according to her relatives. The burial of loved ones is important in Liberian culture, making the removal of infected bodies for cremation all the more traumatic for surviving family members. The World Health Organization says the Ebola epidemic has now killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa. 1 Malala Yousafzai acknowledges the crowd at a press conference at the Library of Birmingham after being announced as a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 10, 2014 in Birmingham, England. The 17-year-old Pakistani campaigner, who lives in Britain where she received medical treatment following an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012, was jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize with Kailash Satyarthi from India. Chair of the Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland made the announcement in Oslo, commending Malala for her ‘heroic struggle’ as a spokesperson for girls' rights to education. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) # 2 A woman crawls towards the body of her sister as Ebola burial team members take her for cremation on October 10, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. The woman had died outside her home earlier in the morning while trying to walk to a treatment center, according to her relatives. The burial of loved ones is important in Liberian culture, making the removal of infected bodies for cremation all the more traumatic for surviving family members. The World Health Organization says the Ebola epidemic has now killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 3 Members of the Castellers Joves Xiquets de Valls try to complete their human tower during the 25th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain, on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. The tradition of building human towers or ìcastellsî dates back to the 18th century and takes place during festivals in Catalonia, where ìcollesî or teams compete to build the tallest and most complicated towers. The structure of the ìcastellsî varies depending on their complexity. A ìcastellî is considered completely successful when it is loaded and unloaded without falling apart. The highest ìcastellî in history was a 10 floor structure with 3 people in each floor. In 2010 ìcastellsî were declared by UNESCO one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) # 4 A protester holds an umbrella during a performance on a main road in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty in Hong Kong Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Talks between the Hong Kong government and student leaders of a democracy protest that has blocked main roads in the Asian financial hub for nearly two weeks are canceled because they're unlikely to be constructive, a senior government official said Thursday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 5 Steam rises from the Royal River as it flows past the Sparhawk Mill on a chilly autumn morning, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, in Yarmouth, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) # 6 An Indian child rescued by the workers of the NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan or Save Childhood Movement which is run by Kailash Satyarthi, poses for a portrait at the Mukti Ashram in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel winner ever as she and Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working to protect children from slavery, extremism and child labor at great risk to their own lives. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) # 7 A Pakistani vendor sleeps on a bed along a street next to his sheep, on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, at dawn, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid to commemorate what Muslims believe was Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail. On the start of the holiday Muslims slaughter sheep, cattle and other livestock, and give part of the meat to the poor. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) # 8 Campaign propaganda litters the street where people wait in line to vote in general elections outside a school in the Nova Holanda slum, inside the complexo da Mare in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. Brazilians are casting ballots in a presidential election expected to force a three-week runoff campaign between incumbent Dilma Rousseff and one of her two top challengers. Brazilians are also deciding congressional races and electing governors. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) # 9 Pro-Russian rebels fire toward Ukrainian positions near to the airport in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Despite a cease-fire declared a month ago between the Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels, the biggest city in eastern Ukraine remains embroiled in fighting . (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) # 10 Rev. Robin Gorsline, left, marries Nicole Pries, second from left, and Lindsey Oliver, one of the first same-sex couples in Virginia to be married, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, outside a Richmond court building in Richmond, Va. The U.S. Supreme Court's order turning away appeals from five states seeking to prohibit same-sex marriage has triggered a series of moves in affected states to clear the way for gay and lesbian unions. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) # 11 Ultra Orthodox Jewish men check a branch of the myrtle tree, or Hadas, to determine if is ritually acceptable as one of the four items used as a symbol on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. According to Jewish tradition, during the Sukkot holiday, known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, Jews are commanded to bind together a palm frond, or "lulav," with two other branches, along with an "etrog," they make up the "four species" used in holiday rituals. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) # 12 A man removes shattered glass from a broken window after shelling in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. The United Nations says least 331 deaths have been reported in eastern Ukraine since last month's cease-fire deal between Russian-backed separatists and government troops. Hostilities continue in the main rebel-held city of Donetsk, as well as around two other towns. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) # 13 A Visitors takes a photo on the new glass floor at The Eiffel Tower, during the inauguration of the newly refurbish first floor, in Paris, France, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Visitors of the Eiffel Tower can walk on a transparent floor at 188 feet high and look down through solid glass, with safety glass barriers around the edge. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) # 14 A worker repairs a car engine among automobile parts at a junkyard on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. Friday, Oct. 10. 2014. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) # 15 Miya Marcao, dressed as a peacock, waits to break out of cellophane at The Miami Broward Junior Carnival parade, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014, in Lauderhill, Fla. Young masqueraders were judged on their creativity, presentation, originality and craftsmanship of their vibrant and colorful masquerade costumes. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter) # 16 Protesters block a street Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014, a day after Vonderrit D. Myers was shot and killed by white, off-duty St. Louis police officer in St. Louis. Police say Myers was shot Wednesday after he opened fire on the off-duty officer, but Myers' parents say he was unarmed.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) # 17 Ashoka Mukpo is loaded into an ambulance, Monday Oct. 6, 2014, after arriving in Omaha Neb. Mukpo, an American video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, was taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he will be treated for the deadly disease. (AP Photo/The World-Herald, James R. Burnett) # 18 Two children use buckets to bail out muddy water from their flooded home after of the Ochomogo river burst its banks, in Rivas, Nicaragua, Thursday, Oct 9, 2014. The country's Institute of Territorial Studies reports that 14.9 inches (378 millimeters) of rain fell in just 24 hours, the most on record. The record rains unleashed landslides and flooding that swamped hundreds of homes. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) # 19 An Indian potter prepares clay lanterns used during Diwali celebrations ahead of the forthcoming Hindu festival in Jalandhar on October 8, 2014. Diwali, celebrated this year on October 23, marks the victory of good over evil and commemorates the time when the Hindu god Lord Rama achieved victory over Ravana, and returned to his kingdom of Ayodhya after 14 years exile. AFP PHOTO/SHAMMI MEHRA # 20 Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi gestures as he addresses the media at his office in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Satyarthi of India jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, for risking their lives to fight for children's rights. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) # 21 Residents watch as dark giant ash clouds rise from the crater of Mount Sinabung volcano during an eruption on October 8, 2014, as seen from Karo district located on Indonesia's Sumatra island, following an earlier eruption on October 5, 2014. According to authorities hundreds of residents are still housed at evacuation centers as authorities maintains off limit danger zone around Mount Sinabung located in Indonesia's Sumatra island following deadly eruption in early February that killed about 17 people. AFP PHOTO / SUTANTA ADITYA # 22 Women faint (Bottom) as another reacts while volunteers (unseen) take away from a nearby house the body of a woman who died of Ebola, in Waterloo, some 30 kilometers southeast of Freetown, on October 7, 2014. Dozens of British military personnel are due to fly to Sierra Leone next week to help build medical facilities to combat the Ebola epidemic, the defence ministry said on October 7. AFP PHOTO / FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR # 23 Volunteers, who are supposed to pick up bodies of people who died of the Ebola virus, against a 100 US dollar risk-taking compensation strike on October 8, 2014 in front of the abandoned Freetown university to get their salaries. Most of the other volunteers have gone back to work without receiving compensation. Dozens of British military personnel are due to fly to Sierra Leone next week to help build medical facilities to combat the Ebola epidemic, the defence ministry said on October 7. AFP PHOTO/FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR # 24 Volunteers arrive to pick up bodies of people who died of the Ebola virus, against a 100 US dollar weekly risk-taking compensation, on October 8, 2014 in Freetown. Dozens of British military personnel are due to fly to Sierra Leone next week to help build medical facilities to combat the Ebola epidemic, the defence ministry said on October 7. AFP PHOTO/FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR # 25 This long exposure photograph taken late on October 9, 2014 shows scorching lava flow and giant ash clouds released from the crater during the eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano as seen from Karo district located in Sumatra island. Indonesian authorities said pyroclastics flow reached 4.5 kilometers down the slope threatening populated villages whlie ash clouds reached three kilometers to the sky during it latest series of eruption that began on October 5. AFP PHOTO / Sutanta ADITYAS # 26 A woman cries during funeral services for Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot and Vicar General Charles Benoit at the Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. Mourners gathered near the ruins of the shattered cathedral to pay final respects to the capital's archbishop and vicar, in a somber ceremony that doubled as a symbolic funeral for all the dead after the massive Jan. 12 earthquake.

Ebola Crisis in Liberia   Umu Fambulle stands over her husband Ibrahim after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia,Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being sent by Liberian health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. A crowd pushes through the gates of the Ebola isolation center in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia. A crowd of several hundred people, chanting, “No Ebola in West Point,” opened the gates and took out the patients, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax. The center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, was being used by the Liberian health ministry to temporarily isolate people suspected of carrying the virus. Some 10 patients had “escaped” the building the night before, according to a nurse, as the center had no medicine to treat them. Poor sanitation and close living quarters have contributed to the spead of the Ebola virus, which is transmitted through bodily fluids. 1 Umu Fambulle stands over her husband Ibrahim after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being sent by Liberian health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)# 2 A crowd pushes through the gates of an Ebola isolation center in the West Point slum on August 16, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. A crowd of several hundred people, chanting, "No Ebola in West Point," opened the gates and took out the patients, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax. The center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, was being used by the Liberian health ministry to temporarily isolate people suspected of carrying the virus. Some 10 patients had "escaped" the building the night before, according to a nurse, as the center had no medicine to treat them. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries, with Liberia now having the most deaths. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 3 Batu Flowers tries to convince local residents that the Ebola epidemic is real on August 16, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Many people believe that the epidemic is a fraud and that people are dying from other causes. Many of the deceased are not tested before burial or cremation. Poor sanitation and close living quarters have contributed to the spead of the Ebola virus, which is transmitted through bodily fluids, often between people caring for sick family members. The epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 4 A man carries out a girl from an Ebola isolation center as a mob overruns the facility in the West Point slum on August 16, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. A crowd of several hundred people, chanting, "No Ebola in West Point," crashed through the gates and took out the patients, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax. The center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, was being used by the Liberian Health Ministry to temporarily isolate people suspected of carrying the virus. Some 10 patients had "escaped" the building the night before, according to a nurse there, as the center had no medicine to treat them. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries, with Liberia now having the most deaths. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 5 A woman wipes her nose after protesters drove out an Ebola burial team who had come to collect the bodies of four people who had died overnight in the West Point slum on August 16, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. A crowd of several hundred local residents, chanting, "No Ebola in West Point," drove away the burial team and their police escort, who fired warning shots in the air. The mob then forced open an Ebola isolation ward and took the patients out, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax. The isolation center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, was being used by the Liberian health ministry to temporarily isolate people suspected of carrying the virus. Some 10 patients had "escaped" the building the night before, according to a nurse, as the center had no medicine to treat them. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries, with Liberia now having the most deaths. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 6 Neighbors watch as a son prepares his father to be taken to an Ebola isolation center on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facililities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 7 A son tries to prepare his father in their one-room home before they are taken to an Ebola isolation ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facililities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 8 A boy waits to wash in a public bathroom in the seaside favella of West Point, where most homes have no running water on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Poor sanitation and close living quarters have contributed to the spead of the Ebola virus, which is transmitted through bodily fluids. The epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 9 Fisherman pull a waterlogged boat from the water in the impoverished neighborhood of West Point on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People in the area suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by health workers to a temporary isolation center - a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facililities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 10 A young man slumps in a slum on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Poor sanitation and close living quarters have contributed to the spead of the Ebola virus, which is transmitted through bodily fluids. The epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 11 Health workers supervise as a woman moves a mattress into a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facililities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 12 Community organizer John Saah Mbayoh checks a list of sick people to be taken to an Ebola isolation center on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facililities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 13 Tawah Fayiah, 54, lies sick in bed while awaiting transport from her one-room home to an Ebola isolation ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being brought by health workers to a temporary facility - a closed primary school originally built by USAID, while larger facililities are being constructed to house the surging number of patients. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) # 14 A Liberian health worker disinfects a corpse after the man died in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being sent by health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 1,000 people in four West African countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) A woman wearing a facemask, as protection from volcanic ash, harvests ash covered chillies and tomatoes at a village in Karo district located, Sumatra island on October 14, 2014 as Mount Sinabung volcano (background) continued to erupt. In February, Sinabung’s eruption killed about 17 people and forced more than 33,000 others to flee their homes. A protester sits front of barriers against police officers at a main street in Mong Kok district in Hong Kong Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Riot police cleared an offshoot Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on Friday, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks, but leaving the city’s main thoroughfare still in the hands of the activists. 1 A woman wearing a facemask, as protection from volcanic ash, harvests ash covered chillies and tomatoes at a village in Karo district located, Sumatra island on October 14, 2014 as Mount Sinabung volcano (background) continued to erupt. In February, Sinabung's eruption killed about 17 people and forced more than 33,000 others to flee their homes. AFP PHOTO / SUTANTA ADITYA/AFP/Getty Images # 2 Security men guard as Indian women arrive to cast their votes during the Haryana state elections in Bandhwadi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. The Indian states Haryana and Maharashtra are going to the polls Wednesday to elect representatives to their respective state legislatures. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) # 3 A protester sits front of barriers against police officers at a main street in Mong Kok district in Hong Kong Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Riot police cleared an offshoot Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on Friday, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks, but leaving the city's main thoroughfare still in the hands of the activists. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) # 4 A young man exercises using the beams that hold a water tank at his house in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) # 5 Garteh Korkoryah, center, mother of Thomas Eric Duncan, is comforted during a memorial service for her son, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, in Salisbury, N.C. Duncan died of Ebola in Dallas on Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond) # 6 Syrian Kurdish fighter Delkhwaz Sheikh Ahmad, 22, sits with his wife Siham, 23, and their two sons, Dilyar, left, 3 and Ibrahim, 2, right, at his brother's house in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, as he prepares to leave for Kobani, Syria, to rejoin the fighting, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Sheikh Ahmad is a member of the Peopleís Protection Units, also known as YPG and is fighting against militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria. Every few weeks, he takes a couple of days to cross the border into Turkey to visit his family that had evacuated. 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. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) # 7 In this Oct. 9, 2014 photo, students tune their violins before class at the Manuel Saumell music school in Havana, Cuba. Before Cubaís 1959 revolution, many students played violins, violas, cellos and bass from European workshops. After it, the Soviet Union provided violins and cellos, along with many other goods. Now, as Cuba struggles to revive its economy, students must make do with violins from China that too easily pop strings and lose their tone. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) # 8 In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, 4-year-old patient Saul Valverde rides lying on the back of Andariego, a 19-year-old veteran horse retired from "charreria," the Mexican version of a rodeo, at a corral in southern Mexico City. Andariego now works as a therapy horse, helping children with special needs. Horses can live another 20 years after their rodeo days. The lucky ones find second careers in breeding or as therapy horses. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) # 9 Members of the Serbian army march under heavy rain during a military parade in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Waving Russian and Serbian flags and displaying banners ìThank You Russia,î tens of thousands came to see the parade in Belgrade attended by Vladimir Putin, which marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Serbian capital from the Nazi German occupation by the Red Army and Communist Yugoslav Partisans. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) # 10 In this Oct. 14, 2014, photo, a Lebanese man, center, walks between graves at the overcrowded Bashoura cemetery for Muslim Sunnis in Beirut, Lebanon. The congested city of more than one million is cramped with cemeteries wedged into residential areas, increasingly forcing families to bury several members of the same family in one grave. Available land plots are extremely scarce and what is left is being used by developers to build luxury officers towers and apartments. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) # 11 A police officer holding a police baton secures the area where a pro-democracy protester is being arrested by riot polices in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, early Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Riot police moved in on a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on Friday, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) # 12 An Afghan man looks on as the scene of a blast site is reflected on a broken window following an explosion from a magnetic bomb attached to a civilian car in Kabul on October 14, 2014. At least two civilians were injured by the blast in the Afghan capital, officials said. AFP PHOTO/Wakil KohsarWAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images # 13 A woman reacts as smoke rises from the the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, after a strike from the US-led coalition as it seen from the Turkish - Syrian border in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS # 14 Girls carry bags of plastic items and tins as rubbish pickers sift through garbage at the Maputo municipal garbage dumping site in Maputo on October 14, 2014. Mozambique's upstart opposition vowed to take on the two traditional political heavyweights by offering a non-violent alternative in polls taking place on October 15 after a low-level conflict. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA # 15 Citizens line up to vote at a polling station in the village of Laja, 36 km west of La Paz, in the highland Andean plateau, over 4,000 meters above sea level on October 12, 2014. More than six million Bolivians will elect their president for the next five years in an electoral process where voting is compulsory. AFP PHOTO/JORGE BERNAL # 16 Ukrainian servicemen are greeted by relatives during a welcoming home ceremony in the western city of Lviv on October 16, 2014. Some 100 Ukrainian border guards returned home after serving a three-month mission on border with Russia in the Lugansk region of conflict-torn eastern Ukraine. AFP PHOTO / YURKO DYACHYSHYN # 17 A Syrian Kurdish man stands in a refugee camp in the town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on October 17, 2014. Kurdish rebels have been infuriated by the lack of action by Turkey against Islamic State (IS) jihadists trying to take the mainly Kurdish town of Kobane just across the Syrian border. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS # 18 In this Aug. 31, 2014 photo, charro Leonardo Flores, stands on his horse Canelito while showing off his roping skills; a move called, "florear sobre el caballo," during a practice session at a corral in southern Mexico City. "Charreria," the Mexican version of a rodeo, usually consists of nine scoring events that include horses and or cattle. It is Mexico's official national sport as well as being part of the pride and tradition of the Mexican culture. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) #

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