Jerusalem: An Ethiopian Jewish man takes part in a ceremony during the celebrations of the Sigd FestivalPhotograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty ImagesThai-Myanmar border: A Myanmar woman and her child are seen in the Mae La refugee camp, around 80km from Mae Sot, in north-west ThailandPhotograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty ImagesArgomulyo, Java: A fire burns amid ash-covered buildingsPhotograph: Altamira/AFP/Getty Images
Indonesia: A resident cycles down a street covered by ash from Mount Merapi in MagelangPhotograph: Adi Weda/EPAIndonesia: A volunteer pushes an elderly woman on a trolley at a temporary shelter at Maguwoharjo Stadium in Yogyakarta after the Merapi eruptionPhotograph: Beawiharta/ReutersIndonesia: A woman carries her daughter at any evacuation centre for people living close to the volcanoPhotograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty ImagesSingapore: The French climber Alain Robert scales the Singapore Flyer observation wheelPhotograph: Vivek Prakash/ReutersPakistan: Haji Karim, a 60-year-old flood victim, prepares molasses at a makeshift factory damaged by floods near Nowshera, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincePhotograph: Fayaz Aziz/ReutersAhmadabad, India: Indian Muslim students light earthen lamps to mark Diwali, the Hindu festival of lightsPhotograph: Ajit Solanki/APAmritsar, India: Sikh devotees pay their respects at the illuminated Golden Temple in Amritsar to celebrate DiwaliPhotograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty ImagesJakarta, Indonesia: Indonesian men during Friday prayers at the Istiqlal mosque, the largest in south-east AsiaPhotograph: Bagus Indahono/EPAPristina, Kosovo: Residents wave a Turkish flag during a visit by the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to the grand mosquePhotograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty ImagesLondon: Fashion designer Paul Costelloe stands beneath a series of giant puppets in Kensington PalacePhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesPope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass for cardinals who died during the year in St Peter's BasilicaPhotograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty ImagesPort-au-Prince, Haiti: UN soldiers and an aid worker take a little girl up into a UN truck as earthquake survivors are evacuated from the Corail-Cesselesse refugee camp before the arrival of tropical storm TomasPhotograph: Ariana Cubillos/APBercher, Switzerland: Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the first man in the world to fly under a jet-fitted wing, speeds through the air to perform a loop near a hot air balloonPhotograph: Laurent Gillieron/APKathmandu, Nepal: A German Shepherd from Nepal's central police dog training school during a dog worship day at the Tihar FestivalPhotograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPAMoscow, Russia: Ultra-nationalist demonstrators mark National Unity Day on the outskirts of the cityPhotograph: Pavel Golovkin/AP
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