Nov 20, 2013

Nov. 20 Photo Brief: Pope greets his general audience at the Vatican and an aerial view of Beijing, Bulgaria rallies, car bombs in Baghdad

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UN health agency campaigns to immunize against polio, measles, mumps and rubella, Bulgarian public sector workers rallied in Sofia demanding more government measures to ease poverty and more in today’s daily brief.

: Super Typhoon Haiyan victims sift through the rubble of their destroyed homes as a military cargo plane flies over head in Tacoblan on November 20, 2013. The United Nations has confirmed at least 4,500 killed in the disaster, which brought five-metre (16-foot) waves to Tacloban, flattening nearly everything in their path as they swept hundreds of metres across the low-lying land. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)

: Sri Lankan Buddhist monks walk past the Temple of Tooth in the central town of Kandy on November 20, 2013. The shrine, a UNESCO world Heritage Site, is one of the most important places of worship for the island’s Buddhist majority. (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Iraqi man clean debris from a shop after a car bomb attack in the Karrada neighborhood in central Baghdad on November 20, 2013. A wave of attacks, most of them car bombs targeting Shiite neighborhoods, rocked Baghdad today, killing at least 28 people in the latest bout of bloodshed to hit Iraq. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

: A photo taken on November 7, 2013 shows an aerial view of Beijing from the window of an aircraft. The view, facing north, shows Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (C), the Olympic Park (top C), the Temple of Heaven (mid center R), Beihai and Houhai lakes (center L), and the Beijing South high-speed Railway Station (mid center L). (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Syrian child gets a polio vaccination at a clinic in Damascus on November 20, 2013. The UN health agency launched a large-scale campaign on October 24 to immunise 1.6 million children in Syria against polio, measles, mumps and rubella. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)

: The bodies of five victims of typhoon Haiyan found by a Zion Emergency and Disaster Rescue Unit lie in front of a damaged house in Tanauan on November 20, 2013. The United Nations has confirmed at least 4,500 killed by typhoon Haiyan, which brought five-metre (16-foot) waves to Tacloban, flattening nearly everything in their path as they swept hundreds of metres across the low-lying land. (nicolas Asfourani/AFP/Getty Images)

: Bulgarian students holding cardboard guns shout slogans during a protest outside the Bulgarian parliament in Sofia on November 20, 2013. Several thousand Bulgarian public sector workers rallied in Sofia demanding more government measures to ease poverty, as angry students kept pressing for the cabinet’s resignation. (Nikolay Douchinov/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Afghan child begs on a street in Mazar-i-Sharif on November 20, 2013. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor as it attempts to recover from decades of conflict. (Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

: Students with cardboard weapons participate in a performance during an anti-government protest in front of Bulgarian parliament in Sofia, on November 20, 2013. Shouts “Resignation” and “Victory” were also heard as a workers rally merged with the daily protest of about 1,000 students outside parliament, who pressed for Oresharski to go and demanded new morals in politics they saw as corrupt and catering too much for big business interest. Several thousand Bulgarian public sector workers rallied in Sofia on Wednesday with demands for more government measures to ease poverty, as angry students kept pressing for the cabinet’s resignation. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man walks along as the national flag of the Philippines flies over the rubble of destroyed homes in Tacloban on November 20, 2013. More than 4,000 people were killed and up to 4.4 million displaced when typhoon Haiyan packing some of the strongest winds ever recorded by a storm made landfall. (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man looks at the Pudong financial district of Shanghai November 20, 2013. With a shift in tone and language, China’s central bank governor has dangled the prospect of speeding up currency reform and giving markets more room to set the yuan’s exchange rate as he underlines broader plans for sweeping economic change. The central bank under Zhou Xiaochuan has consistently flagged its intention to liberalise financial markets and allow the yuan to trade more freely, even before the Communist Party’s top brass unveiled late last week the boldest set of economic and social reforms in nearly three decades. (Carlos Barria/REUTERS)

: A woman wears a mask while standing on an escalator during a hazy day in downtown Shanghai November 20, 2013. China will steer local governments away from the pursuit of economic growth at all costs and beef up their powers to punish polluters as part of a campaign to reverse the damage done by three decades of unchecked expansion. (Aly Song/REUTERS)

: Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, November 20, 2013. (/Vincent Kessler/REUTERS)

: Dirtied books are seen in a flooded house following extreme rainfall in Olbia on Sardinia island November 20, 2013. A cyclone killed 18 people and made hundreds homeless as extreme rainfall flooded eastern parts of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italian authorities said on Tuesday. The government declared a state of emergency after Cyclone Cleopatra dropped 450mm of rain in an hour and a half overnight, causing rivers to burst their banks, sweeping away cars and flooding homes across the island. (Tony Gentile/REUTERS)

: Survivors place a makeshift flag over a sports hall destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan, in Tacloban November 20, 2013. The Philippines is facing an enormous rebuilding task from Typhoon Haiyan, which killed at least 3,974 people and left 1,186 missing, with many isolated communities yet to receive significant aid despite a massive international relief effort. (Damir Sagolj/REUTERS)

: Pope Francis waves as he arrives to conduct his weekly general audience at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican November 20, 2013. (Stefano Rellandini/REUTERS)

Nov. 20 Photo Brief: Pope greets his general audience at the Vatican and an aerial view of Beijing, Bulgaria rallies, car bombs in Baghdad

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