Pistorious sentenced, protesting the Met, Chewbacca the politician

South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius (C) arrives for his sentencing at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria October 21, 2014. A judge will pass sentence on athlete Pistorius on Tuesday for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, after one of the most sensational murder trials in South Africa’s history – and the decision could fuel controversy over the state of the country’s justice system. (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)

South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius (front L) holds the hands of family members after being sentenced at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria October 21, 2014. A South African judge on Tuesday sentenced Pistorius to five years in prison for the negligent killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year. (REUTERS/Herman Verwey/Pool)

Men walk past a pre-election poster with a portrait of a candidate from the Internet party of Ukraine, Stepan Chewbacca, in the centre of Kiev October 21, 2014. Ukrainians will take part in an early parliamentary election on October 26. (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Protesters sit in wheelchairs during a demonstration across from Lincoln Center and the New York Metropolitan Opera in New York, October 20, 2014. New York’s Metropolitan Opera was bracing for its most tumultuous opening in decades on Monday as protestors demonstrated against “The Death of Klinghoffer,” the John Adams opera about the 1985 hijacking of a cruise ship by Palestinian guerillas. The opera, seen by some as a humanist masterpiece and by others as anti-Semitic, depicts the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish man on a cruise with his wife aboard the Achille Lauro. After his death, the killers threw the body of the retired New Yorker overboard along with his wheelchair. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

Relatives and friends carry the body of Yvonne Masika killed during an attack by suspected ADF-NALU rebels for burial in Mbau village near Beni, in North Kivu province, October 21, 2014. Suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least 23 people overnight in their second attack near the eastern Congolese town of Beni in 48 hours, the local governor said on Saturday, prompting the U.N. peacekeeping mission to call for renewed military action. (REUTERS/Kenny Katombe)

Pro-democracy protesters watch formal talks between student protest leaders and government officials on a video screen near the government headquarters in Hong Kong October 21, 2014. Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Tuesday there was room for the committee that selects candidates for the territory’s 2017 election to be made “more democratic.” (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

“Umbrellas”, the sculpture by Giorgos Zogolopoulos is illuminated in pink light to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Thessaloniki in northern Greece October 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis)

Members of the Gabriela Women’s Party, a group advocating the rights of Filipino women, shout “Justice for slain transgender Jennifer Laude” during a protest outside the Justice Hall, where preliminary investigations into Laude’s murder were being held, in Olongapo city, north of Manila October 21, 2014. Philippine President Benigno Aquino rejected on Monday calls to tear up the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States after an American serviceman was charged with the murder of a transgender Filipino outside a former U.S Navy base. U.S. Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton is accused of murdering Jeffrey Laude, who also goes by the name Jennifer, in Olongapo City, about 50 km (30 miles) north of Manila. Under the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), the Philippines is supposed to exercise jurisdiction over such a crime. Some lawmakers and activists have called on the government to terminate the VFA unless the United States hands him over. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)

Chelsea’s John Terry scores a goal during their Champions League Group G soccer match against Maribor at Stamford Bridge in London October 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Eddie Keogh)

Men walk on the rubble of damaged buildings at a site hit by what activists said were air strikes by forces of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus October 20, 2014. (REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh)

A German airline Lufthansa aircraft taxis along an empty road at Munich airport October 21, 2014. Lufthansa pilots threatened to call further strikes this week after the latest stoppage in a dispute over retirement benefits grounded two-thirds of its flights on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Michael Dalder)

Turkish Kurdish women show victory sign during the funeral of Kurdish fighters killed during clashes against Islamic State in Kobani, at a cemetery in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province October 21, 2014. Turkey has offered to help Kurds enter the fight for Kobani, parts of which have apparently been re-taken from Islamic State militants, while the U.S. has air-dropped arms for the first time to help the city’s defenders. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach)

A Palestinian boy looks at statues that are made of fiberglass and covered with clay by Palestinian artist Eyad Sabbah, which are depictions for the Palestinians who fled their houses from Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the east of Gaza City October 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

Rain drops are pictured on a fallen autumn leaf in Vertou near Nantes, October 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Stephane Mahe)

Manchester City’s Vincent Kompany (R) and Pablo Zabaleta (C) fail to save a goal by CSKA Moscow’s Seydou Doumbia during their Champions League Group E soccer match at the Arena Khimki outside Moscow, October 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev)

Tahir ul-Qadri (R), Sufi cleric and leader of political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), waves to supporters outside the parliament house in the Red Zone during the revolution march in Islamabad October 21, 2014. Qadri announced on Tuesday to end the sit-in in Islamabad and instead hold two-day long sit-ins across the country, local media reported. Protesters led by Imran Khan, a former cricket star, and Qadri, a firebrand cleric, have been locked in a bitter stand-off with the government since mid-August. (REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood)

Maria Sharapova of Russia hits a return to Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark during their WTA Finals singles tennis match at the Singapore Indoor Stadium October 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Edgar Su)

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