Rescued from an avalanche, North Korean dictatorship leaflets, Putin in the rain

A Shi’ite Houthi protester sits at the main anti-government protest camp of the Shi’ite Houthi movement on a road leading to the Sanaa Airport in Sanaa October 16, 2014. The movement will dismantle its protest camp on Friday, according to local media. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

People on a motorcycle ride through a cloud as a truck from the Sucre municipality is used to carry out fumigation to help control the spread of Chikungunya and dengue fever, viruses which are carried by mosquitoes, in the Petare slum district of Caracas September 22, 2014. Medical shortages have complicated Venezuela’s efforts to treat outbreaks of mosquito-borne fevers, creating long lines at pharmacies to buy analgesics and leaving the ill without ways to control the swelling joints and aching bones that the disease causes. Venezuela has South America’s highest incidence of chikungunya, a virus of African origin whose name comes from a Tanzanian term for being doubled-over in pain. It also has the fourth-highest incidence of dengue on the continent this year. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)

A worker from the municipality of Sucre carries out fumigation to help control the spread of Chikungunya and dengue fever, which are caused by viruses carried by mosquitoes, in the Petare slum district of Caracas September 22, 2014. Medical shortages have complicated Venezuela’s efforts to treat outbreaks of mosquito-borne fevers, creating long lines at pharmacies to buy analgesics and leaving the ill without ways to control the swelling joints and aching bones that the disease causes. Venezuela has South America’s highest incidence of chikungunya, a virus of African origin whose name comes from a Tanzanian term for being doubled-over in pain. It also has the fourth-highest incidence of dengue on the continent this year. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)

A man talks on a phone as he is seen through a window broken by recent shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, October 16, 2014. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

An attendee waves a Serbian flag during a military parade to mark 70 years since the city’s liberation by the Red Army in Belgrade October 16, 2014. Serbia feted Russia’s Vladimir Putin with troops, tanks and fighter-jets on Thursday to mark seven decades since the Red Army liberated Belgrade, balancing its ambitions of European integration with enduring reverence for a big-power ally deeply at odds with the West. (Djordje Kojadinoviic/Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic (2nd R) attend a military parade to mark 70 years since the city’s liberation by the Red Army in Belgrade October 16, 2014. Serbia feted Russia’s Putin with troops, tanks and fighter-jets on Thursday to mark seven decades since the Red Army liberated Belgrade, balancing its ambitions of European integration with enduring reverence for a big-power ally deeply at odds with the West. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

A security officer observes during a military parade to mark 70 years since the city’s liberation by the Red Army in Belgrade October 16, 2014. Serbia feted Russia’s Vladimir Putin with troops, tanks and fighter-jets on Thursday to mark seven decades since the Red Army liberated Belgrade, balancing its ambitions of European integration with enduring reverence for a big-power ally deeply at odds with the West. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius leaves the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, October 16, 2014. Pistorius returned to the court on Thursday on the fourth day of sentencing procedures for the negligent killing of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)

North Korean defector Lee Min-bok poses for photographs with leaflets condemning North Korean dictatorship during an interview with Reuters at his home in Pocheon, about 15 km (9 miles) south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, October 15, 2014. It’s only propaganda, but the leaflets infuriate Pyongyang and threaten to scuttle negotiations between the two Koreas after the North’s biggest peace overture in several years. Picture taken on October 15, 2014. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

Israeli trekkers Maya Ora (L) along with Yakov Megreli (C) and Linor Kajan (R), who were rescued from an avalanche by the Nepalese army, speaks with the media while undergoing treatment at the Army Hospital in Kathmandu October 16, 2014. Mountain rescue teams in Nepal searched for scores of missing trekkers on Thursday after unseasonal blizzards and avalanches killed at least 20 people along the high altitude Annapurna mountain route popular with backpackers. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

A woman reacts at the site of Tuesday’s car bomb attack, at the entrance to the neighbourhood of Kadhimiya in Baghdad, October 15, 2014. The suicide car bombing killed a parliament member and 24 others in the Shi’ite neighborhood in Baghdad, according to police and medical officials, as Islamic State attacked towns in western Anbar province. (Ahmed Saad/Reuters)

A Kurdish refugee from the Syrian town of Kobani shows victory sign as a rainbow forms over the camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, October 16, 2014. The United States is bombing targets in Kobani for humanitarian purposes to relieve defenders of the Syrian town and give them time to organize against Islamic State militants, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

A potter carries a basket filled with clay money boxes at a workshop ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali in New Delhi October 16, 2014. Earthen goods are sold in large numbers during Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, as people use them to decorate their homes. The Diwali festival will be observed this year on October 23. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

The gloved hands of an army nurse are seen during a demonstration of an isolation chamber for the treatment of infectious disease patients, at the Germany army medical centre, Bundeswehr Clinc, in Koblenz October 16, 2014. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 4,000 people — mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea — and has spread beyond West Africa, with a nurse in the United States and one in Spain having caught the disease from patients. (Ralph Orlowski/Reuters)

Emergency vehicles are seen at Madrid’s Barajas International airport after it activated emergency measures October 16, 2014, after a passenger arriving on an Air France flight was suspected of possibly having Ebola, a spokeswoman for airports operator Aena said. Spain’s health ministry confirmed that an Ebola emergency protocol had been set in motion but declined to give details. (Bronween Bashford/Reuters)

People walk through the installation “Crystallation” during the SIGNAL light festival in Prague October 16, 2014. (David W Cerny/Reuters)

A dancer from the Deep Roots Dance Company performs during a training session in an old theatre in downtown Havana, October 14, 2014. (Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

Zhang Yufeng feeds a flock of geese at Xincai county, Henan province, October 15, 2014. Zhang keeps around 3,200 geese for sale and expects an annual income of 100,000 yuan ($16,327) from them. Picture taken October 15, 2014. (China Daily/Reuters)

Balloon sellers wait for customers at a shopping district in Beijing October 16, 2014. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

A man walks along the bank of the Yangtze River, which is covered by algae, during a hazy day in Wuhan, Hubei province, October 16, 2014. The Ministry of Environmental Protection of China announced on Wednesday that it would run a campaign of unannounced and drone inspections of air quality from October to next March. Unlike regular checks, in which companies and authorities targeted are usually notified beforehand, the upcoming inspections will be conducted at random times, and those found wanting will be immediately named and shamed, said the ministry in a statement, Xinhua News Agency reported. (Darley Shen/Reuters)

The arts project titled “Hypotopia”, created by students of the Vienna University of Technology, is pictured in front of the Karlskirche church in Vienna October 16, 2014. The city model would accommodate 102,574 people and cost 19 billion euros ($ 24.3 billion), the sum that the students say will cost Austria to bail out the nationalized bank Hypo Alpe Adria. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)

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