Hot air balloon and superhero fests, refugee classrooms | Nov. 10
The day in pictures around the world.
- A Syrian Kurdish boy peers as children take lessons on November 10, 2014 in a makeshift school tent in a refugee camp in the town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province. Turkey’s maintained an “open door” policy for all those fleeing Syria’s civil war and there are now over 1.5 million Syrian refugees living in the country. More than 280,000 Syrian refugees are living in refugee camps, mostly in the southeast, according Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). (Aris Messini/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Syrian Kurdish boy peers as children take lessons on November 10, 2014 in a makeshift school tent in a refugee camp in the town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province. Turkey’s maintained an “open door” policy for all those fleeing Syria’s civil war and there are now over 1.5 million Syrian refugees living in the country. More than 280,000 Syrian refugees are living in refugee camps, mostly in the southeast, according Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). (Aris Messini/AFP/Getty Images)
- A woman stands below the silhouette of two hot air balloons flying in the sky during the 18th International Festival of Hot Air Balloons in Alter do Chao in the center of Portugal on November 10 2014. (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images)
- A hot air balloon enthusiast prepares a balloon during the 18th International Festival of Hot Air Balloons in Alter do Chao in the center of Portugal on November 10 2014. (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images)
- A balloonist prepares his balloon while others fly during the 18th International Festival of Hot Air Balloons in Alter do Chao in the center of Portugal on November 10, 2014. (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images)
- A participant dressed as superhero Spiderman greets a young fan during the first edition of the HeroFestival in Marseille, November 9, 2014. The festival is dedicated to American superhero comics, Japanese mangas , Heroic Fantasy characters and video games universes. Picture taken on November 9, 2014 (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
- A girl wearing a hat and tanaka paste on her face gets out of a fountain after releasing water in it at the one of main intersections of Naypyitaw November 10, 2014. Leaders from ASEAN, East Asian and other countries will gather for the ASEAN summit this week in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw. United States President Barak Obama is scheduled to attend. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
- Relatives and friends of the victims of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 attend a national memorial at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam November 10, 2014. Hundreds of grieving people are gathered for a national commemoration ceremony nearly four months after two hundred ninety-eight passengers, 193 of whom were Dutch, died on flight MH17, downed over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine in July 2014. (Jasper Juinen/Reuters)
- A young girl slips a rose in a preserved segment of the Berlin Wall during the commemorations to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial in the Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, on November 9, 2014. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Employees of Embraer’s main aircraft factory vote to end their strike for pay increases, in Sao Jose dos Campos, November 10, 2014. Embraer, the world’s third largest commercial airplane manufacturer, said their operations were returning to normal after the five-day strike for higher wages was called off. (Roosevelt Cassio/Reuters)
- Turkish soldiers stand on a hill opposite the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, in Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on November 9, 2014. More than 1,000 people, mostly jihadists, have been killed in Kobane since the Islamic State group launched an offensive on the Syrian town on September 16. Kobane’s Kurdish defenders have been joined by Syrian rebels as well as by Iraqi Kurd peshmerga forces, to repel IS militants from the city. Aris Messini/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cyclists compete during the UCI Cycling track World Cup Women’s Omnium points race in Guadalajara, Mexico, on November 09, 2014.(Hector Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images)