Spanish duchess flamenco dances, logs in Lagos, Bala Chaturdashi | Nov. 20
The day in pictures around the world.
- Spain’s Duchess of Alba Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva (R) dances flamenco beside her husband Alfonso Diez outside Las Duenas Palace after their wedding in Seville in this October 5, 2011 file photo. Spain’s Duchess of Alba, one of Europe’s wealthiest aristocrats, died on November 20, 2014, aged 88, after a short illness, media said. The owner of fabulous palaces and priceless works of art, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, known as ‘Cayetana’, was known for her flamboyant lifestyle and was the world’s most titled person, according to the Guinness Book of Records. (Javier Diaz/Files/Reuters)
- Mark Reckless, the former Conservative Party member of Parliament for Rochester and Strood, leaves after voting in the by-election in Rochester, southern England, November 20, 2014. Reckless triggered a by-election after resigning from Britain’s ruling Conservative Party to join the United Kingdom Indepence Party. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)
- Matthias Broda, inventor and designer of the wooden e-bike, holds a prototype on a street in Berlin, November 20, 2014. The wooden e-bike produced by German company Aceteam from ash wood, will be launched on the market by spring 2015 and will cost around 3,950 euro (4,950 dollars). The e-bike will be equipped with an 250W e-bike motor for a range of up to 100 kilometer (62 miles) with a rechargeable battery. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
- A girl walks past riot policemen guarding one of the access roads to Benito Juarez International airport after demonstrators staged a protest over the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students in Mexico City November 20, 2014. Forty-three missing students abducted by corrupt police in southwest Mexico weeks ago were apparently incinerated by drug gang henchmen and their remains tipped in a garbage dump and a river, the Mexican government said. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)
- Kurdish refugee children, who are from the Syrian town of Kobani, smile as they play in a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province November 20, 2014. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)
- Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain (L) shakes hands with his team mate Nico Rosberg of Germany as they arrive for a press conference at the Yas Marina circuit before the start of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix November 20, 2014. (Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)
- Devotees walk along the bridge at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple during the Bala Chaturdashi festival in Kathmandu November 20, 2014. The festival is celebrated by the worshippers by lighting oil lamps and scattering seven types of grains known as “sat biu” honoring the departed along a route at the temple. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
- A raft of logs floats through the Lagos Lagoon September 25, 2014. Wood, a form of biomass, is the sole source of energy for hundreds of millions of Africans who lack access to modern sources of power, and logging, both legal and illegal, remains a lucrative business that has contributed to the rapid shrinking of Africaís rainforests and woodlands. Nigeria lost just over 2 million hectares of forest annually between 2005-2010 driven by agricultural expansion, logging and infrastructure development, according to U.N. data. It is also among the biggest users of solid fuel for cooking, with over 120 million Nigerians relying on firewood and charcoal for their cooking needs, according to the International Energy Agency. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)
- Logs are arranged for milling at Okobaba sawmill at the edge of the Lagos Lagoon September 25, 2014. Wood, a form of biomass, is the sole source of energy for hundreds of millions of Africans who lack access to modern sources of power, and logging, both legal and illegal, remains a lucrative business that has contributed to the rapid shrinking of Africaís rainforests and woodlands. Nigeria lost just over 2 million hectares of forest annually between 2005-2010 driven by agricultural expansion, logging and infrastructure development, according to U.N. data. It is also among the biggest users of solid fuel for cooking, with over 120 million Nigerians relying on firewood and charcoal for their cooking needs, according to the International Energy Agency. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)
- Lori Weishaar shovels snow from around her vehicle following an autumn snow storm in Buffalo, New York, November 20, 2014. Snowbound residents of western New York awoke to as much as another foot of accumulation on Thursday with possibly another 30 inches expected, according to meteorologists. (Aaron Lynett/Reuters)
- Men walk along a street at night in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus November 19, 2014. Residents in Eastern al-Ghouta have been cut off the main electricity grid for two years, activists said, relying on generators and other sources of light at night. Picture taken November 19, 2014. (Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)
- Local workers transport a piece of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 wreckage at the site of the plane crash near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine November 20, 2014. (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)
- Portuguese Air Force fighter F-16 (R) and Canadian Air Force fighter CF-18 Hornet patrol over Baltics air space, from the Zokniai air base near Siauliai November 20, 2014. NATO pilots practised scrambling their jets on Wednesday, in preparation for potential further unauthorised Russian jets encountered on Baltic patrols. The flight drills were part of theNATO Baltic Air Policing Mission, a collective defence project which has been running for a decade. (Ints Kalnins/Reuters)
- Portuguese Air Force fighter F-16 (R) and Canadian Air Force fighter CF-18 Hornet patrol over Baltics air space, from the Zokniai air base near Siauliai November 20, 2014. NATO pilots practised scrambling their jets on Wednesday, in preparation for potential further unauthorised Russian jets encountered on Baltic patrols. The flight drills were part of the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission, a collective defence project which has been running for a decade. (Ints Kalnins/Reuters)
- An activist, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, blocks traffic while protesting the shooting of Michael Brown, outside the Ferguson Police Station in Missouri, November 19, 2014. Residents of Ferguson prepared on Wednesday for a grand jury report expected soon on the fatal August shooting of Brown, an event that laid bare long-simmering racial tensions in the St. Louis suburb. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
- SanDisk Corp. founder Eli Harari (L) smiles as U.S. President Barack Obama awards him with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington November 20, 2014. Harari was the inventor of flash storage technology. (Larry Downing/Reuters)