Waves, delivering gifts, announcing birth of royal twins | Dec. 10
The day in pictures around the world.
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- Professional surfer Alastair Mennie braves the conditions as he catches a wave in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. High winds and large waves hit the North West Coast of the UK and Northern Ireland today. In the background sits Guglielmo Marconi’s cottage which was home to the Italian inventor credited as the inventor of radio, (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
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- of the UK and Northern Ireland today. ( Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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- U.S. President Barack Obama (Left) and first lady Michelle Obama deliver toys and gifts donated by Executive Office of the President staff to the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, DC. For 67 years the Toys for Tots program has worked with local communities to collect and distribute toys and gifts for less fortunate children throughout the United States. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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- Queen Mathilde and King Philippe of Belgium pay their respects as they view the body of late Queen Fabiola de Mora y Aragon lying in state at the Royal Palace in Brussels. Queen Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, widow of Belgian King Baudouin, passed away on December 5 at the age of 86. The funeral will take place in Brussels on December 12. (Didier Lebrun/Getty Images)
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- Christmas lights illuminate the Medellin River in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)
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- People cut ice blocks that are used for Harbin international ice and snow festival from the frozen Songhua river in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang province. As China’s most famous and popular winter attraction, the annual festival is set to kick off on January 5, 2015 and last for a month, local media reported. (Getty Images)
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- Italian former legend of free diving, Umberto Pelizzari swims up during an apnea course at the “Y-40 The Deep Joy” swimming pool in Montegrotto Terme, northeastern Italy. The swimming pool is built over thermal sources bringing after cooling down a water at 32-34 degrees Celsius. Y-40, with its depth of 42mt, is officially included in the Guinness World Record as the deepest pool in the world for free and scuba diving. (Olivier Morin/Getty Images)
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- A woman pushes a pram with a child as heavy fog covered streets in a small town of Zaslavl, northwest of Minsk. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters photo)
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- A man wearing a Christmas hat poses for photographer at a factory producing Christmas decorations in Yiwu, Zhejiang province. (Reuters photo)
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- Faisel,16, a member of Egyptian parkour group “EGY PK”, practices a jump in front of the Pyramid of Khufu, the largest of the Great Pyramids of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. EGY PK, one of the first parkour groups in Egypt, are training ahead of performing publicly during the year-end Christmas celebrations, to promote tourism in Egypt. Egypt’s tourism revenues jumped 112 percent to about $2 billion in the third quarter of 2014, a tourism ministry official said, suggesting the key industry was showing signs of recovery, albeit from a particularly bad third quarter last year. Tourism, an important source of foreign currency, has been hammered since the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters photo)
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- Faisel,16, a member of Egyptian parkour group “EGY PK”, practices a jump in front of the Pyramid of Khufu, the largest of the Great Pyramids of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. EGY PK, one of the first parkour groups in Egypt, are training ahead of performing publicly during the year-end Christmas celebrations, to promote tourism in Egypt. Egypt’s tourism revenues jumped 112 percent to about $2 billion in the third quarter of 2014, a tourism ministry official said, suggesting the key industry was showing signs of recovery, albeit from a particularly bad third quarter last year. Tourism, an important source of foreign currency, has been hammered since the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters photo)
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- German officers look at the new tank Leopard 2A7 by defence industry company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) during the official handover to the German armed forces Bundeswehr in Munich. In the background left is pictured the Leopard 2A6M CAN Main Battle Tank. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters photo)
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- Pro-democracy protesters gather at the Occupy Central protest site in Admiralty in Hong Kong. Hong Kong urged pro-democracy protesters to pack up their tents and leave their main camp near government headquarters, saying it could not promise there would be no “confrontations” when the site is cleared on Thursday. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters photo)
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- Pokot girls attired with traditional jewellery stand in a circle during an initiation ceremony of over a hundred girls passing over into womanhood in Baringo County. The ceremony lasts one night and through the next day. Before the ceremony, as Pokot tradition dictates, the girls are secluded for over a month, out of sight of the men in the community. The ceremony will mark the girls coming to age and they will be able to be married. For most, their marriages have already been arranged. During the ceremony the girls will sing and stay standing from the afternoon through out the night and the morning after. Siegfried Modola/Reuters photo)
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- Customer Alex Cuff is seen through the window as he eats cereal at the “Cereal Killer Cafe” in east London. Identical twin brothers hope they have ticked the right boxes, and ordered in the right flavours, for their new “Cereal Killer Cafe” in London serving only cereal, with toppings and milk. Alan and Gary Keery from Belfast offer 120 different cereals from around the world at the cafe which they say is the first of its kind in London and opened on Wednesday. They also offer 20 toppings and 30 different types of milk. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters photo)
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- Carabiniers of Monaco’s Prince Albert II fire canons to announce the birth of twins of Prince Albert II of Monoco and Charlene, in front of the Monaco Palace. Princess Charlene of Monaco gave birth on Wednesday to a boy and a girl, the royal couple’s first children, an aide to the royals said. According to Monaco’s Constitution the boy, named Jacques, will be first-in-line to the throne, and not his twin sister, Gabriella. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters photo)
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- Elise Beliveau (Center) looks down at her white rose following the funeral of her husband, Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Jean Beliveau, at Mary Queen of the World Cathedral in Montreal Beliveau, a Hall of Fame ice hockey player who won 10 Stanley Cup championships with the National Hockey League’s Montreal Canadiens, died on December 2 at the age of 83. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters photo)
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- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai flashes the ‘V’ sign from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Oslo. Pakistani teenager Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for refusing to quit school, and Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi received their Nobel Peace Prizes on Wednesday after two days of celebration honouring their work for children’s rights. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters photo)
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- A locally made shell is launched by rebel fighters towards forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad at the frontline in al-Breij district of Aleppo. (Sultan Kitaz/Reuters photo)
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- Andy Serkis, second unit director of the movie, poses at the premiere of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” at Dolby theatre in Hollywood, California. The movie opens in the U.S. on December 17. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters photo)
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