For this edition of
our look at daily life we share images from Iran, Ecuador, Austria,
India, United Kingdom, Myanmar, Nepal and a few others from around the
world. -- Lloyd Young ( 37 photos total)
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A
Nepalese street child, wearing a mask of Hindu monkey God Hanuman,
rests on a street in Katmandu, Nepal, on Nov. 2. (Niranjan
Shrestha/Associated Press) #
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A
boy sits in a car on an illuminated carousel as he participates in the
Tazaungdaing traditional festival in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, on Nov.
27. The Tazaungdaing festival, also known as the Festival of Lights, is
held on the full moon day of Tazaungmone, in the eighth month of the
traditional Burmese calendar and marks the end of the rainy season.
(Lynn Bo Bo/European Pressphoto Agency) #
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People
celebrate as a balloon carrying fireworks takes off during the hot-air
balloon festival in Taunggyi, Myanmar. Every year in November as the
full moon approaches, tens of thousands of people from all over the
country gather in Taunggyi for the colorful hot-air balloon festival
during which balloons lift fireworks or lanterns which illuminate the
sky at night while balloons of all shapes are flown during the day. (Ye
Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images) #
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A
novice Buddhist monk of the Drukpa Tibetan Buddhist lineage enters the
temple for prayers during the annual festival of sacred dances at the
Hemis monastery, near Leh, Ladakh, northern India. The sacred dances are
a purification ritual that Tibetan Buddhists believe will rid the world
of negative obstacles. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press) #
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An Indian Sikh Nihang (warrior) performs a fire breathing act at a
demonstration of gatka skills during a procession from Sri Akal Takhat
to the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Nov. 27 on the eve of the 543rd
birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev. Guru Nanak was the founder of
the religion of Sikhism and the first of ten Sikh Gurus. (Narinder
Nanu/AFP/Getty Images) #
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A
Palestinian Christian youth hangs up the national flag on a cross as
others pray at St. George Melkite Greek Catholic Church, also know as
the Church of the Ten Lepers, in the West Bank village of Burqin near
the town of Jenin, on Nov. 30. Palestinians celebrated the UN General
Assembly votes on a resolution to upgrade the status of the Palestinian
Authority to a nonmember observer state. (Mohammed Ballas/Associated
Press) #
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Indian
children ride on a rickshaw, a relatively dangerous but a fairly
economic mode of transport, on their way to school on the outskirts of
New Delhi, India, on Nov. 23. (Altaf Qadri/Associated Press) #
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Performers
skate during a media launch ahead of the opening of the annual Somerset
House festive season outdoor ice rink in London on Nov. 15. The
organizers claim Somerset House as the most glamorous of the winter ice
rinks in London, boasting over 1 million visitors that have skated their
since it first appeared in the year 2000. (Matt Dunham/Associated
Press) #
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A
Shiite Muslim boy runs on burning charcoals as a part of the Ashura
religious festival in Yangon on Nov. 24. Shiite mourners beat themselves
during Ashura with steel-tipped flails or slash their bodies with
knives to mark the death anniversary of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the
Prophet Mohammad, who was killed during a battle in A.D. 680 in Kerbala,
a city in modern-day Iraq. (Reuters) #
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A
man dressed in traditional Perchten costume and mask performs during a
Perchten festival in the western Austrian village of Heitwerwang, west
of Innsbruck on Nov. 23. Each year in November and January people in the
western Austria regions dress-up in Perchten (also known in some
regions as Krampus or Tuifl) costumes and parade through the streets to
perform a 1500 year-old pagan ritual to disperse the ghosts of winter.
Each handmade traditional costume, consisting of up to 14 separate sheep
or goat skins, takes three dress makers one day to produce, and costs
between 500 to 600 euros. Some 15 hours are needed for a woodcarver to
sculpt each demon mask which is made from stone pine wood with goat
horns attached. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters) #
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Indian men sit on sofas after a wedding reception in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 6. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press) #
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A
man plays panpipes while crossing a street in San Gabriel, Carchi
province, Ecuador, on Nov. 7. (Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images) #
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A
girl smiles at the pier of the small Ecuadorean port of San Lorenzo,
Esmeraldas province, northwestern of Ecuador, near to the border with
Colombia, on Nov. 8. (Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Palestinian
children play soccer in front of the controversial Israeli separation
barrier in the West Bank village of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of
Jerusalem on Nov. 8. Israeli and Palestinian leaders welcomed President
Obama's re-election, but the two sides have very different hopes and
expectations for his second term in office. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty
Images) #
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A
Palestinian demonstrator runs through a cloud of tear gas during
clashes against Israel's operations in the Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an
Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Nov. 15.
(Majdi Mohammed/Associated Press) #
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Police
officers are sprayed with milk by European milk farmers during a
demonstration outside the European Parliament in Brussels on Nov. 26.
Farmers drove their tractors into the European Quarter of Brussels on
Monday for a two-day demonstration to protest against what they believe
are unfair milk prices. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press) #
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Iranian
Shiite Muslims beat their chests after rubbing mud on their body early
in the morning, during the 'Kharrah Mali' (Mud Rubbing) ritual to mark
the Ashura religious ceremony in the city of Khorramabad, some 470 kms
southwest of Tehran on Nov. 25. "Khrreh Mali" or "Mud Rubbing" is a
ritual that is held in the city of Khorramabad every year to commemorate
the seventh century slaying of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam
Hussein, in which Iranian men roll over in mud and dry themselves by
gathering around the bonfires before flagellating themselves. (Behrouz
Mehri/AFP/Getty Images) #
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An
Indian worker from the Power Department make adjustments to electrical
power lines during preparations for the Maha Kumbh festival at Sangam in
Allahabad on Nov. 18. The Kumbh Mela is the largest gathering of people
for a religious purpose in the world and millions of people gather for
this auspicious occasion. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images) #
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A
racegoer dances on the roof of a shelter after the Melbourne Cup at
Flemington Racecourse on Nov. 6 in Melbourne, Australia. (Scott
Barbour/Getty Images) #
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An
unidentified man sits naked on top of the statue of Prince George, Duke
of Cambridge outside the Ministry of Defence building in Whitehall in
central London on Nov. 23. The man, who brought Whitehall to a
standstill for almost two hours, stood naked on the statue and struck
various poses before being eventually talked down. (Justin
Tallis/AFP/Getty Images) #
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An
elderly Indian performs exercises in the early morning at Marine Drive
in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 3. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press) #
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A man rides a bicycle on a snowy day on Nov. 29 in Munich, southern Germany. (Victoria Bonn-Meuser/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Fishermen
line the Lake Worth Pier on Nov. 9 in Lake Worth, Fla. The pier
reopened Friday after being closed for two weeks from damaged caused by
Hurricane Sandy. Repairs were made to the wooden decking, the railing
and water/electric lines. (Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post via
Associated Press) #
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The
Spiderman balloon floats down Central Park West during the 86th Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters) #
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Joyce
Clarin, of Bellevue, Iowa, sits in a cage with Macho, left, while
Pee-wee falls asleep in her lap during a pet adoption event for the
Jackson County Humane Society held at PetSmart in Dubuque, Iowa, on Nov.
25. The Jackson County Humane Society has about 25 animals from the
east coast, many of them orphaned by Superstorm Sandy. (Jeremy
Portje/Telegraph Herald via Associated Press) #
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People
stand near a house which sits in the middle of a newly built road in
Wenling city in east China's Zhejiang province on Nov. 22. The house
belongs to an elderly man, who refused to sign an agreement to allow his
house to be demolished by the authorities, as the compensation offered
to him was not enough, according to local media. (Associated Press) #
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A
young schoolboy makes handstands during break in the yard of the Hot
Courses Primary School, in the village of Nyumbani which caters to
children who lost their parents to HIV, and grandparents who lost their
children to HIV, with the two generations taking care of one another.
World AIDS Day is Dec. 1, and UNAIDS says that as of 2011 an estimated
23.5 million people living with HIV resided in sub-Saharan Africa,
representing 69 percent of the global HIV burden, with eastern and
southern Africa the hardest-hit regions. (/Ben Curtis/Associated Press)
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Indian children play on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India, on Nov. 17. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press) #
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Swans
look out of boats as they are transported to the wintering grounds at
the Alster river Hamburg, northern Germany, on Nov. 20. (David
Hecker/Associated Press) #
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Indian
camel traders arrive with their livestock for the annual Pushkar fair
in Pushkar, Rajasthan state, India, on Nov. 19. The weeklong cattle fair
attracts a large number of tourists from different parts of the world.
(Deepak Sharma/Associated Press) #
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A
Hindu devotee offers prayers in the River Yamuna during Karthik Purnima
in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 28. Karthik Purnima is celebrated on the
full moon day of the Hindu calendar month of Karthik and considered very
auspicious by Hindus. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press) #
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Trees
decorated with Christmas lights are reflected in a puddle as people
walk along the Unter den Linden promenade at dusk in Berlin on Nov. 28.
(Thomas Peter/Reuters) #
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Inmates
of the Arad, western Romania, penitentiary perform during a rehearsal
in Bucharest, Romania, on Nov. 27 as inmates from across Romania are in
the Romanian capital to perform in the Multi Art Penitentiary Theater
Festival. The festival, supported by the Kingdom of the Netherlands
takes place at the highly reputed Bucharest Nottara theater, with six
plays being performed over two days by the inmates of various
penitentiaries. (Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press) #
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People
watch fireworks from inside their rooms in the Wyndham Hotel along
Point State Park during Light Up Night in Pittsburgh on Nov. 16. The
52nd Annual Light Up Night marks the official kick-off of the holiday
season in Pittsburgh, with a tree lighting, entertainment and other
holiday activities spread throughout downtown. (Stephanie
Strasburg/Tribune Review via Associated Press) #
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North
Korean women rehearse martial arts movements and dance routines on a
street of Pyongyang, North Korea, on Nov. 18. (Ng Han Guan/Associated
Press) #
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Members
of an Indian wedding band wait for transport at a stop in New Delhi,
India, on Nov. 25. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press) #
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A Pakistani nomad woman, Zakia, kisses her grandson in Islamabad, Pakistan on Nov. 9. (B.K. Bangash/Associated Press) #
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