1A part of a traditional wooden Christmas nutcracker figure and other wooden parts stand on a table in one of the factory rooms in the Erzgebirgische Holzkunst Gahlenz company in Gahlenz, southeastern Germany. The traditional wooden Christmas figures aresold all over the world.
2A man watches fighting across the border in Kobani from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border.
3A woman sews a protective suit for use in handling people infected with the Ebola virus, in a sewing room of Lakeland Industries Inc., in Anqiu, China.
4A dog walks around the sculpture titled "breaching,"created by artist Michael Greve at the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney, Australia.