December 4, 2014

A worker installs the names of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the wall of the Tsunami Museum ahead of the 10th anniversary of the storm in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

Chinese military band members leave after performing at a welcome ceremony for South African President Jacob Zuma at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA’s Orion spacecraft mounted atop is seen illuminated in the distance at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37, Florida.

A Yemeni university student wipes her eyes at the School of Medicine in Sana'a during the commemoration of the first anniversary of suicide attack that targeted the Yemeni Defense Ministry, killing many that worked in a hospital within the complex.

Workers collect salt from salt ponds at the Maras mines in Cuzco, Peru. Salt has been collected in Maras since pre-Incan times by evaporating highly salty local underground stream water.

Lazar and his sister Andjelka sit by a candle in their home in the eastern Serbian town of Majdanpek. Electricity workers in Serbia struggled through snow, ice and difficult terrain to restore electricity to an eastern town left without power, heating or running water for a fourth day.

A New York City policeman (right) reacts next to people protesting against the Staten Island death of Eric Garner during an arrest in July, at midtown Manhattan in New York. A New York City grand jury decision not to charge white police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who killed unarmed black man Garner with a chokehold, created public anger and protests. The Justice Department said it would look into the incident.

Taramuni Ray, 62, cries as she sits on the remains from her burned hut after a fire broke out at a slum in Kolkata, India.

US tennis player Serena Williams (left) of the Singapore Slammers enters the court during the International Premier Tennis League competition in Singapore.

A truck unloads gravel on activists as they block an access to the construction site of a holiday village project in the Chambaran Forest near Roybon, eastern France. After being postponed several times since 2007, the project has finally received a approval but protesters say it will be a disaster for the environment.

Typhoon survivors, some of whom are still living in tents, leave for safer ground with their belongings at the Tanauan township, in central Philippines. Citizens are anticipating the incoming Typhoon Hagupit, which is forecast to hit the central part of the country this weekend.

A Salvadorean clown who goes by the name of "Bobo" poses during the National Clown Day celebrations at Beethoven Square in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Saudi youths show a stunt known as "sidewall skiing" (driving on two wheels) in the northern city of Tabuk, in Saudi Arabia.

Folk artist Han Xiaoming demonstrates painting with his tongue in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Han dips his tongue in ink to paint on paper, and uses his fingers to fill in final adjustments. The artist also uses a paintbrush held with his mouth and uses fish and vegetables as paint tools, local media reported.

Millions of liters of crude oil flow out of a pipeline and flood 200 acres of the desert nature reserve in southern Israel.

Manchester City's Pablo Zabaleta celebrates his goal during the English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England.