December 8, 2014

A police officer in regular clothing searches female passengers travelling to Nairobi for weapons, in the town of Mandera at Kenya-Somalia border.

A laborer works on top of scaffolding at a construction site in Beijing, China.

Three-month-old baby orangutan Bulu Mata is being prepared to travel to his new home, the Monkey World of Dorset, United Kingdom, by his Hungarian nurse Bernedett Marschalko at the Zoo and Botanic Garden in Budapest.

Los Angeles city firefighters battle a large fire at a seven-story downtown apartment complex under construction in Los Angeles, California. Over 250 firefighters battle the early morning blaze which shut down two major highways, the Los Angeles Fire Department and California Highway Patrol said.

A supporter of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, feeds milk to his daughter as he and others await Modi's arrival during a campaign rally ahead of local elections in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Greenpeace activists stand next to massive letters delivering the message "Time for Change: The Future is Renewable," next to a large hummingbird design in Nazca, Peru.

Spectators await the start of a cinema screening at a Kinostar De Lux Multiplex in the Moscow suburb of Khimki, Russia, Dec. 7, 2014. Furniture retailer IKEA has redesigned one of the cinema halls, replacing standard seats with their furniture, according to local media.

A man sits on top of a sea wall as he fishes at Muara Baru port in Jakarta, Indonesia.

In this photo provided by South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, people stand around one of six sperm whales that washed up dead on the South Australia coast.
 

People walk behind the fence of the Christmas sphere erected at the Manezhnaya Square, just outside the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia. Organizers claim 9.5-meter-high sphere is the biggest in the world.