Photos of the Day, Nov. 16,
Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesA mahut sits on his elephant as it drinks water from the Ganges river during the the Sonepur Mela on November 14, 2011 in Sonepur near Patna, India. The cattle fair, held in the Indian state of Bihar, has its origins during ancient times, when people traded elephants and horses across the auspicious river Ganges. The mela used to attract traders from places as distant as Central Asia. It is one of Asia's largest cattle fairs and lasts for a fortnight.
Nov 14, 2011 – 10:35 AM ET | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2011 1:38 PM ET
Today’s best photos from around the world selected by the Photo Editors of the National Post
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REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Children play in Rocinha slum, which after its occupation will be to install a Peacekeeping Unit (UPP), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 14, 2011. Three thousand troops backed by helicopters and armored vehicles occupied Rio de Janeiro's largest slum without firing a shot on Sunday, the biggest step in the Brazilian city's bid to improve security and end the reign of drug gangs. The occupation of Rocinha, a notorious hillside "favela" that overlooks some of Rio's swankiest areas, is a crucial part of the city's preparations to host soccer's World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics two years later.
REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
A Buddhist temple is surrounded by water at a flooded area in Bangkok's suburbs, Thailand, November 14, 2011. The deluge has killed more than 500 people and affected about 2 million since late July, with tens of thousands relocated or sheltering in evacuation centres after their homes and businesses were engulfed by water.
REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Vehicles are submerged at the Honda factory in Ayutthaya province November 14, 2011. Clean-up work is under way at four industrial estates in Thailand's central Ayutthaya province as water has receded after devastating floods last month, and some factories are already back at work, officials said on Monday. Honda Motor Co, the hardest hit of the Japanese car firms, said it would take longer for its production to be up and running again.
REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
A resident walks on a barricade along a flooded highway in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, November 14, 2011.
REUTERS/China Daily
An assistant shows a photo on a mobile phone to artist Liu Bolin as Liu demonstrates an art installation by blending in with vegetables displayed on the shelves at a supermarket in Beijing, China, November 10, 2011. Liu, also known as the 'Vanishing Artist', started practising being "invisible" by means of optical illusions more than six years ago.
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Artist Liu Bolin demonstrates an art installation by blending in with vegetables displayed on the shelves at a supermarket in Beijing, China, November 10, 2011. Liu, also known as the 'Vanishing Artist', started practising being "invisible" by means of optical illusions more than six years ago.
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Indian school children dressed as bride and grooms wait to perform during celebrations of Children's Day at a school in Amritsar, India's northwestern state of Punjab, on November 14, 2011. Despite a ban on children's labour imposed under the 1986 Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act which took effect 10 October, millions of Indian children still have to work for a living to support their families, missing out on primary education.
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US President Barack Obama holds a press conference at the conclusion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Kapolei, Hawaii, on November 13, 2011. The United States hosts this year's APEC forum for the first time since 1993, with leaders from the 21 member economies convening on the island of Oahu on November 12-13.
REUTERS/Stringer
Students salute as they attend a flag-raising ceremony with their teachers on the roof of a branch of Lingzhi primary school, which is housed inside a rented four-storey residential building, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, November 14, 2011. The civilian-run school, founded in 1999 mainly for children of migrant workers, has about 600 students in its two branches, local media reported.
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Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 30 stands atop a launch pad in the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome, early on November 14, 2011, shortly before the launch. Russia successfully launched today US astronaut Dan Burbank with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin for the ISS, boosting morale after accidents raised doubts about the reliability of its space programme.
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A father feeds his son among debris and rubbish after a fire gutted informal settlers housing in Manila on November 14, 2011. Around 80 houses were burned by the fire, but no caualties were reported.
REUTERS/Nir Elias
Dikla, a female giraffe, licks her one-day-old calf in their enclosure at the Ramat Gan Safari, an open-air zoo near Tel Aviv, Israel, November 14, 2011.
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A cycle-rickshaw driver makes its way on a busy street through the old quarter of Jaipur on November 11, 2011. Cycle-rickshaws are a popular and cheap mode of transport mainly found in the centres of towns in India. A rickshaw driver like this makes about the equivalent of 5 USD a day.
REUTERS/Jamejam Online/Ebrahim Norouzi
Iranian policemen and people carry a picture and coffin of Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a Revolutionary guards commander, who was killed during a blast in a military base, in Tehran, Iran, November 14, 2011.
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A worker pushes an empty cart next to a luxury goods advertisement in Hong Kong on November 14, 2011. In a recent survey conducted by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, it was found that more than a million Hong Kong residents couldn't afford basic services needed to lead a normal life.
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A television reporter works in floodwaters in front of Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand on November 14, 2011. Angry residents in flooded Bangkok protested, briefly blocking a major highway as frustration mounted that parts of the Thai capital are suffering badly while the centre stays dry.
REUTERS/Thierry Roge
Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski (L) kisses European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (R) at the start of an European Union foreign ministers meeting at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, November 14, 2011.
REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
A view shows a fragment of a map of the USSR studded with semiprecious stones at a geological exploring museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, November 14, 2011. The map, considered to be the biggest semiprecious stones map in the world, according to museum representatives, is 6m long, 4.5m wide, and weighs 3.5 tons. It consists of about 45 thousand semiprecious stones and was created in 1936. The museum also displays 80 thousand samples of minerals and flora and fauna diggings, according to museum employees.
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