``` 2013 Year in Pictures: Part II ```
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A man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore, May 9. Fire erupted on the seventh floor of the LDA plaza in Lahore and quickly spread to higher floors leaving many people trapped inside the building. At least three people fell from the high floors trying to avoid the fire that engulfed the building.
Men play soccer between the shadows of buildings on Boa Viagem Beach in Recife, Brazil, June 14.
Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) on June 12, in Chicago, Illinois.
A supermoon rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, some 65 kilometers south of Athens, on June 23.
Egyptians wave national flags as fireworks light the sky over Tahrir Square, where hundreds thousands opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi celebrate in Cairo, Egypt, July 3. Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution.
An excavator is used to move villagers away from a flooded area during heavy rainfall in Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, July 10. More than 300 hundred people were evacuated in Yingxiu after roads connecting the township to the outside world were cut off by floods and landslides.
Andy Murray of Britain holds the winner's trophy up to spectators after defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their men's singles final tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London July 7.
Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (2nd L), Vuk Jeremic (R), President of the UN General Assembly, and Gordon Brown (L, back to camera), United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education July 12, at UN headquarters in New York during the UN Youth Assembly. Yousafzai became a public figure when she was shot by the Taliban while travelling to school last year in Pakistan -- targeted because of her committed campaigning for the right of all girls to an education. The UN has declared July 12 "Malala Day", which is also Yousafzai's birthday, and will host the UN Youth Assembly.
A woman carrying her baby and wrapped with a shawl walks through a sandstorm in Timbuktu July 29.
Fire-fighters spray water near a burning house in the Twin Pines Road area where the Silver Fire is raging, near Banning, California August 7. The fire broke out near a back-country road south of Banning, about 90 miles (145 km) outside Los Angeles in Riverside County, and within hours had blackened more than 5,000 acres.
Locals combat a forest fire at Satao, near Viseu, Portugal, August 11. About 200 firemen were dispatched to tackle the blaze.
Students with the Dupont Park Adventist School take part in a march 'For Jobs and Justice' on Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, USA, August 28. The march and ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington led by the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where he famously gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech.
Former French hostage Daniel Larribe is greeted by family members and French President Francois Hollande (unseen) upon his arrival at Villacoublay military airport outside Paris, France, on Oct. 30. The four Frenchmen, who worked for French nuclear energy company Areva, were kidnapped on Sept. 16, 2010, from a uranium compound in Arlit, north-central Niger and held hostage for three years by an Al Qaeda-linked group (AQMI) in the Sahara desert. They were released on Oct. 29 and left Niger on a government airplane in the early hours of Oct. 30, with details how their liberation came about still unclear.
Members of the Tokyo bid committee celebrate as Jacques Rogge President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announces Tokyo as the city to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Game during a ceremony in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7.
A girl hugs her brother, a recruit from the presidential regiment, as he takes the oath at a military base in Kiev on Nov. 16. President Viktor Yanukovich has declared that Ukrainian Armed Forces will call the last conscript this autumn. One of the largest post-Soviet republics, Ukraine says goodbye to the conscription inherited from the Soviet Union by focusing on a high-tech professional army based on a western model.
Children look at the Olympic flame torch held by torchbearer Segrey Menshikov during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay near the ancient Russian city of Vladimir, 200 km (120 miles) south of Moscow on Oct. 16.
Residents flee as winds whip flames from the Morgan fire along Morgan Territory Road near Clayton, California in unincorporated Contra Costa County on Sept. 9. The blaze, burning in dense, dry scrub, grass and timber in and around Mount Diablo State Park, had scorched some 3,700 acres (1,500 hectares), forcing the evacuation of about 100 homes at the edge of the town of Clayton.
A girl shakes a young tree to make the yellow leaves fall in a park among seasonal colored trees on an autumn day in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, Oct. 14.
Malian campaign workers look through electoral lists at a polling station in the Badalabougou neighborhood of Bamako, Mali, on Nov. 24. Malians voted for legislative elections amidst concerns over security following attacks in the northern city of Gao and the kidnapping and killing of two French journalists in the desert city of Kidal. Some 1,080 candidates, including 135 women, are competing for 147 seats in the elections, which will go to a second round on Dec. 15 unless one party wins an absolute majority.
Afghan schoolchildren take lessons in an open classroom at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province on Dec. 1. Afghanistan has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education system being undermined by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule.
People take cover behind a counter at the Westgate shopping mall after a shootout in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept. 21.
A man wraps his body with a Nelson Mandela tapestry outside Mandela's home on Dec. 7, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela, also known as Madiba, passed away on the evening of Dec. 5th, at his home in Houghton at the age of 95. Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994 after spending 27 years in jail for his activism against apartheid in a racially-divided South Africa.
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A man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore, May 9. Fire erupted on the seventh floor of the LDA plaza in Lahore and quickly spread to higher floors leaving many people trapped inside the building. At least three people fell from the high floors trying to avoid the fire that engulfed the building.
Men play soccer between the shadows of buildings on Boa Viagem Beach in Recife, Brazil, June 14.
Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) on June 12, in Chicago, Illinois.
A supermoon rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, some 65 kilometers south of Athens, on June 23.
Egyptians wave national flags as fireworks light the sky over Tahrir Square, where hundreds thousands opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi celebrate in Cairo, Egypt, July 3. Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution.
An excavator is used to move villagers away from a flooded area during heavy rainfall in Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, July 10. More than 300 hundred people were evacuated in Yingxiu after roads connecting the township to the outside world were cut off by floods and landslides.
Andy Murray of Britain holds the winner's trophy up to spectators after defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their men's singles final tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London July 7.
Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (2nd L), Vuk Jeremic (R), President of the UN General Assembly, and Gordon Brown (L, back to camera), United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education July 12, at UN headquarters in New York during the UN Youth Assembly. Yousafzai became a public figure when she was shot by the Taliban while travelling to school last year in Pakistan -- targeted because of her committed campaigning for the right of all girls to an education. The UN has declared July 12 "Malala Day", which is also Yousafzai's birthday, and will host the UN Youth Assembly.
A woman carrying her baby and wrapped with a shawl walks through a sandstorm in Timbuktu July 29.
Fire-fighters spray water near a burning house in the Twin Pines Road area where the Silver Fire is raging, near Banning, California August 7. The fire broke out near a back-country road south of Banning, about 90 miles (145 km) outside Los Angeles in Riverside County, and within hours had blackened more than 5,000 acres.
Locals combat a forest fire at Satao, near Viseu, Portugal, August 11. About 200 firemen were dispatched to tackle the blaze.
Students with the Dupont Park Adventist School take part in a march 'For Jobs and Justice' on Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, USA, August 28. The march and ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington led by the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where he famously gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech.
Former French hostage Daniel Larribe is greeted by family members and French President Francois Hollande (unseen) upon his arrival at Villacoublay military airport outside Paris, France, on Oct. 30. The four Frenchmen, who worked for French nuclear energy company Areva, were kidnapped on Sept. 16, 2010, from a uranium compound in Arlit, north-central Niger and held hostage for three years by an Al Qaeda-linked group (AQMI) in the Sahara desert. They were released on Oct. 29 and left Niger on a government airplane in the early hours of Oct. 30, with details how their liberation came about still unclear.
Members of the Tokyo bid committee celebrate as Jacques Rogge President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announces Tokyo as the city to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Game during a ceremony in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7.
A girl hugs her brother, a recruit from the presidential regiment, as he takes the oath at a military base in Kiev on Nov. 16. President Viktor Yanukovich has declared that Ukrainian Armed Forces will call the last conscript this autumn. One of the largest post-Soviet republics, Ukraine says goodbye to the conscription inherited from the Soviet Union by focusing on a high-tech professional army based on a western model.
Children look at the Olympic flame torch held by torchbearer Segrey Menshikov during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay near the ancient Russian city of Vladimir, 200 km (120 miles) south of Moscow on Oct. 16.
Residents flee as winds whip flames from the Morgan fire along Morgan Territory Road near Clayton, California in unincorporated Contra Costa County on Sept. 9. The blaze, burning in dense, dry scrub, grass and timber in and around Mount Diablo State Park, had scorched some 3,700 acres (1,500 hectares), forcing the evacuation of about 100 homes at the edge of the town of Clayton.
A girl shakes a young tree to make the yellow leaves fall in a park among seasonal colored trees on an autumn day in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, Oct. 14.
Malian campaign workers look through electoral lists at a polling station in the Badalabougou neighborhood of Bamako, Mali, on Nov. 24. Malians voted for legislative elections amidst concerns over security following attacks in the northern city of Gao and the kidnapping and killing of two French journalists in the desert city of Kidal. Some 1,080 candidates, including 135 women, are competing for 147 seats in the elections, which will go to a second round on Dec. 15 unless one party wins an absolute majority.
Afghan schoolchildren take lessons in an open classroom at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province on Dec. 1. Afghanistan has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education system being undermined by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule.
People take cover behind a counter at the Westgate shopping mall after a shootout in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept. 21.
A man wraps his body with a Nelson Mandela tapestry outside Mandela's home on Dec. 7, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela, also known as Madiba, passed away on the evening of Dec. 5th, at his home in Houghton at the age of 95. Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994 after spending 27 years in jail for his activism against apartheid in a racially-divided South Africa.
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