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Tourists sit at a cafe table in a flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice. The high water, a combination of high tides and a strong Scirocco wind in the Adriatic Sea, stood at 110 centimeters .Olivier Morin/AFP / Getty Images

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Russian military cadets stand outside the store window of GUM (the State Department Store) as they prepare to parade in Red Square, in Moscow.Pavel Golovkin/The Associated Press

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A person passes by the installation 'Lichtgrenze' (Border of Light) in front of a painting depicting former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker (R) along the East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin.Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

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Relatives light candles as they visit the graves of family members, victims of super Typhoon Haiyan at the mass grave in the village of San Joaquin in central Philippines a day before the first year anniversary of the devastating typhoon.Ted Aljibe/AFP / Getty Images

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A giraffe made of Lego bricks is reflected in a glass front of a house in Berlin.Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

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People walk on and around a digital mosaic of photographs of people, depicting British Army private James Ernest Beaney, killed during World War One, outside the BBC headquarters in central London.Lefteris Pitarakis/The Associated Press

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A young boy looks on as he attends the funeral of a Kurdish Women's Protection Unit fighter who died during fighting in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane.Aris Messinis/AFP / Getty Images

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Strollers make their way through the vineyards near Fellbach, southern Germany.Sebastian Kahnert/The Associated Press

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Jury member Birgit Schlegel, of the German Association for the Protection of the Dresden Christmas Stollen, sniffs at pieces of the Christmas cake during a quality inspection in Dresden, Germany.Jens Meyer/The Associated Press

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A seagull has opened its beak near Westerland, on the German North Sea island of Sylt, northern Germany.Carsten Rehder/The Associated Press

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