WORLD IN A SNAP | Interesting images from around the world
Herring Festival, Colorado snow, harvest dance (16 images)
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November
Children eat a pomegranate at a slum in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
Participants cheer during a sedan chair charity race in Hong Kong on Sunday. The race is to raise money for needy charities and supported by over 60 running teams and 3000 visitors. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Women from the remote Turkana tribe in Northern Kenya at the village of Kokoru try to settle a disagreement over who gets food. The villagers themselves decide which family gets food in a democratic voting process. Villagers usually give food to those that lose out as there is never enough to go round. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Japan Coast Guard officials examine ferry Ariake which lies on its side in shallow waters in Mihamacho, Mie Prefecture (state), central Japan, on Saturday. The 7,910-ton ship ran aground after its improperly fixed cargo of vehicles collapsed in heavy weather on Friday. All 28 people on board were rescued within hours after the accident. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Nozomu Endo)
Bangladeshi women perform a traditional dance on the first day of new harvest season in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Sunday. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
A competitor flies through the air with their motorcycle during X Freestyle International in Barcelona, Spain on Sunday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Rabbi Avi Shay, of Kiev, Ukraine, left, Rabbi Motl Malowany, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, center, and Rabbi Yosef Muchnik, of Camarillo, California, right, stand with other Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries as they wait to have a group picture taken in front of Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Sunday. Nearly 4,000 rabbis from around the world were in New York for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, an annual event aimed at reviving Jewish awareness and practice around the world. (AP Photo/Chabad.org, Tina Fineberg)
A spectator decorated himself watches the race of the Yokohama International Women's Marathon in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan on Sunday. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Guven Duvan from Turkey swims in a men's 50 meters Backstroke heat at the FINA short course swimming World Cup in Berlin on Sunday. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
A woman cries in St. Sava temple, in Belgrade, Serbia after the Serbian Orthodox Church announced its head Patriarch Pavle died Sunday, in Belgrade. He was 95. Pavle, who led the church from 1990, has been hospitalized for months. He suffered from heart and lung problems. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Julie Siegler and her 1-year-old dog, Basil, take their morning walk as an autumn storm drops snow in Denver on Sunday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Iranian-American female photographer Maryam Rahmanian, left, takes pictures as Iranian women follow a debates in parliament on three Cabinet ministers nominees proposed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Tehran, Iran on Sunday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Local fisherman Chris Braun checks his catch of herring fish besides the harbour at the annual Herring Festival on Sunday in Clovelly, England. The historic Devon fishing village has been celebrating the fish, known as the 'silver darlings' in a annual festival which coincides with when they are in season. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Rescue personnel assist Mark Gibbons and Jeff Cropper after their Production class boat Baby Hard Rock flipped on Sunday during the third and final race of the Key West World Championship offshore powerboat races in Key West, Fla. Gibbons, of Port Washington, N.Y., and Cropper, of Central Islip, N.Y., emerged from the accident uninjured. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)
An Afghan girl carries bread on top of her head in the Surkh refugee camp outside Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-126 sits poised on Sunday on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA is on schedule to launch Atlantis and a crew of 6 astronauts Monday afternoon. on a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Red Huber)
