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Kenyan nomads, All Saints Day, Beijing snow (14 images)

1 November

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Candles light up graves in the San Gregorio cemetery during Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City, early Sunday. According to tradition, candles are lit to guide wandering souls back to their families. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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People gather by the graves of relatives at the San Gregorio cemetery during Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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A man walks at the graves of those killed during the unsuccessful Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis, on August 1, 1944, which lasted 63 days, at the Powazki military cemetery in Warsaw,Poland on Sunday. All Saints Day is a national holiday in Poland during which Poles visit graves of their loved ones to light candles and lay flowers. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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A boy plays in front of a grave during celebrations of the Day of the Dead at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery in Villa Maria, Lima, Peru on Sunday. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

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A Filipino girl collects wax from a burning candle on top of tombs as the country observes All Saints Day at Manila's north cemetery, Philippines, on Sunday. Huge throngs of people jammed cemeteries to pay respects to their dead in this devoutly Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Men ride horses during All Saints Day celebrations in Todos Santos, Guatemala on Sunday. After an alcohol-soaked celebration lasting three days, villagers race horses to commemorate the Catholic feast of All Saints, for which the town is named. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division fire mortars for their base on enemy positions during a battle in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province on Sunday. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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A Somali Kenyan man walks behind his goats as they look for leaves to graze on in the settlement of Dela in northern Kenya near the Somali border. In one particularly drought-prone district in Kenya, up to a third of the herdsmen have had to settle permanently because they have lost so many animals. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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A Somali Kenyan man with his hair and beard dyed in henna, walks between family huts in the settlement of Dela in northern Kenya near the Somali border. The traditional way of life for Kenya's roughly three million nomads is rapidly giving way under the pressures of increasingly severe and frequent droughts, coupled with a rapidly rising population. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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Rowers wait at the start line before their competition as part of of water festival celebration in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Sunday. Hundreds of wooden boats gathered for three days of annual water festival which started Sunday. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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A bicycle is covered with snow on the street of Beijing, China on Sunday. The Chinese capital turned white Sunday as it receives first snow of the winter. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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A woman walks under trees covered in snow on Sunday in Beijing. The Chinese capital embraced its first heavy snowfall in winter. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

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Smoke from a 1896 Salvesen, right, floats over a street during the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run in London on Sunday. About 550 veteran cars manufactured before 1905 participated in this annual run of about 60 miles from London to Brighton, England. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)

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Sikh devotees clean the road during a religious procession to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, who founded the Sikh religion, in Ahmadabad, India on Sunday. Guru Nanak's 540th birth anniversary will be celebrated on Nov. 2. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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