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Samurai festival, Lebanon independence, sea cucumber (13 images)
22
November
Waves batter the harbor wall on Sunday in Porthcawl, Wales. As fresh gale force winds and heavy rain sweeps across the UK, a major rescue operation is continuing after severe weather conditions caused flooding, cutting off villages and towns in England's Lake District. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
An Iraqi woman watches out from her balcony at a funeral procession for Jamal al-Baz, in Azamiyah neighborhood, northern Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday. Jamal al-Baz, a member of the Awakening council of Azamiyah, a Sunni group that revolted against al-Qaida, was shot dead early Sunday by unknown gunmen, officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
This photo released by Census of Marine Life and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows a transparent sea cucumber, Enypniastes, creeping slowly forward on its many tentacles while sweeping detritus-rich sediment into its mouth at at a depth of over 9,000 feet in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on the snowlike decaying matter that cascades down, including sunken whale bones. (AP Photo/Larry Madin)
A mounted archer wearing a Samurai warrior costume aims at a target during an annual "Yabusame," or horseback archery festival, in Zushi, southwest of Tokyo, Japan on Sunday. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
A Catholic priest, with a portrait of Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas on his robes, attends Ghattas' beatification mass at the Church of the Annunciation in the northern Israeli town of Nazareth on Sunday. Ghattas was the co-founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary in Jerusalem and lived from 1843-1927. (AP Photo/ Tara Todras-Whitehill)
As fireworks illuminate the Sydney Opera House Mika performs during the 2009 Australian Idol Final on Sunday. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
A young monkey races across a busy road in front of traffic in a Kuala Lumpur suburb in Malaysia on Sunday. Many colonies of monkeys still live in inner city communities around trees and bush land. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
A skipper of The Italian team Azzurra, right, and a skipper of the Emirates Team New Zealand sail in Nice southeastern France on Sunday during the sailing match racing competition finale of "The Louis Vuitton Trophy". (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Lebanese army soldiers march during a military parade to mark the 66th anniversary of Lebanon's independence, central Beirut, Lebanon on Sunday. Lebanon gained independence from France in 1943. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Bangladeshi Muslims stand in a queue to buy tickets to return home before the Eid al-Adha holiday, at Kamlapur train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Sunday. Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, is celebrated to commemorate the prophet Ibrahim's faith in being willing to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
People visit a cattle market to by camels for the upcoming Muslims' festival Eid-ul-Adha on Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan. Muslims all over the world celebrate the three-day festival Eid-ul-Adha. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
A Chinese vendor eats a meal as he waits for customers for Buddha statues at a curio market in Beijing, China on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Rescuers walk out from the site of a gas explosion at the Xinxing mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China on Sunday. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground Sunday after a huge gas explosion in the northern Chinese mine, the deadliest blast to hit the beleaguered industry in nearly two years. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
