The Best Photos of 2013

A Free Syrian Army fighter feeds a cat bread in the old city of Aleppo, Syria, Jan. 6, 2013. The revolution against Syrian President Bashar Assad that began in March 2011, started with peaceful protests but morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 60,000 people, according to a recent United Nations recent estimate.
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A young boy runs through a group of Pigeons in front of the Royal Palace, Jan. 31, 2013, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Indian Hindu devotees walk through a dust storm at the Sangam after taking a holy dip at the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, Feb. 5, 2013.
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Athlete Oscar Pistorius weeps in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb 15, 2013, at his bail hearing in the murder case of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Steenkamp was shot and killed at Pistorius' upscale home in an eastern suburb of Pretoria.
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Thousands of couples take part in a mass wedding ceremony at Cheongshim Peace World Center, Feb. 17, 2013 in Gapyeong-gun, South Korea.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series.
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Athletes climb a hill during the Engadine cross country skiing marathon from Maloja to S-Chanf in south Eastern Switzerland, March 10, 2013. Around 12,000 athletes participated in the annual event.
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Firefighters put out a Falla during the last day of the Las Fallas Festival, March 20, 2013 in Valencia, Spain. The Fallas festival, which runs from March 15 until March 19, celebrates the arrival of spring with fireworks, fiestas and bonfires made by large puppets named Ninots.
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Michigan guard Trey Burke (3) walks off the court as confetti falls on Louisville players, including Russ Smith (2), Luke Hancock (11), Stephan Van Treese (44) and Zach Price (25), after the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game, April 8, 2013, in Atlanta. Louisville won 82-76.
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Boston police officers respond to a bombing at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, April 15, 2013, in Boston.
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Joe Biggerstaff wades away from his mother's Konkle Drive home on the Grand River north of downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., April 21, 2013. The rising Grand River has driven hundreds of people from their homes in several western Michigan communities and was pushing Sunday toward a record high near Grand Rapids.
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan checks for rain during their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, May 16, 2013.
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A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.
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Protesters run as riot police fire teargas during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, June 11, 2013. Turkish riot police fired volleys of teargas canisters into Istanbul's Taksim Square, centre of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, driving thousands into narrow side streets, witnesses said.
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People fall in a stampede to see football superstar David Beckham at Tonji University in Shanghai, June 20, 2013. Beckham's visit to China turned "chaotic" after at least five people were hurt in a stampede as fans rushed to see him, local media and an AFP photographer at the scene said.
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A North Korean soldier stands in front of a window along the banks of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, June 24, 2013.
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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge with their newborn son, George, speak to the media before departing St Mary's Hospital, July 23, 2013, in London. The baby is third in line to the throne and becomes the Prince of Cambridge.
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Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chants slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at Nasr City, where protesters have installed a camp and hold daily rallies, in Cairo, Egypt, July 28, 2013.
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Visitors look at a spillway at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro electric power station, 520 km (323 miles) south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Aug. 22, 2013. The spillway was constructed as an emergency outlet in case of a technical failure and as a high water dump device on the Yenisei River.
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Members of the US salvage company Titan and Italian firm Micoperi inspect the wreck of Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship after emerging from water, near the harbour of Giglio Porto, Sept. 18, 2013. Salvage operators in Italy lifted the Costa Concordia cruise ship upright from its watery grave off the island of Giglio in the biggest ever project of its kind.
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Rebel fighters duck as they run behind a barricade to avoid being fired at by Syrian regime forces in the Old City's front line in Aleppo, Sept. 18, 2013. Damascus and key ally Moscow joined forces in a bid to thwart plans for a Western-backed UN resolution on Syria's chemical weapons that allows the use of force.
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Two children and a woman take cover behind a bar inside a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi, Sept. 21, 2013. Masked attackers stormed the packed upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, spraying gunfire and killing at least 59 people and wounding 175 before holing themselves up in the complex.
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A dog urinates on a new work by British graffiti artist Banksy on West 24th street in New York City, Oct. 3, 2013. Three new works by the street graffiti artist have appeared in New York City this week after Banksy announced a month-long residency in New York.
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A woman looks on as Mount Sinabung spews ash, as pictured from Sibintun village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province, Nov. 18, 2013. Mount Sinabung continued to spew volcanic ash throwing a plume 8,000 meters into the atmosphere on Monday as thousands of residents remained in temporary shelters fearful of more eruptions, according to local media.
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A man fans flames on a fire Tanauan, Nov. 19, 2013, in Leyte, Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan which ripped through Philippines has been described as one of the most powerful typhoons ever to hit land, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. Countries all over the world have pledged relief aid to help support those affected by the typhoon.
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