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A Danish policeman plays a guessing game with a migrant girl at the E45 freeway north of Padborg Denmark on September 9 2015 Many migrants mainly from Syria and Iraq were crossing through Denmark trying to reach Sweden to seek asylum there The police had closed the freeway for security reasons

A child wears gloves on her feet as she arrives with her mother on the boat ldquoNos Taurus Genovardquo at the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo on February 16 2015 Better weather had encouraged migrants to make the perilous journey from North Africa where a breakdown of order in Libya has made it almost impossible to police the traffickers who pack people onto rickety boats

After a French police dog named Diesel was killed during a police raid targeting a suspected plotter of the Paris attacks Russia offered France the gift of a new police pup named Dobrynya Here a Russian police officer holds Dobrynya before a presentation to French police in the French Embassy in Moscow Russia on December 7 2015

BuyPens refugee Abdul Halim al-Attar from Syria sits next his daughter Reem 4 as they look at a photo on a laptop during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut on November 28 2015 The photograph of al-Attar carrying his sleeping daughter on his shoulder while trying to sell pens to passing motorists in the scorching heat went viral this past summer and touched people across the world Al-Attar is now running three businesses and helping other refugees in the city after an online crowdfunding campaign in his name collected $191000

Argentine dancer Pablo Rafael Pereyra dips his partner Gabriela Fernanda Torres as part of their dance routine in the stage category at the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires Argentina on August 21 2015 Torres strikes a truly unique pose among the hundreds of dancers at the World Cup of Tango The 37-year-old says she was paralyzed in a car accident when she was 2 years old but nonetheless grew up with a love of dancing

Cherilyn Wilson 26 (left) and Chelsea Kane 26 display their fists with the message Love Wins written on them as they pose at a celebration rally in West Hollywood California on June 26 2015 shortly after the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement

Pelusa and Huellas romp on Pescadores beach in Chorrillos Lima Peru on September 7 2015 The pair are both paraplegic dogs equipped with wheelchairs Sara Moran runs an animal shelter called Milagros Perrunos where she cares for stray dogs and shelters dogs injured from traffic accidents or domestic abuses With donations and raffling Moran purchases wheelchairs food and medical treatment for the dogs at her shelter in Chorrillos

Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

Photos The Atlantic

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Page 2: The good side of 2015

A Danish policeman plays a guessing game with a migrant girl at the E45 freeway north of Padborg Denmark on September 9 2015 Many migrants mainly from Syria and Iraq were crossing through Denmark trying to reach Sweden to seek asylum there The police had closed the freeway for security reasons

A child wears gloves on her feet as she arrives with her mother on the boat ldquoNos Taurus Genovardquo at the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo on February 16 2015 Better weather had encouraged migrants to make the perilous journey from North Africa where a breakdown of order in Libya has made it almost impossible to police the traffickers who pack people onto rickety boats

After a French police dog named Diesel was killed during a police raid targeting a suspected plotter of the Paris attacks Russia offered France the gift of a new police pup named Dobrynya Here a Russian police officer holds Dobrynya before a presentation to French police in the French Embassy in Moscow Russia on December 7 2015

BuyPens refugee Abdul Halim al-Attar from Syria sits next his daughter Reem 4 as they look at a photo on a laptop during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut on November 28 2015 The photograph of al-Attar carrying his sleeping daughter on his shoulder while trying to sell pens to passing motorists in the scorching heat went viral this past summer and touched people across the world Al-Attar is now running three businesses and helping other refugees in the city after an online crowdfunding campaign in his name collected $191000

Argentine dancer Pablo Rafael Pereyra dips his partner Gabriela Fernanda Torres as part of their dance routine in the stage category at the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires Argentina on August 21 2015 Torres strikes a truly unique pose among the hundreds of dancers at the World Cup of Tango The 37-year-old says she was paralyzed in a car accident when she was 2 years old but nonetheless grew up with a love of dancing

Cherilyn Wilson 26 (left) and Chelsea Kane 26 display their fists with the message Love Wins written on them as they pose at a celebration rally in West Hollywood California on June 26 2015 shortly after the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement

Pelusa and Huellas romp on Pescadores beach in Chorrillos Lima Peru on September 7 2015 The pair are both paraplegic dogs equipped with wheelchairs Sara Moran runs an animal shelter called Milagros Perrunos where she cares for stray dogs and shelters dogs injured from traffic accidents or domestic abuses With donations and raffling Moran purchases wheelchairs food and medical treatment for the dogs at her shelter in Chorrillos

Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

Photos The Atlantic

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Page 3: The good side of 2015

A child wears gloves on her feet as she arrives with her mother on the boat ldquoNos Taurus Genovardquo at the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo on February 16 2015 Better weather had encouraged migrants to make the perilous journey from North Africa where a breakdown of order in Libya has made it almost impossible to police the traffickers who pack people onto rickety boats

After a French police dog named Diesel was killed during a police raid targeting a suspected plotter of the Paris attacks Russia offered France the gift of a new police pup named Dobrynya Here a Russian police officer holds Dobrynya before a presentation to French police in the French Embassy in Moscow Russia on December 7 2015

BuyPens refugee Abdul Halim al-Attar from Syria sits next his daughter Reem 4 as they look at a photo on a laptop during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut on November 28 2015 The photograph of al-Attar carrying his sleeping daughter on his shoulder while trying to sell pens to passing motorists in the scorching heat went viral this past summer and touched people across the world Al-Attar is now running three businesses and helping other refugees in the city after an online crowdfunding campaign in his name collected $191000

Argentine dancer Pablo Rafael Pereyra dips his partner Gabriela Fernanda Torres as part of their dance routine in the stage category at the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires Argentina on August 21 2015 Torres strikes a truly unique pose among the hundreds of dancers at the World Cup of Tango The 37-year-old says she was paralyzed in a car accident when she was 2 years old but nonetheless grew up with a love of dancing

Cherilyn Wilson 26 (left) and Chelsea Kane 26 display their fists with the message Love Wins written on them as they pose at a celebration rally in West Hollywood California on June 26 2015 shortly after the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement

Pelusa and Huellas romp on Pescadores beach in Chorrillos Lima Peru on September 7 2015 The pair are both paraplegic dogs equipped with wheelchairs Sara Moran runs an animal shelter called Milagros Perrunos where she cares for stray dogs and shelters dogs injured from traffic accidents or domestic abuses With donations and raffling Moran purchases wheelchairs food and medical treatment for the dogs at her shelter in Chorrillos

Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

Photos The Atlantic

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Page 4: The good side of 2015

After a French police dog named Diesel was killed during a police raid targeting a suspected plotter of the Paris attacks Russia offered France the gift of a new police pup named Dobrynya Here a Russian police officer holds Dobrynya before a presentation to French police in the French Embassy in Moscow Russia on December 7 2015

BuyPens refugee Abdul Halim al-Attar from Syria sits next his daughter Reem 4 as they look at a photo on a laptop during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut on November 28 2015 The photograph of al-Attar carrying his sleeping daughter on his shoulder while trying to sell pens to passing motorists in the scorching heat went viral this past summer and touched people across the world Al-Attar is now running three businesses and helping other refugees in the city after an online crowdfunding campaign in his name collected $191000

Argentine dancer Pablo Rafael Pereyra dips his partner Gabriela Fernanda Torres as part of their dance routine in the stage category at the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires Argentina on August 21 2015 Torres strikes a truly unique pose among the hundreds of dancers at the World Cup of Tango The 37-year-old says she was paralyzed in a car accident when she was 2 years old but nonetheless grew up with a love of dancing

Cherilyn Wilson 26 (left) and Chelsea Kane 26 display their fists with the message Love Wins written on them as they pose at a celebration rally in West Hollywood California on June 26 2015 shortly after the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement

Pelusa and Huellas romp on Pescadores beach in Chorrillos Lima Peru on September 7 2015 The pair are both paraplegic dogs equipped with wheelchairs Sara Moran runs an animal shelter called Milagros Perrunos where she cares for stray dogs and shelters dogs injured from traffic accidents or domestic abuses With donations and raffling Moran purchases wheelchairs food and medical treatment for the dogs at her shelter in Chorrillos

Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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BuyPens refugee Abdul Halim al-Attar from Syria sits next his daughter Reem 4 as they look at a photo on a laptop during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut on November 28 2015 The photograph of al-Attar carrying his sleeping daughter on his shoulder while trying to sell pens to passing motorists in the scorching heat went viral this past summer and touched people across the world Al-Attar is now running three businesses and helping other refugees in the city after an online crowdfunding campaign in his name collected $191000

Argentine dancer Pablo Rafael Pereyra dips his partner Gabriela Fernanda Torres as part of their dance routine in the stage category at the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires Argentina on August 21 2015 Torres strikes a truly unique pose among the hundreds of dancers at the World Cup of Tango The 37-year-old says she was paralyzed in a car accident when she was 2 years old but nonetheless grew up with a love of dancing

Cherilyn Wilson 26 (left) and Chelsea Kane 26 display their fists with the message Love Wins written on them as they pose at a celebration rally in West Hollywood California on June 26 2015 shortly after the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement

Pelusa and Huellas romp on Pescadores beach in Chorrillos Lima Peru on September 7 2015 The pair are both paraplegic dogs equipped with wheelchairs Sara Moran runs an animal shelter called Milagros Perrunos where she cares for stray dogs and shelters dogs injured from traffic accidents or domestic abuses With donations and raffling Moran purchases wheelchairs food and medical treatment for the dogs at her shelter in Chorrillos

Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Argentine dancer Pablo Rafael Pereyra dips his partner Gabriela Fernanda Torres as part of their dance routine in the stage category at the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires Argentina on August 21 2015 Torres strikes a truly unique pose among the hundreds of dancers at the World Cup of Tango The 37-year-old says she was paralyzed in a car accident when she was 2 years old but nonetheless grew up with a love of dancing

Cherilyn Wilson 26 (left) and Chelsea Kane 26 display their fists with the message Love Wins written on them as they pose at a celebration rally in West Hollywood California on June 26 2015 shortly after the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement

Pelusa and Huellas romp on Pescadores beach in Chorrillos Lima Peru on September 7 2015 The pair are both paraplegic dogs equipped with wheelchairs Sara Moran runs an animal shelter called Milagros Perrunos where she cares for stray dogs and shelters dogs injured from traffic accidents or domestic abuses With donations and raffling Moran purchases wheelchairs food and medical treatment for the dogs at her shelter in Chorrillos

Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Cherilyn Wilson 26 (left) and Chelsea Kane 26 display their fists with the message Love Wins written on them as they pose at a celebration rally in West Hollywood California on June 26 2015 shortly after the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement

Pelusa and Huellas romp on Pescadores beach in Chorrillos Lima Peru on September 7 2015 The pair are both paraplegic dogs equipped with wheelchairs Sara Moran runs an animal shelter called Milagros Perrunos where she cares for stray dogs and shelters dogs injured from traffic accidents or domestic abuses With donations and raffling Moran purchases wheelchairs food and medical treatment for the dogs at her shelter in Chorrillos

Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Pelusa and Huellas romp on Pescadores beach in Chorrillos Lima Peru on September 7 2015 The pair are both paraplegic dogs equipped with wheelchairs Sara Moran runs an animal shelter called Milagros Perrunos where she cares for stray dogs and shelters dogs injured from traffic accidents or domestic abuses With donations and raffling Moran purchases wheelchairs food and medical treatment for the dogs at her shelter in Chorrillos

Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Bella (left) and Daisy run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England on May 4 2015

Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Elephants spray villagers with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailands Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok on April 10 2015

42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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42-year-old Ridwan Sururi prepares books while a boy selects book from the mobile library in Serang Village Purbalingga Indonesia on May 5 2015 Ridwan a horse caretaker from Serang Village started the mobile library using a horse named Kudapustaka in January of 2015 with book donations from a number of friends and other donors Every week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools with Kudapustaka to offer books to the children

Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Madeleine Klonoski 2 sits on her fathers leg at a kite festival in Redondo Beach California on March 8 2015

An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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An Afghan girl plays with a rope on a hilltop in Kabul Afghanistan on May 18 2015

Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally-ill boy named Evan Leversage with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St George Ontario Canada on October 24 2015 Evan had been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old His family organized an early Christmas celebration for him with a full parade in case seven-year-old Evan did not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of December 25 Evan passed away on December 6 about one month after his early Christmas

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (right) veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia and his wife Cayetana Roman smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a housemdashthe first in their lives as ownersmdashas a gift for his merits in Neembucu Paraguay on January 7 2015 The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu Carlos Silva to honor Escobar

A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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A man throws a girl into the air during sunset as they spend time on the territory of Chersonesus Tavrichesky (Tauric Chersonesos) National Reserve in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol Crimea on July 25 2015

Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Homa Rashid a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter rests with a dog in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran Iran More than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the countryrsquos only licensed animal refuge

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo west of Kenyas capital Nairobi on July 16 2015

A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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A giant heart hangs in the sky at sunset after skywriter Nathan Hammond wrote several days-worth of messages relating to hope and love over New Orleans during the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival on

May 2 2015

This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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This picture taken on February 23 2015 shows a polar bear robot Robear lifting a woman for a demonstration in Nagoya central Japan The Robear developed by Riken Institute and Sumitomo Riko has a polar cub-like face with big doe eyes but packs enough power to transfer frail patients from a wheelchair to a bed or a bath A historically low birth rate and ever-increasing life expectancy means Japans population of elderly people is growing while the pool of youngsters to look after them is shrinking

Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Children of laborers play on makeshift swings in Amritsar India on May 12 2015

Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Earthquake survivors Suresh Parihar and his daughter Sandhya play in a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal on April 26 2015

Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Members of the general public enjoy the BEACH at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on August 25 2015 The BEACH is an interactive architectural installation with an ocean of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls that brings the experience of going to the beach indoors

Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Alabama quarterback Jake Coker embraces his delighted mother Michelle Spires after the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game against Florida on December 5 2015 in Atlanta Alabama won 29-15

A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner near the beach in the southern port city of Tyre Lebanon on September 20 2015

Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents Syrian refugees with a childs winter jacket after their arrival from Beirut at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario on December 11 2015 After months of promises and weeks of preparation the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday

A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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A young Thai man jumps in the air and cheers as his rocket takes off at the Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival on May 10 2015 in Yasothon Thailand During the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival Thai residents launch enormous home-made rockets into the air to gain Buddhist merit and to celebrate the beginning of the rainy season

Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Dairy cows nuzzle a barn cat as they wait to be milked at a farm in Granby Quebec on July 26 2015

Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Savannah Anderson kisses her sister Macy Saunders 6 as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset on September 5 2015 near Lawrence Kansas The 40-acre field planted annually by the Grinter family draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers

Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Filipino boys play basketball in floodwaters from a swollen creek at a coastal village in Malabon north of Manila

Philippines on July 8 2015 Typhoon Chan-Hom passing

over the northeastern waters of the Philippines dumping heavy rains over the capital

Manila and the northern provinces

A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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A woman plays with a kitten inside a line house in downtown Shanghai on April 12 2015

A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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A newlywed couple spell the word LOVE with their hands during a wedding photo shoot at the ancient temple of Kom Ombo north of Aswan southern Egypt on April 30 2015

A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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A man rescues a migrant from the Aegean Sea in the eastern island of Rhodes Greece on April 20 2015 Greek authorities said that at least three people died including a child after a wooden boat carrying tens of migrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes

Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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Ebola survivor and nurses aid Benetha Coleman comforts an infant girl with Ebola symptoms in the high-risk area of the Doctors Without Borders Ebola Treatment Unit on January 26 2015 in Paynesville Liberia Ebola survivors have immunity to the strain of the disease which infected them The babys blood test later came out as negative

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