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South Coast Plaza's Christmas tree as seen from the eighth floor of Westin South Coast Plaza during the 34th annual tree lighting on Thursday, November 19: photo by Scott Smeltzer / Daily Pilot, 15 December 2015
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It's Beginning To Feel a Lot Like... Day 336 of 2015. Christmas lights are now officially acceptable.: photo by Eugene Kim, 2 December 2015
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Palm frond, San Pablo Avenue, Oakland: photo by Mike Linksvayer, 15 November 2015
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All #LAUSD schools closed by 'credible threat' of violence: image via L.A. Times Photos @latimesphotos, 15 December 2015
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LAPD School Police check on the officials at the LAUSD bus yard in Gardena after complete closure of the district: image via Mark Boster @MarkBoster, 15 December 2015
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Its locked down tighter than Darth Vader's strangle grip at #StarWarsPremiere @jlclendenin: image via Hal Wells @lahalw, 15 December 2015 West Covina, CA
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Carrie Fisher, who reprises the iconic Leia, plays with the photographers at the red-carpet premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in Hollywood.: photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times, 15 December 2015
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Schools were back in session in Los Angeles on Wednesday, but many parents are still on edge: image via The New York Times @nytimes, 16 December 2015
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Prayer candles glow where a 17-year-old student was killed in LA while on his way to a closed school yesterday.: image via Mark Boster @MarkBoster, 16 December 2015
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Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, wore a hijab at a church service in Chicago. Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian institution in Illinois, has disciplined Hawkins, putting her on administrative leave after she wore a head scarf in solidarity with Muslims and said they worship the “same God” as Christians.: photo by Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune, via Associated Press, 16 December 2015 ![Malala Yousafzai in Birmingham, England, on Monday.]()
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in Birmingham, England, on Monday. Ms. Yousafzai, 18, denounced Donald J. Trump’s contentious policies toward Muslims in an interview with Agence France-Presse on Tuesday. “Well, that’s really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others,” Ms. Yousafzai said: photo by Paul Ellis/Agence France-Presse, 16 December 2015
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![A man consults a mobile phone beside a woman begging on the pavement outside a clothes store in Salamanca an upscale neighbourhood of Madrid. The number of millionaires in Spain -- defined as having a fortune of over a million US dollars excluding their main residence and consumer goods -- rose by 40 percent to 178,000 last year from 2008 when the crisis started, according to consulting firm Capgemini. At the same time the number of people living with "severe material deprivation" in the country has doubled since 2007 to just over three million last year, according to a study by anti-poverty agency Oxfam]()
![A Filipino villager burns debris in the typhoon-hit town of Donsol, Sorsogon province, southern Manila, Philippines on Wednesday. Philippine relief officials rushed aid to tens of thousands of people affected by a typhoon that left at least nine people dead. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said large swathes of the eastern and central Philippines have been affected by Typhoon Melor, which is now moving slowly into the South China Sea. The agency said several provinces remained without power and communications as Melor toppled trees, electric posts and flattened houses along its path. Several roads and bridges remained impassable due to flash floods and landslides.]()
![An armed Kurdish militant walk...TOPSHOT - An armed Kurdish militant walks in the Okmeydani district of Istanbul during a demonstration against recent curfews imposed on Kurdish towns on December 15, 2015. The Turkish government has been waging a relentless offensive aimed at crippling the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has staged a string of attacks against security forces in Turkey since a two-year-old ceasefire fell apart in late July. Clashes have been erupting in Turkey amid growing anger over the imposition of curfews to back up anti-PKK operations. / AFP / CAGDAS ERDOGANCAGDAS ERDOGAN/AFP/Getty Images]()
![German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a toy wolf she got as a present during a party convention of the Christian Democrats (CDU) in Karlsruhe, Germany, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. Merkel faces a congress of her conservative party amid tensions over her management of the migrant influx. ( AP Photo/Michael Probst)]()
![A boy carries a basket of laundry as another child follows him inside Eleonas refugee camp near central Athens Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. Financially stricken Greece is the main entry point for asylum-seekers trying to enter the 28-nation European Union. More than 700,000 people have arrived so far this year but few want to remain in the country, with almost all heading to more prosperous European nations.]()
![Labourers unload sacks of rice from a handcart at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, December 14, 2015. India's wholesale prices fell for a 13th straight month in November, but a sharp pickup in food prices and a pending wage hike for millions of government employees are likely to keep policymakers worried about potential inflationary risks.]()
Labourers unload sacks of rice from a handcart at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, on Monday: photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, 14 December 2015
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![Young Moroccans pray for rain, Marrakesh, Morocco, 11 December 2015. The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, called on the faithful to pray for rain in the Kingdom, which is suffering from a severe drought as a result of the depletion of the water table and is severly affecting agriculture in the country, forcing people to move to cities in search of work]()
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![Filipino evacuees walk on a path with debris in the typhoon-hit town of Juban, Sorsogon province, southern Philippines, 15 December 2015. Typhoon Melor weakened slightly as it barreled through the Philippine islands. causing power outages in towns and cities along its path and forcing thousands to flee their homes, officials said. It said 733,150 people had fled their homes amid threats of sea surges, flash floods and landslides. EPA/FRANCIS R. MALASIG]()
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A mural is seen with a slum in the background on the bank of the Rio Negro (Black River), in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil: photo by Christophe Simon/AFP, 15 December 2015
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Stamford Five-Bedroom • $1,499,000 • FAIRFIELD • 200 Fifth Street TAXES $22,530 a year: photo by Douglas Healey for The New York Times, 11 December 2015
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Stamford Five-Bedroom • $1,499,000 • FAIRFIELD • 200 Fifth Street TAXES $22,530 a year: photo by Douglas Healey for The New York Times, 11 December 2015
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The designers of Valentino were honored Monday night at the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund’s gala at Alice Tully Hall. Guests included Debbie Harry, who performed later in the night, and Giancarlo Giammetti: photo by Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times, 7 December 2015
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She closed her set with one of her solo songs, “In Love With Love.”: photo by Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times, 7 December 2015
!["Oui" (Yes) is seen written on the walls of a polling station, where a soldier of the UN peacekeeping force MINUSCA contingent is on guard on December 14, 2015. Another two people died overnight in the Central African Republic capital Bangui, the Red Cross said on December 14, bringing the death toll from unrest sparked by a constitutional referendum to five. Clashes involving rocket launchers and machine guns disrupted the polling on December 13 in the Muslim-majority PK-5 district of Bangui. The vote is seen as a test run for presidential and parliamentary elections due to take place December 27 to end more than two years of conflict between the Muslim and Christian militias.]()
l“Oui” (Yes) is seen written on the walls of a polling station in Bangui, where a soldier of the UN peacekeeping force MINUSCA contingent is on guard on Monday: photo by Marco Longari/AFP, 14 December 2015
![An Indian roadside traditional ear cleaner cleans the ear of a customer as other customer waits for his turn in New Delhi, India, 15 December 2015. There are hundreds of roadside traditional ear cleaners in India known as 'Kaan- saaf-waalah' who engaged in this profession without any professional qualification.]()
An Indian roadside traditional ear cleaner cleans the ear of a customer in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday: photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA, 15 December 2015 !["Oui" (Yes) is seen written on the walls of a polling station, where a soldier of the UN peacekeeping force MINUSCA contingent is on guard on December 14, 2015. Another two people died overnight in the Central African Republic capital Bangui, the Red Cross said on December 14, bringing the death toll from unrest sparked by a constitutional referendum to five. Clashes involving rocket launchers and machine guns disrupted the polling on December 13 in the Muslim-majority PK-5 district of Bangui. The vote is seen as a test run for presidential and parliamentary elections due to take place December 27 to end more than two years of conflict between the Muslim and Christian militias.]()
“Oui” (Yes) is seen written on the walls of a polling station in Bangui, where a soldier of the UN peacekeeping force MINUSCA contingent is on guard on Monday: photo by Marco Longari/AFP, 14 December 2015 ![An Indian roadside traditional ear cleaner cleans the ear of a customer as other customer waits for his turn in New Delhi, India, 15 December 2015. There are hundreds of roadside traditional ear cleaners in India known as 'Kaan- saaf-waalah' who engaged in this profession without any professional qualification.]()
An Indian roadside traditional ear cleaner cleans the ear of a customer as another customer waits for his turn in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday: photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA, 15 December 2015 ![German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a toy wolf she got as a present during a party convention of the Christian Democrats (CDU) in Karlsruhe, Germany, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. Merkel faces a congress of her conservative party amid tensions over her management of the migrant influx. ( AP Photo/Michael Probst)]()
![A man consults a mobile phone beside a woman begging on the pavement outside a clothes store in Salamanca an upscale neighbourhood of Madrid. The number of millionaires in Spain -- defined as having a fortune of over a million US dollars excluding their main residence and consumer goods -- rose by 40 percent to 178,000 last year from 2008 when the crisis started, according to consulting firm Capgemini. At the same time the number of people living with "severe material deprivation" in the country has doubled since 2007 to just over three million last year, according to a study by anti-poverty agency Oxfam]()
![Children play in front of a brick factor...Children play in front of a brick factory on the outskirts of the northern Myanmar city of Mandalay on December 14, 2015. AFP PHOTO / Phyo Hein KyawPhyo Hein Kyaw/AFP/Getty Images]()
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Mt. Diablo is silhouetted as the sun rises above the Sacramento River delta: photo by Melinda Welsh/Los Angeles Times, 11 December 2015
96-foot Christmas tree burns down at Westin South Coast Plaza: image via The Daily Pilot @The Daily Pilot, 14 December 2015
Neoteny
the mad 96 foot christmas tree of the destiny of the species burns
the mad 96 foot christmas tree of the destiny of the species burns
and the entire school district is evacuated out of an abundance of brain gumbo
Monkey Mind by Squirrelly Logic out of Random Unfolding of Events
goes off at 8-5 spurred by Incurably Talkative Inner Tongues
tell you the cosmic giggle is not your friend
the plasticity of time language eats up
cold and so clear white boat wakes churn visible outside the Gate
goes off at 8-5 spurred by Incurably Talkative Inner Tongues
tell you the cosmic giggle is not your friend
the plasticity of time language eats up
cold and so clear white boat wakes churn visible outside the Gate
Fire destroys 90-foot Christmas tree outside Costa Mesa hotel (pics @cdavidsonger): image via KTLA @KTLA, 14 December 2015
Fire destroys 90-foot Christmas tree outside Costa Mesa hotel (pics @cdavidsonger): image via KTLA @KTLA, 14 December 2015
Fire destroys 90-foot Christmas tree outside Costa Mesa hotel (pics @cdavidsonger): image via KTLA @KTLA, 14 December 2015
Fire destroys 90-foot Christmas tree outside Costa Mesa hotel (pics @cdavidsonger): image via KTLA @KTLA, 14 December 2015
A maintenance crew gets to work after an early morning fire destroyed the 96-foot white fir Christmas tree at the Westin South Coast Plaza on Monday: photo by Don Leach / Daily Pilot, 14 November 2015
A maintenance crew cleans the area around the Westin South Coast Plaza Christmas tree which was destroyed in an early morning fire Monday morning. The 96-foot white fir tree is an annual holiday tradition in Town Center Park.: photo by Don Leach / Daily Pilot, 14 November 2015
South Coast Plaza's Christmas tree as seen from the eighth floor of Westin South Coast Plaza during the 34th annual tree lighting on Thursday, November 19: photo by Scott Smeltzer / Daily Pilot, 15 December 2015
It's Beginning To Feel a Lot Like... Day 336 of 2015. Christmas lights are now officially acceptable.: photo by Eugene Kim, 2 December 2015
Palm frond, San Pablo Avenue, Oakland: photo by Mike Linksvayer, 15 November 2015
Commuters were evacuated from a Metro in #DTLA on Tuesday after smoke was detected. @LANow: image via barbara davidson @photospice, 15 December 2015 Los Angeles, CA
Commuters were evacuated from a Metro in #DTLA on Tuesday after smoke was detected. @LANow: image via barbara davidson @photospice, 15 December 2015 Los Angeles, CA
Commuters were evacuated from a Metro in #DTLA on Tuesday after smoke was detected. @LANow: image via barbara davidson @photospice, 15 December 2015 Los Angeles, CA
Commuters were evacuated from a Metro in #DTLA on Tuesday after smoke was detected. @LANow: image via barbara davidson @photospice, 15 December 2015 Los Angeles, CA
All #LAUSD schools closed by 'credible threat' of violence: image via L.A. Times Photos @latimesphotos, 15 December 2015
All #LAUSD schools closed by 'credible threat' of violence: image via L.A. Times Photos @latimesphotos, 15 December 2015
All #LAUSD schools closed by 'credible threat' of violence: image via L.A. Times Photos @latimesphotos, 15 December 2015
All #LAUSD schools closed by 'credible threat' of violence: image via L.A. Times Photos @latimesphotos, 15 December 2015
LAPD School Police check on the officials at the LAUSD bus yard in Gardena after complete closure of the district: image via Mark Boster @MarkBoster, 15 December 2015
Its locked down tighter than Darth Vader's strangle grip at #StarWarsPremiere @jlclendenin: image via Hal Wells @lahalw, 15 December 2015 West Covina, CA
Carrie Fisher, who reprises the iconic Leia, plays with the photographers at the red-carpet premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in Hollywood.: photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times, 15 December 2015
George Lucas, left, creator of the "Star Wars franchise, and director J.J. Abrams chat at the red-carpet premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in Hollywood: photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times, 15 December 2015
PK's PICKS #GoldenGate, #GGFRacing, with our #SpeedRatingsProjections JUST SIGN UP (FREE): image via peter karam @Peterkaram729, 12 December 2015
Actor Harrison Ford and his wife, actress Calista Flockhart, arrive at the red-carpet premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in Hollywood: photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times, 15 December 2015
#arson suspected in fire at Coachella mosque, Islamic Society of Palm Springs, #Molotov cocktail #BreakingNews: image via Gina Ferazzi @Gina Ferazzi 14 December 2015
Watch: What's your first #StarWars memory? @latimesent: image via LA Times Video @latimesvideo, 16 December 2015
Parents dropping off their children at Gardner Street Elementary School in Hollywood, a day after a threat prompted officials to shut down all public schools in Los Angeles: photo by Monica Almeida/The New York Times, 16 December 2015
Schools were back in session in Los Angeles on Wednesday, but many parents are still on edge: image via The New York Times @nytimes, 16 December 2015
Prayer candles glow where a 17-year-old student was killed in LA while on his way to a closed school yesterday.: image via Mark Boster @MarkBoster, 16 December 2015
Emotions run high at the Highland Park memorial site where a 17-year-old student was killed in a traffic accident: image via Mark Boster @MarkBoster, 16 December 2015
Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, wore a hijab at a church service in Chicago. Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian institution in Illinois, has disciplined Hawkins, putting her on administrative leave after she wore a head scarf in solidarity with Muslims and said they worship the “same God” as Christians.: photo by Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune, via Associated Press, 16 December 2015
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in Birmingham, England, on Monday. Ms. Yousafzai, 18, denounced Donald J. Trump’s contentious policies toward Muslims in an interview with Agence France-Presse on Tuesday. “Well, that’s really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others,” Ms. Yousafzai said: photo by Paul Ellis/Agence France-Presse, 16 December 2015
Helicopters. Unnecessary. #FreddieGray: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 16 December 2015
"This is what the justice system looks like for Black people" #FreddieGray#WilliamPorter Trial: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 16 December 2015
"Do you know what this police lineup is? It's an act of power" #FreddieGray#WilliamPorter Trial: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 16 December 2015
"You are no different than the gang members you lock up. And you know this." #FreddieGray#WilliamPorter Trial: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 16 December 2015
Don't trust her. #FreddieGray#WilliamPorter Trial: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 16 December 2015
"A lot of concerns about all the 'rioting' in the past" She asks. Fox took as long as 2nd Q to ask. #FreddieGray: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 16 December 2015
Hitting streets now. #FreddieGray#WilliamPorter Trial: image via Chuck Modi @ChuckModi1, 16 December 2015
ICYMI: The highlights from last night's #GOPDebate: image via Reuters Politics @ReutersPolitics, 16 December 2015
Will Donald Trump make America great again? Have your say #BVpredictions 2016: image via ReutersBreakingViews @BreakingViews, 16 December 2015
Members of German federal police Bundespolizei demonstrate their skills during a presentation of the new unit for arrests and securing evidence (BFE) in Ahrensfelde near Berlin, Germany on Wednesday: photo by Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters, 16 December 2015
A man consults a mobile phone outside a clothes store in Salamanca an upscale neighbourhood of Madrid: photo by Gerard Julien/AFP, 16 December 2015
A Filipino villager burns debris in the typhoon-hit town of Donsol, Sorsogon province, southern Manila, Philippines on Wednesday: photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA, 16 December 2015
An armed Kurdish militant walks in the Okmeydani district of Istanbul during a demonstration against recent curfews imposed on Kurdish towns: photo by Cagdas Erdogan 16 December 2015
Privilege: Elizabeth Daryush: Children of wealth in your warm nursery
German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a toy wolf she got as a present during a party convention of the Christian Democrats (CDU) in Karlsruhe, Germany: photo by Michael Probst/AP, 14 December 2015
Children of wealth in your warm nursery,
Set in the cushioned window-seat to watch
The volleying snow, guarded invisibly
By the clear double pane through which no touch
Untimely penetrates, you cannot tell
What winter means; its cruel truths to you
Are only sound and sight; your citadel
Is safe from feeling, and from knowledge too.
Set in the cushioned window-seat to watch
The volleying snow, guarded invisibly
By the clear double pane through which no touch
Untimely penetrates, you cannot tell
What winter means; its cruel truths to you
Are only sound and sight; your citadel
Is safe from feeling, and from knowledge too.
Go down, go out to elemental wrong,
Waste your too round limbs, tan your skin too white;
The glass of comfort, ignorance, seems strong
To-day, and yet perhaps this very night
Waste your too round limbs, tan your skin too white;
The glass of comfort, ignorance, seems strong
To-day, and yet perhaps this very night
You'll wake to horror's wrecking fire -- your home
Is wired within for this, in every room.
Is wired within for this, in every room.
Elizabeth Daryush (1887-1977): Children of wealth in your warm nursery, from Collected Poems (1976)
A boy carries a basket of laundry as another child follows him inside Eleonas refugee camp near central Athens Monday. Financially stricken Greece is the main entry point for asylum-seekers trying to enter the 28-nation European Union: photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP, 14 December 2015
Labourers unload sacks of rice from a handcart at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, on Monday: photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, 14 December 2015
Children playing front of a brick factory on the outskirts of the Myanmar city of Mandalay: photo by Phyo Hein Kyaw / AFP, 14 December 2015
A Syrian man escorts his injured wife following reported air strikes by regime forces on the town of al-Nashabiyah in the eastern Ghouta region, a rebel stronghold east of the capital Damascus, on Monday: photo by Amer Almohibany/AFP, 11 December 2015
A Palestinian woman supporting Hamas attends a rally in Gaza City on Monday, to mark the ruling Islamist movement’s 28th birthday: photo by Mahmud Hamsa/AFP, 11 December 2015
Palestinian protesters carry an injured comrade during clashes with Israeli soldiers that followed a protest against the Israeli settlements in Qadomem, in the Kofr Qadom village near the West Bank city of Nablus, on Friday: photo by Alaa Badarneh/EPA, 11 December 2015
Young Moroccans pray for rain, Marrakesh, Morocco, on Friday. The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, called on the faithful to pray for rain in the Kingdom, which is suffering from a severe drought as a result of the depletion of the water table, severely affecting agriculture in the country: photo by Abdelhak Senna/EPA, 11 December 2015
Residents walk by damage at a site hit by one of three explosive trucks, in the YPG-controlled town of Tel Tamer, Syria on Friday: photo by Rodi Said/Reuters, 11 December 2015
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-19M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The Russian rocket carries British astronaut Tim Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra: photo by Dmitry Lovetsky/AP, 15 December 2015
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Anent the Deeference o Tastes
A cuddy,
goavin at a camel,
......................laughit:
'Whit
kinna cuddy's yon,
...............aa bim-bam-bauchlt?'
The camel shrieked:
...............'Ye caa yirsel a cuddy?
Ye're naethin
but a scrunty
...............shilpit camel!''
-- Ach ,
lat auld Frosty-Pow abune unscrammle
the twa puir craturs;
..he
.....kens the brose frae the gundy.
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930): Anent the Deeference o Tastes, from Wi the haill voice: 25 poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated into the Scots by Edwin Morgan, 1972
Droid BB-8 arrives at the world premiere of the film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in Hollywood, California last night: photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters, 15 December 2015
Filipinos evacuate the typhoon-hit town of Juban, Sorsogon province, southern Philippines, on Tuesday: photo by Francis R Malasig/EPA 15 December 2015
A mural is seen with a slum in the background on the bank of the Rio Negro (Black River), in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil: photo by Christophe Simon/AFP, 15 December 2015
Mack Weldon, shown here, offers well-constructed though low-ke
Stamford Five-Bedroom • $1,499,000 • FAIRFIELD • 200 Fifth Street TAXES $22,530 a year: photo by Douglas Healey for The New York Times, 11 December 2015
Stamford Five-Bedroom • $1,499,000 • FAIRFIELD • 200 Fifth Street TAXES $22,530 a year: photo by Douglas Healey for The New York Times, 11 December 2015
Stamford Five-Bedroom • $1,499,000 • FAIRFIELD • 200 Fifth Street TAXES $22,530 a year: photo by Douglas Healey for The New York Times, 11 December 2015
Stamford Five-Bedroom • $1,499,000 • FAIRFIELD • 200 Fifth Street TAXES $22,530 a year: photo by Douglas Healey for The New York Times, 11 December 2015
Stamford Five-Bedroom • $1,499,000 • FAIRFIELD • 200 Fifth Street TAXES $22,530 a year: photo by Douglas Healey for The New York Times, 11 December 2015
Stamford Five-Bedroom • $1,499,000 • FAIRFIELD • 200 Fifth Street TAXES $22,530 a year: photo by Douglas Healey for The New York Times, 11 December 2015
The designers of Valentino were honored Monday night at the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund’s gala at Alice Tully Hall. Guests included Debbie Harry, who performed later in the night, and Giancarlo Giammetti: photo by Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times, 7 December 2015
She closed her set with one of her solo songs, “In Love With Love.”: photo by Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times, 7 December 2015
An Indian roadside traditional ear cleaner cleans the ear of a customer in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday: photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA, 15 December 2015
“Oui” (Yes) is seen written on the walls of a polling station in Bangui, where a soldier of the UN peacekeeping force MINUSCA contingent is on guard on Monday: photo by Marco Longari/AFP, 14 December 2015
An Indian roadside traditional ear cleaner cleans the ear of a customer as another customer waits for his turn in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday: photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA, 15 December 2015
German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a toy wolf she got as a present during a party convention of the Christian Democrats (CDU) in Karlsruhe, Germany: photo by Michael Probst/AP, 14 December 2015
A man consults a mobile phone beside a woman begging on the pavement outside a clothes store in Salamanca an upscale neighbourhood of Madrid: photo by Gerard Julien/AFP, 16 December 2015
Children playing front of a brick factory on the outskirts of the Myanmar city of Mandalay: photo by Phyo Hein Kyaw / AFP, 14 December 2015
Mt. Diablo is silhouetted as the sun rises above the Sacramento River delta: photo by Melinda Welsh/Los Angeles Times, 11 December 2015