December 14, 2014

Kashmiri children warm themselves using "Kangris", or traditional fire pots, as they sit outside a polling station on a cold winter morning during the fourth phase of the state assembly election in Srinagar, India.

Zaman editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanli, surrounded by his colleagues and plainclothes police officers (C), reacts as he leaves the headquarters of Zaman daily newspaper in Istanbul. Turkish police raided media outlets close to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric and detained 24 people including top executives and ex-police chiefs in operations against what President Tayyip Erdogan calls a terrorist network conspiring to topple him.

Israeli fishermen cast their rods from a pier at the the old port of Jaffa, mixed Jewish-Arab part of Tel Aviv, Israel.

A man competes in the Tough Run Challenge charity event as part of Tour de Farm in Nakhon Ratchasima, northeastern province of Thailand.

Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims reach out to touch the tomb of Imam al-Abbas located inside the Imam al-Abbas shrine to mark Arbain in the holy city of Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, Dec. 13, 2014.

Miss South Africa and the 2014 Miss World, Rolene Strauss, reacts after being crowned during the grand final of the Miss World 2014 pageant at the Excel London ICC Auditorium in London.

A man dressed as Santa Claus sits at the front of the Kollhoff Tower at Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin, Germany.

Children play on an art sculpture by the sea in southern port city of Limassol, Cyprus.