The Year in Pictures

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Tens of thousands of workers and labor activists march through the central business district in Jakarta, Indonesia. Protestors were demanding the implementation of higher minimum wages and better working conditions.

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Chocolate, a miniature dachshund receives acupuncture therapy to help with lumbar disk herniation, at the Marina Street Okada animal hospital in Tokyo Japan.

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Ariel Castro stands with his head down during his arraignment on kidnapping and rape charges in Cleveland, Ohio. Castro is accused of abducting three girls, Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 27 and Gina DeJesus, believed to be about 23 and holding them for about 10-years.

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Four-year-old Sophia Phillips carries an American flag presented to her during a burial service for her father, Staff Sergeant Francis G. Phillips, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington Virginia. Phillips, from Meridian, New York was killed in combat in the Maiwand district of Afghanistan when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by an improvised explosive device.

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An American flag flies over the rubble of a destroyed neighbourhood on May 24, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado of EF5 strength and two miles wide touched down killing at least 24 people and leaving behind extensive damage to homes and businesses. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.

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Head coach Mack Brown of the Texas Longhorns has a cooler of ice water dumped on him by his team after the Longhorns beat the Oklahoma Sooners 36-20 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.

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Revelers surround the 'Nans Vells', 'old dwarves' in Catalan, during the first day of 'La Patum' Festival in Berga, Spain. The Patum festival's roots are found in the theatrical performances of the Middle Ages and is held in the town of Berga each year during the week of Corpus Christi.

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Competitors celebrate completing the Colour Run in Gold Coast, Australia.

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Oscar Pistorius appears in the Pretoria Magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius is accused of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp. This is Pistorius's first appearance ahead of his murder trial.

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An aerial view of the flooded parts of the Slovak capital Bratislava from the high water level of the Danube river in Bratislava, Slovakia. Bratislava underwent the Danube highest water level in history which reached record-breaking 1,030 centimetres but the anti-flood barriers at the city centre resisted successfully.