Frank Squirrel, U.S. Army Korean War veteran and member of the Cherokee Nation Color Guard, looks on before the start of the annual Veterans Day parade November 11, 2009 in New York City. The nation's largest Veterans Day parade featuring 20,000 participants in New York is celebrating its 90th anniversary. By Mario Tama/Getty.
A member of Koran school attends a special prayer school for transgender Muslims or 'waria' on November 9, 2009 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Koran school, called 'Senin-Kamis' meaning Monday-Thursday, the 2 days the school operates, was founded in July 2008 by 48-year old Maryani as a place for waria to pray. Islam strictly segregates men from women when praying, leaving no-where for 'the third sex' waria to pray before now. There are now estimated to be around 300 men who prefer to live as women in Yogyakarta, many of whom work in the sex industry. By Ulet Ifansasti/Getty.
Remember going to birthday parties or the carnival as a child and getting your face painted? Face painting is fun and magical, and it lets us temporarily transform ourselves. You can be just about anything, from a fierce animal to a dainty fairy to a weird celebrity look-alike. Unfortunately, most of us stop getting our faces painting when we become adults. James Kuhn, however, picked up the habit as an adult – and ran with it…The artist, who lives in Michigan, describes himself as a face paint illusionist, drag queen, performance artist, and full-time Christian.
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11-year old Conor Hewitt makes light circles with a sparkler during Bonfire night celebrations on November 5, 2009 in Brighton, England. Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire night and Fireworks night is an annual celebration that takes place across the United Kingdom to mark the downfall of the Gunpowder plot of November 5, 1605. By Mike Hewitt/Getty Images.
Former Argentina's de facto President and Army chief Reynaldo Bignone listens to his attorney at the courtroom where he is accused of human rights crimes during the country's dictatorship, in Buenos Aires on November 4, 2009. Bignone, 81, the facto leader from 1982 to 1983, is charged with the kidnapping and torture of 56 people who were held in secret detention centers at the Campo de Mayo military base, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires during Argentina's 'dirty war' against leftists. In addition to the kidnapping and torture charges, Bignone is accused of having stolen children from some of the kidnapped detainees. Five other retired military officers also are being prosecuted during the trial, which is expected to run through early March 2010. By Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images.
World and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt holds a cheetah cub at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service in Nairobi on November 2, 2009. The triple Olympic and world sprint champion in both the 100 and 200 metres events arrived in the land of long-distance running on October 30, ahead of the launch of an environmental charity campaign to preserve local ecosystems. The cub was named Lightning Bolt. By Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images.
US First lady Michelle Obama eyes an earth worm while hosting a fall harvest of the White House vegetable garden with help of students from Washington’s Bancroft and Kimball Elementary schools on October 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. By Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty.
Victoria Gill reports:
A picture of a hunting wolf has won the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award. Jose Luis Rodriguez captured the imaginations of the judges with a picture that he had planned for years, and even sketched out on a piece of paper. "I wanted to capture a photo in which you would see a wolf in an act of hunting – or predation – but without blood," he told BBC News. "I didn't want a cruel image."
Internet remix here.
Jean Sarkozy, President Nicolas Sarkozy's son is pictured on October 23, 2009 at the Hauts-de-Seine general council in Nanterre, west of Paris, after his election as a new member of the EPAD agency overseeing development in La Defense district. Sarkozy junior, an elected councillor in the rich Paris suburb of Neuilly, at the centre of a bitter row over alleged nepotism, abandoned on October 22 his bid for a job managing France's wealthiest business district. By Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty.
A Pakistani transgendered woman walks in a street near a mosque in Rawalpindi, on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad on October 22, 2009. The insurgency-hit country is fearing fresh attacks in a month that has left around 185 people dead as troops pressed a major offensive against Taliban networks. Either that, or Michael Jackson lives! By Nicolas Asfouri/Getty.
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