November 13, 2014
The world’s shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, greets the tallest living man, Sultan Kosen, to mark Guinness World Records Day. Kosen, who is 8-foot-1, towers over Dangi, who is only 21.5 inches tall. The Guinness World Records was celebrating its 60th edition of its annual records book.
November 11, 2014
Members of the Boy Scouts wait to march in the Veterans Day parade on Fifth Avenue.
November 13, 2014
A shell explodes in the Syrian city, as seen from the Turkish border village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province. A report issued on November 13 by the Norwegian Refugee Council and International Rescue Committee says Syrians are increasingly unable to escape their country’s war as tougher policies in potential host nations are preventing them from taking refuge in the region and beyond.
November 13, 2014
A man walks past graffiti painted on a wall denouncing strikes by U.S. drones in Yemen. Yemeni authorities have paid out tens of thousands of dollars to victims of drone strikes using U.S.-supplied funds, a source close to Yemen’s presidency said, echoing accounts by legal sources and a family that lost two members in a 2012 raid.
November 11, 2014
A mother holds a piece of gauze to the face of her injured daughter at a field hospital after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighborhood.
November 12, 2014
Stranded window washers hang on the side of One World Trade Center. New York City firefighters rescued the two window washers, who had been trapped for two hours on broken scaffolding dangling outside the 68th floor of the city’s tallest skyscraper, local officials said.
November 14, 2014
Women pose with the traditional Korean side dish kimchi, or fermented cabbage, during the 2014 Seoul Kimchi Making and Sharing Festival at Seoul City Hall Plaza. More than 2,300 volunteers made 250 tons of kimchi to give away to needy people during the winter season.
November 13, 2014
A woman who underwent sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilisation “camp” walks to sit in a hospital bed at a district hospital in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh. The doctor whose sterilization of 83 women in less than three hours ended in at least a dozen deaths said the express operations were his moral responsibility and blamed adulterated medicines for the tragedy. Dr. R.K. Gupta, who says he has conducted more than 50,000 such operations, denied that his equipment was rusty or dirty and said it was the government’s duty to control the number of people who turned up at his family-planning camp.
November 11, 2014
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying (back) walks past China’s President Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, inside the International Convention Center at Yanqi Lake.
November 14, 2014
Activists pose for pictures with heads depicting some of the G20 leaders during a protests against inequality. World leaders have gathered in the city for the annual G20 Summit and are expected to discuss economic growth, free trade, and climate change, as well as pressing issues including the situation in Ukraine and the Ebola crisis.
November 12, 2014
The United Arab Emirates air force performs in an air show in Guangdong province. The 10th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition, organized by Zhuhai Airshow Co., Ltd., runs until November 16.
