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Paralympic snowboarder Evan Strong poses during the 2013 U.S. Olympic Team Media Summit in Park City, Utah, on October 1, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)     show less

A Philippine national flag put up by government soldiers flutters on a building riddled with bullet holes from clashes with Muslim rebels of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Zamboanga city, southern Philippines, on September 28, 2013. Philippine forces said on Friday they had rescued the last civilians held by Muslim rebels on a southern island after nearly three weeks of fighting that has raised doubts about government efforts to end decades-old insurgencies. About 200 people, mostly rebels, were killed and more than 100,000 residents of the port city on the main southern island of Mindanao were displaced. (Reuters/Stringer)     show less

A female Mossy leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus sikorae) -- one of a group of geckos native to Madagascar and part of the private collection of Irondequoit, New York resident and Reef Shoppe owner Thomas Wood -- pictured in Rochester, New York, on August 1, 2013. The geckos are among some of the species studied by Daniel Scantlebury, a Ph.D. student in biology at University of Rochester, for a recent paper describing slowdown in the rate at which species form on Madagascar. (Reuters/J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester)     show less

Daniel Orellana of the Charles Darwin Foundation collects seashore imagery with the Street View Trekker at the Los Humedales wetland area on Isabela Island in the Galapagos. (AP Photo/Google)     show less

A waitress carries beer mugs through a crowd on the opening day of the Oktoberfest at the Hofbräu Tent in Munich, Germany, on September 21, 2013. Oktoberfest, which this year will run from September 21 through October 6, is the world's largest beer fest and draws millions of visitors. (Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)     show less

A member of the 'Ansar Dimachk' Brigade, part of the Asood Allah Brigade which operates under the Free Syrian Army, uses an iPad during preparations to fire a homemade mortar at one of the battlefronts in Joubar, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on September 15, 2013. (Reuters/Mohamed Abdullah)     show less

Two women are hoisted into a Black Hawk helicopter as they are rescued from a flood-affected area near Jamestown, Colorado, on September 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Denver Post,Joe Amon)     show less

A computer operator watches screens displaying live interior and exterior images of the mock village before him during a training exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, on February 20, 2013. (US Department of Defense/EJ Hersom)     show less