![Christmas has come early in New York, as the Rockettes perform during the 'The Radio City Christmas Spectacular'](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408108536419/f612b630-54bd-4eeb-9e03-2426ff6cebd1-620x372.jpeg)
![Chinese Catholics take communion during a service for the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Beijing](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408108664666/5964d5fa-c63b-4a75-80b4-b4e8443029cc-620x422.jpeg)
![A worker controls a furnace at Europe's largest steel factory, ThyssenKrupp AG in Duisburg, Germany](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408108441386/e9accd4a-fd07-413e-9259-f8d94a7d8661-620x437.jpeg)
![Tjimurdance theatre perform in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the Royal Mile](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408108793574/09ce3b95-fb19-44c6-bf72-26d790a501ac-620x411.jpeg)
![Armed policemen take part in a drill in Guilin, China](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408108717508/04b390bd-c637-4a1b-a68e-950127e18750-620x413.jpeg)
![A marching band makes its way through the streets of Cachoeira in Brazil during the Festival of the Good Death](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408108952801/37f78f52-636d-4839-8221-6807347c73ac-620x405.jpeg)
![A member of the Sisterhood of the Good Death prays after a procession at the Festival of the Good Death in Cachoeira, Brazil](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408108864154/a2f0c259-9cc6-42aa-b0ea-8f8afb3ad52e-620x409.jpeg)
![A girl crosses a fountain in front of the cathedral in Guatemala City](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408109595364/46166c99-7e2b-4a0a-83e8-c3f56e03535e-620x419.jpeg)
![Riders compete in the Palio dei Ciuchi, or donkey race in Roccatederighi Grosseto, Italy](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408109045734/e17bcacc-e8a7-4dc9-95c9-6a3922cd22a0-620x414.jpeg)
![People put their hands in the air in Union Square, New York, in remembrance of Mike Brown, a young man who was killed in Ferguson, Missouri](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408109167207/5060b86b-984e-464f-9ad2-b6ccff7111ab-620x357.jpeg)
![A fifteen-metre long sea turtle is towed around Sydney Harbour](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408109482916/054d7620-25bd-4d61-a232-1dbfa7dd9b5c-620x409.jpeg)
![A submerged artwork by BJ Price is seen at Sydney Aquarium at Darling Harbour](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408109234730/7e77fca9-fd71-40e8-abd2-6e0bc92c626d-620x412.jpeg)
![Fireworks explode above a giant flower carpet created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Turkish workers' migration to Belgium at the Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408109340483/a3bfb231-6644-4c40-a5f9-2d014525a4af-620x412.jpeg)
![Three week olds Baby Meerkats, nicknamed The Three Amigos, poke their heads out from beneath their mother](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/untcsid/20140912170015im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/15/1408115709404/3efb8613-d4a8-4925-af34-d583cf8f051f-620x457.jpeg)
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