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This year saw Typhoon Haiyan’s sweeping swath of destruction in the Philippines and the devastation it caused to the city of Tacloban. Taken before recovery teams reached the ruins, a survivor stands among the debris of what was once his home.
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Nick Vujicic, a motivational speaker who was born without limbs, is best known for his honest and heart-felt speeches which have inspired people from across the globe. At a marine park in Singapore, he dove to new depths when he swam with sharks, showing stunned onlookers that anything is possible.
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In a unique photo opportunity, one journalist was granted a meeting with Pakistan’s only female war-ready fighter pilot. Ayesha Farooq, 26, is at the forefront of challenging attitudes toward women and gender equality in Pakistan, and the photo is a powerful example of the many individuals leading the fight for social change.
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On November 24th, thousands of people fled as a volcano in western Indonesia erupted and sent hot ash spewing over miles of villages. Returning to the scene of Mount Sinabung’s destruction, one photographer captured a solitary, resilient hibiscus flower amid the ash-covered plants at a village in the north Sumatra province.
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With political and economic tensions in Greece still high, supporters of the extreme-right wing Golden Dawn Party rallied outside Parliament in February to mark the death of three Greek military officers in a crisis between Greece and Turkey. More than 2,000 supporters marched to the party’s headquarters, all wearing black and carrying flaming torches. The Greek government is still struggling to outlaw the burgeoning fascist movement.
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After a 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown wrecked the Fukushima prefecture in Japan , more than 160,000 citizens were evacuated. Now deserted, the fields of Fukushima became host to an unlikely addition, a vending machine. Washed in by the tsunami two years later, the apparatus was seemingly untouched by the disaster.
