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Picture Editor's Choice, December 11, 2014
12 ImagesThe Age Picture Editor, Danie Sprague selects the best images from around the world today on the wires.
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Zheng Feng, an amateur climber takes wedding pictures with his bride on a cliff in Jinhua, Zhejiang province.Credit:Reuters/China Daily
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A participant in costume eats a sandwich after a Halloween parade in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo.Credit:Reuters
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German pianist Stefan Aaron plays an orange piano on a "flying carpet" platform suspended from a helicopter, over the Munich airport.Credit:Reuters
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A radio-controlled flying witch makes a test flight past a moon setting into clouds along the pacific ocean in Carlsbad, California.Credit:Reuters
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A camel herder walks his camels at Pushkar Fair in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan.Credit:Reuters
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A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken, walks through undergrowth in Richmond Park in south west London.Credit:Reuters
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A car drives along Seaview road as waves crash over on December 9, 2014 in Saltcoats ,Scotland. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the next forty eight hours as high winds start to build ahead of an Atlantic storm due tomorrow.Credit:Getty Images
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Chinese migrant workers wait in a bus as they leave after their shift at a construction site on December 9, 2014 in Beijing, China. It is estimated that there are more than 40 million construction laborers in China, many of whom come from smaller centers to the country's larger cities to find work.Credit:Getty Images
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Military Police officer Alexsander Oliveira (L), wounded by a grenade while patrolling in a favela, walks with a colleague among black crosses placed in the sand honoring the 152 military police officers killed in Rio de Janeiro state in the past two years on December 9, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The memorial was organized by the NGO Rio de Paz (Peace Rio) on Copacabana beach and marks International Human Rights Day which falls on December 10.. Credit:Getty Images
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Yinfeng Hotel collapses as it is being demolished by explosives in Wuhan, Hubei province, December 9, 2014. Credit:Reuters/China Daily
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A man transports metal sheets swept by Typhoon Hagupit on the sidecar of a motorcyle in San Julian, Eastern Samar in central Philippines December 9, 2014. Philippine emergency workers were struggling on Tuesday to reach coastal villages on an island hardest hit by a typhoon where thousands of homes have been wrecked by powerful winds and a storm surge rising three to four meters (10 to 13 feet). Nearly 13,000 houses were crushed and more than 22,300 damaged on the eastern island of Samar, where Typhoon Hagupit made landfall on Saturday and made slow progress across the country, officials said. Credit:Reuters
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A baby sleeps in a hammock at an evacuation centre for Typhoon Hagupit victims in San Julian, Eastern Samar in central Philippines December 10, 2014. Philippine emergency workers were struggling on Tuesday to reach coastal villages on an island hardest hit by a typhoon where thousands of homes have been wrecked by powerful winds and a storm surge rising three to four meters (10 to 13 feet). Nearly 13,000 houses were crushed and more than 22,300 damaged on the eastern island of Samar, where Typhoon Hagupit made landfall on Saturday and made slow progress across the country, officials said. Credit:Reuters
