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People cross a street against strong wind and heavy rainfall under the influence of Typhoon Haiyan, in Sanya, Hainan province November 10, 2013. One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines, a senior police official said on Sunday, with huge waves sweeping away entire coastal villages and devastating the region's main city. Despite weakening, the storm is likely to cause heavy rains, flooding, strong winds and mudslides as it makes its way north in the South China Sea. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)

A couple sit on a public bench as garbage spills out of a full trash can during the sixth day of a garbage collectors strike in Madrid, on November 10, 2013. Street cleaners and garbage collectors who work in the city's public parks walked off the job in a strike called by trade unions to contest the planned layoff of more than 1,000 workers. Madrid's municipal cleaning companies, which have service supply contracts with the city authorities, employ some 6,000 staff. (Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated Press)

Houses burn after a gas pipeline exploded in Jankow Przygodzki village, western Poland, on November 14, 2013. Three people died and 10 were injured when a gas pipeline exploded and destroyed a dozen homes in western Poland, a regional spokesman said. (Photo by Tomasz Wojtasik/AFP Photo/PAP)

A supporter of Egyptian club Al Ahly gestures in front of a military vehicle outside a stadium ahead of the African Champions League final in Cairo, on November 10, 2013. Hundreds of supporters of Al Ahly clashed with police ahead of the match. Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd as they threw rocks and tried to push their way into the stadium, many with no tickets. (Photo by Mostafa Darwish/Associated Press)

People get out of a stranded car at a flooded underpass amid heavy rainfalls under the influence of Typhoon Haiyan, in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region November 11, 2013. Rainstorms brought by the typhoon hit the south China region on Sunday and Monday, killing at least four, with seven people still missing, according to Xinhua News Agency. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)

Actors dressed as Chinese soldiers pretend to beat a Tibetan monk and a Tibetan woman in traditional dress as they hold a protest outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, November 12, 2013. The protest, organized by Students for a Free Tibet, came on the day of China's bid to be re-elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council on November 12. (Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters)

A teacher holding brooms and a dust pan walks in her flooded classroom in Lopang Domba Elementary School in Serang, Indonesia's Banten province November 13, 2013. The school has faced annual floods due to heavy rains during the monsoon season for more than seven years, according to school principal Munawaroh on Wednesday. (Photo by Reuters/Beawiharta)

A victim lay on a hospital bed after an attack on a passenger bus in Katmandu, Nepal, on November 13, 2013. At least eight people were injured in the attack when a group of unidentified men hurled a bomb at the bus, according to police. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

French actress Marion Cotillard and Greenpeace activists protest inside a mock prison cell, in support of fellows activists who were detained on the boat Arctic Sunrise, during a protest at Palais Royal place in Paris, on November 15, 2013. 28 activists and two journalists, were arrested after the coast guard boarded the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise following the protest at an oil platform owned by state-controlled Gazprom off Russia's northern coast on September 18. (Photo by Christian Hartmann/Reuters)

Undated handout photo issued by Airbus on November 13, 2013 of a A400M Airbus test plane releasing a cloud of ash as part of test to see how passenger aircraft can cope with volcanic eruptions. The first-ever artificial ash cloud has been created and a plane flown through it to see how passenger aircraft can cope with volcanic eruptions.The UK airline easyjet along with Airbus and Nicarnica Aviation have successfully completed the final stage of testing for the AVIOD technology through a unique experiment involving the creation of an artificial ash cloud. (Photo by Airbus/PA Wire)

A Filipino kid holding a bottle of water walks under the rain in the super typhoon devastated city of Tacloban, Leyte province, Philippines, 12 November 2013. International aid poured in for the Philippines as authorities stepped up efforts to reach survivors driven to looting after one of the world's strongest typhoons devastated their towns. A tropical depression brought heavy rains over the central and eastern Philippines, where provinces badly hit by Haiyan are located, raising concerns that relief operations would be hampered. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)

As the sun sets, it lights the sky over the area devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, in Tacloban, central Philippines, Friday, November 15, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard November 8, leaving a wide swath of destruction. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)

A “Free Syrian Army” fighter fires his weapon towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as fellow fighters watch in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria November 12, 2013. (Photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)

Girls read books as they stretch inside their dormitory at an acrobatics school in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, November 14, 2013. According to a spokesperson from the school, 32 children, whose parents are low-wage migrant workers in the city, are exempted from tuition fees and other costs. The students of the school receive five-hour acrobatic and dance training during the day, and two-hour literacy courses in the evening. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Palestinians look at Hamas militants as they rappel down a building during a military parade marking the first anniversary of the eight-day conflict with Israel, in Gaza City November 14, 2013. Eight days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza and cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks in November last year ended in an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement calling on Israel to ease restrictions on the territory. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

Bahraini Shiite Muslims take part in a ceremony marking Ashura, which commemorates the seventh century slaying of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed, on November 14, 2013 in the village of Sanabis, west of the capital Manama. (Photo by Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP Photo)

Birds fly past an Airbus A300 Beluga aircraft, loaded with wings, as it takes off from the Airbus SAS wing assembly factory on November 7, 2013 in Broughton, United Kingdom. The Airbus wing plant assembles the wings for all Airbus civil aircraft, including the new A350 XWB. The facility produces over 1,000 wings a year and employs more than 6,000 people. Completed wings are transported by the purpose built Beluga aircraft for final assembly in Toulouse or Hamburg. The giant A380 wings are transported by road and then by river craft to Mostyn harbour, where they are loaded onto a custom-built roll-on, roll-off ferry for the trip to France. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Israeli border policemen detain an ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester during clashes at a construction site in the town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem November 14, 2013. Some 300 ultra-Orthodox protesters on Thursday demonstrated against digging in the site they believe contains ancient Jewish graves. An Israeli police spokesperson said 8 protesters were detained for questioning and were later released. (Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters)

Pilgrims wave from a train headed to Pakistan, at a railway station in the northern Indian city of Amritsar, on November 15, 2013. Hundreds of Sikhs from various parts of India are traveling to Pakistan to visit the shrine of Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Sikh faith founder Guru Nanak Dev, to celebrate the anniversary of his birth. (Photo by Munish Sharma/Reuters)

Women workers transport construction materials as they walk past an advertisement for a luxury brand at a shopping district in Beijing, November 14, 2013. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Stars in the Milky Way pictured in clear skies over this weekend, at the Kielder observatory, Northumberland. Kielder Water & Forest Park Development Trust, Northumberland National Park Authority and Kielder Observatory are seeking of their “Dark Sky Park Status” in the next month from the International Dark Skies Association, based in the US. The public have been consulted on plans to protect 570 square miles of countryside from poor lighting which destroys the night vista. If successful, it would become England's first Dark Sky Park and would be England's Largest and Europe's Biggest. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Miles Scott, dressed as Batkid, walks with Batman before saving a damsel in distress in San Francisco, on November 15, 2013. San Francisco turned into Gotham City on Friday, as city officials helped fulfill Scott's wish to be “Batkid”. Scott, a leukemia patient from Tulelake in far Northern California, was called into service on Friday morning by Police Chief Greg Suhr to help fight crime, The Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation says. (Photo by Jeff Chiu/Associated Press)

A 25-year-old model with a 42-inch bottom has been crowned Brazil's new Miss Bum Bum 2013. Dai Macedo, who represented the central state of Goias in the nationwide search for the woman with the most bodacious butt in all of Brazil, was chosen from among 15 finalists by the contest's grand jury in Sao Paolo on November 13, 2013. (Photo by Gabriela Biló/Futura Press/Estadão Conteúdo)

A protester against the government-backed amnesty bill shouts slogans as she joins others in a rally at Ratchaprasong intersection, in the heart of Bangkok's main shopping district, on November 15, 2013. Protesters gathered to rally against a bill, which critics say is an attempt by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to whitewash the crimes of her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, and bring him home without facing a two-year jail term handed down in 2008 for graft. (Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)

A slum dweller carries her child while standing next to her burnt belongings after a fire that broke out at a slum area in New Delhi November 11, 2013. Dozens of huts were gutted in the fire that broke out on Monday evening, with no causalities reported and the cause of the fire still unknown, firefighters said. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)

A Kashmiri Shiite Muslim jumps over a barbed wire to evade arrest after they were stopped by security forces during a Muharram procession in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Authorities imposed a curfew in parts of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, to prevent gatherings marking the Muslim holy month of Muharram to develop into anti-India protests on Wednesday. Large public gatherings have been banned in Indian-administered Kashmir since the outbreak of an insurgency in 1989 by nearly a dozen groups demanding the Himalayan region's independence from India, or its merger with neighboring Pakistan. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)

Indian Air force personnel perform a drill during raising day celebrations of the Goalpara Sainik School or military school in Goalpara, Assam state, India, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. The Sainik Schools are a system of schools established with the objective of preparing students to lead as officers in the Defense Services of the country. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)

Indian Shiite Muslim flagellates themselves during a Muharram procession in Hyderabad, India, Friday, November 15, 2013. Shiite Muslims mark Ashura, the tenth day of the month of Muharram to commemorate the martyrdom Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Muhammad, during the Battle of Karbala. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)

Indian people gather at the site of a train accident near Nashik, 165 kilometers (100 miles) north of Mumbai, India, Friday, November 15, 2013. Police say the passenger train derailed in western India, killing at least two people and injuring another 25. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. (Photo by AP Photo)

Iranian Shiites cover themselves with mud during Ashoura, marking the death anniversary of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, at the city of Bijar, west of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, November 14, 2013. Hussein, one of Shiite Islam's most beloved saints, was killed in a 7th century battle at Karbala, Iraq. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)

An Iranian Muslim Shiite men, acting as the prophet Jesus (C) and his apostles before the battle of Karbala, take part in the annual religious performance of “Taazieh” in the Iranian town of Noosh Abad near the central city of Kashan on November 12, 2013, marking the mourning period of Ashura which commemorates the killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein. Ashura, which climaxes on November 14, mourns the death of Imam Hussein who was killed by armies of the caliph Yazid near Karbala in 680 AD. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)

Gisele Bundchen dazzles in cleavage-baring blue dress as she leaves an event at MoMA in New York City hotel, on November 8, 2013. (Photo by Robert Barbera/Peter Cepeda/INFphoto.com)

Palestinians hold candles next to a poster depicting Yasser Arafat on the ninth anniversary of Arafat's death, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 11, 2013. A Russian report quoted by Palestinian investigators on Friday said there was insufficient evidence to support the theory that Yasser Arafat died in 2004 by polonium poisoning. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

A Lebanese Shiite smokes a cigarette as he bleeds from his head from self inflicted wounds, during Ashoura in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, Thursday, November 14, 2013. Thursday's commemorations marked the climax of Ashoura, the yearly mourning period in which Shiite Muslims remember the seventh century death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein, in a battle in the central city of Karbala. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)

A drunken reveler in a gorilla costume takes a rest while a masked lady passes by in Cologne, on November 11, 2013. Tens of thousands of carnival supporters celebrated the traditional beginning of the carnival season in Germany. (Photo by Martin Meissner/Associated Press)

A security guard stands near an art work titled “Shark Bra” during the “Young Malaysian Artist New Objection” exhibition at a gallery in Kuala Lumpur November 12, 2013. The art work took two months and a total number of 300 bras to complete, according to its artist Louis Low. (Photo by Samsul Said/Reuters)

Environmental activists of “Campact!”, wear masks depicting leader of the German Social Democratic party (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel party leader of Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer and leader of German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel during a protest outside coalition talks at the CDU headquarters in Berlin, on November 13, 2013. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)

A Palestinian man rides a motorcycle with his children past masked militants of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, as they parade in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on November 14, 2013, during an anti-Israel march as part of the celebrations marking the first anniversary of what Israel named the “Pillar of Defence” Operation. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP Photo)

Survivors stay beside a ship that was washed ashore hitting makeshift houses near an oil depot in Tacloban city, Leyte province central Philippines on Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. Authorities said at least 2 million people in 41 provinces had been affected by Friday's typhoon Haiyan and at least 23,000 houses had been damaged or destroyed. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)

One of seven statues of the team of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur reeanacting his historic landing is toppled as it was hit by strong winds during Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Four days after Typhoon Haiyan struck the eastern Philippines, assistance is only just beginning to arrive. Authorities estimated the storm killed 10,000 or more across a vast swath of the country. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)

Residents walk along the coastal village while strong winds from Typhoon Haiyan battered Bayog town in Los Banos, Laguna, south of Manila November 8, 2013. Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land battered the central Philippines on Friday, forcing millions of people to flee to safer ground, cutting power lines and blowing apart houses. Haiyan, a category-5 super typhoon, bore down on the northern tip of Cebu Province, a popular tourist destination with the country's second-largest city, after lashing the islands of Leyte and Samar with 275 kph (170 mph) wind gusts and 5-6 meter (15-19 ft) waves. (Photo by Charlie Saceda/Reuters)

A typhoon victim checks on her husband as she keeps him alive by manualy pumping air into his lungs following his leg amputation that led to an infection, at the Divine Word hospital which still operates without electrical power on the 7th day of the Typhoon Haiyan disaster in Tacloban, on the eastern island of Leyte on November 15, 2013. The United Nations has confirmed at least 4,500 killed in the disaster, which brought five-metre (16-foot) waves to Tacloban, flattening nearly everything in their path as they swept hundreds of metres across the low-lying land. (Photo by Philippe Lopez/AFP Photo)

Undated handout photo issued by An Taisce on November 15, 2013, of “Astrid” taken by Jakub Walutek, winner of the Costal Heritage category of the Clean Coasts Photography Awards 2013. (Photo by Jakub Walutek/PA Wire/An Taisce)

The sun casts a shadow and spectral halo effect on clouds as U.S. Secretary of State's aircraft departs from Tel Aviv for Geneva, on November 10, 2013. (Photo by Jason Reed/AFP Photo)

Artist Pyotr Pavlensky sits in the Red Square during a protest in front of the Kremlin wall in Moscow, on November 10, 2013. He nailed himself to the pavestones by his genitals in protest of what he sees as apathy in contemporary Russian society. The Saint Petersburg-based artist said in a statement posted on the Grani.ru website that he was trying to draw attention to Russian society's inaction in the face of the development of a “police state”. (Photo by Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters)

A sculpture of Lady Gaga created by artist Jeff Koons is reflected in a window at the “ArtRave” release event of Lady Gaga's new album “Artpop” in New York, on November 10, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

A Cambodian anti riot police officer kicks a protester (C) during a clash between police and garment workers in Phnom Penh on November 12, 2013. One woman was shot dead and several injured in violent clashes between protesting garment workers and riot police in the Cambodian capital on November 12, a rights group and family members said. (Photo by AFP Photo)

Brazilian indigenous women of the Enawenen Awe tribe participate in a tug of war competition during the XII International Games of Indigenous Peoples in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on November 10, 2013. (Photo by Christophe Simon/AFP Photo)

Mount Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke as seen from Berastagi village in Karo district on November 14, 2013 in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. Up to 4,300 residents have been evacuated from five villages in North Sumatra due to the volcanic eruptions of Mount Sinabung. The volcano has been erupting for several days, spewing ash and lava 2.5 miles into the sky. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

A protester wearing a wig and a pig mask attends a rally against the government-backed amnesty bill at the Democracy Monument in central Bangkok, on November 15, 2013. (Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)

A Cambodian protester (R) runs as anti riot police officers fire tear gas during a clash between police and garment workers in Phnom Penh on November 12, 2013. One woman was shot dead and several injured in violent clashes between protesting garment workers and riot police in the Cambodian capital on November 12, a rights group and family members said. (Photo by AFP Photo)

Models walk the runway during the finale of the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

An injured worker escapes from riot police in the compound of a Buddhist pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on November 12, 2013. Police fired live ammunition during clashes with protesting garment workers killing a bystander who was selling rice and injuring at least 20 people, rights groups said. (Photo by Associated Press)

International Space Station (ISS) crew member Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin holds the torch of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games after Soyuz TMA-09M capsule carrying ISS crew of Yurchikhin, American Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano of Italy aboard landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan Monday, November 11, 2013. The Russian space capsule returned to Earth on Monday from the ISS in a flawless landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/AP Photo)

Employees work at a saltern where salt is made by evaporation in Rizhao, Shandong province, China, on November 13, 2013. (Photo by China Daily)

Under challenging, November weather conditions, over 1500 athletes took the ultimate challenge of Westport Sea2Summit – one of the country's leading Adventure Races with the gruelling 56.5km course through an intense journey of road running, mountain cycling and the challenging uphill run to the summit of Croagh Patrick and finishing with a sea dash and obstacle challenge before finishing in the middle of Westport town. (Photo by Andrew Downes)

A Palestinian youth uses a sling shot during clashes with Israeli security close to an army checkpoint in the center of the West Bank town of Hebron on November 11, 2013. Palestinian communities around the Israeli occupied West Bank are marking the ninth anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who passed away in Paris on November 11, 2004 at 75 after falling sick a month earlier. Doctors were unable to specify the cause of death and no post-mortem was carried out at the time. (Photo by Hazem Bader/AFP Photo)

A woman protests against the school reform as teachers, assistants and parents demonstrate on November 14, 2013 in Marseille, southern France, during a nationwide day of strike to protest against the government's reform in the duration of classes and extracurricular activities, making children attend classes five days a week, instead of four in nursery and primary schools. (Photo by Boris Horvat/AFP Photo)

Japan's Saori Sakoda spikes the ball against Thailand during their FIVB Women's Volleyball Grand Champions Cup 2013 in Tokyo November 15, 2013. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)

Charity swimmer Sean Conway, 32, arriving at John O'Groats, in the north of Scotland, after being the first person to swim from Lands End to John O'Groats, on November 11, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

The remains of Brazil's ousted President Joao Goulart arrive at an Air Force base in Brasilia, on November 14, 2013. Goulart's remains will be tested to investigate the possibility that he was killed by poisoning, due to suspicions that he may have been murdered on orders of Brazil's military regime after he was ousted in 1964. Goulart's death in 1976 was ruled a heart attack, but an autopsy was never performed. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/Associated Press)

Filipino workers arrange body bags at a mass burial site at the Basper public cemetery in Tacloban, Leyte province, central Philippines on Thursday, November 14, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard on Friday, destroying tens of thousands of buildings and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)

A motor vessel drives over lake Vierwaldstaettersee behind an autumnally colored maple in front of the Urner mountains in Luetzelau, Switzerland, Tuesday, November 12, 2013. (Photo by Sigi Tischler/AP Photo/Keystone)

Vintage sports car enthusiasts spend the weekend powering their way up a 2,126ft fell in the Lake District as part of an annual pilgrimage to Honister Slate Mine, racing cars from the 1920s and 1930s.Over 100 vehicles scaled Fleetwith Pike in Cumbria in adverse weather conditions. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Quebec rower Mylene Paquette celebrates as she arrives in Lorient, France, after a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean, on November 12, 2013. Paquette is the first North American woman to row solo across the North Atlantic. She left Halifax just over four months ago in a specially designed 7.3-meter boat propelled only by Paquette and the currents. (Photo by David Vincent/Associated Press)

A shopkeeper waits for customers at his shop selling wall clocks in the old quarters of Delhi November 12, 2013. Data on Tuesday is forecast to show annual consumer inflation at 9.9 percent in October, up slightly from September, and figures on Friday are expected to show wholesale inflation running at an eight-month high of 6.90 percent, according to Reuters polls of economists. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

A survivor uses a plastic cover to protect him from rain as he passes by a damaged Boy Scout statue in typhoon ravaged Tacloban, Philippines, on November 12, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms on record, slammed into six central Philippine islands on Friday. (Photo by Aaron Favila/Associated Press)

Flight deck crew prepare to launch the Navy experimental unmanned aircraft, the X-47B, aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Rosevelt off the Virginia coast, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. The Roosevelt is the second aircraft carrier involved with testing the X-47B. The Navy says the tests have demonstrated a drone's ability to integrate with the environment of an aircraft carrier. (Photo by Steve Helber/AP Photo)

Second World War veteran Bruce Bullock salutes during the Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, on November 11, 2013. (Photo by Chris Wattie/Reuters)

Lady Gaga demonstrates the Volantis transport prototype “flying dress” designed by TechHaus – Studio XO during the ARTPOP album release and artRave event at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Sunday, November 10, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Evan Agostini/AP Photo/Invision)

Shia Muslim boys flagellate themselves during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura in Amroha, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on November 13, 2013. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the 7th century battle of Kerbala. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

Balloons take off over the Palote dam during the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Leon, Mexico, Friday, November 15, 2013. More than 200 balloons from different countries participated in this year's festival. (Photo by Mario Armas/AP Photo)