December 3, 2013

A volunteer for SANCCOB, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, feeds a baby penguin that was abandoned by its parents on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. During the Christmas time SANCCOB receives hundreds of African penguin chicks abandoned by molting parents.

Members of Faith and Action in the Nations Capital lead a donkey and a camel as they participate in a Live Nativity procession on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Residents of the city of Damara, 75 km north of Bangui, leave the region for Bangui, Central African Republic, as French forces deploy in a bid to halt spiralling violence.

Laborers make fertilizer ingredients out of scrap leather at a roadside factory in Kolkata, India.

A man interacts with a 3D painting during a Magic Art Special exhibition at a gallery in Beijing, China. In the 3D painting exihibition, visitors are encouraged to interact with the lifelike images by touching or other creative action into the artworks.

Roads go off in various directions next to sand dunes covered in vegetation in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

A Kenyan journalist participates in a protest with tape over her mouth and a pen on her forehead along the streets of the capital Nairobi. Members of the media marched in a peaceful protest to denounce the new draconian laws tabled by parliament.

Head of radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras waves while leaving the party headquarters after his election victory, in Athens, Jan. 25, 2015.

This image of the Transantarctic Mountains was taken from the NASA P-3 airborne laboratory near the end of the 2013 IceBridge Antarctic campaign.

An Amazon.com employee stocks products along one of the many miles of aisles at an Amazon.com Fulfillment Center on "Cyber Monday" the busiest online shopping day of the holiday season in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Dec. 2, 2013.

A plane takes off from the Los Angeles International Airport as clouds reflect the color of the sunset in Los Angeles, California, Dec. 2, 2013.