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  • Jerome Delay / AP

    A Guinean who would not be identified shows his scars at his house in the mostly Peul suburb of Bambeto in Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday. The man said he was chased and beaten by Guinean soldiers moments before. A de facto curfew is in effect in the area, residents staying inside, one day after it was announced that RPG candidate Alpha Conde had won Guinea's tense presidential election. Conde received 53.5 per cent of the 2.89 million ballots cast. His opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo, got 47.5 per cent of the votes. A total of 4.2 million citizens had registered to vote.

    Post-election violence in Guinea

    The AP reports that violence is subsiding, but that tensions and security remain high.

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  • Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    A camel herder, at the annual cattle fair at Pushkar in Rajasthan state, India, Tuesday. Pushkar is a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot that is also frequented by foreign tourists who come to the town for its annual cattle fair and camel races. The eight day long fair began began Sunday.

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  • Mohammed Salem / Reuters

    Muslim pilgrims gather to cast stones at pillars symbolizing Satan, which is part of a pilgrimage rite, in Mena on Tuesday. Millions flock to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage, a duty for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha to mark the end of the haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command.

    Throwing stones at Satan

    By Stokes Young, nbcnews.com

    Read more about the ritual here, and see our hajj slideshow here.

  • Kimchi for the poor

    Truth Leem / Reuters

    About 2,000 volunteers made 270 tons of kimchi on Tuesday to give away to needy neighbors during the winter.

    Truth Leem / Reuters

    South Korean housewives make 'kimchi' during a charity event at the Seoul Plaza in Seoul, Nov. 16.

    By Elena Grothe

    Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish made of spicy fermented cabbage and radish. City officials will hand out the kimchi prepared today by South Korean housewives to about 13,000 needy households, in an event marking the start of the winter season.

  • Santa penguins on parade

    By Elena Grothe

    Cute!

    Jung Yeon-je / AFP - Getty Images

    Penguins dressed in Santa Claus costumes parade during a promotional event at the Everland amusement park in Yongin, south of Seoul, on Nov. 16. Everland, South Korea's largest amusement park, organized the event to inform the opening of its Christmas festival season.

     

    TODAYs Ann Curry takes a look at adorable video showing a waddle of penguins dressed as Santa Claus and his reindeer parade through puffs of fake snow at a Korean amusement park.

     

  • Eid al-Adha journey

    Andrew Biraj / Reuters

    Passengers sit on top of an overcrowded train as it heads for Mymensingh from Dhaka, Nov. 16.

    By Elena Grothe

     

    Andrew Biraj / Reuters

    An overcrowded train approaches as other passengers wait to board at a railway station in Dhaka, Nov. 16, 2010.

     

    From Reuters:   Millions of residents in Dhaka are travelling home from the capital city to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday on Wednesday. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha to mark the end of the haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command.

  • All You Need is iTunes

    Central Press / Hulton Arcive via Getty Images

    The Beatles rehearse for that night's Royal Variety Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Nov. 4, 1963. The Queen Mother will attend.

    Central Press / Getty Images

    The Beatles perform at the Washington Coliseum on Feb. 13, 1964. From left: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr.

    Keystone / Hulton Archive via Getty Images

    Beatles fans in New York, circa 1967.

    By Elena Grothe

    The Beatles are coming to iTunes, reports the Wall Street Journal.  Read the full story here.

     

  • Nick Wass / AP

    Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick rushes during the first half of an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, in Landover, Md.

    Scoring Fest

    By James Cheng

    How do you feel about Michel Vick now?

    From AP:

    Michael Vick, not Donovan McNabb, played like a $78 million quarterback, accounting for six touchdowns all by himself. And his Philadelphia Eagles marched down the field in one big chunk after another, doing enough times to put new entries in the various record books.

    Vick completed his first 10 passes and finished 20 for 28 for 333 yards with four touchdowns. He also ran eight times for 80 yards and two scores, moving past Steve Young and into second place in NFL history for yards rushing by a quarterback.

    The Eagles set team records for total yards in a game (592), points in a half (45) and had the biggest lead after the first quarter for any NFL road team (28-0) since at least 1950. Read the full story.

  • Ramon Espinosa / AP

    A woman with cholera symptoms is helped after her arrival to a hospital in Archaie, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010.

    Cholera epidemic

    From AP:

    PORT-AU-PRINCE — Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for a deadly outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in the country's second-largest city Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported. Read full story

  • Facebook sets its sights on the 'killer app'

    By Robert Hood

    I'm not sure if I get to say that I'm young enough to remember the first time, or old enough to remember the first time, that I heard the term "killer app". One thing is clear, email has been that app. It's used for formal and informal communication every single day by hundreds of millions of people. It will be interesting to see if Facebook can change the way it is used.

    Paul Sakuma / AP

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the new email service at an announcement in San Francisco, Nov. 15, 2010.

    Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday a new electronic communication that combines email, live chat and texting. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

  • Building collapses in New Delhi

    Mustafa Quraishi / AP

    A caged parrot is brought out from the rubble of a collapsed building in New Delhi, India, Nov. 16, 2010. The four-story building collapsed in a congested neighborhood, killing over two dozen people and injuring scores of others, a top police official said.

    Manpreet Romana / AFP - Getty Images

    Indian relief workers lift rubble, Nov. 16, 2010 at the site of the building collapse in eastern New Delhi.

    Msnbc.com story: Police say building collapse in New Delhi kills 32.

  • DigitalGlobe / Reuters

    A satellite image shows the eruption and lava flow of Mount Merapi, Indonesia, Nov. 12, 2010. Indonesia's president will cut short his trip to the G20 summit meeting in order to oversee the response to a deadly volcanic eruption at home, he said on Thursday. Volcano Mount Merapi, on the outskirts of Yogyakarta city in Central Java, began spewing searing hot gas and ash clouds more than two weeks ago, since then it has killed 194 people and displaced more than 320,000, as well as disrupted flights.

    Volcanic eruption seen from space

    By Robert Hood

    This amazing picture was made available today by DigitalGlobe.

  • Homecoming for a Colombian beauty queen

    By Carissa Ray

    What struck me about this collection of photos is the juxtaposition between the 3 images from the night of this beauty pageant and the 3 images of Ms. Palencia's homecoming the next day. 

    Joaquin Sarmiento / AFP - Getty Images

    Contestants run away from the stage during a heavy downpour during the Independence Beauty Pageant final crowning event at the Argemiro Bermudez Softball stadium in Cartagena, Colombia, on Nov. 13. The Independence Beauty Pageant is a competition among women from different neighbourhoods of this coastal city that takes place every year at the same time as the Miss Colombian national beauty pageant, but besides judging beauty, it also takes into account the social projects that the candidates for the

    Joaquin Sarmiento / AFP - Getty Images

    The ten finalists of the Independence Beauty Pageant stand on the stage during the final crowning event at the Argemiro Bermudez Softball stadium in Cartagena, Colombia, on Nov. 13.

    Joaquin Sarmiento / AFP - Getty Images

    Beauty queen Ivonne Palencia (C), walks around her neighbourhood, Boston, after winning the Independence Beauty Pageant in Cartagena, Colombia, on Nov. 13.

    Joaquin Sarmiento / AFP - Getty Images

    Beauty queen Ivonne Palencia, puts on her crown at her house in Boston neighborhood.

    Joaquin Sarmiento / AFP - Getty Images

    Beauty queen Ivonne Palencia, wears her crown at her house in the Boston neighbourhood, a day after winning the Independence Beauty Pageant in Cartagena, Colombia, on Nov.14.

    Joaquin Sarmiento / AFP - Getty Images

    Beauty queen Ivonne Palencia, is carried around Boston neighbourhood by her brother Nelson, a day after winning the Independence Beauty Pageant in Cartagena, Colombia, on Nov. 14.

    Other than the downpour, the event looks like a pretty glitzy, typical pageant. So much so, that I was a little surprised to see the comparably very modest home that the reigning "Queen of the people" was returning to. The images are all by the same photographer, but the lighting and the color palette of the photos seems so very different the next day - I like the sobering, and story-telling effect that has. 

  • Mark Wilson / Getty Images

    Newly elected Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI) narrates and records a video for his Facebook page while walking around Statuary Hall inside the U.S. Capitol on Monday in Washington, DC. Today the House of Representatives starts its lame duck session of the 111th Congress. House Democrats lost over 60 seats in the mid-term elections the giving control of the house to the Republicans.

    Freshman congressman shoots Facebook video

    By Stokes Young, nbcnews.com

    Updated at 8:10 a.m. ET, Nov. 16: You can watch the resulting video here.

    Original post:

    At press time, Duffy had not yet posted the video to his Facebook page or Twitter feed.

    From the AP:

    Dejected Democrats and invigorated Republicans returned to the Capitol Monday to face a mountain of unfinished work and greet more than 100 mainly Republican freshmen-elect lawmakers determined to change how they do business.

  • Blind Muslim student uses guide horse instead of dog‎

    By Carissa Ray

    Blind graduate student Mona Ramouni saved for three years to buy a guide horse because her strict Muslim parents consider dogs unclean. What considerations would you have to weigh when choosing an equine companion rather than a k-9?

    Check out the Full Story from TODAY.

    Mira Oberman / AFP - Getty Images

    Graduate student Mona Ramouni and her guide horse Cali head to class at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan on Oct. 20. Cali is just one of a handful of miniature horses in the United States known to be used as guide animals for the blind and is likely the first pony to attend college.

    Mira Oberman / AFP - Getty Images

    Graduate student Mona Ramouni and her guide horse Cali attend class at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan on Oct. 20.

    Mira Oberman / AFP - Getty Images

    Graduate student Mona Ramouni gets her guide horse Cali a drink of water during a break from class at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan on Oct. 20.

  • Mecca at hajj, seen from the air

    Hassan Ali / Reuters

    Muslim pilgrims gather on Jabal al-Rahman, the Mount of Mercy, at the center of the plain of Arafat, near Mecca as they perform wuquf on Monday.

    Hassan Ali / Reuters

    At least 2.5 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage on Sunday, heading to an encampment near the holy city of Mecca to retrace the route taken by Prophet Mohammad 14 centuries ago.

    AP

    Muslim pilgrims pray outside Namira mosque in Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday.

    Reuters

    Muslim pilgrims gather on Jabal al-Rahman, the Mount of Mercy, at the center of the plain of Arafat, near Mecca as they perform wuquf.

    You can see more pictures of the hajj in our slideshow.

  • Schalk van Zuydam / AP

    Team members from the United States Soccer team to play South African Bafana Bafana soccer team, practice at the Athlone Stadium on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. The United States soccer team will play Bafana Bafana from South Africa on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010.

    Athletes stretching in South Africa

    By John Brecher

    At first glance, this soccer picture struck me as one of the performance art or interpretive dance images we also see on the wire.

  • Oliver Berg / EPA

    Sheep graze in front of the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany on Monday. A shepherd uses the so-called 'Poller meadows' at Rhine River to feed his animals.

    Sheep graze in front of German cathedral

    By Stokes Young, nbcnews.com

    The striking juxtaposition between the church and the sheep reminds me of a similar picture of sheep in front of a nuclear or coal plant. I think we featured that image in "10 Years of the Week in Pictures" but I can't locate it at the moment. Here's the picture. The plant is a coal plant, and I totally forgot about the rainbow.

  • Francois Xavier Marit / AFP - Getty Images

    Lu Zhi Wu of China competes in the men's 50m freestyle final in the swimming event of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 15, 2010. Lu won the gold medal.

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  • Arif Ali / AFP - Getty Images

    Pakistani camel salesmen drink tea at a sacrificial livestock market ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha in Lahore on November 15, 2010. Eid al-Adha, which commemorates biblical patriarch Ibrahim's (or Abraham's) acceptance of God's command to sacrifice his son Ismail (or Ishmael), falls on the 10th of Dhul al-Hijja on the Islamic calendar. As Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead, Muslim families mark the day by ritually sacrificinga sheep, goats, cows and other livestock, the meat of which is also shared with the needy.

    Eid al-Adha festival peparations

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  • Louafi Larbi / Reuters

    A sheep is seen at a market on the outskirts of Algiers, ahead of the Eid-al-Adha festival, November,15 2010. Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate the annual festival of Eid al-Adha or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the haj pilgrimage to Mecca by hundreds of millions of Muslims, with the slaughter of goats, sheep and cattle in commemoration of the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to Allah.

    Goat cheese

    Muslims begin the four-day hajj celebration that draws around 2.5 million worshippers each year to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. See photos here.

  • Southern Sudan begins registration for Jan. freedom vote

    Pete Muller / AP

    A southern Sudanese woman displays her inked finger after registering to vote in the southern town of Melut on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. Voter registration is under way in Southern Sudan in preparation for a January independence referendum that could see the creation of the world's newest country. More than 2,600 registration centers opened Monday across the vast and undeveloped south.

    Pete Muller / AP

    Residents of the southern Sudanese town of Melut wait to register to vote at a registration center on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010.

    By Mish Whalen

    See full story here.

  • Matt Cardy / Getty Images

    The winter sun begins to rise over mist and fog that has formed over fields on the Somerset Levels on November 15, 2010 in Glastonbury, England. After being battered by strong winds and heavy rain last week, parts of the UK are enjoying cold, fine winter weather. However more wind and rain is forecast to hit later in this week.

    Winter sun rises

    By Mish Whalen

    Beautiful photo from Getty Images photographer Matt Cardy.

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