Picture of The Day

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Reuters / Monday, June 16, 2014
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stands on the conning tower of a submarine during his inspection of the Korean People's Army Naval Unit 167 in this undated photo released June 16, 2014. REUTERS/KCNA

Reuters / Wednesday, April 11, 2012
A car drives past residential buildings in Pyongyang, April 11, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Reuters / Friday, May 02, 2014
A North Korean soldier stands guard along the bank of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 1, 2014. REUTERS/Jacky Chen

Reuters / Friday, February 10, 2012
A portrait of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, decorating a building in the capital Pyongyang, October 5, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagol

Reuters / Thursday, October 06, 2011
North Korean students and volunteers work to repair water supply system in Haeju, capital of the South Hwanghae province, October 1, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Reuters / Tuesday, March 19, 2013
North Korean soldiers attend military training in an undisclosed location in this picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency on March 19, 2013. REUTERS/KCNA

Reuters / Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Smoke billows from a plant near a residential district in Pyongyang, April 11, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Reuters / Monday, April 16, 2012
Dancers perform in front of a fireworks display during a gala show in Pyongyang, April 16, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

 

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Reuters / Sunday, April 08, 2012
A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang, April 8, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Reuters / Friday, March 29, 2013
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presides over an urgent operation meeting on the Korean People's Army Strategic Rocket Force's performance of duty for firepower strike at the Supreme Command in Pyongyang, March 29, 2013. The sign on the left reads, Strategic force's plan to hit the mainland of the U.S. REUTERS/KCNA

Reuters / Saturday, July 27, 2013
North Korean female soldiers salute a figure of North Korea founder Kim Il-sung during the opening ceremony of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, in Pyongyang, July 27, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Reuters / Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Soldiers walk into a subway in front of a column of North Korean flags in Pyongyang, April 11, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

A video grab from KCNA shows the Unha-3 rocket launching at the North Korea's West Sea Satellite Launch Site, at the satellite control center in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province, December 13, 2012. REUTERS/KCNA

 

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Reuters / Monday, March 11, 2013
North Korean soldiers with weapons attend military training in an undisclosed location in this picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency on March 11, 2013. REUTERS/KCNA

Reuters / Thursday, April 12, 2012
Girls train in a Taekwondo Hall in Pyongyang April 12, 2012. The banner at background reads "Let us defend the Party Central Committee headed by the respected comrade Kim Jong-un, at the cost of our lives!" REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Reuters / Sunday, April 15, 2012
The 170-metre-high Tower of the Juche Idea, named after the principle of Juche, developed by North Korea founder Kim Il-sung, is lit up in Pyongyang April 15, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

 

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Reuters / Sunday, July 28, 2013
Laborers work at a construction site in Pyongyang, July 28, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Reuters / Monday, August 29, 2011

A world map, with the Korea peninsula marked in red, is seen as a hotel receptionist talks on the phone in Rason city, northeast of Pyongyang, August 29, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Reuters / Saturday, April 01, 2006
A North Korean traffic policewoman works in central Pyongyang October 15, 2005. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause

 

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Reuters / Wednesday, July 24, 2013
North Korean senior military officials arrive for the opening ceremony of the Cemetery of Fallen Fighters of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang, July 25, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Reuters / Sunday, April 08, 2012
Villagers travel in a truck in a field northwest of Pyongyang, April 8, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Reuters / Monday, August 29, 2011
A woman walks in central Rason city, northeast of Pyongyang, August 29, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

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Reuters / Wednesday, April 11, 2012
A waitress at a restaurant watches a state media television broadcast of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending a party meeting in Pyongyang, April 11, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Reuters / Monday, April 09, 2012
A resident waits to cross a street in Pyongyang, April 9, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Reuters / Wednesday, August 29, 2007
North Koreans students use different coloured cardboards to form a picture of a gun as background during the country's famed Arirang Mass Games at the May Day stadium in central Pyongyang, August 27, 2007. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause

 

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Reuters / Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Alan Gross embraces Tim Rieser (C, back to camera), a member of U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy's office, on the tarmac as he disembarks from a U.S. government plane with wife Judy (L) at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland outside Washington December 17, 2014 in this photo courtesy of Jill Zuckman. REUTERS/Jill Zuckman/Gross Family Spokesperson/Handout

Reuters / Thursday, December 18, 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry and Alan Gross embrace upon Gross' return from five years of captivity in Cuba at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, December 17, 2014. REUTERS/Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace/U.S. Air Force

Reuters / Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Cuban Oscar Martinez sports a tattoo of late revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara while sitting at his street stall in Havana December 17, 2014.

 

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Reuters / Wednesday, December 17, 2014
A woman prays for Zulfiqar, 45, a teacher who survived an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, as he lies on a hospital bed in Peshawar December 17, 2014.

Reuters / Wednesday, December 17, 2014
A boy walks where people said Taliban gunmen burnt a car to a block a road outside the Army Public School, which was attacked by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar December 17, 2014. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Reuters / Wednesday, December 17, 2014
A woman holds a placard during a protest to condemn the Taliban attack on the Army Public School, during a rally in Peshawar, December 17, 2014. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

 

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Reuters / Friday, December 05, 2014
A boy plays on a street in downtown Havana, December 5, 2014.

Reuters / Friday, July 25, 2014
A woman rides her bicycle on a road that reads "Long live Fidel and Raul" in Artemisa province, near Havana July 25, 2014.

Reuters / Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Schoolchildren throw a flower into the sea in honor of rebel revolutionary commander Camilo Cienfuegos from Havana's seafront boulevard "Malecon" October 28, 2014. Cienfuegos was a commander of Fidel Castro's rebel army but died less than a year after their victory when his plane disappeared over the ocean on October 28, 1959 en route from Havana to Camaguey. The plane and his body were never found.

 

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Reuters / Tuesday, December 16, 2014
A Pakistani soldier takes up a position above a road near a military run school that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

Reuters / Tuesday, December 16, 2014
A soldier escorts schoolchildren from the Army Public School that is under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

Reuters / Tuesday, December 16, 2014
A man comforts his son, who was injured during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

Reuters / Tuesday, December 16, 2014
A student cries on a man's shoulder, after he was rescued from the Army Public School that in under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

 

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Reuters / Tuesday, December 16, 2014
An armored carrier moves past a soldier near the Army Public School, that in under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

 

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Reuters / Monday, December 15, 2014
Sydney resident Kate Golder cries as she observes the site of a Sydney cafe siege after it ended in Martin Place, December 16, 2014.

Reuters / Monday, December 15, 2014
Women comfort each other at the site of a siege at a Sydney cafe after the siege ended, December 16, 2014.

Reuters / Monday, December 15, 2014
Hostages run towards a police officer (R) near Lindt Cafe, at Martin Place in central Sydney December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Reuters / Monday, December 15, 2014
A hostage runs towards a police officer outside Lindt cafe, where other hostages are being held, in Martin Place in central Sydney December 15, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Reuters / Monday, December 15, 2014
A heavily armed police officer walks near Lindt cafe, where hostages are being held,in Martin Place in central Sydney December 15, 2014. REUTERS/David Gray

Reuters / Sunday, December 14, 2014
People standing behind a police cordon look towards Lindt cafe in Martin Place, where hostages are being held, in central Sydney December 15, 2014. REUTERS/David Gray

 

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Reuters / Monday, June 09, 2014
President Obama hugs UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma as team star Stefanie Dolson falls off the stage in the background during a ceremony honoring the NCAA basketball champion University of Connecticut Huskies men's and women's basketball teams in the East Room of the White House, June 9, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

Reuters / Monday, July 28, 2014
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks with Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor, before a midnight meeting of the U.N. Security Council at the U.N. headquarters in New York, July 28, 2014. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Reuters / Thursday, June 05, 2014
Former first lady of the United States Nancy Reagan visits the grave site of her husband at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on the 10th anniversary of his passing, in Simi Valley, California, June 5, 2014. REUTERS/Gus Ruelas

Reuters / Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Vice President Joe Biden grabs the arm of House Speaker John Boehner as President Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill, January 28, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Reuters / Monday, May 05, 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry kicks a soccer ball around during an airplane refuelling stop at Sal Island, Cape Verde, enroute to Washington, DC, May 5, 2014. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool

 

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Reuters / Tuesday, November 04, 2014
People fill out their ballots at a polling place at a swimming pool on Election Day in Los Angeles, November 4, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Reuters / Wednesday, October 01, 2014
President Obama meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, October 1, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

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Reuters / Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Firefighters battling the King Fire watch as a backfire burns along Highway 50 in Fresh Pond, California, September 16, 2014. REUTERS/Noah Berger

Reuters / Wednesday, July 02, 2014
Joseph Rojas and Abigail Zolotarsky embrace as lightning strikes One World Trade Center in Manhattan during sunset after a summer storm in New York, July 2, 2014. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Reuters / Saturday, February 08, 2014
An aerial view shows stranded cattle in the flooded region of Ballivian province in the Beni department, Bolivia, February 8, 2014. REUTERS/David Mercado

Reuters / Wednesday, August 13, 2014
A man walks down a flooded road in Islip, New York, August 13, 2014. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Reuters / Wednesday, February 12, 2014
A flock of starlings fly over an agricultural field near the southern Israeli city of Netivot, February 12, 2014. REUTERS/Amir Cohen