Pictures of the day from The Huffington Post brings you the very best news and sports images from around the world, chosen and created by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland, Tahira Mirza and Michael Cripps.
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Shiite Muslim worshippers gather in front of the holy shrine of Imam Hussein, background, to mark Ashoura in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims have flocked to an Iraqi holy city for the peak of a 10-day religious ritual amid tight security over fears of sectarian attacks. (credit:AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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A cross bearing the name of Lee Rigby is placed in the Royal British Legion Field of Remembrance in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on November 4, 2014 in London, England. Thousands of small crosses each bearing a poppy flower have been planted in a Field of Remembrance to pay tribute to British servicemen and women who have lost their lives in conflict. (credit:Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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Photo provided by police in Pratteln near Basel, Switzerland, shows a donkey that fell into a hole. (credit: Police Basel Landschaft)
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Expedition 41 crew on the ISS take Space Station selfie - From left: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, Roscosmos cosmonauts Elena Serova, Maxim Suraev and Alexander Samokutyaev, and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore.Alexander Gerst commented on this image: “The International Space Station Expedition 41 crew. My favourite selfie in space!” (credit:ESA)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader, Nigel Farage, wipes his eyes whilst viewing the 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' installation at Tower of London on November 4, 2014 in London, England. 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' by artist Paul Cummins, made up of 888,246 ceramic poppies fills the moat of the Tower of London, to commemorate the First World War. Each ceramic poppy represents an allied victim of the First World War and the display is due to be completed by Armistice Day on November 11, 2014. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images) (credit:Rob Stothard via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader, Nigel Farage, views the 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' installation at Tower of London on November 4, 2014 in London, England. 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' by artist Paul Cummins, made up of 888,246 ceramic poppies fills the moat of the Tower of London, to commemorate the First World War. Each ceramic poppy represents an allied victim of the First World War and the display is due to be completed by Armistice Day on November 11, 2014. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images) (credit:Rob Stothard via Getty Images)
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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 03: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall looks at the work of artist Michael Landy at the launch of 'The Year of the UK in Mexico 2015' at San Ildefonso College on November 3, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. The Royal Couple are on the second day of a four day visit to Mexico as part of a Royal tour to Colombia and Mexico. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) (credit:Chris Jackson via Getty Images)
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Amy Willerton reveals her AW14 Collection for KEY Fashions in Soho, London. (credit:Doug Peters/Doug Peters)
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Energy Secretary Ed Davey samples school meals from a kiosk set up outside the Houses of Parliament in London today to mark National School Meals Week with children from New Malden Manor Primary School. (credit:Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
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Charlotte Rose, Escort of the Year and independent candidate for the Rochester and Strood by-election, protests outside parliament in London today with an inflatable penis to oppose amendments to the 'modern slavery bill' being put forward by Fiona MacTaggart.Picture date: Tuesday November 4, 2014. (credit:Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Russia's Patriarch Kirill (R) lay flowers on November 4, 2014 during a ceremony on Red square in Moscow during the National Unity Day, a national holiday which this year marks the 402th anniversary of the 1612 expulsion of Polish occupiers from the Kremlin. AFP PHOTO / POOL / VASILY MAXIMOV (Photo credit should read VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:VASILY MAXIMOV via Getty Images)
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Iraqi Shiite men perform during the reenactment of the Battle of Karbala as part of the Ashura commemorations, that mark the killing of Imam Hussein -one of Shiite Islam's most revered figures- in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, central Iraq, on November 4, 2014. Ashura commemorates the killing of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, by the army of the Caliph Yazid in 680 AD, the formative event in Shiite Islam. AFP PHOTO/HAIDAR HAMDANI (Photo credit should read HAIDAR HAMDANI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HAIDAR HAMDANI via Getty Images)
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Brazilian striker Brandao and his lawyer Olivier Martin arrive at the French soccer federation (FFF) for appeal hearings, in Paris, Tuesday, Nov.4, 2014. Brandao was banned for six months for headbutting Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Thiago Motta and breaking his nose after a match between PSG and Bastia. Woman at left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Tanda, 22, a two-ton rhinoceros, wears a mask at the Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Israeli specialists are helping Tanda, who has a chronic eye infection, to fend off flies that are worsening its condition with a custom made mask. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sir Peter Blake, model Daisy Lowe and filmmaker Heidi Greensmith are launching Small Business Saturday, a US idea by American Express that has been introduced in the UK to encourage people to shop in small independent businesses on Saturday 6 December.
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Entertainers Beyonce and Jay Z attend an NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Oklahoma City Thunder, Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, in New York. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this Monday, Nov. 3, 2014 photo taken with smartphone camera, a fallstreak hole forms in the sky over Wonthaggi, Australia. A fallstreak hole is a circular gap that appears in high clouds, when a section of the cloud freezes. The ice crystals are heavy, so they fall out of the cloud, leaving a hole. It is a relatively rare phenomenon. (AP Photo/Leesa Willmott) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A mother Hippo and her new-born calf in their enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo. The Zoo?s female hippopotamus, Mara, went into labor on Friday, Oct. 31 and gave birth to a healthy calf. This is the first hippopotamus calf the Zoo has had in 26 years. (credit:AP Photo/Los Angeles Zoo)
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Sir Ian McKellen at the Oxford Union, Oxford, Britain (credit:Rex)
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Bill Clinton photobombs sad looking girl in Arkansas
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RIZE, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 03: 3 people who got stuck in heavy snow with their car on Badara Plateau in Camlihemsin district of Rize, on the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey, have been rescued by search and rescue teams on November 03, 2014. (Photo by Serhan Pirpir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Iranian protestors burn representative of the British flag, during an anti-British demonstration in front of the British Embassy, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. The protest appeared to be reaction to Iran's announcement that it arrested four suspected members of a Kurdish rebel group with a top official allegedly living in Britain. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Mohsen Rezaei) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The Italian Air Force aerobatic unit Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) spreads smoke with the colors of the Italian flag over the Piazza Venezia during the armed forces day which marks the end of World War I for Italy, on November 4, 2014 in Rome. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO (Photo credit should read ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANDREAS SOLARO via Getty Images)
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 04: Jockey Ryan Moore celebrates with the trophy after winning on Protectionist in race 7 the Emirates Melbourne Cup on Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington Racecourse on November 4, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images) (credit:Michael Dodge via Getty Images)
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 04: Pacific Pearl, Pacific Jewell and Carnival Spirit are seen docked in Melbourne ahead of the Melbourne Cup on November 4, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. In the biggest single injection of punters to the Melbourne Cup, three cruise ships, P&O Cruises Pacific Pearl, Pacific Jewel and Carnival Spirit will carry a record 6000 passengers from Sydney to 'the race that stops the nation'. The passengers will account for an estimated 10 per cent of all people visiting Melbourne for Tuesday's Cup. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for P&O Cruises) (credit:Brendon Thorne via Getty Images)
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 04: Myer Fashions on the Field Design Award finalist poses in the Fashion on the Field enclosure on Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington Racecourse on November 4, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images for the VRC) (credit:Graham Denholm via Getty Images)
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WESTWOOD, CA - NOVEMBER 03: Actors Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels arrive for the Premiere Of Universal Pictures And Red Granite Pictures' 'Dumb And Dumber To' held at the Regency Village Theater on November 3, 2014 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) (credit:Albert L. Ortega via Getty Images)
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WESTWOOD, CA - NOVEMBER 03: The arrival of the Mutt Cutts mobile at the Premiere Of Universal Pictures And Red Granite Pictures' 'Dumb And Dumber To' held at the Regency Village Theater on November 3, 2014 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) (credit:Albert L. Ortega via Getty Images)
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RIZE, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 03: 3 people who got stuck in heavy snow with their car on Badara Plateau in Camlihemsin district of Rize, on the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey, have been rescued by search and rescue teams on November 03, 2014. (Photo by Serhan Pirpir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 03: Romeo Beckham attends the launch of the Burberry festive campaign at 121 Regent Street on November 3, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Getty Images for Burberry) (credit:David M. Benett via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 03: (L to R) David Beckham, Romeo Beckham, Christopher Bailey, Chief Creative and Chief Executive Officer of Burberry, and Victoria Beckham attend the launch of the Burberry festive campaign at 121 Regent Street on November 3, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Getty Images for Burberry) (credit:David M. Benett via Getty Images)
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Hugh Jackman, left, and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness arrive at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Manhattan's Upper East Side before a private funeral for fashion designer Oscar De la Renta, Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Friends of the miners, trapped inside of a coal mine due to the collapsing following flood, are seen at the mine site as rescue operations going on in Ermenek district of Karaman, Turkey on November 3, 2014. At least 18 miners have been trapped inside the mine since October 28. (Photo by Emin Menguarslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg meets pupils and serves them lunch at Weston Park Primary School in north London, followed by a bread making lesson by the former model and TV chef Lorraine Pascale. (credit:Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
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Sony commissioned award winning Mexican street photographer, Antonio Olmos, to go back to his roots and capture the Day of the Dead in Mexico City on a Sony Cybershot RX100 III camera. While Day of the Dead is becoming a bigger hit in the UK and across the world, Mixquic is the most traditional place that Day of the Dead occurs every year, in the city’s only Church graveyard. Over 40,000 people line the streets and decorate the graves as part of the ancient Aztec tradition.
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Sony commissioned award winning Mexican street photographer, Antonio Olmos, to go back to his roots and capture the Day of the Dead in Mexico City on a Sony Cybershot RX100 III camera. While Day of the Dead is becoming a bigger hit in the UK and across the world, Mixquic is the most traditional place that Day of the Dead occurs every year, in the city’s only Church graveyard. Over 40,000 people line the streets and decorate the graves as part of the ancient Aztec tradition.