Selection of some of the most eye-catching photos of 2013
Best Photos of the Year
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Coffins of victims are seen in an hangar of Lampedusa airport, Oct. 5, 2013, after a boat with migrants sank killing more than 100 people. Italian emergency services hoped to resume the search for bodies despite rough seas after the accident, in which 111 African asylum-seekers are confirmed dead and around 200 more are still missing.
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A child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya, Sep. 21, 2013. The gunmen stormed a shopping mall, killing at least 20 people in what the government said could be a terrorist attack.
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A man runs up the "gostra", a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St. Julian's, outside Valletta, Malta, August 25, 2013.
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Norwegian supporters follow the Nordic Combined ski jumping competition in the ski stadium of the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden.