A man cycles past a painting by Colombia's muralist Bulkar, depicting man in traditional clothing from the coast, and playing the "millo" flute, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Artists from across Latin America, as well as Italy, were invited to paint the public areas of the Santa Fe neighborhood, as part of the city's International Festival of Revitalization through Urban Art. #APPhoto by Fernando Vergara
#APTOPIX for Dec. 12, 2015, our image selections from the past 24 hours. http://apne.ws/1zpDBKp #Christmas #Pakistan
Photo Caption: Pakistani Christian children dressed as Santa Claus and as angels participate in a Christmas celebration in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Although Pakistani Christians are in the minority, Christmas is a national holiday and is observed across the country as an occasion to celebrate. #APPhoto by K.M. Chaudary
#APArchivePhoto: Squadrons of Flying Fortresses, vapor trails marking their meteoric warpath above the clouds, stream through icy skies towards their target Bremen, where they bombed docks and submarine yards on Dec, 11, 1943. #OTD #TodayInHistory
AP Images with Hassan M Ringim.
#TodayInHistory: On Dec. 11, 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. #APArchivePhoto #OTD
See more from Today in History: http://apne.ws/1NgLOuR
Photo Caption: The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson pose for photographers in a garden of the Chateau de Cande, France, May 7, 1937. This is the first time the couple has posed together since he abdicated the throne. #APPhoto
A woman walks past an illuminated decoration symbolizing Thailand during a light show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The light show features the different countries of ASEAN. #APPhoto by Joshua Paul
AP Images added 2 new photos.
Malaysia #Panda
Xing Xing, a 9-year-old male giant panda, formerly known as Fu Wa, one of the two giant pandas from China, is shown at the Giant Panda Conservation Center at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. The two giant pandas have been on loan to Malaysia from China for 10 years since May 21, 2014 to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations. #APPhoto by Joshua Paul
Holiday cheer in a Brazilian prison - Photos by Silvia Izquierdo: http://apne.ws/1Ue7zOh
As 2015 comes to a close, here is a look back at the year’s events as seen by photojournalists in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan: http://apne.ws/1J0etjR
AP Images updated their cover photo.
A worker adjusts an oven door of a kiln at a brick making factory in Mandalay, Myanmar, Friday Dec 11, 2015. For centuries brick-making has existed in Myanmar, nowadays brick-makers earn roughly the country's national minimum wage of about 3600 Kyat (just under $3) per day for work. #APPhoto by Hkun Lat
#APTOPIX for Dec. 11, 2015, our image selections from the past 24 hours. http://apne.ws/1zpDBKp #StarWars
Photo Caption: BB-8 droid poses with actors and director during a press conference for their latest film "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at a hotel in Urayasu, near Tokyo Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. #APhoto by Shuji Kajiyama
The winners for the October 2015 AP Staff Photo Contest: http://apne.ws/1IYcxZ5
Oxfam activists wear masks of from left, U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Francois Hollande, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as they stage a protest during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. #APPhoto by Christophe Ena
World in Review: November's events as seen by AP photojournalists from around the globe - http://apne.ws/1IXOIk9
#TodayInHistory: On Dec. 10, 1950, Ralph J. Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award. #APArchivePhoto #OTD
See more from Today in History: http://apne.ws/1NPr6PR
Photo Caption: Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, right, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize diploma, in box, from Gunnar Jahn, chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee, at Oslo University, Norway on Dec. 10, 1950. Dr. Bunche, the only African-American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is recognized for his role as United Nations mediator in the peace settlement between Palestinian-Arabs and Jews in 1949. #APPhoto
Since it almost went broke in 2010, Greece has suffered horrific job losses, soaring long-term unemployment, across-the-board income cuts and over-taxation, despite a constant deterioration in state-provided health, education and welfare services.
The country is now dotted with the hulks of formerly flourishing factories that for decades churned out wealth for their owners and provided a sure if modest livelihood for multitudes of workers: http://apne.ws/1SQesV8
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