Journalism of Courage
In this photo taken Tuesday, December 8, 2015, Syrian refugees Reem Habashieh, Raghad Habashieh, Yaman Habashieh and Mohammed Habashieh, from left to right, visit the Christmas market in Zwickau, eastern Germany. The Muslim family with their mother Khawla Kareem has joined in the Christmas spirit of their neighbors, decorating the door of their flat with glittery red bells and tree branches in green and gold. (Source: AP)
In this September 14, 2015 photo, 16-year-old Giselle Alvarez stands at the door of her family's home in a trailer park near Fresno, Calif. Residents of the trailer park receive notices warning that their well water contains uranium at a level considered unsafe by federal and state standards. (Source: AP)
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan's Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz looks on during the Ministerial Conference of Heart of Asia - Istanbul Process in Islamabad on Wednesday. (Source: PTI)
In this Monday, December 7, 2015 photo a television transmission tower is seen in a huge cloud of fog in Pecs, 196 kms south of Budapest, Hungary. The photo was taken from the top of the 611-meter high Tubes Mountain belonging to the city. (Source: AP)
Evan Jayne, of France, gets tossed off his horse while competing in the bareback riding event during the eighth go-round of the National Finals Rodeo on Thursday, December 10, 2015, in Las Vegas. (Source: AP)
Members of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) stand, waiting for Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak to arrive during the annual UMNO assembly in Kuala Lumpur in this December 5, 2013 file photo. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he had done nothing wrong in receiving hundreds of millions of dollars into his personal bank accounts, as his party opened its annual meeting on December 8, 2015, amid tensions over a festering funding scandal. (Source: Reuters)
Vehicles travel on the Guomao bridge (bottom L) as the Central Business District (CBD) area is seen amid heavy smog after the city issued its first ever "red alert" for air pollution, in Beijing, China, December 8, 2015. (Source: Reuters)
A visitor walks among trees as she visits the West Lake amid thick fog and heavy smog in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, December 8, 2015. (Source: Reuters)
A building and a large screen are seen through tick smog in Beijing December 8, 2015 as China's capital issues its first ever "red alert" for pollution. (Source: Reuters)
A woman cast a shadow as she crosses a zebra crossing in a business district in central Tokyo, Japan, December 8, 2015. Japan's economy dodged recession in the third quarter with the initial estimate of a contraction revised to an annualised expansion of 1.0 percent, offering a glimmer of hope for policymakers struggling to end years of stagnation. (Source: Reuters)
A man walks past an advertisement of a luxury men's fashion boutique in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, December 8, 2015. Japan's economy dodged recession in the third quarter with the initial estimate of a contraction revised to an annualised expansion of 1.0 percent, offering a glimmer of hope for policymakers struggling to end years of stagnation. (Source: Reuters)
File photo of migrants from Syria and Iraq taking selfies with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Berlin, Germany, September 10, 2015. Time magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 "Person of the Year" on December 9, 2015, noting her resilience and leadership when faced with the Syrian refugee crisis and turmoil in the European Union over its currency this year. (Source: Reuters)
Hot air balloons fly over Dubai during the World Air Games 2015, held under the rules of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) as part of the "Dubai International Balloon Fiesta" event, United Arab Emirates December 9, 2015. (Source: Reuters)
A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume swims with sardines during a promotional event for Christmas "Sardines Feeding Show with Santa Claus" at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, December 9, 2015. (Source: Reuters)
A woman takes photographs of Christmas illumination in central Vienna, Austria, December 9, 2015. (Source: Reuters)
Argentina's President Mauricio Macri plays with with his daughter Antonia at his desk at Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires, December 10, 2015. Macri took office as Argentina's first non-Peronist president in more than a decade on Thursday, promising to end policies of leftist populism and revive the South American country's ailing economy. Macri began his 4-year term in a ceremony snubbed by his predecessor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, following a rancorous argument over where the handover of power should take place. (Source: Reuters)
A F18 Super Hornet creates a vapor cone as it flies at a transonic speed while doing a flyby of the USS Eisenhower off the coast of Virginia, in the Atlantic Ocean, December 10, 2015. Carter visited the carrier with Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to demonstrate U.S. Navy aircraft carrier flight operations. (Source: Reuters)
A couple looks at a smartphone in the dark at the Columbus Circle in the Manhattan borough of New York December 10, 2015. (Source: Reuters)
Children release balloons during "Bike for Dad" cycling event in Bangkok, Thailand, December 11, 2015. Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn led thousand of cyclists on a 29-km course in Bangkok to celebrate King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 88th birthday which fell on December 5. (Source: Reuters)
A man smokes as Nepalese devotees gather during the Bala Chaturdasi festival at the Pashupatinath Hindu Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, December 9, 2015. The Nepalese celebrate this festival in memory of departed family members by lighting oil lamps and scattering seven types of grain along a prescribed route. (Source: AP)
In this September 17, 2015 photo, two men ride on horseback along an irrigation canal in agricultural land near Modesto, Calif. Uranium, the stuff of nuclear fuel for power plants and atom bombs, increasingly is showing up in drinking-water systems in major farming regions of the U.S. West, as an unexpected by-product of irrigation and, increasingly, of drought and the overpumping of natural underground water reserves. (Source: AP)
The sisters of Yvette Velasco release doves of during a memorial service on Thursday, December 10, 2015 in Covina, Calif. Velasco died in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 and injured 21 last Wednesday. (Source: AP)
