Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Jalaluddin Rumi.
A taxi driver reads the newspaper a day after Fidel Castro died, in Havana, Cuba. (Adalberto Roque / AFP / Getty Images)People hold flowers in front of a portrait Fidel Castro, in Bogotá, Colombia. (Guillermo Legaria / AFP / Getty Images)A participant plays a game on her phone as others watch during a break in a traditional Chinese opera competition. (Thomas Peter / Reuters)People dressed as Krampus walk the streets during a festival, in Zidlochovice, Czech Republic. (Anadolu Agency)Firefighters try to extinguish an oil fire in the remaining wells set ablaze by ISIS, in Mosul, Iraq. (Rex / Shutterstock / Smith / Zuma Wire)Members of a winter swimming club pour buckets of cold water over their daughters, during a celebration of Polar Bear Day, in Russia. (Ilya Naymushin / Reuters)Alain Robert, The French Spiderman, scales the 38-story skyscraper Torre Agbar, in Barcelona, Spain. (Albert Gea / Reuters)Scores of residents are rounded up by the Iraq army to urge them to disclose information about ISIS members. (Hussein Malla / AP)Shoppers reach out for television sets as they compete to purchase retail items on Black Friday, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Nacho Doce / Reuters)People wear special jackets to keep out the wind while riding on a cold day in Jiangsu, China. (China Stringer Network)People protest against a proposal, now overturned, that would have allowed sentencing in sexual abuse cases to be postponed indefinitely if the perpetrator married the victim, in Ankara, Turkey. (Umit Bektas / Reuters)Shia pilgrims gather as they commemorate Arbaeen in Karbala, Iraq. (Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters)A woman poses underneath Wolfgang Buttress’ illuminated Hive in London, England. (Jack Taylor / Getty)Protesters hold candles during an anti-government rally in central Seoul. (Jung Yeon-Je / Reuters)A woman fires to the air at a Popular Mobilization Units base south of Mosul, Iraq. (Felipe Dana / AP)An Israeli firefighter plane helps extinguish a bushfire in Haifa. (Jack Guez / AFP)A man bicycles down a flooded street during a rain storm in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (DANIEL HAYDUK / AFP)