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Power Line Technician students from St. Clair College practice on the school's training field of poles in Chatham, ON, Friday, Nov. 15, 2013.DAVE CHIDLEY

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A Shi'ite Muslim boy with specks of blood on his face and body looks on during the Ashura religious festival in Yangon, November 15, 2013. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the seventh century battle of Kerbala.MINZAYAR/Reuters

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Red Bull Formula One driver Mark Webber of Australia drives during the second practice session of the Austin F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin November 15, 2013.MIKE STONE/Reuters

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A dog sits over a drinking water basin along a road in the old quarters of Delhi November 15, 2013.ANINDITO MUKHERJEE/Reuters

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A Shi'ite Muslim woman is reflected on a glass of a parked car as she attends a Muharram procession to mark Ashura in the old quarters of Delhi November 15, 2013. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the seventh century battle of Kerbala.ANINDITO MUKHERJEE/Reuters

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A rainbow appears above Typhoon Haiyan survivors desperate to catch a flight from the Tacloban airport November 15, 2013. The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan in the devastated Philippine coastal city of Tacloban was 4,000, a notice board at City Hall said on Friday, nearly double the nationwide toll provided by the government in Manila.DAMIR SAGOLJ/Reuters

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Marilou Cassanares cries as she lights a candle by a mass grave where her husband, who died in Super Typhoon Haiyan and was buried together with almost 300 other victims in a single mass grave, in Palo, south of Tacloban November 15, 2013. The death toll from one of the world's most powerful typhoons surged on Friday, but the aid effort was still so patchy bodies lay uncollected and thousands tried desperately to evacuate stricken communities across the central Philippines.DAMIR SAGOLJ/Reuters

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A C-130 military aircraft transports typhoon survivors, in the aftermath of the Super Typhoon Haiyan, to Manila from Tacloban city, in central Philippines, November 15, 2013. The death toll from the powerful typhoon that swept the central Philippines nearly doubled overnight, reaching 4,000, as helicopters from a U.S. aircraft carrier and other naval ships began flying food, water and medical teams to ravaged regions.ERIK DE CASTRO/Reuters

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Greece's Kostas Katsouranis (top) jumps onto Kostas Mitroglou as they celebrate Mitroglou's goal against Romania during their 2014 World Cup qualifying playoff first leg soccer match at Karaiskaki stadium in Piraeus, near Athens November 15, 2013.YORGOS KARAHALIS/Reuters

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The shadow of a Nepalese man is cast on a wall as he walks along a street at Hanumandhoka Durbar Square in Kathmandu November 15, 2013. Nepalese are due to vote on November 19 for a constituent assembly meant to draw up a new constitution.NAVESH CHITRAKAR/Reuters

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Actor Alec Baldwin shoves a photographer and tells him to move out of his way after he arrived in his SUV at the building where he lives in New York November 15, 2013. Baldwin assaulted a reporter earlier in the day, according to local media. In the earlier incident, he smacked a mobile phone from the reporterís hands and shoved him against a car.CARLO ALLEGRI/Reuters

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Brazilian indigenous people watch a canoeing competition in the Cuiaba river during the XII Games of the Indigenous People in Cuiaba November 15, 2013. Forty-eight Brazilian Indigenous tribes will present their cultural rituals and compete in traditional sports such as archery, running with logs and canoeing during the XII Games of Indigenous People which will run until November 16.PAULO WHITAKER/Reuters

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Japan's Saori Sakoda spikes the ball against Thailand during their FIVB Women's Volleyball Grand Champions Cup 2013 in Tokyo November 15, 2013.YUYA SHINO/Reuters

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A girl combs her hair as her father looks out of their house at a slum in Islamabad November 15, 2013.ZOHRA BENSEMRA/Reuters

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