A man walks through the rain in Piccadilly Circus in central London, England on December 1, 2011.
Election volunteers sit on bags containing ballots as they wait for tally sheets to be computed at the Fikin compilation center in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. With voting finally wrapping up Thursday, the election is now moving into the next phase. Like the process of voting, the process of counting the ballots that were cast is plagued by massive logistical challenges.
A gondola passes Venice's bridge of Sighs after it was renovated on December 1, 2011. The 'Ponte dei Sospiri' (Bridge of Sighs), leading from the Ducal Palace, left, to the old prison, right, had been controversially covered with advertising boards covering the scaffolding during the three years of the restoration work.
India's laborers rest on hand carts at a closed market during a strike in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Shops around India closed their doors Thursday in a strike called to protest a new policy to allow big-box retailers into the country.
A cleaner walks through the yard of the al-Azhar mosque of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. The fundamentalist Brotherhood is emerging as the biggest winner in partial results from the first voting this week in Egypt's landmark election, in which voters turned out in unexpected droves.
Keith Curo of Pasadena stops to look over the damage caused by a fallen tree at a Shell gas station on the corner of North San Gabriel Avenue and East Colorado Boulevard, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, in Pasadena, Calif. Some of the worst winds in years blasted through California overnight, sweeping through canyons, gusting up to 97 mph, and toppling trees and trucks while knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.
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