Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - December 18, 2011

Typhoon Washi victims who were rendered homeless after their houses were swept away by flashfloods rest in an evacuation center in Cagayan de Oro in southern Philippines on December 18, 2011. Rescuers searched for more than 100 people still missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing almost 500 people in areas ill-prepared to cope with deadly storms. The cities of Cagayan de Oro and nearby Iligan on Mindanao island were worst hit when Typhoon Wasi slammed ashore while people slept late on Friday and early Saturday, sending torrents of water and mud through villages and stripping mountainsides bare. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)

The Daily Beast - December 18, 2011

AP Photo/Chris O'Meara

Kidogo, a Southern White Rhinoceros, keeps an eye on her one-week-old calf as the newborn runs Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011, at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Fla.  The zoo has launched a naming contest on it's Facebook page.  The contest ends Dec. 23, 2011, in order for the newborn to have her name for Christmas.

Mysterious light

Two very different stories, but a lovely visual theme — and great examples of low-light photography, too:

Trucks remove garbage at a dump site close to Kosovo's Power Plant near the town of Obilic on December 17, 2011. (AFP/Getty Images/Armend Nimani)

Palestinian men work at a charcoal factory in the northern West Bank village of Yabad, near Jenin, on December 17, 2011. For years members of the same families have used manual labour and time-honoured practices to turn wood into charcoal in a 10-day process that involves round-the-clock supervision. (AFP/Getty Images/Saif Dahlah)

Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - December 17, 2011

People walk amid candles lit at Praca do Comercio at Lisbon on December 17, 2011. Fifty thousand candles were lit in Praca do Comercio, Lisbon's downtown square, as part of an attempt by non-governmental organization Terra dos Sonhos (Land of Dreams) to achieve a Guinness World Record. The candles were sold at 1 euro each to raise funds to help realize the dreams of children suffering from long and terminal illnesses. (Reuters/Hugo Correia)

The Daily Beast - December 17, 2011

Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - December 16, 2011

Guinness World Records Adjudicator Rob Molloy (R) and doctor Manoj Pahukar (2nd L) measure Jyoti Amge (C), 18, during a news conference in Nagpur on December 16, 2011. Amge was officially announced by the Guinness World Records on December 16 the world's "shortest woman living (mobile)" measured as 62.8cm (24.7 inches) and will take the title from US woman Bridgette Jordan, previously held the record at 69.5 cm (27.4 in). (AFP/Getty Images/Punit Paranjpe)

The Daily Beast - December 16, 2011

AP Photo/The Winchester Star, Scott Mason

Sassy, a two-year-old Labrador retriever, leaps into Wilkins Lake in Winchester, Va. Tuesday, Dec. 13,  2011, at sunset to grab a tennis ball thrown by her owner, John Crawford.

Editor's Choice Picture of the Day - December 15, 2011

  REUTERS/David W Cerny

The Czech Republic's Petr Vampola falls on the ice during their Euro Hockey Tour ice hockey game against Sweden in Chomutov December 15, 2011.          

The Daily Beast - December 15, 2011

  AFP PHOTO / JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE

A cat plays with a mouse on December 8, 2011 in Arnsberg, western Germany. Due to their ability to hunt mouses and other vermin, cats have been domesticated by humans at least 9,500 years ago.   

Editor's Choice Picture of the Day - December 14, 2011

REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili 

Etibar Elchiyev poses with 50 metal spoons magnetized to his body during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "Most spoons on a human body" in Tbilisi December 14, 2011.