National Geographic Photo Contest 2013: Feast your eyes on some of this year's most spectacular images

26 Nov 2013 23:36The pictures show life on Earth in all its glory, from the mewing red deer in its natural habitat, to a boy cart wheeling on the banks of a river

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BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2013: Andy Murray installed as bookmakers's favourite as short list is revealed

Great Briton: Andy Murray ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's singles title at Wimbledon and is expected to win the public's vote next month Photo: STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS

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Best selfies 2013: From Kim Kardashian's bum to Cheryl Cole duckface and space astronaut

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This collection of celebrities and, well, an astronaut, are the best and most popular selfies of 2013 so far.

From Kim Kardashisn getting her bum out, which gained over a million likes on Instagram, to David Beckham just being him, they have taken Twitter and Instagram by storm.

And it's no wonder the use of the word has increased by 17,000% to become Oxford Dictionaries' word of 2013.

The selfie - or self-picture - has become commonplace as millions of people, including celebrities and even the Pope, have posted them online.

It may seem vain, but nearly everyone is doing it on social media, and these are just 15 of many more posted every day.

Selfie is now part of the online Oxford Dictionaries, but it has not yet been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Selfie is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as "a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website".

To qualify, a word does not need to have been coined in the last year, but it does need to have become prominent or notable in that time.

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ATP World Tour Finals 2013: favourable draw sets Rafael Nadal up for a final flourish in comeback season

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The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals were launched on Saturday night with a gala dinner at London’s Natural History Museum.

Around a dozen competitors attended, mingling with fans and sponsors in the shadow of Dippy, the 26-metre diplodocus that bestrides the Centre Hall.

Yet there were also some glaring absentees, thanks to the daft back-to-back scheduling of Paris and London. The diners were hugely disappointed to miss the new world No1 Rafael Nadal, whose all-conquering return from injury has flabbergasted everyone. The man has become a phenomenon, evoking the sort of awed fascination often seen in this hall.

“I can’t remember a comeback like it in tennis,” says Boris Becker, who will be commentating on this week’s events at the O₂ for Sky Sports.

“And maybe in no other sport. This time last year, everybody wondered whether Rafa can come back at all. If you had told us he would be the player of the year, win two grand slams and eight other tournaments, we would have bet anything we had that this wouldn’t happen.

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“The question mark was the tendon on his knee. It was a serious injury: most people would have taken the easy way out, had a quick surgery and maybe never come back. He had the patience to say: ‘I am with the doctors I trust and I will come back when I’m ready.’

“I’m sure he could have come back in Melbourne

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