Updated: November 24, 2011, 12:00 AM
In pictures: The world on 23/11/2011
epa03012519 Members of a guard of honor of China's PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) practice before a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 23 November 2011. EPA/DIEGO AZUBEL
A Filipino boy lights a candle to commemorate the second anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre near the gates of presidential palace in Manila. Dennis M Sabangan / EPA
Soldiers readjust their berets as they leave a thanksgiving service at Bath Abbey before they parade around the English city and receive the Freedom of Bath. Matt Cardy / Getty Images
A Tibetan protester takes part in a prayer during an anti-Chinese rally by the Tibetan people's solidarity movement near the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. Sajjad Hussain / AFP Photo
French military police block access to the railway tracks as anti-nuclear demonstrators protest against a planned container transporting nuclear waste in the French western city of Flottemanville. Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP
A boy controls his kite in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Emergency workers, who tended to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, take part in a hunger strike inside a tent near the regional pension fund office in Donetsk. Protesters have taken part in the hunger strike for 10 days to demand the authorities to ???
Supporters of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, or Indian Workers Group, at a protest rally in New Delhi. The supporters demand that the government protect workers rights in the ongoing economic reforms. Gurinder Osan / AP Photo
Waiters carry trays of drinks as they take part in a race through the streets during waiters' race in Yokohama. Itsuo Inouye / AP Photo
A man walks through a destroyed classroom of a boy's school hit by a bomb in Landikotal, north west Pakistan. Shahid Shinwari / Reuters
Passengers stand outside their vehicles to look at a burning oil tanker set ablaze by a bomb explosion on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Shahid Shinwari / Reuters
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, has makeup applied before a television pre-election debate on Russia's Channel One in Moscow. Anton Golubev / Reuters
A protester points to an incoming tear gas canister during clashes with Egyptian riot police near Tahrir square in Cairo. Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP Photo
An Occupy Toronto protester reacts to City of Toronto workers who were clearing structures and tents. Nathan Denette / AP Photo / The Canadian Press