• 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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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 ???
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    An Occupy Toronto protester reacts to City of Toronto workers who were clearing structures and tents. Nathan Denette / AP Photo / The Canadian Press

In pictures: The world on 23/11/2011


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