Srinagar, India
November 25, 2014
A Kashmiri woman holds her child while waiting to cast her vote outside a polling station during the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections at Wangipora, north of Srinaga. The five-phased polls will end Dec. 20.
Danish Ismail/Reuters
Hong Kong
November 26, 2014
A protester is detained by police during a confrontation in the Mong Kok shopping district. Hong Kong riot police arrested 80 pro-democracy protesters Tuesday in running clashes after several thousand demonstrators erected street barricades following the clearance of part of a protest hotspot.
Ferguson, Missouri
November 24, 2014
Demonstrators celebrate as a business burns after it was set on fire during rioting following the announcement that a grand jury would not indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man, on Aug. 9.
Ferguson, Missouri
November 26, 2014
A member of the National Guard stands guard during snowfall in front of the Ferguson Police headquarters. The streets of St. Louis suburb were mostly quiet Wednesday after two nights of racially charged unrest following a grand jury decision to clear a white policeman over the killing of an unarmed black teenager.
Aleppo, Syria
November 25, 2014
Members of al Qaeda's Nusra Front carry their weapons as they move toward their positions near al-Zahra village. Members of al Nusra Front and other Sunni Islamists seized an area near the Shiite village in northern Syria on Sunday after clashes with pro-government fighters, opposition activists said.
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
November 23, 2014
The daughters of 32-year-old Palestinian man Fadel Halawa, whom medics said was shot dead by Israeli forces, cry during his funeral. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces shot Halawa dead on Sunday, the first such fatality since a 50-day Gaza war ended in August. The Israeli military had no immediate comment. One of Halawa's relatives said he had been searching for song birds, which nest in trees near the Israeli border and command high prices in Gaza markets.
Suhaib Salem/Reuters
Maranhao State, Brazil
November 24, 2014
People ride a sccoter in a deforested section of the Amazon basin. The non-governmental group Imazon recently warned that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon skyrocketed nearly fivefold in October of this year, compared with the same month last year. The United Nations climate-change conference begins Dec. 1 in neighboring Peru.
New York City
November 27, 2014
The Elf on the Shelf balloon floats down Sixth Avenue during the 88th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Andrew Kelly/Reuters
Bagan, Myanmar
November 25, 2014
Hot-air balloons fly over ancient temples in northern Myanmar at sunrise.
