Week in Photos: November 30, 2013
From the giant Uncle Sam at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to Prince Williams impromptu musical performance, a look at the most striking images from the past seven days.
John Minchillo
A giant, scowling Uncle Sam balloon is flanked by midtown skyscrapers in New York during the 87th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Despite fears that winds would interfere with the tradition, balloons were given the all-clear, to the delight of millions watching on the streets and millions more tuning in across the world. Here are more week-defining photos from around the world.
John Minchillo/AP
A demonstrator receives a shot of tear gas to the face outside a Ukrainian government building after the administration decided to suspend Ukraine's trade deals with the European Union.
Dzhavakhadze Zurab/Itar-Tass via Landov
On a ranch in Spain, Argentinian "Horse Whisperer" Fernando Noailles, lays on top of three-and-a-half-year-old Mai, a Spanish Pure Horse. Noailles has been taming horses with behavioral problems using methods an inigenous man taught him when he was 12.
Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty
Guests at the Centrepoint Gala Dinner at Kensington Palace had their minds blown when Prince William took the stage to belt out the words to "Livin' on a Prayer" with Taylor Swift and Jon Bon Jovi. Watch the royal rendition here.
WPA Pool/Getty
A beam of sunlight hits a boy holding a Teletubbies doll at a temporary evacuation shelter in Indonesia. At least 18,000 have been displaced in Western Indonesia as volcanic activity rises from Mount Sinabung, which continues to spew ash and smoke after several eruptions since September.
Ulet Ifansasti/Getty
Anti-government protesters briefly occupy the Thailand Army Headquarters in Bangkok. Set on overthrowing Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, demonstrators plan to march on to the ruling party headquarters. This week, they infiltrated the Finance Ministry, cut power to police headquarters, and occupied a main government facility.
Lam Yik Fei/Getty
The San Antonio Spurs' Tiago Splitter tries to shoot but is fouled by an arm reaching from New Orleans Pelicans' Anthony Davis.
Eric Gay/AP
In turbulent Mali, a legislative election was heavily secured due to fears of rebel attacks. Here, in Gao, officials go through electoral lists trying to identify the voter at right, in a polling station. Unfortunately, low turnout and reports of abuses shadowed the democratic efforts.
Jerome Delay
In Egypt, female supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi stand inside the defendants' cage in an Alexandria courtroom. The precedent is harsh: a court has already ordered 11 years in prison for 21 women, including many juveniles, for staging a pro-Morsi protest.
Amira Murtada/AP
Photographers snap shots of a parading turkeys before they're set to be pardoned by President Obama at the White House. The winner, "Popcorn," and runner-up, "Carmel," were this year's lucky birds.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Spanish protesters march against government austerity measures in Madrid. Expressing their anger at cuts they say are exaggerating the economic issues by stifling growth and increasing unemployment, thousands marched to chants of, "Government, resign."
Andres Kudacki/AP
Simultaneously disappointing no one and everyone, Miley Cyrus graced the stage of the 2013 American Music Awards in Los Angeles with a bizarre, kitten-themed performance.
Kevin Mazur/WireImage via Getty
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