Week in Photos: November 8, 2014
From a Spanish nurse cured of Ebola to Guy Fawkes commemorations and Nik Wallenda’s daredevil act in Chicago, see the week’s most striking photos.
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November 4, 2014
Palestinian schoolchildren ride a motorcycle rickshaw past the ruins of houses that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, on a rainy day in the southern Gaza Strip.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuter
November 5, 2014
A worker wades through cotton at a ginning mill. India may topple China as the world’s largest cotton grower next year as farmers harvest the biggest area ever, boosting production to near-record levels, according to the Cotton Association of India.
Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg via Getty Images
November 5, 2014
A giant effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin to be burned is paraded by participants in costumes as they take part in one of a series of processions during Bonfire Night celebrations. The processions and bonfire mark the uncovering of Guy Fawkes’s “Gunpowder Plot” to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 and commemorate the memory of Lewes’s 17 Protestant martyrs.
Luke MacGregor/Reuters
November 2, 2014
A photographer with a painted face poses for a photo at San Andres cemetery. On the Day of the Dead, Mexicans pay homage to their late relatives by preparing meals and decorating their graves. The festival has its origins in a pre-Hispanic Aztec belief that the dead return to Earth one day each year to visit their loved ones.
Edgard Garrido/Reuters
November 5, 2014
Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks pose for a picture in a downtown park on the day marking Guy Fawkes Night.
Marko Djurica/Reuters
November 3, 2014
An Afghan Shiite Muslim flagellates himself during an Ashura procession. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, who was killed in the seventh-century battle of Karbala.
Omar Sobhani/Reuters
November 2, 2014
Daredevil Nik Wallenda walks along a tightrope between two skyscrapers suspended 500 feet above the Chicago River.
Jim Young/Reuters
November 3, 2014
A Shiite Muslim has his child gashed with a knife during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, who was killed in the seventh-century battle of Karbala.
Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
November 3, 2014
Shiite Muslims attend commemoration rituals on the 10th day of Muharram.
Berk Ozkan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
November 6, 2014
A demonstrator is restrained by riot police during clashes in the center of the city. Tens of thousands of public and private sector workers, employees, and trade union members demonstrated against austerity measures to be taken by the new Belgian government.
Francois Lenoir/Reuters
November 5, 2014
Spanish nurse Teresa Romero raises her arms after being discharged from the Carlos III hospital. Romero became the first person to contract Ebola outside Africa after helping to treat a Spanish missionary who contracted the virus in Africa and was repatriated to Spain for treatment but subsequently died. Doctors announced October 21 that Romero had been cured.
Andrea Comas/Reuters
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