Week In Photos
Edited by Adel Alsalman
Monday 12 December 2011
Schoolboys stand near fuel trucks which were set ablaze in the Bolan district of Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on nine fuel trucks in the Bolan area of southwestern Baluchistan province, setting them on fire and killing one of the drivers, police and witnesses said. (Photo: REUTERS - Amir Hussain)
Monday 12 December 2011
Israeli fighter jets penetrated deep into Lebanese airspace on Monday morning. (Photo: Al-Akhbar - Hassan Bahsoun)
Monday 12 December 2011
Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral practice in the choir stalls at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. The 30 choristers and eight probationers join twelve adult singers (the Vicars Choral) to form the Cathedral Choir. (Photo: REUTERS - Toby Melville)
Sunday 11 December 2011
Residents travelling on a boat looking at a dramatic cloud formation during sunset near the erupting Mount Gamalana volcano on the island of Ternate. The volcano began its explosive eruption on December 4, 2011 dumping volcanic ash and mud in surrounding villages after it spewed ash 2,000 meters into the air forcing the closure of domestic airport. (Photo: AFP)
Sunday 11 December 2011
A night picture in Paris, shows a statue made by Antoine Coysevox in 1699 representing Mercury on Pegasus, next to the Big Wheel at Place de la Concorde. At C, the famous Eiffel Tower. (Photo: AFP - Franck Fife)
Saturday 10 December 2011
The 'Immortal' Fairouz during her concert in Sahel Alma, Lebanon. (Photo: Al-Akhbar - Marwan Bu Haydar)
Saturday 10 December 2011
The moon casts a reddish hue over Lake Pend Oreille during a lunar eclipse as it begins to set behind the Selkirk Mountain Range near Sandpoint, Idaho. (Photo: REUTERS - Matt Mills McKnight)
Wednesday 7 December 2011
A bust of the Chinese philosopher Confucius lies on the ground in an abandoned stone carving workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, located 250 km (155 miles) southwest of Beijing. The small town situated in Hebei province has a history of stone carving dating back more than two thousand years. It is finding business in the current economic climate tough with the combination of a large raise in worker's wages and the world economic slump that continues to suck away orders for the ornate stone statues, busts and carvings. (Photo: REUTERS - David Gray)
Wednesday 7 December 2011
A man welds an oil tanker at a truck terminal in Karachi. (Photo: REUTERS - Athar Hussain)
Wednesday 7 December 2011
A man walks in the streets of the district "pompage" in Kinshasa, where opposition supporters have burnt tyres during a protest against allegedly fraudulent partial elections results given by the electoral commission the night before. Police in Kinshasa use teargas to disperse opposition supporters as the DR Congo's wait to learn the winner of last week's elections is prolonged amid protests abroad and fears of violence at home. (Photo: AFP - Gwenn Dubourthoumieu)
Wednesday 7 December 2011
A man plays the trombone on Havana's seafront boulevard "El Malecon". (Photo: REUTERS - Desmond Boylan)
Wednesday 7 December 2011
The U.S. Navy battleship USS California is seen ablaze after an attack by Japanese carrier based strike aircraft on the Hawaiian port of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. December 7, 2011 marks the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack in which over 2,400 members of the United States military were killed. (Photo: REUTERS - U.S. Navy Photograph)
Monday 5 December 2011
An Afghan woman holds her baby as she walks through a busy street on Kabul. A major international conference on December 5 will seek a way forward for Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO combat troops in 2014 but the boycott of two crucial players, Pakistan and the Taliban, has dampened hopes of success. The one-day gathering brings around 100 national delegations and aid organisations to the former German capital Bonn, 10 years after a meeting in the city put an interim Afghan government in place after the Taliban's ouster. (Photo: AFP - Shah Marai)
Sunday 4 December 2011
Paramilitary policemen practice drills inside the Forbidden City during a heavy haze and smog night in central Beijing. China's air pollution standards are too lax, a senior environment official said in comments published earlier this month, the highest level comment following complaints that authorities are understating the extent of smog that often envelops Beijing. (Photo: REUTERS - Jason Lee)
December 4, 2011
Shi'ite Muslims march during a re-enactment of the battle of Kerbala during a mourning process, two days before the Shi'ite will mark the day of Ashura, in Saksakieh village, southern Lebanon. The man in the middle represents Imam Hussein, accompanied with his family members, distinguishable by their white face covers. Ashura, the most important day in the Shi'ite calendar, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in the 7th century battle of Kerbala. (Photo: REUTERS - Ali Hashisho)
Sunday 4 December 2011
Anarchists burn flares, shout and carry a banner in central Moscow, late, during their protest against the conduct of Russia's parliamentary elections. The banner reads very rudely in Russian: "You were cheated!" Russians voted today in elections set to see Vladimir Putin's ruling party win a reduced majority in parliament, amid claims the authorities were engaging in foul play to ensure it maintained dominance. (Photo: AFP - Andrey Smirnov)
Sunday 4 December 2011
A tree is reflected in the half-frozen Houhai Lake as winter descends upon Beijing. (Photo: AFP - Mark Ralston)
Saturday 3 December 2011
Women wait in line to see the sacred Buddha's tooth relic on display at a temple in Yangon. (Photo: REUTERS - Damir Sagolj)
Friday 2 December 2011
Hindu priests prepare ritualistic fires for a Yajna ritual during a Maha Yajna function organised for the industrial and and economic prosperity of India's West Bengal state, in Sibpur near Kolkata. The Yajna, a Hindu ritual of sacrifice, is performed by priests presiding over a ritualistic fire, called agni, to please the gods or to attain wishes. There are some 400 variations of Yajna described in Hindu scriptures. (Photo: AFP - Dibyangshu Sarkar)
Friday 2 December 2011
A Nepalese farmer scatters fertilizers on a field in Bhaktapur. (Photo: REUTERS - Navesh Chitrakar)
Friday 2 December 2011
Dubai residents lighting lanterns as they took part of the massive celebrations marking the United Arab Emirates 40th National Day. (Photo: Mohamed El-Hebeishy)
Thursday 1 December 2011
A soldier waits before a military parade to celebrate Romania's National Day in central Bucharest. (Photo: REUTERS - Bogdan Cristel)
Thursday 1 December 2011
Supporters of South Ossetia's presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva warm up near a fire during a rally in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's rebel region. A senior Kremlin official held talks in the rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia on Thursday as Russia tried to defuse a political crisis sparked by the invalidation of leadership polls. (Photo: AFP - Mikhail Mordasov)
Wednesday 30 November 2011
A fireman looks down while escalating on a fire ladder at the scene of a burning residential tower in Hong Kong. The fire engulfed a Hong Kong residential tower in the Mongkok area of Kowloon, killing eight people and injuring 24, police said. (Photo: AFP - Aaron Tam)
Wednesday 30 November 2011
People gather around lit candles to mark the upcoming World AIDS Day in Kathmandu. World AIDS Day, which falls, aims to raise awareness to tackle the prejudice towards HIV-infected people and help stop its spread. (Photo: REUTERS - Navesh Chitrakar)
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Freeride skiers carve their way down a steep slope of crushed rocks, in the western Austrian village of Haiming, some 45 kilometers (28 miles) west of Innsbruck. (Photo: REUTERS - Dominic Ebenbichler)
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Yovana Yumbo Ruiz, 8, diagnosed with the Tetra-amelia syndrome, lies on the floor during a rehabilitation session at the clinic La Luz in Lima. Dr. Luis Rubio, the head of Yovana Yumbo Ruiz's medical case, is rehabilitating her with the hope of putting a bionic arm on her in the future. (Photo: REUTERS - Mariana Bazo)
Tuesday 29 November 2011
A boy pulls a boat used to transport commuters across the river at Yangon's port. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will test Myanmar's tentative democratic reforms this week in a high-stakes visit that could mark the resource-rich Asian nation's return to the world stage after more than 50 years of political isolation. (Photo: REUTERS - Damir Sagolj)
Sunday 27 November 2011
A boy leans on a stone carved window at the Nizamuddin Dargah, a mausoleum complex of one of the world's most famous sufi saints, Nizamuddin Auliya, in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP - Roberto Schmidt)
Sunday 27 November 2011
A man launches his model glider above the sea of mist in Riex near Lausanne, western Switzerland. (Photo: AFP - Fabrice Coffrini)
Sunday 27 November 2011
Boys play around on a motorcycle in Shatila Camp, Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo: Al-Akhbar - Marwan Bu Haidar)
Saturday 26 November 2011
Cormorants perched on a tree are silhouetted as the sun rises at Taudaha wetlands in Kathmandu. (Photo: REUTERS - Navesh Chitrakar)
Saturday 26 November 2011
A protester dressed as the Grim Reaper stands in front of a parliament building during a rally against the exploration work of shale gas in central Sofia. The Bulgarian government granted in June a five-year permit to U.S. energy firm Chevron to carry out shale gas exploration work at a potentially huge field in the northeastern parts of the country. (Photo: REUTERS - Stoyan Nenov)
Saturday 26 November 2011
Opposition UDPS supporters run through a cloud of teargas outside N'Djili airport in Kinshasa. Police in Congo blocked President Joseph Kabila's main rival at an airport in Kinshasa on Saturday to stop him staging an election rally after at least two died in violence across the central African state's capital city. (Photo: REUTERS - Finbarr O'Reilly)
Saturday 26 November 2011
A traditional Hungarian shepherd walks front of his Racka sheep during a celebration of the end of the grazing season in the Great Hungarian Plain in Hortobagy, 200 km (124 miles) east of Budapest. (Photo: REUTERS - Bernadett Szabo)
Friday 25 November 2011
A Roma girl looks out from a window in Inke, 220km (137 miles) south west of Budapest. The children in the village have been forced to stay at home because the gas utility cancelled service to her school, which has not paid the bills for half a year, leaving the building without heating. (Photo: REUTERS - Laszlo Balogh)
Friday 25 November 2011
Police officers are silhouetted as they clean branches put by anti-nuclear protestors on a forest path near Metzingen, northern Germany, where the so-called Castor transport train is to pass on its way to Dannenberg. (Photo: AFP - Johannes Eisele)
Friday 25 November 2011
French firemen try to extinguish a fire at a 5000 m2 warehouse stocking rolls of paper for a local paper maker in Forest-sur-Marque, northern France. The fire completely destroyed the hangar, though no casualties have been reported. (Photo: AFP - Philippe Huguen)
Thursday 24 November 2011
A man works at the construction site of a Roman Catholic cathedral in the capital Pristina. The new cathedral at Pristina's Mother Teresa Square will be the tallest building in the capital and big enough to accommodate 2,000 churchgoers, according to local media. (Photo: REUTERS - Hazir Reka)
Thursday 24 November 2011
A dog drying off after a swim in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo: Al-Akhbar - Marwan Bu Haidar)
Thursday 24 November 2011
A photo shows the Jefferson Memorial in Washington on Thanksgiving Day. (Photo: AFP - Mandel Ngan)
Thursday 24 November 2011
A woman walks around on the golf field in Beirut. (Photo: Al-Akhbar - Marwan Tahtah)
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Bystanders look at a passenger train that derailed, injuring at least 20 people, in Edura village, 55kms south of the capital Srinagar. At least 20 people were injured when a train from Qazigund to Srinagar derailed in Kashmir's Kulgam district. (Photo: AFP)
Tuesday 22 November 2011
South Korean marines patrol along the seashore on Yeonpyeong Island, one day ahead of the first anniversary of North Korea's shelling of the South Korean border island. North Korea fired shells at the island off the peninsula's west coast last year, killing two civilians and two soldiers and destroying dozens of houses. (Photo: REUTERS - Shin Jun-Hee - Yonhap)
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