Photos Of The Week #45
A home is overshadowed by towering smoke plumes in Paradise, California. Nine people were found dead in and around the town, where more than 6,700 homes and businesses have been destroyed, making it the most destructive blaze in California history. (AFP/Josh Edelson)
Vendors look at their mobile phones at a market for banana leaves in Hyderabad, India. People decorate the entrances of their homes and businesses with banana leaves during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. (AFP/Noah Seelam)
A Toronto-bound Fly Jamaica airplane lies prone after crash-landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Georgetown, Guyana on November 9. (AFP/Denis Chabrol)
Palestinians run for cover from tear gas during clashes near the border between Israel and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 9. (AFP/Said Khatib)
A municipal worker leaves with her daughter after sweeping the India Gate area as a thick layer of pollution hangs over New Delhi a day after the Diwali festival on November 8. (AP/Manish Swarup)
A White House staff member tries to take away a microphone being held by CNN's Jim Acosta as he pointedly questioned U.S. President Donald Trump during a testy news conference following the November 6 midterm elections at the White House on November 7. Trump called Acosta a "rude, terrible person." Acosta's White House credentials were revoked over the incident. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
Hindu devotees worship a cow during the Tihar festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Cows are considered sacred to Hindus and are worshipped during the festival. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
Russian soldiers dressed in Red Army World War II uniforms sit in the back of a truck as St. Basil's Cathedral is reflected in the windshield prior to the start of a parade in Red Square in Moscow. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A man walks his dogs in an autumnal forest in Cuxhaven in northern Germany. (AFP/Patrik Stollarz)
Members of the Belarusian Communist Party with portraits of Soviet leaders Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin attend a rally in Minsk's Independence Square to mark the 101st anniversary of the so-called Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917. (Uladz Hrydzin)
A Russian honor guard marches during a military parade on Red Square in Moscow on November 7. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
An activist takes a break as he takes part in a performance near the building of a parliamentary committee aiming to amend tax legislation in Kyiv on November 6. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
An Afghan municipality worker waters a tree in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
A Indian man selling traditional earthen lamps rides a bullock cart on an unfinished road on a foggy day in Greater Noida, near New Delhi. (AP/R.S. Lyer)
Russian Army soldiers dressed in historical uniforms take part in a rehearsal for a military parade to mark the anniversary of Soviet soldiers leaving for the front in 1941 during World War II. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
A military reenactment actor waits for the arrival of French President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony marking the centenary of the end of World War I in the town of Morhange in eastern France. (AP/Francois Mori)
A woman walks past an art installation of 3,200 giant poppy flowers made of artificial silk to commemorate the end of World War I on Koenigsplatz Square in Munich, Germany. (epa-EFE/Lennart Preiss)
Participants wearing historical dress ride penny-farthing bicycles during the traditional Prague Mile race in the Czech capital on November 4. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)