New Yorkers prep for flooding, priests ask for pardon, Ferguson on edge| Nov. 24
The day in pictures around the world.
- A general view as a runners clear a fence at Kempton Park racecourse on November 24, 2014 in Sunbury, England. (Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)
- A man looks at mannequins built into a barricade setup by pro-democracy activists on a street in Mong Kok District on November 24, 2014 in Hong Kong. The Mong Kok protest site is scheduled for clearance by baliffs this week after Hong Kong’s high court authorized police to arrest protesters who obstruct bailiffs on the three interim restraining orders. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
- Cayuga Creek water rushes past a neighbourhood following a massive snow storm in Lancaster, New York November 24, 2014. Emergency workers filled thousands of sandbags on Sunday as the area around Buffalo, New York braced for potential flooding as warming temperatures began to melt up to seven feet (2 metres) of snow. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)
- A rainbow forms over a neighbourhood following a massive snow storm in West Seneca, New York November 24, 2014. Emergency workers filled thousands of sandbags on Sunday as the area around Buffalo, New York braced for potential flooding as warming temperatures began to melt up to seven feet (2 metres) of snow. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)
- Demonstrators shout slogans during a march in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 23, 2014 to protest the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. More than 100 protesters marched peacefully through St Louis on November 23, stepping up pressure on a grand jury to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager. Police stepped up security and erected barricades bracing for the worst with a grand jury to decide whether to indict the police officer. Brown was shot at least six times by police officer Darren Wilson in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on August 9, inflaming racial tensions and sparking weeks of protests, some violent. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
- A traditional Saman dance is performed by 5,057 male children and elders belonging to the ethnic Gayo tribe during a ceremony in Gayo Lues highland district in Indonesia’s Aceh province on November 24, 2014. The traditional mass dance involving rythmic, syncronized and alternating expressive movement of hands including the upper body without breaking the tight kneeling line formation as they sing verses incorporating religious messages in Gayo language has been categorized in 2011 by United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding. (Chaideer Mahyuddun/AFP/Getty Images)
- Workers, near smoke from a flare, block an entrance of the port of Antwerp, one of the world’s biggest port, during a strike in Antwerp November 24, 2014. A strike in parts of Belgium on Monday disrupted rail services and one of Europe’s largest ports as trade unions and workers voice their anger over austerity measures announced by the country’s new government. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
- Ducks fly beneath contrails in the sky at dawn in west London November 24, 2014. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
- Archbishop of Granada Francisco Javier Martinez and priests prostrate in front of the altar to seek pardon for sexual abuse in the Church at the cathedral in Granada, southern Spain, November 23, 2014. Three Spanish Catholic priests and a lay person, who were all not identified, were arrested on Monday, a police source said, in a child sexual abuse case whose victim Pope Francis has reportedly telephoned to offer the Church’s apology. Picture taken November 23, 2014. (Pepe Marin/Reuters)
- Retired paramilitary policemen, who conduct the daily national flag raising and lowering ceremony on Tiananmen Square, salute to a Chinese national flag during a farewell ceremony in Beijing, November 24, 2014. (Reuters)
- A worker uses metal cutter as others carry to dismantled parts of decommissioned Indian Navy Ship INS Vikrant at a ship breaking yard in Mumbai November 24, 2014. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
- A Christmas pyramid is pictured next to the television tower at the Christmas market at Alexanderplatz square in Berlin November 24, 2014. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)
- Children collect items from among the debris of a school for the deaf and mute, destroyed in what activists said were overnight U.S.-led air strikes against the Islamic State, in Raqqa November 24, 2014. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, is controlled by the Islamic State. The United States and its allies have conducted two dozen strikes against Islamic State militants since Friday, launching nine strikes in Syria and 15 strikes in Iraq, according to U.S. Central Command. (Nour Fourat/Reuters)
- A boy looks out from a window inside the bullet-riddled facade of his home after what activists said were overnight U.S.-led air strikes against the Islamic State, in Raqqa November 24, 2014. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, is controlled by the Islamic State. The United States and its allies have conducted two dozen strikes against Islamic State militants since Friday, launching nine strikes in Syria and 15 strikes in Iraq, according to U.S. Central Command. (Nour Fourat/Reuters)
- People take photos of a Christmas tree made up of Japanese Manga character Doraemon at a shopping mall in the central business district in Singapore November 24, 2014. (Edgar Su/Reuters)
- A boy wearing a Doraemon t-shirt poses for photo at a Christmas tree made up of Japanese Manga character Doraemon at a shopping mall in the central business district in Singapore, (/Edgar Su/Reuters)
- A woman playing the role of Bridget Fuller scrapes cinnamon into a bowl to make pancakes in a home at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts November 24, 2014. Plimouth Plantation is a living museum portraying the life of the Native Americans and the English colonists in 1627, seven years after the colonists’ arrival. The three-day harvest festival and feast at the Plimoth Colony in 1621 is the model for the modern-day Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, according to the museum. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
- Top high school students attend an annual award ceremony organized by Yemen’s Education Ministry in Sanaa November 24, 2014. Forty-seven highest-scoring graduates of high schools nationwide were honoured by the government on Monday, and awarded with medals and cash prizes. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)