Thursday, 22 November 2012

PICTURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.


 A fan of U.S. singer Lady Gaga poses in front of banner with an image of her during a welcoming demonstration ahead of her visit in Lima, Peru, Monday. Lady Gaga will perform on Nov. 23 in Lima.


 
  FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi from Argentina duels for the ball next to RCD Mallorca's Pep Lluís Martí, left, and Joaquín Navarro Ximo, right, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match in Mallorca, Spain, Sunday.



  A protester holds up a photo of the imprisoned former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, as supporters of the Ukrainian opposition party take part in a rally outside the Central Elections Commission building in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday. ( Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov.


 
  Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with head of the Presidential Council on Human Rights  Mikhail Fedotov during a meeting with in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday.



 
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks out of a plane upon her arrival at Perth International Airport, Tuesday, in Perth, Australia.


   
    Palestinian women react during the funeral of Hamas militant Mohammed Al Qanoah in Gaza City, Tuesday. A Palestinian health official said Al Qanoah died of wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday. His death brings to seven the number of Gazans killed in Israeli airstrikes.




 The luxury residential building "Opus Hong Kong," right, designed by Frank Gehry, soars in Mid-Levels East of Hong Kong Tuesday. A Hong Kong property company has sold a luxury apartment in the Gehry-designed building for an eye-popping price of nearly $60 million. Swire Properties said Tuesday it sold the 620 square meter (6,683 square foot) apartment on the ninth floor of its Opus development for 455 million Hong Kong dollars ($58.7 million).


 
Myanmar prisoners walk outside Insein prison after they were released by Myanmar president Thein Sein's amnesty Thursday, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar reformist government ordered more than 450 prisoners freed Thursday in an amnesty apparently intended as a goodwill gesture ahead of a historic visit by President Barack Obama next week. ( Photo/Khin Maung Win)


Father Stanislaw Michalek, left, walks down the boarding stairs to a LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 787 with Marian Strutynski after Michalek blessed the aircraft during a delivery ceremony Wednesday at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. LOT Polish Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 787 and plans to fly early next year on routes between Poland and New York, Chicago and Toronto. ( Photo/Elaine Thompson).
 
 
  
  Jordanian policemen detain protesters blocking a main road during a demonstration against a rise in fuel prices in downtown Amman, Jordan, Wednesday. Hundreds of Jordanians chanted slogans against the king and threw stones at riot police as they protested in several cities for a second day amid rising anger over fuel price hikes.
 
 
  
 The mother of 10-month-old Palestinian infant Haneen Tafesh is comforted by relatives prior to the funeral in Jabaliya, north Gaza, Friday. According to hospital reports Tafesh died from wounds of an earlier Israeli strike. ( Photo/Bernat Armangue)

 

 

Lila Downs performs at the 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards at Mandalay Bay on Thursday in Las Vegas. (Photo by Al Powers/Powers).

 

 

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, with Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., right, speaks during a media availability after a closed-door oversight hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, looking into the circumstances surrounding the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).
 
 
 Tibetan Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay speaks during the Special International Tibet Support Groups Meeting in Dharmsala, India, Friday. More than a hundred delegates are attending a three-day meeting ending Sunday in Dharmsala to discuss ways to gather more international support for Tibet.
 
 
 
  On Sunday, Mark Rozin, 47, Daniil Rozin, 11, Lev Rozin, 24, Anatoly Rozin, 78, Geda Zimanenko, 100, Luiza Rozina, 78, Maya Rozina, 8 pose in their Moscow apartment. The four generations of Zimanenko- Rozin's family embody the history of Jews in Russia over the past century, from the restrictions of czarist times to the revival of Jewish culture in Russia today. (Photo/Sergey Ponomarev). Russian Jew resurgence


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