Photos of the week

Abraham Lincoln re-enactor Rick Miller poses for photographs after a ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 19, 2013.

Pakistan

Pakistani Sunni Muslims carry the casket of a victim killed in sectarian clashes during funeral prayers in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Nov. 17, 2013.

United Arab Emirates

Robotic jockeys control camels during a race at the Dubai Camel Racing Club during the Al Marmoum camel racing season in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 17, 2013.

Cyprus

People touch the coffin of former Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides during his funeral at the Orthodox Christian Church of the Lord's Wisdom in Nicosia, Cyprus, Nov. 19, 2013.

Scotland

Karis, an 11-week-old lion cub, plays in fallen leaves in her enclosure at Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling, central Scotland, Nov. 20, 2013.

Russia

Russian photographer Denis Sinyakov stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in St. Petersburg, Nov. 18, 2013. A Russian medic and freelance journalist, Sinyakov was among 30 people arrested for a Greenpeace protest against offshore Arctic drilling, and was granted bail in a case that has drawn fierce criticism abroad.

Indonesia

A woman looks on as Mount Sinabung spews ash, as pictured from Sibintun village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province, Nov. 18, 2013.

Philippines

A Typhoon Haiyan survivor kisses her baby as she waits to board an evacuation flight at the airport in Tacloban, Philippines, Nov. 22, 2013.

Russia

A member of the "Ranetka" private family club takes a medical-cosmetic massage using the Achatina fulica snail, also known as the Giant African land snail, in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Nov. 19, 2013.

Arlington, Va.

The eternal flame flickers in the early morning light at the grave of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 22, 2013, on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death.

Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi student gets treated at a hospital after receiving rubber-bullet injuries in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 19, 2013. The boy was injured when police shot rubber bullets and tear gas shells to disperse workers protesting the alleged assault on one of their female colleagues .

United Arab Emirates

Al Fursan, the aerobatics demonstration team of the UAE Air Force perform during the Dubai Air show, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 19, 2013.

Japan

Smoke from an erupting undersea volcano forms a new island off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small uninhabited island, in the southern Ogasawara chain of islands in Japan, Nov. 21, 2013.

West Bank

A masked Palestinian protestor hurls a tear gas canister back at Israeli troops during a weekly demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, Nov. 15, 2013.

Poland

A visitor walks between electric barbed-wired fences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and former concentration camp, in Poland, Nov. 18, 2013.

Peru

Paragliders fly in front of Lima's Miraflores district, Nov. 20, 2013.

France

Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov of Russia perform during their ice dance free dance program at the ISU Bompard Trophy event at Bercy in Paris, Nov. 16, 2013.

Philippines

People trying to leave the devastated town look through the fence of Tacloban airport, which remains a point of exodus for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, Nov. 17, 2013.

Philippines

A typhoon survivor is reflected on a mirror as he continues to seek refuge in a public school which was also damaged by super Typhoon Haiyan, Nov. 22, 2013.

Egypt

Father Arsenious, the head of Mar Girgis Monastery, speaks during an interview with The Associate Press, south of the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Nov. 13, 2013.

India

Migratory birds fly above a man rowing a boat in the waters of river Yamuna during early morning in old Delhi, Nov. 19, 2013.

China

A residential compound is seen during a smoggy day in Wujiaqu, Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, China, Nov. 19, 2013.

Canada

A pair of harbor seals wearing satellite-linked transmitters on their heads face each after being released into the waters of Howe Sound in Porteau Cove, British Columbia, Nov. 20, 2013.

Lebanon

A man carrying a wounded woman runs from the site of explosions near the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Nov. 19, 2013.

China

A general view of the explosion site in Qingdao, China, Nov. 22, 2013 . A blast occurred while workers were repairing a petroleum pipeline, killing at least 22 people.

Thailand

Thousands of paper balloons, powered by burning oil, rise into the evening sky in Chiang Mai province, north of Bangkok during the Loy Krathong Festival, Nov 16, 2013.

Syria

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Free Syrian Army fighters stand in shooting position with their weapons in the Baajan neighborhood in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria, Nov. 15, 2013. Written on the wall in Arabic: "We will not kneel for anyone but god."

Japan

Takashi Kokubu, a 37-year-old actor, runs during a four-legged 100-meter race organized by Kenichi Ito, in Tokyo, Nov. 14, 2013.

Burma

A bridal couple walks past as people pass their time on the wooden bridge in Kandawgyi Lake in Yangon, Burma, Nov. 18, 2013.

Philippines

A boy sits on a message asking for help written in an area damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in Palo, Philippines, Nov. 19, 2013.

Spain

A billboard promoting a cabaret is pictured in Madrid November 19, 2013.