• epa03013753 Spanish national police remove a protester seeking changes to Spain's mortgage laws during a demonstration aimed at blocking the eviction of a family in Torrejon de Ardoz (Madrid), Spain, 24 November 2011. Local authorities later postponed the eviction order until after the Christmas holidays for humanitarian reasons.
    epa03013753 Spanish national police remove a protester seeking changes to Spain's mortgage laws during a demonstration aimed at blocking the eviction of a family in Torrejon de Ardoz (Madrid), Spain, 24 November 2011. Local authorities later postponed the eviction order until after the Christmas holidays for humanitarian reasons.
  • A man walks along a deserted platform at Sofia's central railway station. Workers at Bulgaria's heavily in debt state railway company went on strike at plans to cut 2,000 jobs in order to secure a rescue loan from the IMF. Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP Photo
    A man walks along a deserted platform at Sofia's central railway station. Workers at Bulgaria's heavily in debt state railway company went on strike at plans to cut 2,000 jobs in order to secure a rescue loan from the IMF. Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP Photo
  • Female protesters, demand accountability from the world's industrialised countries, wear flower costumes near the US Embassy in Manila. Noel Celis / AFP Photo
    Female protesters, demand accountability from the world's industrialised countries, wear flower costumes near the US Embassy in Manila. Noel Celis / AFP Photo
  • Two girls have their faces painted with the symbol for nuclear radiation as they attend a demonstration by pupils from a local school against a storage for nuclear waste in Luechow, northern Germany. Johannes Eiselle / AFP
    Two girls have their faces painted with the symbol for nuclear radiation as they attend a demonstration by pupils from a local school against a storage for nuclear waste in Luechow, northern Germany. Johannes Eiselle / AFP
  • A wounded Yemeni pro-reform protester is rushed into a makeshift hospital in Sanaa's Change Square. Loyalists of President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed at least five people in the Yemeni capital today casting a pall over a hard-won deal for his departure aft???
    A wounded Yemeni pro-reform protester is rushed into a makeshift hospital in Sanaa's Change Square. Loyalists of President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed at least five people in the Yemeni capital today casting a pall over a hard-won deal for his departure aft???
  • Larysa Yablonska, a Ukrainian national, checks her flight to Barcelona that was cancelled due to a general strike at the Portela international airport in Lisbon. The Portuguese main worker unions called for a general strike to protest against new economy ???
    Larysa Yablonska, a Ukrainian national, checks her flight to Barcelona that was cancelled due to a general strike at the Portela international airport in Lisbon. The Portuguese main worker unions called for a general strike to protest against new economy ???
  • A Kathakali dancer waits for her performance to start during the annual temple festival at Tripunithura, in Kochi, India. Kathakali is an elaborate classical dance-drama in the southern Indian state of Kerala that combines literature, music, painting, act???
    A Kathakali dancer waits for her performance to start during the annual temple festival at Tripunithura, in Kochi, India. Kathakali is an elaborate classical dance-drama in the southern Indian state of Kerala that combines literature, music, painting, act???
  • A Palestinian woman carries a child in front of items removed from a structure before it was razed by the Israeli army and civil administration in the West Bank village of Beit Hanina, near Jerusalem. Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
    A Palestinian woman carries a child in front of items removed from a structure before it was razed by the Israeli army and civil administration in the West Bank village of Beit Hanina, near Jerusalem. Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
  • A worker tears off a pre-election poster featuring Dimitry Medvedev, the Russian president, right and Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, appealling to people to vote for the United Russia political party, in the southern city of Krasnodar. Eduard Korniye???
    A worker tears off a pre-election poster featuring Dimitry Medvedev, the Russian president, right and Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, appealling to people to vote for the United Russia political party, in the southern city of Krasnodar. Eduard Korniye???
  • A Thai boy holds the steps as he swims along with a moving truck through a flooded street on the outskirts of Bangkok. Altaf Qadri / AP Photo
    A Thai boy holds the steps as he swims along with a moving truck through a flooded street on the outskirts of Bangkok. Altaf Qadri / AP Photo
  • A female protester attempts to dismantle a barbed wire barricade, newly erected by the Egyptian army, near Tahrir square in Cairo. Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP Photo
    A female protester attempts to dismantle a barbed wire barricade, newly erected by the Egyptian army, near Tahrir square in Cairo. Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP Photo

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In pictures: The world on 24/11/2011

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