Nov. 14, 2014. A young Hong Kong couple wear gas masks as they pose for a wedding photographer prior to their marriage next to the tents used by pro-democracy demonstrators at the Admiralty protest site on in Hong Kong,Kevin Frayer—Getty Images
From Putin’s “coatgate” moment with China’s first lady and the funerals of Kurdish fighters killed in clashes with ISIS, to One World Trade Center’s 69th floor rescue and Brad Pitt’s selfie, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Nov. 11, 2014. Police use water cannon to push back several hundred masked men who broke away from a far-right march and threw stones and flares at lines of riot police in Warsaw. Nationalist groups march through Warsaw each year to mark the anniversary of Polish independence, but for the fourth year in a row the procession turned violent. KACPER PEMPEL—REUTERSNov. 13, 2014. A woman, who underwent a sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilization camp, sits in hospital bed at Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) hospital in Bilaspur, in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The doctor whose sterilization of 83 women in less than three hours ended in at least a dozen deaths. ANINDITO MUKHERJEE—REUTERSNov. 7, 2014. A Syrian girl is treated at a make-shift hospital, following a reported regime air raid in Eastern al-Ghouta, a rebel-held region outside the capital Damascus. ABD DOUMANY—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 12, 2014. A Palestinian from the West Bank village of Al Mughayir shows a burning Koran at the village mosque after it was reportedly set on fire. A recent wave of violence on both Israeli and Palestinian territory has sparked fears of further unrest in the region. ATEF SAFADI—EPANov. 12, 2014. Kurdish women sit by a grave of an fighter killed in clashes with the Islamic State (ISIS) forces during the funeral of People's Protection Units fighter Ahmed Mustafa, who died after being injured while fighting in the Syrian city of Kobani, in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Laurence Geai—SIPANov. 11, 2014. Crosses bearing poppies are placed at the base of a statue in the Armed Forces Memorial in the National Memorial Arboretum following a service to commemorate Armistice Day near Lichfield, Staffordshire, central England. In services around the country tributes were paid to the millions of British servicemen and women who have died in conflict since the start of World War I. OLI SCARFF—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 7, 2014. A mourner cries holding onto the coffin of 19 year-old Syrian Kurdish female fighter Perwin Mustafa Dihap who died in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, after being wounded during fighting against the Islamic State (ISIS) forces in her home town of Kobani. Vadim Ghirda—APNov. 12, 2014. Kurdish people gather in the Turkish town of Suruc in the Sanliurfa province to attend the funeral of a People's Protection Units (YPG) fighter who died while fighting in the Syrian Kurdish flashpoint town of Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab. ARIS MESSINIS—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 7, 2014. A man tries to position a baby's hand into a victory sign during the funeral of 19 year-old Syrian Kurdish fighter Perwin Mustafa Dihap who died after being wounded during fighting against the Islamic State (ISIS) forces in her home town of Kobani, in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Vadim Ghirda—APNov. 11, 2014. The U.S. Park Police honor guards are reflected in the Vietnam Veterans Wall Memorial as they march during a ceremony to commemorate Veterans Day, in Washington, D.C. Manuel Balce Ceneta—APNov. 12, 2014. Ukrainian servicemen from an anti-terrorist unit are trained on a shooting range near Kharkiv, Ukraine. NATO has seen columns of Russian tanks, artillery and air defense systems and Russian combat troops entering Ukraine, said NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Philip Breedlove. SERGEI KOZLOV—EPANov. 08, 2014. Coffins containing the remains of victims of flight MH17 are carried out of a Hercules aircraft at Eindhoven airport, the Netherlands, after it arrived from Kharkiv, Ukraine. They will be brought to the Korporaal van Oudheusdenkazerne in Hilversum, where the victim identification process take place. KOEN VAN WEEL—EPANov. 11, 2014. Syrian Kurdish refugees sit outside tents at a refugee camp in Suruc, Sanliurfa province. ARIS MESSINIS—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 10, 2014. The town of Susuz is seen on the northern shore of the Ataturk dam through the window of a passenger aircraft flying over south-eastern Turkey province of Adiyaman. YANNIS BEHRAKIS—REUTERSNov. 10, 2014. Turkeys stand in a barn at Yordy Turkey Farm in Morton, Ill. Founded in the 1930s, Yordy Turkey Farm produces approximately 10,000 turkeys annually, growing their own non-GMO feed and processing the birds in-house. Daniel Acker—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesNov. 13, 2014. Parents in a tent pray to wish for their children's success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test at the Jogye Temple in Seoul. About 640,000 high school students and graduates in South Korea are scheduled to take the examination Thursday that will virtually determine their admission to college. Ahn Young-joon—APNov. 11, 2014. A Syrian woman brings a wounded girl for treatment at a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma, following a reported air strike by government forces on the town, 8 miles northeast of the Syrian capital.ABD DOUMANY—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 7, 2014. A young boy looks on as he attends the funeral of a Kurdish Women's Protection Unit (YPJ) fighter who died during fighting in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane, in the town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province in Turkey. ARIS MESSINIS—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 07, 2014. Palestinian youths throw stones during clashes with Israeli Border Police in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, in the West Bank near Jerusalem's northern border. Sporadic clashes continued over access to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City with Border Police shooting tear gas and some rubber bullets to quell Palestinian youths from throwing stones. OLIVER WEIKEN—EPANov, 10, 2014. Children are seen through a mosquito net used as goal post net on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia. Moses Mwape—APNov. 12, 2014. A scaffold carrying two workers hangs 69 floors up at One World Trade Center in New York City. The workers were washing windows 69 floors up. Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesNov. 12, 2014. A woman looks out from a car at a dangling scaffold at the One World Trade Center in New York City. The workers were washing windows 69 floors up. Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesNov. 12, 2014. A pedestrian crosses the Millennium Bridge towards the financial district in the City of London. STEFAN WERMUTH—REUTERSNov. 10, 2014. New citizens recite the Pledge of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va. Service members, military veterans and civilians take part in 40 naturalization ceremonies across the country from Nov. 7 to 14 to honor Veterans Day and become U.S. citizens. Alex Wong—Getty ImagesNov. 10, 2014. New glass flooring is seen across Tower Bridge's high-level Walkways. This will be the most significant change to the tower's exhibition since it first opened in 1982. David Levene—The Guardian/Sipa USANov. 11, 2014. Moses Riley plays "Taps" during Veterans Day ceremonies in Concord, Mass. BRIAN SNYDER—REUTERSNov. 11, 2014. Relatives and family seen during the funeral of Dalia Lemkus in Tekoa settlement, West Bank. Dalia was one of the two killed yesterday in separate stabbing attacks across Israel and West Bank. Ilia Yefimovich—Getty ImagesNov. 5, 2014. A woman shouts during a demonstration blocking the attorney's office in Mexico City to protest the Mexican government about the 43 missing students. RONALDO SCHEMIDT—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 13, 2014. A child takes cover under her school desks during an earthquake drill in Santiago. IVAN ALVARADO—REUTERSNov. 10, 2014. First Sergeant Tony Quismundo from the U.S. Army practices his golf on waste ground at Kandahar airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Matt Cardy—Getty ImagesNov. 13, 2014. Chinese guards of honor prepare at the main entrance of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for a welcome ceremony held by Chinese President Xi Jinping for visiting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.Andy Wong—APNov. 10, 2014. Search and rescue team approaches the Soyuz TMA-13M capsule with the International Space Station (ISS) crew, Alexander Gerst of Germany, Maxim Surayev of Russia and Reid Wiseman of the U.S. after its landing near the town of Arkalyk, in northern Kazakhstan. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV—REUTERSNov. 12, 2014. European Space Agency's Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti works inside the Soyuz TMA-15M space vehicle at an assembly department at Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome. STR/AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 12, 2014. An Indian fisherman rows his boat towards his fishing nets on a misty morning on the outskirts of Sivasagar district, in eastern Assam state. Temperatures country-wide are slowly dropping as winter is setting in. LUIT CHALIHA—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 11, 2014. Cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point gather for the annual Veterans Day parade in New York City. JUSTIN LANE—EPANov. 13, 2014. Actor Brad Pitt takes pictures with fans during a promotional event for his latest film Fury in Seoul. The movie is to be released in South Korea on Nov. 20. Ahn Young-joon—APNov. 8, 2014. A cat waits to be examined with its owner by the jury during the first day of the Super Cat Show 2014 in Rome. The Super Cat Show, which takes place on Nov. 8th and 9th, involves the participation of 800 cats of different breeds from all over the world. Giorgio Cosulich—Getty ImagesNov. 6, 2014. Spectators wearing 3D glasses watch the live concert of the German band Kraftwerk at the Louis Vuitton Art Foundation in Paris. DOMINIQUE FAGET—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 10, 2014. A baby elephant, which was found in a river during the rainy season, plays with white elephants during their bath in their enclosure near the Uppatasanti Pagoda in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The baby elephant is kept with five white elephants, seen as sacred signs of good fortune, peace and wealth in predominantly Buddhist country. DAMIR SAGOLJ—REUTERSNov. 10, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (second left) walk ahead of other leaders as they arrive for the APEC Summit family photo in Beijing. KEVIN LAMARQUE—REUTERSNov. 13, 2014. An Indian man is silhouetted as he sits outside a roadside tea stall during a power outage on the outskirts of New Delhi. Long power cuts are common in rural and semi urban areas throughout India. Altaf Qadri—APNov. 13, 2014. Relatives of a woman, who died after she underwent a sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilization "camp", take part in her funeral rites at her home in Bilaspur district, in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh. ANINDITO MUKHERJEE—REUTERSNov. 11, 2014. The names of the war dead are read out at the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red poppy installation at The Tower of London on Armistice Day in London. Jonathan Hordle—REX USANov. 14, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama puts his arm around opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi after a joint press conference following their meeting at her residence in Yangon. Obama said a provision in the Southeast Asian nation's constitution that prevents candidates from running for president because of their children's nationality made no sense. KEVIN LAMARQUE—REUTERSNov. 12, 2014. A long exposure shot shows boats fastened at the Lake View picnic point as the sun sets in Islamabad, Pakistan. OMER SALEEM—EPANov. 13, 2014. Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the shortest man ever, meets the worlds tallest man, Sultan Kosen, for the first time in London. Dangi from Nepal is 21.5-in. tall, and Kosen from Turkey is 8 ft. 3 in. Peter Macdiarmid—Getty ImagesNov. 8, 2014. A flock of birds is seen on a tree against the moon in Kostanay, northern Kazakhstan. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV—REUTERSNov. 14, 2014. Kashmiri villagers watch the funeral procession of Mohammad Abas Malla, a suspected rebel, at Nowpora village, south of Srinagar, India. Two suspected rebels and a civilian were killed in a fierce gunbattle in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, an Indian security official said Friday. Dar Yasin—APNov. 13, 2014. A U.S. soldier walks at the site of a suicide attack on the outskirts of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. The suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into U.S. forces traveling in a NATO convoy on Thursday. The attack caused no fatalities to foreign forces or civilians, but damaged an armored vehicle, the provincial spokesman Ahmadzia Abdulzai said. PARWIZ—REUTERSNov. 11, 2014. A young girl dressed as a "poilu", a World War I-era French soldier, holds a French flag during Armistice Day ceremonies in Lyon marking the 96th anniversary of the end of WWI. JEFF PACHOUD—AFP/Getty ImagesNov. 14, 2014. A young Hong Kong couple wear gas masks as they pose for a wedding photographer prior to their marriage next to the tents used by pro-democracy demonstrators at the Admiralty protest site in Hong Kong.Kevin Frayer—Getty ImagesNov. 10, 2014. Russia's President Vladimir Putin helps put a blanket on Peng Liyuan (second right), wife of China's President Xi Jinping (second left), as Xi talks to President Barack Obama during a lights and fireworks show to celebrate Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting at National Aquatics Center, or Water Cube, in Beijing. REUTERSNov. 14, 2014. Boys from a Ukrainian cadet's lyceum pray during the initiation ceremony in Orthodox Monastery of Caves in Kiev, Ukraine.Efrem Lukatsky—APNov. 14, 2014. Kieran Megraw (L) and Sean Megraw (R) carry the remains of their brother Brendan as the funeral takes place of Brendan Megraw, known as one of 'the Disappeared' in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Brendan Megraw was taken from his home on the Twinbrook estate in west Belfast in 1978. It was believed that he had been abducted, shot dead and then secretly buried by the IRA who claimed he was working as an agent for the security forces. Charles McQuillan—Getty Images
