--- description: From the election of New York's new mayor and typhoon Haiyan hitting the Philippines to Prince Charles' visit to India and a gorilla massage, TIME presents the best pictures of the week. title: Pictures of the Week: November 1 – November 8 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f4b8ac32ddc3711/6987e3d13c1639894a454aef/was8053032.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [LightBox](/tag/time-section-lightbox/) ## LightBox Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Pictures of the Week: November 1 - November 8 by [Phil Bicker](/author/phil-bicker/) ## Phil Bicker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 8, 2013 3:13 PM CUT  Nov. 5, 2013\. A US Marine braces himself against the wind as Marine One carrying the US President arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Nov. 5, 2013\. A US Marine braces himself against the wind as Marine One carrying the US President arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images by [Phil Bicker](/author/phil-bicker/) ## Phil Bicker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 8, 2013 3:13 PM CUT From the election of New York’s new mayor and typhoon Haiyan hitting the Philippines to Prince Charles’ visit to India and a gorilla massage, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.  Nov. 4, 2013\. Indian Hindu devotees gather to collect scattered rice to celebrate the Annakut ritual on the second day of Diwali in Calcutta, capital of eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Tumpa Mondal—Xinhua Press/Corbis  Nov. 5, 2013\. A US Marine braces himself against the wind as Marine One carrying the US President arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 4, 2013\. Students from St Andrew's University indulge in a tradition of covering themselves with foam to honor the 'academic family' in St Andrews, Scotland. Jeff J. Mitchell—Getty Images  Nov. 5, 2013\. Wearing the WWII-era white winter camouflage smocks, holding skis and carrying Mosin rifles, Russian soldiers stand at the Red Square in Moscow during a rehearsal of the upcoming military parade commemorating the start of World War. AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 1, 2013\. Andrea Justine Aliman of the Philippines applies makeup on her eye during a backstage photo session at the Miss International Queen 2013 transvestite beauty pageant in Pattaya, southeastern Thailand. Apichart Weerawong—AP  Nov. 1, 2013\. The Nueva Esperanza cemetery is seen during Day of the Dead celebrations in Villa Maria, Lima, Peru. Enrique Castro-Mendivil—Reuters  Nov. 1, 2013\. Some amateur performers of the theater group of Sofia's University carry a protestor wearing a ballet dancer costume as they demonstrate with Bulgaria's students in front of the school. Dimitar Dilkoff—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 4, 2013\. Pakistani children, survey woods from a burning field, which was used by fruit and vegetable sellers to store their wooden boxes, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen—AP  Nov. 1, 2013\. A model wears a creation from Samuel Cirnansck winter collection during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Andre Penner—AP  Nov. 1, 2013\. Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman, drops from a helicopter to fly near Mount Fuji in this photograph released by Breitling SA. Tokunaga/Breitling SA/Reuters  Nov. 1, 2013\. A young reveler takes part in a parade called "La Calabiuza" on the eve of the Day of the Dead in Tonacatepeque, north of San Salvador, El Salvador. Jose Cabezas—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 1, 2013, Lazaro Martinez, drenched in mud, pauses while searching for his wife and two children, in the town of La Pintada, Mexico. Bernandino Hernandez—AP  Nov. 1, 2013\. A woman stands during the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. bodyguard training camp in Beijing. Reuters  Nov. 2, 2013\. A Nepalese police officer salutes dogs after worshiping them at Nepal's Central Police Dog Training School as part of the Diwali festival also known as Tihar Festival, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Narendra Shrestha—EPA  Nov. 2, 2013\. Julie Giron, 29, (L) and her daughter Abbie Walters, 7, (C) pose in a picture frame on an altar during the 14th annual Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Lucy Nicholson—Reuters  Nov. 2, 2013\. David Ferrer (L) of Spain and his compatriot Rafael Nadal (R) during a break in their semi final match at the BNP Paribas 2013 Masters tennis tournament in Paris, France, Yoan Valat—EPA  Nov. 3, 2013\. A Free Syrian Army fighter rests in Old Aleppo. Molhem Barakat—Reuters  Nov. 3, 2013\. A Kosovo Albanian man leaves a polling station in Pristina. Armend Nimani—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 3, 2013\. Pope Francis leads his Sunday Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican. Tony Gentile—Reuters  Nov. 3, 2013\. Field Of Crosses honors the 3,000 southern Alberta, Canada soldiers, sailors and airmen killed in action, from the Boer War to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. Francesco Calesso—Demotix/Corbis  Nov. 3, 2013\. People decorate their houses with lanterns and lights as they celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali, the annual festival of lights, in Mumbai. Danish Siddiqui—Reuters  Nov. 4 2013\. Pope Francis celebrates a memorial mass for cardinals and bishops who have died this year in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Evandro Inetti—Zuma Press  Nov. 4, 2013\. Gul Mohammad, 19, right and Qudrat, 18, left, work at a charcoal shop on the outskirts of Kabul. Rahmat Gul—AP  Nov. 4, 2013\. An Iranian woman holds an anti-US poster as she stands in front of a mural of the Statue of Liberty bearing the face of a skull on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran during a demonstration to mark the 34th anniversary of the 1979 US embassy takeover. Behrouz Mehri—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 4, 2013\. Supporters of Mohamed Morsi brandish a face mask of the ousted president during protests at the Police Academy in Cairo where his trial took place. Mosa'ab Elshamy  Nov. 5, 2013\. A Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldier gestures following the announcement of his death penalty at the special court in Dhaka. Munir Uz Zaman—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 5, 2013\. Bill de Blasio, the Democratic candidate for New York mayor, waves to supporters at his election night event at the Park Slope Armory YMCA in New York. Damon Winter—The New York Times/Redux  Nov. 5, 2013\. A Palestinian relative bids goodbye to Hassan al-Turabi during his funeral in Sara village, west of the city of Nablus in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Jaafar Ashtiyeh—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 5, 2013\. Palestinian female relatives grieve during the funeral of Hassan al-Turabi in Sara village, west of the city of Nablus in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Jaafar Ashtiyeh—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 5, 2013\. A woman holds a portrait of her husband as she threatens to jump off a scaffolding at a construction site in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, Reuters  Nov. 5, 2013\. A man arranges a tinted fabric on the ground to dry it out under the sun in the Araihazar district in Bangladesh. Mohammad Asad—Demotix/Corbis  Nov.5, 2013\. Shadows are reflected on the wall as Indian villager Ram Lal, 60, who was injured in the Oct. 24 firing by Pakistani troops shows shell marks on the wall of his house at Garkhal village near the India/Pakistan border near Jammu, India. Channi Anand—AP  Nov. 5, 2013\. Hindus gather at Shoamibag for the traditional praying session, Rakher Upabash, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mohammad Asad—Demotix/Corbis  Nov. 5, 2013\. Seventeen-year-old lion Elek, the oldest male lion of Nyiregyhaza Zoo, undergoes a general medical examination in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. Attila Balazs—EPA  Nov. 6, 2013\. Demonstrators march under the rain in Athens during a 24-hour general strike. Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 6, 2013\. A fake dead horse is seen on set for a television show currently being filmed in the Lower East Side neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. Andrew Burton—Getty Images  Nov. 6, 2013\. 'Trench,' an art installation created by local artist Martin Walters using thousands of poppies in Beverley Minster, UK for Remembrance Sunday this weekend. Lynne Cameron—PA Photos/Landov  Nov. 6, 2013\. The Papal Household Archbishop Georg Gaenswein is silhouetted behind Pope Francis at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Alessandra Tarantino—AP  Nov. 6, 2013\. Koola, an 18-year-old western lowland gorilla holds her newborn infant in her enclosure at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois. Scott Olson—Getty Images  Nov. 6, 2013\. An Indonesian therapist wearing a gorilla suit performs a massage for a woman during a 'Gorilla Massage' session at the Bali Heritage Reflexology and Spa in Jakarta, Indonesia. Adi Weda—EPA  Nov. 6, 2013\. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton greets Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on stage at the Annual Freedom Award Benefit Event hosted by the International Rescue Committee at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. Andrew Kelly—Reuters  Nov. 6, 2013\. A Christian pilgrim from Mexico faints after she was baptized in the water of the Jordan River during a ceremony at the Yardenit baptismal site near the northern Israeli city of Tiberias. Nir Elias—Reuters  Nov. 6, 2013\. Horse riders perform with guns to celebrate the 38th anniversary of the now famous Green March near the city of Fes, Morocco. Youssef Boudlal—Reuters  Nov. 6, 2013\. The Tower Bridge sticks out of dense fog in London. Friso Gentsch—DPA/Corbis  Nov 7, 2013\. Afghan day laborer Mesbah, 12, takes a rest after preparing kilns to fire bricks at a brick kiln factory on the outskirts of Kabul. Anja Niedringhaus—AP  Nov. 6, 2013\. A deer is seen stuck on the roof of a garage in Verneuil-sur-Indre, France. Xavier Roche-Bayard—Maxppp/Landov  Nov. 6, 2013\. A three-month-old Sumatran tiger cub named "Bandar" shows his displeasure after being dunked in the tiger exhibit moat for a swim reliability test at the National Zoo in Washington. Manuel Balce Ceneta—AP  Nov. 6, 2013\. A kitten sits on the roof of a house that is covered with volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Mardingding, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Binsar Bakkara—AP  Nov. 6, 2013\. A flower blossoms from vegetation covered with volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Mardingding, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Binsar Bakkara—AP  Nov. 6, 2013\. Blood and debris on a sidewalk following a mortar attack in the northern city of Aleppo. Karam Al-Masri—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 7, 2013\. Bangladeshi mother, Nazma Begum grieves at the grave of her garment worker daughter Aakhiat who was identified through DNA matching, at Jurain graveyard in Dhaka. Munir Uz Zaman—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 7, 2013\. Super Typhoon Haiyan is seen approaching the Philippines in this Japan Meteorological Agency handout image taken at 0630 GMT. NOAA/Reuters  Nov. 7, 2013\. Residents living near the slopes of Mayon volcano are evacuated to public schools by police in anticipation of the powerful typhoon Haiyan that threatened Albay province and several provinces in central Philippines. Nelson Salting—AP  Nov. 7, 2013\. Palestinian school boys light candles during a protest against the severe fuel cuts that lead to power shortages in the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip. Mohammed Talatene—Zuma Press  Nov. 7, 2013\. A woman rides a motorcycle taxi with a Disney character Minnie Mouse balloon in Beijing. Mark Ralston—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 7, 2013\. Miss Korea Yumi Kim, background left, Miss Ecuador Constanza Baez, center back to camera, prepare to take a part in a rehearsal of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, Russia. Pavel Golovkin—AP  Nov. 7, 2013\. A man carries a white folding lounge chair through a leaf-covered park enclosed by trees in Autumn colors at Battery Park City, in New York City. John Schults—Reuters  Nov. 7, 2013\. Pedro Taverna, 18, takes part in a protest for better wages outside Wal-mart in Los Angeles. Lucy Nicholson—Reuters  Nov. 7, 2013\. Antonio Acuna, 7, plays dress up with a wig and high heel shoes at the factory where he lives with his family after the postponement of the demolition of their homes in Madrid, Spain. Susana Vera—Reuters  Nov. 7, 2013\. Standing on his head Cristian Acuna, 5-years old, centre, plays with other members of his family during the postponement of the eviction of his family in Madrid, Spain. Andres Kudacki—AP  Nov. 8, 2013\. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps aboard his aircraft en route to Geneva, after holding private talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. Jason reed—Reuters  Nov. 8, 2013\. Prince Charles and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall visiting a creche at Katha School in Delhi. Tim Rooke—Rex/Rex USA  Nov. 8, 2013\. Britain's Prince Charles laughs as he interacts with a Hindu priest during his visit to Akshardham Temple in New Delhi, India. Saurabh Das—AP  Nov. 8, 2013\. Palestinian relatives of Basheer Hbanin, 28, who was killed Thursday by the Israeli army, expresses her feeling during his funeral in the West Bank village of Merkeh near Jenin city. Mohammed Ballas—P  Nov. 8, 2013\. A protester against an amnesty bill wears a plastic bag over her head in front of police barricades on the main road near the government and parliament buildings in central Bangkok, Thailand. Damir Sagolj—Reuters  Nov. 8, 2013\. A two-month old male baby giant panda is displayed on a bed during the presentation for media at the Madrid Zoo, Spain. Jorge Sanz—Demotix/Corbis  Nov. 8, 2013\. Students walk between chilli trees covered by ash from Sinabung Mount as they return home at Kuta Rakyat village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province. Roni Bintang—Reuters  Nov. 8, 2013\. Climbers of the environmental group Greenpeace hang banners on the Sagrada Familia, demanding the release of 30 activists arrested and jailed by Russia for staging an open-sea protest against Arctic oil drilling, in Barcelona , Spain. Josep Lago—AFP/Getty Images  Nov. 8, 2013\. One-year-old Qiqi holds a ballon on a street outside Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in central Beijing, China. China Daily/Reuters  Nov. 8, 2013\. On the eve of the 24th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall original pieces of the Berlin Wall are mirrored in a pond as they are are displayed for sale at the city of Teltow near Berlin, Germany. Markus Schreiber—AP  Nov. 8, 2013\. An abandoned amusement park in the town of Sbeineh south of capital Damascus. 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