28 meha 11 2013

An anti-government protester gives a rose to a Thai soldier at the Defense Ministry during a rally in Bangkok.

The Spiderman balloon makes its way down Central Park West during the 87th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

Secret Service Uniformed Division officers patrol in front of the White House. President Barack Obama is expected to challenge the Republican-led Congress to back his tax-raising ideas for helping middle class Americans in his State of the Union speech, Jan. 20, 2015.

A woman in an upside-down umbrella float makes her way down 6th Ave. during the 87th Macy's Thanksgiving day parade in New York.

Pro-European protesters wave Ukrainian flags during a rally in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. An EU summit to cap years of effort to bring ex-Soviet states into the Western fold opens with its ambitions dented after Ukraine, the biggest prize, balked at the last moment under Russian pressure.

A Syrian man reacts after an air strike by government forces on the city of Aleppo, Syria.

Flocks of ravens from northern Poland and Russia arrive in the southern Czech town of Zidlochovice.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov (2nd L), executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), lights the U.S. National Chanukah (Hanukkah) Menorah on the Ellipse in front of the White House, Washington, D.C., with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman (2nd R) and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov (R), national director of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), Nov. 27, 2013.

A laborer pulls a cart loaded with supplies while heading to a nearby market in Karachi, Pakistan.

A couple laughs as a wave breaks over them on Havana's seafront boulevard 'El Malecon', Cuba, Nov. 27, 2013.

Secret Service Uniformed Division officers patrol in front of the White House. President Barack Obama is expected to challenge the Republican-led Congress to back his tax-raising ideas for helping middle-class Americans in his State of the Union speech, in Washington, Jan. 20, 2015.

A woman poses as others take a picture of the tinted autumn foliage of ginkgo trees at a Tokyo park, Japan.

New-born gorilla N’Aikais is held in the arms of its mother in Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

Border police stand guard next to a border fence being built on the Bulgarian border with Turkey, near the village of Golyam Dervent. Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest member, has been overwhelmed by the arrival this year of almost 10,000 refugees, 60 percent of them Syrians fleeing civil war crossing over illegally from Turkey.

Snow covered branches as seen on Lincoln Blvd. in Buffalo, New York.

The Kelpies, two 30-meter high stainless-plate horse heads by sculptor Andy Scott are seen in Falkirk, Scotland, Nov. 27, 2013.