9-15 November 2024: Photos of the week
A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
ALESSANDRO DI MARCO/EPA-EFE
Casper Ruud of Norway in action against Carlos Alcaraz of Spain during their match at the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin, Italy.
BIEL ALINO/EPA-EFE
A man tries to find his damaged vehicle two weeks after flash floods caused devastation in eastern Spain. There were 222 confirmed deaths from the flooding in Spain last month and 23 people are still missing.
AFP
Gunmen affiliated with Sudan’s army travel in a lorry through the city of Gedaref.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
The UK marked Armistice Day with a two-minute silence. The silence is held every year at 11:00 GMT on 11 November to mark the end of World War One in 1918. Here a musician from the Band of the British Army walks past the names of the fallen after the Armistice Day commemoration at the National Memorial Arboretum.
Anthony Devlin/Getty Images for Viacom International
K-Pop band Le Sserafim made their UK debut at the MTV Awards which were held in Manchester for the first time in their 30-year history.
LOIC VENANCE / AFP
Skippers sail their Imoca 60 monohulls out from Les Sables-d’Olonne at the start of the 10th edition of the Vendee Globe around-the-world solo sailing race.
Agustin Marcarian/Reuters
A member of the Husares de Junin regiment adjusts another soldier’s hat outside the government palace ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru.
A HUSSAIN/EPA-EFE
Officials check for vehicles emitting smoke as part of a green lockdown to control smog in Lahore, Pakistan. The air quality index in Lahore has passed the 1,000 mark repeatedly this month. Anything above 300 is considered hazardous.
KIM LUDBROOK/EPA-EFE
Members of the Rhino Repro team check the vital statistics of five-year-old rhinoceros Mia after she was darted and tranquilised during an OPU (ovary pick-up procedure) at a rhino sanctuary near Pretoria, South Africa. During the procedure eggs are collected from the female rhino for in vitro fertilisation.
Owen Humphreys/PA Media
Forestry workers fell a 40ft (12m) Sitka spruce tree in Northumberland’s Kielder Forest before it makes the 330 mile (531km) journey south to stand at the foot of Big Ben in Parliament Square, London.
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