News Photos of the Week

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Nov. 12 - Nov. 18 2016

PowerPoint Show by Andrew

A golden pheasant photographed in Hangzhou Safari Park in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, on November 13, 2016. 

A cat dressed up with a collar and tie looks out from a window of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, England, on November 14, 2016.

A woman exercises in a park in Chisinau, Moldova, on November 12, 2016.

A biplane flown by Cedric Collette and Alexandra Maingard glides by Egypt's iconic pyramids of Giza, on the second leg of their month-long journey through Africa in Cairo, Egypt, on November 13, 2016. 

The fully restored and functioning "Pink Panther Car" is displayed at the Los Angeles Auto Show, November 17, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. 

Police use water cannon to disperse activists of the youth wing of India's main opposition Congress party during a protest against the government's decision to withdraw 500 and 1000 Indian rupee banknotes from circulation, in New Delhi, India, on November 18, 2016.

A Cambodian farmer harvests rice during the rice harvesting season in Trapaing Mean village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on November 18, 2016. 

The supermoon rises behind one of the seven statues by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa on Massena square in Nice , France, on November 14, 2016. 

People run in panic after a coalition airstrike hit Islamic State fighters positions in Tahrir neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq, on November 17, 2016. 

Two people sit on a terrace in St. Mark's Square during an ''acqua-alta'' or high-water in Venice, Italy, on November 12, 2016. 

Members of a U.S. Army carry team move the remains of Army Pfc. Tyler R. Iubelt of Tamaroa, Illinois, during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base on November 15, 2016, in Dover, Delaware.

The aerial photo shows the damage to a state highway near Kaikoura, New Zealand, on November 14, 2016, after a powerful earthquake. 

The Royal Life Guard is lined up to receive Queen Margrethe at the regiments barracks in Copenhagen, Denmark, on November 16, 2016.

A soldier from the Iraqi Special Forces' second division collects IDs from men they rounded up in Mosul on November 18, 2016, during a massive operation to retake the last ISIS-held city in the country. 

Construction workers continue to build the Crossrail underground line in the Stepney tunnel on November 16, 2016 in London, England. 

A cat walks close to one of the Soviet-era Buran space shuttles installed at a museum in Kazakhstan on November 15, 2016.

A soldier is lowered from a helicopter to practice rescuing a person in the water during the U.S.-China Disaster Management Exchange (DME) in Kunming, China's Yunnan Province, on November 18, 2016. 

Two suspected ISIS fighters found hiding in a house as they were pushing through the eastern Samah area and into the Arbagiah neighborhood of Mosul are seen on November 11, 2016 by the Iraqi Special Forces 2nd division.

A worker carries an orangutan (Pongo abelii) as being prepared to be released into the wild at Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program's rehabilitation center on November 14, 2016 in Kuta Mbelin, North Sumatra, Indonesia. 

Hindu devotees sit together on the floor of a temple to observe Rakher Upabash for the last day, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 15, 2016. 

Floating lanterns fill the sky during the festival of Yee Peng in the northern capital of Chiang Mai, Thailand, on November 14, 2016.

Rio de Janeiro public servants protest against austerity measures pushing budget cuts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 16, 2016.

A woman kneels in front of police during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline under Lake Oahe and near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakota, on November 14, 2016. 

A man walks through a garden on an autumn day in Srinagar, India, on November 15, 2016. 

The European launcher Ariane 5 is rolled out to the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, on November 15, 2016. 

Firefighters work after a fireworks-laden hot-air balloon ignited near a car before the balloon had reached a sufficient height during the closing ceremony of the Tazaungdaing Festival in on November 15, 2016. 

A car bomb explodes next to Iraqi Special Forces armored vehicles as they advance towards ISIS-held territory in Mosul, Iraq, on November 16, 2016.