November 25, 2014

A row of cars burn at a used car lot during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson has been struggling to return to normal after Micahel Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, on Aug. 9. A grand jury declined to indict officer Wilson.

A police officer guards a closed street along West Florissant Ave, where protesters and looters rampaged businesses following the grand jury decision not to indict a white policeman who shot dead the unarmed black teen Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri.

Pope Francis delivers his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France.

A monk chants a Buddhist mantra in front of a public lottery counter in Tokyo, Japan. Lottery stand owners hire monks to conduct ritual purification on their stands for a big win.

An Iraqi man reacts at the site of a car bomb explosion in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.

Kashmiris stand in queue to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of voting to the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections at Shadipora, outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.

Remy Cordonnier, a librarian in the northern town of Saint-Omer, near Calais, France, carefully shows an example of a valuable Shakespeare "First Folio", a collection of some of his plays, dating from 1623. Around 230 copies of the First Folio are known to exist in collections or in private hands around the world.

Smog envelops buildings on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi.

A boulder made of synthetic material called "To be in Limbo“ hangs from the ceiling of the 20-meter high Jesuit Church in Vienna, Austria.

Lotus-shaped illuminated lanterns float during Vesak celebrations on Beira Lake in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to mark the birth, enlightenment and demise of Buddha.

Alex Little (R) and Miranda Jenatka view a light installation at Kew Gardens in west London.