Best from November 22
Cirque du Soleil creator Guy Laliberte dons a red clown nose as he sits atop character Armchair from his new show Iris, A Journey Through the World of Cinema, at ceremonies unveiling his Hollywood Walk of Fame star in Hollywood, California. Iris will open in Hollywood summer 2011 at the Kodak Theatre.FRED PROUSER
A fisherman casts a net in the polluted waters of river Yamuna in New Delhi, India.MANSI THAPLIYAL
A stampede victim is carried to safety in Phnom Penh. A stampede on a bridge in Cambodia's capital killed almost 350 people late on Monday and injured nearly as many after thousands panicked on the last day of a water festival.CHOR SOKUNTHEA
A lion named Stefani plays with her one-month-old lion cub in their enclosure at Sofia Zoo in Sofia, Bulgaria. Two lion cubs were born last month in the zoo.STOYAN NENOV
Haji Islam, 65, sits outside his residence in Lahore's old city.MOHSIN RAZA
A mother carries her child through uncollected garbage on their way back from school in the historic Spanish district of Naples. As piles of malodorous garbage continued to accumulate in the streets of Naples, the total amount of uncollected waste in the city was likely to reach 3,600 tons by the end of the day.ROBERTO SALOMONE
A man goes for a walk through the snow-covered landscape near the southern German city of Altdorf.KARL-JOSEF HILDENBRAND
Students from St Andrews University indulge in a tradition of covering themselves with foam to honour the academic family in St Andrews, Scotland. Every November the raisin weekend which is held in the university's St Salvator's Quadrangle, is celebrated and a gift of raisins (now foam) is traditionally given by first year students to their elders as a thank you for their guidance and in exchange they receive a receipt in Latin.Jeff J Mitchell
A photographic print of Picasso (C) by Irving Penn is pictured during a press preview ahead of the Photographs auction at Christie's auction house in London. Christie's unveiled Monday over 150 photographs which will go under the hammer November 26. The sale features works from the private collections of James Danziger and Norman Hall and includes work by Irving Penn, David Bailey, Rankin and Norman Parkinson.ADRIAN DENNIS
A motorbike police officer holds back Sinn Fein protesters who broke through the gates at government buildings, Dublin, Ireland. The Sinn Fein protesters were calling for the Irish Prime Minister to resign. Ireland's banks will be pruned down, merged or sold as part of a massive EU-IMF bailout, the government says as a shellshocked nation comes to grips with its failure to protect its financial institutions.Peter Morrison
Law enforcement officials (R) carry boxes marked Evidence out of the building housing Loch Capital Management in Boston, Massachusetts. The FBI raided three hedgefunds in connection with a widening probe into insider trading, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday.BRIAN SNYDER