Images from around the world

Take a look at some of the week’s best photographs from around the globe.

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Dec. 1, 2012

Protesters attempt to intimidate riot police in downtown Mexico City. Protests against Mexico's newly sworn-in President Enrique Pena Nieto began early Saturday morning with violent confrontations in the streets and protest speeches from opposition parties inside the country's National Congress. Protesters continued through the afternoon, vandalizing downtown businesses, smashing storefront glass windows and setting office furniture ablaze.

Marco Ugarte / AP

Dec. 1, 2012

Newly sworn-in Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, right, passes U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Spanish Prince Felipe of Bourbon after his speech as head of state at the National Palace in Mexico City. Nieto was sworn in as president of Mexico on Saturday following protests by leftist lawmakers inside the National Congress and clashes between demonstrators and police outside.

CHRISTIAN PALMA / AFP/Getty Images

Dec. 1, 2012

An official sits next to a ballot box during parliamentary elections at a polling station in Ardiyah area of Kuwait.

STEPHANIE MCGEHEE / Reuters

Dec. 1, 2012

People enjoy the Christmas illuminations at the Royal Treaty street in Warsaw, Poland.

Czarek Sokolowski / AP

Dec. 1, 2012

The La Pedrera building is illuminated during the "La Pedrera, emotions in movement" light show at Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona.

ALBERT GEA / Reuters

Dec. 1, .2012

Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi stand with his photograph during mass demonstrations in Cairo. More than 200,000 supporters of the Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi demonstrated near Cairo University in a showing reminiscent of the country's 2011 revolution that saw the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak. Morsi came under intense scrutiny from liberal and secular opponents last week for assuming near-absolute powers and hastily passing a highly controversial draft constitution.

Pete Muller / for The Washington Post

Dec. 1, 2012

Palestinian children hold candles during a solidarity march with the Daloo family next to their house and a wrecked car which was hit by an Israeli strike during Israel's recent military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Eleven members of the Daloo family were killed on Nov. 18 when an Israeli missile struck the two-story home of the family in a residential area of Gaza City.

Hatem Moussa / AP

Nov. 30, 2012

Syrian children look through their car window as they cross into Lebanon with their families at the border crossing in Masnaa.

Hassan Ammar / AP

Nov. 30, 2012

M23 rebels withdraw through the hills from the village of Karuba, Congo. Hundreds of Congolese rebels withdrew Friday from frontline positions around Goma as promised under a regionally brokered deal, while police entered the key eastern city to take control.

PHIL MOORE / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 30, 2012

Female laborers carry water to sprinkle on a sand sculpture created by artist Sudarshan Pattnaik on the eve of World AIDS Day on a beach near Konark, India.

BISWARANJAN ROUT / AP

Nov. 30, 2012

The power stations of the Selby area in London send smoke into the sky during an early morning autumn sunrise as a man carries a sack of feed for pheasants across the flood plains of Ryther and Cawood.

John Giles / AP

Nov. 29, 2012

A vendor removes snow from hats for sale at Red Square in Moscow.

Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters

Nov. 29, 2012

Protesters shield their faces from tear gas during clashes with riot police along a road that leads to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Hundreds of demonstrators were in Tahrir Square for a sixth day Wednesday to demand that President Mohamed Morsi rescind a decree they say gives him dictatorial powers, and two of Egypt's top courts stopped work in protest.

Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

Nov. 29, 2012

Lasha Pataraia pulls an eight-ton truck with his ear during an event to break the Guinness Book of World Records in Rustavi, Georgia. The 32-year-old Georgian athlete broke the record after he managed to pull the truck with his ear for 70.5 feet, event organizers said.

Vano Shlamov / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 29, 2012

A protester wearing a mask depicting News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch, left, pretends to burn a mock Leveson Report as a protester wearing a mask of British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, sits bound and gagged, outside the Queen Elizabeth II conference center in London. A major inquiry called for new laws to underpin a tougher watchdog for Britain's "outrageous" newspapers in a verdict that sets up Cameron for a bruising political battle.

Justin Tallis / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2012

A man takes a picture of the "Kuratas" robot in Tokyo. The robot can be customized in 16 different colors and is armed with a futuristic weapons system, including a launcher that fires multiple plastic rockets.

Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters

Nov. 28, 2012

Exiled Tibetans shout slogans during a protest rally in New Delhi to express solidarity with Tibetans who have self-immolated and to appeal for immediate international intervention. At least 86 people have set themselves on fire since the immolations began in 2009.

Altaf Qadri / AP

Nov. 28, 2012

A protester throws back a tear gas canister during clashes with Egyptian riot police at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Police fired tear gas into the square where several hundred protesters spent the night after a mass rally to denounce President Mohamed Morsi's assumption of expanded powers.

MAHMOUD KHALED / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2012

Syrian rebels celebrate atop the remains of a Syrian government fighter jet that was shot down at Daret Ezza on the border between the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo. Syrian rebels captured the pilot of the jet, witnesses said.

FRANCISCO LEONG / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2012

A young man pretends to balance on a piece of falling rock in a chalk drawing of a scene from "The Dark Knight Rises" film at a CBD shopping mall in Sydney.

Rob Griffith / AP

Nov. 28, 2012

An Indian Sikh devotee takes a holy bath in the sacred pond of the Golden Temple during the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in Amritsar, India. Sikhism was founded in the 15th century by Guru Nanak, who broke away from Hinduism, India's dominant religion. He preached the equality of races and genders and the rejection of image worship and the caste system.

Sanjeev Syal / AP

Nov. 27, 2012

An Indian Sikh Nihang, or warrior, performs a fire-breathing act at a demonstration during a procession from Sri Akal Takhat to the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the eve of the 543rd birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism and the first of 10 Sikh gurus.

Narinder Nanu / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 27, 2012

Bangladeshi women watch as the bodies of victims of Saturday's fire in a garment factory are prepared to be buried in Dhaka. Bangladesh held a day of mourning Tuesday for the 112 people who were killed at the factory, and labor groups planned more protests to demand better worker safety in an industry notorious for operating in fire traps.

Khurshed Rinku / AP

Nov. 27, 2012

A 50-year-old gravedigger exhumes a grave at Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore. Starting early next year, workers with heavy machinery will begin constructing an eight-lane highway across the small country’s oldest major cemetery, overriding the objections of nature lovers and heritage buffs. Singapore, with its 5.3 million people crammed onto an island less than half the size of London, is already more densely populated than rival Asian business center Hong Kong, making permanent burial space unfeasible.

Edgar Su / Reuters

Nov. 27, 2012

A Syrian embassy employee is reflected on a framed image of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at a local Venezuelan hotel in Caracas. The framed image was brought to the local hotel to serve as a backdrop for the news conference held by Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mokdad, where he was to discuss a message for President Hugo Chavez from Syria's government.

Fernando Llano / AP

Nov. 27, 2012

Staff from Clinico San Carlos block traffic outside the hospital during a protest against cuts to the national health service in Madrid. Spaniards are angered by austerity measures, including budget cuts and plans to partly privatize some of their country's national health service. Words on back of medical coats read: “I am a doctor — ask me why I am here?”

Paul White / AP

Nov. 27, 2012

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II talks to her husband, Prince Philip, as she and Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, left, ride to Windsor Castle as the emir begins his visit to England.

Alastair Grant / AP

Nov. 26, 2012

Dairy farmers protest European Union agricultural policies at the Place du Luxembourg, near the European Parliament, in Brussels. The farmers protested falling milk prices caused by overproduction in Europe.

John Thys / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 26, 2012

Egyptian activists carry the coffin of Gaber Salah, an activist who died after he was critically injured in clashes near Cairo's Tahrir Square last week, during his funeral in Cairo.

Gianluigi Guercia / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 26, 2012

Bangladeshi officials inspect a garment factory where a fire killed more than 110 people on the outskirts of Dhaka. Protesters blocked the streets, throwing stones at factory buildings and smashing vehicles as they demanded justice for those killed in the fire.

AP / AP

Nov. 26, 2012

Shiite Muslim protesters in Daih, Bahrain, run from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes following religious ceremonies.

MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH / AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Nov. 24, 2012

Firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. An official said firefighters have recovered more than 100 bodies.

Polash Khan / AP

Nov. 25, 2012

A Bangladeshi woman cries as she claims the body of a relative killed in a fire at a garment factory outside Dhaka.

Jibon Amir / AP

Nov. 25, 2012

Iranian mourners in Bijar cover themselves with mud during Ashura, the 10th day of the Muharram mourning period marking the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad. Hussein, one of Shiite Islam's most beloved saints, was killed in a 7th-century battle at Karbala, Iraq.

Vahid Salemi / AP

Nov. 25, 2012

Iranian Shiite Muslims beat their chests after rubbing mud on their bodies to mark Ashura in the city of Khorramabad. The ritual is held each year to commemorate the 7th-century slaying of the prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam Hussein.

Behrouz Mehri / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 25, 2012

Shiite Muslim women gather in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital of Beirut to mark Ashura, commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhammad.

AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 25, 2012

Displaced children stand against the gate of a religious organization on the outskirts of Goma, Congo. Over half a million people have been displaced in eastern Congo in an advance by M23 rebels. A rebel leader was expected to hold further talks with President Joseph Kabila as the African Union called on the rebels to pull out of Goma.

Phil Moore / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 25, 2012

Jun Wu of China dives to win the gold medal during the men's 10-meter platform final at the ninth Asian swimming championship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Hassan Ammar / AP

Nov. 25, 2012

A Palestinian man emerges from a smuggling tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt's closure of scores of cross-border smuggling tunnels has affected the flow of goods into Gaza but has not dealt the knockout blow widely expected by traders and officials.

Said Khatib / AFP/Getty Images

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TV presenter and conservationist Anneka Tanaka-Svenska wears a hat designed by Louis Mariette during the first day of Royal Ascot, in Berkshire, west of London, on June 18, 2013. The five-day meeting is one of the highlights of the horse racing calendar. Horse racing has been held at the famous Berkshire course since 1711 and tradition is a hallmark of the meeting. Top hats and tails remain compulsory in parts of the course while a daily procession of horse-drawn carriages brings the Queen to the course. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNISADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images

Photos of the day

Royal Ascot, protests in Brazil, Lego exhibition, flooding in India, Cheetah-Cub robot and more.

Two-year old male rat named Dyatlik wears a costume during a rodent exhibition in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, June 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Animal views

Rodent exhibition, swimming with elephants, Mexico’s feline mayoral candidate and more.

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 14: Johnathon Carrington, valedictorian at Dunbar High School, laughs with family and friends after his school's graduation ceremony at Howard University on Friday, June 14, 2013, in Washington, DC. Carrington, who grew up in Tyler House public-housing apartments and is graduating from one of DC's low-performing high schoolsy, where academic expectations are high. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

Johnathon’s journey

Johnathon Carrington graduated Friday as the valedictorian of his neighborhood school, Dunbar High, and is headed to Georgetown University. But Carrington, 17, is nervous, and so are...

U.S. actress Sandra Bullock poses for the media during a photocall to promote her latest move 'The Heat' in Berlin June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)

Eye on entertainment

Sandra Bullock, Jessica Sanchez, Snooki, Billy Porter, Billy Crystal, Sean Hayes, Gwen Stefani and other celebrities.

Inmates walk at a high-security male prison camp outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk May 14, 2013. High-security male prison camp number 17 is intended to house male inmates who are serving a sentence for the first time, and have been convicted for serious crimes. Prisoners at the facility work in wood and metal processing shops, manufacture furniture, sew clothes and do other kinds of work. They can also take part in educational, sport and cultural programs. Picture taken May 14, 2013. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 4 OF 29 FOR PACKAGE 'INSIDE SIBERIA'S PRISONS' SEARCH 'ILYA PRISON' FOR ALL IMAGES

Life in a Siberian prison

A look inside a high-security prison camp outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 16: Reenactors dressed as knights stage a medieval jousting competition at Eltham Palace on June 16, 2013 in Eltham, England. The 'Grand Medieval Joust' event at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property which was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to give a great insight into life at the palace during the medieval period. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

The Grand Medieval Joust

The Grand Medieval Joust at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property that was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to lend insight through reenactment into life at the palace...

In this June 8, 2013 photo, youth compete in the Sao Carlos slum local soccer tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The pitch is just dirt and the incandescent lights aren't so bright. But when the boys' feet strike the football in the Sao Carlos slum as night falls every Saturday, big league dreams glow, inflated by the hope of escaping the shantytown with sporting skills. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Brazil’s other soccer fields

With the Confederations Cup opening this week and the World Cup one year away, all eyes are on Brazil, where soccer is arguably played with more passion and art than anywhere else....

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 16: John F. Tatum Sr. hugs his grandson John F. Tatum III during his annual Father's Day block party on Sunday, June 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Amanda Voisard/For the Washington Post)

Father’s Day picnic in Northeast D.C.

A decades-old backyard barbecue in Northeast Washington draws hundreds in honor of dads everywhere. “It’s off-the-chain fun,” says Butch McNair, who has worked one...

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