
US President Barack Obama (L) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C) look at a reclining Buddha during a visit the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)
US President Barack Obama (L) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C) look at a reclining Buddha during a visit the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)
Israeli soldiers patrol near the border with the Gaza Strip. Israeli tanks and troops massed outside Gaza and the military said it was calling up 16,000 reservists, signs of a possible imminent invasion of the Palestinian enclave after 48 hours of air strikes. (Reuters)
A photographer aims his lens through a crack between the doors of a hallway leading to the room where a closed hearing for the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee regarding the U.S Consulate attack in Benghazi, was taking place in Washington D.C. (Reuters)
A visitor walks past a sculpture called Yellow during the media preview of The Art of the Brick exhibition in Singapore. The exhibition, which features U.S. artist Nathan Sawaya, starts from November 17, 2012 to April 14, 2013 at the Art Science Museum. (Reuters)
The crowd around the tree as it is lit during the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. (AP)
All shops are supposed to close at 11 pm local time in Hanoi, Vietnam but the Old Quarter never sleeps at that time. (Phuong Nguyen/Vietnam/VOA reader)
Models, wearing bodysuits to represent a painter’s palette, pose before a presentation to launch the ‘Joy The Finale’ band, led by Brian MacFarlane, for Carnival 2013 at its headquarters in Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. (Reuters)
‘Funkenmariechen’, young majorette dancers, put the fingers in their ears during a cannon cracker at the start of the carnival season in Erfurt, central Germany. (AP)
About 800 school children and teachers from 14 schools form the shape of a Chinese white dolphin, along with the word ‘Protect’ and Chinese characters ‘Ocean’, at Repulse Bay in Hong Kong. (Reuters)
Snow blows past debris and nonfunctioning streetlights during a Nor’easter snowstorm in the Rockaway neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City, November 7, 2012. The Rockaway Peninsula was especially hard hit by Superstorm Sandy. (AFP)
U.S. President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden wave at his election night party in Chicago. President Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP)