December 1, 2013

Indian village women line up outside a polling station to cast their votes during Rajasthan state assembly elections at Devnagar village near Ajmer.

An anti-government protester runs through a cloud of tear gas during clashes with police near the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Police fired several rounds of tear gas near Government House, after a chaotic night of street fighting elsewhere in the capital during which two people were killed and at least 45 wounded.

Motorcycles that were seized at the police headquaters in Sana'a, Yemen, after their owners violated a 15-day ban on motorcycles. Yemen began enforcing a temporary ban on motorbikes in the capital to prevent "shoot and scoot" attacks as al-Qaida suspects on a motorbike elsewhere killed an army officer.

Romanian troops march under the Arch of Triumph during a military parade to celebrate the country's National Day in Bucharest.

A soldier rides on an armored personnel carrier (APC) at Tahrir Square after clashes with pro-Morsi protesters in Cairo. Egyptian security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters, witnesses said.

Scottish Fire and Rescue services examine a section of a police helicopter after crashing into the Clutha Bar in Glasgow, Scotland. Emergency workers sifted through wreckage for survivors from the crowded pub that killed at least eight people and injured more than two dozen.

A fisherman lays fish fillet out to sun dry at the Panyimur landing site on the shores of Lake Albert, some 398 km (247 miles) north of Uganda's capital Kampala, Nov. 30, 2013.

Protesters throw stones as they clash with police at the presidential office in Kyiv, Ukraine. As many as 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center of the capital, defying a ban on protests in Independence Square, in the biggest show of anger over the president's refusal to sign an agreement with the European Union.

Emergency workers gather at the site of a Metro-North train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York. At least four people were killed and 63 injured, including 11 critically, when the suburban train derailed, with at least five cars from the Metro-North train sliding off the tracks, officials said.

Bakers Dirk Willkomm, left, and Torsten Richter, right, members of the Association Dresden Stollen, work on a giant Stollen, a traditional Christmas cake, in Dresden, Germany.

Wearing ancient Japanese costumes, participants play "kemari," an ancient ball-lifting game using only their right legs in Tokyo.

Fireworks explode over a floating Christmas tree in Lagoa lake at the annual holiday tree lighting event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 30, 2013.