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AFP - Sun Nov 27, 7:35 PM ET
Icy closeness : Russian ice dancers Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarow perform their free dance at the Cup of Russia ISU Grand Prix figure skating event in St.Petersburg. They won gold medals in the competition. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov) -
AFP - Sun Nov 27, 7:38 PM ET
Ice dance : Russian pair Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin perform their dance at the exhibition of the Cup of Russia ISU Grand Prix figure skating event in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov) -
AFP - Sun Nov 27, 7:39 PM ET
Night raid : An Iraqi soldier searches a house during an overnight raid south of the restive city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad. (AFP/Ali Yussef) -
AFP - Sun Nov 27, 7:40 PM ET
At the polls : A Chechen girl waits for her mother to casts a ballot at a polling station in the capital Grozny in Chechnya. (AFP/Viktor Drachev) -
AFP - Sun Nov 27, 7:42 PM ET
Persian stare : A white Persian cat is seen at the International Cat and Dog Exhibition in Belgrade. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic) -
AFP/DDP - Sun Nov 27, 7:44 PM ET
Tis the season : The sun shines on an ice floe on the Havel river near Strohdehne, eastern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Theo Heimann) -
AFP - Sun Nov 27, 7:46 PM ET
Cold and refreshing? : A monkey enjoys softdrink during an annual monkey buffet festival at an ancient temple in Lopburi province in northen Thailand. (AFP/Saeed Khan) -
AFP - Sun Nov 27, 7:49 PM ET
Artistic Gymnastics : Jann Cucherat of France lands on the bars on the way to winning bronze in the Men's Parallel Bars at the 38th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, being held in Melbourne. (AFP/William West) -
Week in pictures: 19-25 November
An African lioness undergoes a Cat scan to find out if she suffers from vitamin A deficiency in a hospital in Haifa, Israel. -
Flowers are left near the scene where PC Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead by robbers on Friday 18 November in Bradford, UK. -
Workers rebuild the Bosnian National Assembly building in Sarajevo, on the 10th anniversary of the Dayton peace accord that ended the war. -
Photographer Mario Testino attends the opening of an exhibition of his photos of Diana, Princess of Wales at London's Kensington Palace. -
An Israeli soldier aims his rifle at Palestinian schoolgirls demanding to cross a roadblock in Hebron. -
French President Jacques Chirac gives a warm welcome to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her first state visit after being sworn in. -
Indian Sikh devotees take a holy bath near the Golden Temple in Amritsar, during a religious festival. -
A Palestinian boy throws stones at an Israeli army jeep in the West Bank town of Jenin. -
Women in a bar in Newcastle celebrate new licensing laws allowing bars across the UK to stay open for longer - in some cases for 24 hours. -
A US soldier in Baghdad, Iraq, dresses as a turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving. -
A fan lays flowers below a mural of George Best at Windsor Football Park in Belfast after hearing news of the former footballer's death. -
Rafah re-opens
Palestinians took control of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt for the first time. The crossing is a vital gateway to the outside world for Gaza's residents and the strip's economy. -
Hundreds of Palestinians had camped outside the terminal for days waiting for the momentous event. -
There was huge excitement as people surged towards the terminal to have their passports checked. -
Palestinian police struggled to stop the crowd massing around the passport desks. -
More than 1,500 people crossed the border on the first day, European Union monitors said. -
Taxis and buses bursting with luggage ferried people to and from the terminal.