December 1, 2014

A man works at an iron and steel scrap workshop at an industrial area in Mumbai, India.

Police officers beat up protesters as they try to disperse them outside government headquarters in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters clashed with police as they tried to surround government headquarters.

Swedish Member of Parliament Barbro Westerholm (L) speaks to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden (live streamed from Moscow, Russia) during the Right Livelihood Award ceremony at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.

SoftBank Corp's human-like robot named "Pepper" introduces Nestle's coffee machines at an electronic shop in Tokyo, Japan.

Turkish soldiers gather around a bonfire in Mursitpinar in the Sanliurfa province near the border with Syria.

Smoke rises from an explosion at a chemical market in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China.

Workers prepare outgoing shipments at an Amazon Fulfillment Center before the Christmas rush in Tracy, California.

A Ukrainian soldier fires a missile with a man-portable air-defense system during exercises near the city of Shchastya, north of Lugansk.

An element of the installation "Voyageurs" by French artist Cedric Le Borgne sits atop a building at Place Bel Air in Geneva, Switzerland, as a part of the Geneva Lux Festival presenting four art installations in the city center.

A Romanian soldier sleeps on a bus before taking part in a military parade to mark Romania's national day in Bucharest.

Models pose for a group photograph outside the Victoria's Secret shop on New Bond Street in central London.