November 25, 2014

Pope Francis delivers his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.

A monk chants a Buddhist mantra in front of a public lottery counter in Tokyo, Japan. Lottery stand owners hire monks to conduct ritual purification on their stands for a big win.

A police officer guards a closed street along West Florissant Avenue, where protesters and looters rampaged businesses following the grand jury decision not to indict -- formally charge -- a white policeman who shot dead the unarmed black teen Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri.

A row of cars burn at a used car lot during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson has been struggling to return to normal after teenager Michael Brown was killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, on August 9.

An Iraqi man reacts at the site of a car bomb explosion in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.

Kashmiris stand in line to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of voting in the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.

Remy Cordonnier, a librarian in northern France, shows an example of a valuable Shakespeare "First Folio", a collection of some of his plays dating from 1623. Around 230 copies of the First Folio are known to exist around the world.

Smog covers the Indian capital of New Delhi.

A synthetic boulder (large rock) called "To be in Limbo“ hangs from the ceiling of the 20-meter-high Jesuit Church in Vienna, Austria.

 Megan Young of the Philippines, Miss World 2013, poses in the middle of 2014 event finalists during a publicity launch in central London. The final of the 2014 edition of the Miss World pageant will take place in London on December 14.

Alex Little (right) and Miranda Jenatka view a light installation at Kew Gardens in west London.