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Snapshots of the Fortnight (October 24 - November 8)

Nov 09, 2012, 06:20 IST2 min
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Participants hold burning torches in one of the series of processions during Bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, southern England on November 5, 2012. The processions and bonfire mark the uncovering of Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, and commemorates the memory of Lewes' seventeen Protestant martyrs
Image by Luke MacGregor / Reuters
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A policeman removes a statue of Saint Rose from a barricade during clashes between workers and residents living close to the La Parada wholesale market in Lima on October 27, 2012. Two people died and 21 others were injured in Peru's capital as protesters clashed with police trying to shut down a sprawling wholesale market
Image by Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters
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A riot police officer is dragged by protesters after being knocked down off his horse by workers of La Parada wholesale market in Lima on October 25, 2012. Clashes between the wholesale market workers and police officers erupted when concrete blocks were attempted to be placed at the entrances by local authorities to prevent market supply, reported to local media
Image by Reuters
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Jordan Hupp of the US gets thrown off a bull during the Built Ford Tough Series Professional Bull Riders (PBR) World Finals at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on October 28, 2012
Image by Steve Marcus / Reuters
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A llama crosses the road near the salt flat Tolillar, more than 3,800 meters (12467 ft) above sea level on the puna or high plateau of Salta Province in Argentina on October 27, 2012
Image by Enrique Marcarian / Reuters
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A little girl with a cricket bat walks past a guard of Malik Ishaq, the leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), as he holds an AK-47 assault rifle while guarding Ishaq's home in Rahim Yar Khan in the southern Punjab province of Pakistan on October 9, 2012. With a few hundred hardcore cadres, the highly secretive Sunni Muslim extremist group LeJ aims to trigger tit-for-tat sectarian violence th
Image by Mian Khursheed / Reuters
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Mina, an eight-year-old Syrian refugee girl holding a baby doll, and Saad, an eight-year-old Syrian refugee boy holding a toy gun, pose during the first day of Eid al-Adha at Yayladagi refugee camp in Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border on October 26, 2012
Image by Murad Sezer / Reuters
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Zoe Jurusik, 20, paddle-boards down a flooded city street in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Bethany Beach, Delaware on October 30, 2012. Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy as New York City and a wide swathe of the East Coast struggled with epic flooding and massive power outages
Image by Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
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Ajay Narayan cheers as the race is called for U.S. President Barack Obama by a television network during the Nevada State Democrats' election night party at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada November 6, 2012
Image by Sam Morris / Reuters

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