Held to high esteem

Supporters of Bordeaux cheer as they display their team's colour during the Champions League soccer match between Bordeaux and Chelsea at the Chaban Delmas stadium in Bordeaux, southwestern France November 26, 2008. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

I say tomato, you say "to-mah-to"

A Barbary Macaque named "skobb" eats a tomato in his enclosure at the Tiergarten zoo in the southern town of Nuremberg on November 26. (TIMM SCHAMBERGER, AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Men without hats

An ultra-orthodox Jewish youth walks past hats placed outside a Yeshiva, or Jewish seminary, in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv November 26, 2008. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

Lightly toasted

Ring-tailed lemurs warm themselves in front of an electric heater at the Japan Monkey Center in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture (state), central Japan, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. The monkeys, native of Madagascar, are not good at maintenance of body temperature and usually bask in the sun or huddle together to keep warm but they got used to this new way last year. (Photo: AP/Kyodo News, Muneyuki Tomari)

A face in the crowd

Members of Bangladesh Kormojibi Nari, or women workers, stage a demonstration wearing masks of the leaders of G-8 nations, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They demand a drastic cut in emission of green house gases by industrialized nations and compensation to poor nations hit by impacts of climate change. (PAVEL RAHMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Pick a card, any card

Indian Reang refugees hold up identity cards at a polling station in a refugee camp, north of Agartala in the state of Tripura. There are your place names for the day.

Work is picking up

A cleaner walks past a Gentleman who is sleeping while waiting for a train outside a railway station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province November 28, 2008. REUTERS/Sean Yong

Swan is the loneliest number

Lake Geneva's waterfront buildings lights are reflected on the water as a swan named "skobb" swims by. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Carrion luggage

Thousands of travellers have been left stranded at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi international airport since it was occupied by anti-government protesters.

Watch your wait

A Muslim man from south Thailand sits among bags at the departure hall of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport November 29, 2008. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

If you don't succeed at first, Thai, Thai again.

Tens of thousands of travellers are stuck in the Thai capital. Flights are leaving from airports outside Bangkok, but supply cannot meet demand.

On guard

A woman practises with a sword during her morning exercises in a residential compound in Beijing, China.

A woman's right two shoes

A worker trims plastic shoe soles at a factory in Jinjiang, China's biggest sports footwear production base.

Women drivers

Marta Mamani, an aymara indigenous woman, hits a drive during her work break at La Paz Golf Club on November 26. La Paz Golf Club is considered to be the highest one in the world, with courses ranging from 3,277 to 3,342 meters above sea level. Founded in 1912, the Club sits in the upscale district of southern La Paz, and its exclusive facilities receive the local elite. (JOAO PADUA, AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Venice, vidi, vici

In Venice, hit by its biggest floods in 20 years, a woman crosses Piazza San Marco on a raised platform.