Pictures of the year - November

Palestinians watch Hamas militants abseil down a building during a military parade marking the one-year anniversary of the eight-day conflict with Israel.

Seleka fighters wait as their commander meets with peacekeepers in Central African Republic, which descended into violence after mainly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power in the majority Christian country.

A woman talks on the phone as men ride a motorcycle through Riyadh.

Women watch a solar eclipse during an event organised by the Sudanese Society for Astronomy and Space Science on the banks of the River Nile in Khartoum.

An illustration picture shows the Twitter logo reflected in a woman’s eye on the day of the company's IPO.

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama poses for a photograph inside her installation titled "The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away" during a media preview of her new exhibition in New York.

Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist known as "the invisible man", uses camouflage to blend into the background as he stands in front of a shelf of comic books during a performance in Caracas.

Manuela Mitre is helped by midwives as she gives birth to her second child while lying in a birthing pool at home, as her husband and two-year-old daughter look on.

Eleven-year-old He Zili's grandfather holds onto a chain locked around the boy’s ankle at their home in eastern China. The child, who injured his head when he was a year old, suffers from mental disorders and his family restrain him because they say he has a tendency to attack others. The boy is cared for by his physically disabled grandfather and mentally disabled father after his mother died of cancer.

Artist Pyotr Pavlensky sits with his genitals nailed to the paving stones of Moscow’s Red Square as part of an art performance protesting against what he sees as the apathy of contemporary Russian society.

A woman in Indonesia's Sibintun village looks on as nearby Mount Sinabung spews ash into the sky.