Kent, UK

 

The Dickensian Christmas festival returns to Rochester in celebration of the time Charles Dickens lived in the Kent town from 1817 to 1822.

Photograph:  Martin Dalton/Shutterstock

Los Angeles, US

 

Young protesters chant during a children’s “March for Palestine’ in Los Angeles.

Photograph:  Mario Tama/Getty Images

 

San Francisco Homeless

 

A policy has been implemented give homeless people a minimum of 15 minutes to decide whether they wish to accept the city’s offer of shelter.  

Photograph: Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Gaza, Palestinian Territories

 

Palestinians in the Qatari-funded Hamad Town residential complex in Khan Younis look at their destroyed buildings as they leave their homes after an Israeli strike.

Photograph:  Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Rembrandt's Adoration of the Kings

 

Gallery assistants hold a work by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, The Adoration of the Kings, painted when he was 22 years old.  The painting is being auctioned by Sotheby’s and expected to fetch 15 million pounds in London on 6 December. 

Photograph:  Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

 

Indi Gregory Funeral

 

Nottingham, UK

The funeral cortege of Indi Gregory arrives at St Barnabus Cathedral.  The baby girl died when her life support treatment was withdrawn after her parents lost legal bids to keep treating her.  Indi had mitochondrial disease, a genetic condition that saps energy.  

Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

 

North Korea

 

Kim Jong-un and his daughter inspect an air force demonstration to commemorate what the country calls the Day of Airmen in an unidentified city.  Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event.