Events in Pictures

A makeshift boat of basketballs and empty water bottles carries a Vietnamese family through the flooded streets of Hanoi after days of heavy rain.

A man in Indian-administered Kashmir sells heating pots - clay bowls in a wicker frame in which charcoal is burned to keep off the winter cold.
Barack Obama features on stickers of US currency in Kisumu, the main town of Kenya's Nyanza province where his father was born.
Thousands of crosses outside Westminster Abbey in London honour British soldiers and civilians killed in conflicts since World War I.