November 19, 2014

Snowdrifts create a beautiful setting as a man tries to dig out his driveway on Bowen Rd in Lancaster, N.Y. A lake-effect snow storm dumped over five feet of snow in areas across Western New York. Another two to three feet of snow is expected in the area, bringing snow totals to over 100 inches, almost a years' worth of snow in three days.

Students dismantle security barriers placed by British police on Parliament Square during a protest against university tuition fees in London.

A Syrian Kurdish refugee woman from the Kobani area holds a baby at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters.

Pakistani children, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, play cricket in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

A protester rests as others hold shields after they tried to break into the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. Protesters clashed with police early Wednesday after they tried to break into Hong Kong's Legislative Council building.

Broken glass is seen after protesters broke at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. Protesters clashed with police early Wednesday after they tried to break into Hong Kong's Legislative Council building.

Druze men and relatives attend the funeral of Druze Israeli police officer Zidan Sif in the Druze village of Yanuh-Jat, northern Israel. Sif, 30, died of his wounds on Tuesday after two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people in the city’s bloodiest attack in years.

Tourists take photographs on their tablets and smart phone of a statue of 'Paddington Bear' on the platform at Paddington railway station in London.

A farmer winnows paddy crops at a field on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura.

A group of foreign tourists wearing traditional Japanese kimonos walk through a torii gate, the entrance of a shrine, in Nihonbashi shopping and office district in Tokyo.

Billed as Times Square's largest and most expensive digital billboard, a new megascreen is debuted in front of the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York City, Nov. 18, 2014 .

Dean Clark embraces Frida, a female Chihuahua, as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issues a special commendation naming Frida "Mayor of San Francisco for a Day" in San Francisco, California, Nov. 18, 2014. Frida, a previously unknown female Chihuahua, has won her first political office, being named Mayor of San Francisco for the day as part of a campaign to support the city's animal shelter.

A tourist is seen through a soap bubble as she takes a picture at Comercio square in downtown Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 18, 2014.

Indian followers leave the ashram of self-styled 'godman' Rampal Maharaj in Hisar, some 175 kilometres (108 miles) north of New Delhi. Police discovered five bodies after storming the ashram of a wanted guru in northern India where thousands of followers have been holed up for days, as a sixth supporter died in hospital.