BOOKWORM: Jack Siron (3), from Wicklow, in front of a bookish Christmas tree at the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, for the launch of the Dublin Book Festival, running from November 14th to 17th. Photograph: Tom Honan
DAY OF REMEMBRANCE: Lisa Marie Maher with her son Jack Foy (6) - family members of Eugene Maher, a cyclist who died when he was hit by a car in Fairview, Dublin, in 2015 - at the launch of the World Day of Remembrance 2019 by the Road Safety Authority at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan
EVER-READY: Fire crews from Northern Ireland and the Republic take part in a multi-agency emergency response exercise after a simulated crash involving a fuel truck and bus in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
THE SEASON TO BE SHOPPING: A view of Christmas lights displayed above Grafton Street, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan
ROBOT WARS: Matthew Byrne (11), from Athy, Co Kildare, ready to fight robot Katie Nailer as Robo Riots brings famous robots from BBC's hit TV show Robot Wars to battle it out live this Saturday and Sunday, November 16th and 17th, at the National Basketball Arena, Dublin. The robots will be flipping, smashing and bashing their way around inside the bullet-proof battle arena. Photograph: Robbie Reynolds
BE PREPARED: Parichat Sae-Lao walks in the rain with her daughter Daisy and other children in Belfast after heavy overnight rain caused localised flooding in parts of Northern Ireland. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
CONQUER BY STEALTH? A stag covered in dried bracken prepares to clash with a rival male deer during the rutting season in Richmond Park, west London, Britain. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
BUSHFIRE THREAT: Sharnie Moren and her 18-month-old daughter Charlotte watch as thick smoke rises from bushfires near Nana Glen, near Coffs Harbour, Australia. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP/Reuters
A MOTHER MOURNS: The mother of Palestinian Zaki Ghanama (25), mourns over his body at a hospital morgue in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, following an Israeli air strike. Israel said it carried out a strike against militants preparing to launch rockets. The incident followed an Israeli strike that killed an Islamic Jihad commander. Photograph: Anas BabaAFP/Getty
An Israeli policeman inspects the damage inside a house in the southern Israeli town of Netivot on November 12, 2019, following a rocket attack from Gaza City in retaliation to the Israeli strike that killed a commander of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. - Israel's military killed a commander of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a strike on his home in the Gaza Strip early, prompting retaliatory rocket fire and fears of a severe escalation in violence. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
NO RESPITE: A man tries to extinguish a burning Christmas tree at Festival Walk mall in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China, amid continuing political unrest there. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
TRAIN COLLISION: Bystanders look on after a train collided with another in Brahmanbaria, some 130km from Dhaka, Bangladesh,. The two packed locomotives rammed into each other, killing at least 16 people and injuring nearly 60 others, police said. Photograph: AFP/Getty
POLITICAL ASYLUM: Evo Morales, who has stepped down as Bolivian president, waves upon landing in Mexico City in a government aircraft. He was granted political asylum by Mexico after his resignation. Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: Brazilian indigenous tribe leader Celia Xakriaba attends a press conference in the French capital of Paris, as part of a tour of 12 European countries calling on EU politicans to exert pressure on the Brazilian government to better protect the rights of indigenous communities, and to scrutinise companies profiting from deforestation in the Amazon. Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty
FLOOD-PRONE: A woman makes her way through floodwater while carrying a child in St Mark's Square, Venice, Italy. Photograph: Manuel Silvestri/Reuters
KHMERS BLEUS: Participants prepare for a dragon boat race during the annual Water Festival on the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photograph: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty
FLAT OUT: Male giant panda Jiao Ling endures a medical examination of his kidneys in a computer tomograph at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Zoo Berlin/EPA
