It’s never been easier to keep up with what’s going on in the world. The news is everywhere – in our Facebook feeds, on the morning commute, during that lazy half hour before you switch off the TV and go to bed. But the tide of global affairs is often more upsetting than uplifting and it can be tempting to bury our heads in the sand. As the saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words, so to offer a different perspective we've rounded up some of the most memorable images of the week's events, captured by the best photojournalists on the planet.
Captive-bred pair, the male panda Ba Xi and the female panda Ying Xue, walk into the forest out of the cage after being released into the wild at Liziping Nature Reserve on 23rd November 2017 in Ya'an, Sichuan Province of China. They are the second pair released into the wild in the world.
Photo: VCG/VCG via Getty Images.
London Baker, 8, helps serve Thanksgiving dinner for more than 5,000 District of Columbia residents during The Salvation Army and Safeway's 18th annual 'Feast of Sharing' at the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre on 22nd November 2017 in Washington, DC. Partners also provided free haircuts, manicures, clothing and hosted a resource expo for the needy during the event.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
A Rohingya refugee boy flies a kite at Balukhali refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia on 22nd November 2017. An estimated 618,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled mainly Buddhist Myanmar since a military crackdown in Rakhine in August triggered an exodus, straining resources in the impoverished country.
Photo: MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images
The portrait of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is removed from the wall at the International Conference centre, after his resignation on 21st November 2017 in Harare. Robert Mugabe resigned as president of Zimbabwe on 21st November 2017, swept from power as his 37-year reign of brutality and autocratic control crumbled within days of a military takeover. The bombshell news was delivered by the parliament speaker to a special joint session of the assembly which had convened to impeach Mugabe, 93, who has dominated every aspect of Zimbabwean public life since independence in 1980.
Photo: JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images
This photo taken on 19th November 2017 shows participants crossing the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge as they compete in the 2017 Qingdao International Marathon on the Sea in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province.
Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images
Bride Evelia Reyes and groom Brian Houston, living on different sides of the US-Mexico border, stand for a family portrait after being briefly reunited and getting married during the 'Opening the Door of Hope' event at the border fence gate in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico on 18th November 2017. The event was organised by the Border Angels migrant advocacy group, in coordination with the Tijuana city government and the US Border Patrol.
Photo: GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images
Residents watch as a downhill rider competes during the Urban Bike Inder Medellin race final at the Comuna 1 shantytown in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on 19th November 2017.
Photo: JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP/Getty Images
A woman reacts over a relative's grave at the memorial centre of Potocari near Srebrenica on 22nd November 2017. United Nations judges on November 22nd sentenced former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladić to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of genocide and war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago.
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