Week in pictures: 19 - 25 November 2016 - BBC News

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TEPHANIE KEITH / REUTERS
Police in North Dakota used water cannon against demonstrators protesting against an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock reservation. Sioux tribes and allies have been protesting for weeks amid fears the pipeline will pollute water supplies.





GORAN TOMASEVIC / REUTERS
A number of oil well fires lit by retreating so-called Islamic State fighters near the Iraqi town of Qayara have been extinguished. "Some of them are still ablaze, but we see the morning, we can see the sun,'' shop owner Mohannad Seoud Ahmad Matar told Associated Press. "Ten days ago, this sky was completely dark. You couldn't distinguish day from night.''





THOMAS PETER / REUTERS
Bags of plastic bottles are transported across a recycling yard on the outskirts of Beijing. Scrap collectors say they are being pushed out of the city as authorities try to control its growing population and rising land prices.





MICHAEL STEELE / GETTY IMAGES
Ahead of their Champions League clash with Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco's players took part in a training session at La Turbie training ground. A 2-1 win saw Monaco qualify for the next round as winners of their group.





ANDREW KELLY / REUTERS
The 90th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade saw a balloon of Scrat from the Ice Age films make its way along West 59th Street in Manhattan, New York.





SHIZUO KAMBAYASHI / AP
Tokyo experienced its first November snowfall in 54 years. Residents of the Japanese capital were taken by surprise, as the temperatures around this time of the year usually range from 10C to 17C. The current snowfall marks the first time fallen snow has been seen on the ground in Tokyo in November since records started to be taken in 1875.





CATHAL MCNAUGHTON / REUTERS
In Delhi, a girl tries to attract her mother's attention while she paints the floor of a pond.





CATHAL MCNAUGHTON / REUTERS
In Delhi, a girl tries to attract her mother's attention while she paints the floor of a pond.





PAUL CHILDS / ACTION IMAGES VIA REUTERS
Britain's Andy Murray beat five-time champion Novak Djokovic to win his first ATP World Tour Finals title and end 2016 as the world number one men's tennis player. Murray extended his career-best winning run to 24 matches.