Nov. 13-19, 2021
From the colorful, dazzling artwork, “The Infinity Room,” by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, as part of a retrospective exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in Israel, to American journalist Danny Fenster, in the arms of his mother, Rose Fenster, with U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson looking on, after he was freed following nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, to a mother bathing her daughter in the Yamuna River, covered by a chemical foam due to industrial and domestic pollution, with toxic smog on the horizon in New Delhi, India, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press.
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Nov. 13-19, 2021
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Relatives embrace a prisoner from the Litoral Penitentiary who was released after a deadly prison riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP PhotoDolores Ochoa)
A woman looks at the art work, "The Infinity Room," by Yayoi Kusama, part of a retrospective exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP PhotoOded Balilty)
Opposition activist Yunior Garcia Aguilera, playwright and one of the organizers of a protest march, stands at a window of his home with a white flower, in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. (AP PhotoRamon Epinosa)
A view of a car parked between birch trees in a forest near Lipsk, Poland, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP PhotoMatthias Schrader)
Danny Fenster, center, hugs his mother Rose Fenster as former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, right, looks on at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Fenster was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard labor. He was handed over Monday to Richardson, who helped negotiate the release. (AP PhotoSeth Wenig)
Passersby surround a car whose driver went past a barricade and into the flooded Nooksack River, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Ferndale, Wash. About a half-dozen citizens went into the river, where they stopped the car from floating further and muscled it back onshore. No one was injured. (AP PhotoElaine Thompson)
Police forces watch the migrants makeshift camp in Grande-Synthe, northern France, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. French police were evacuating migrants from the makeshift camp near Dunkirk, in northern France, where at least 1,500 people gathered in hopes of making it across the English Channel to Britain. (AP PhotoLouis Witter)
A woman bathes her daughter in the Yamuna River, covered by a chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution as the skyline is enveloped in toxic smog, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP PhotoManish Swarup)
Demonstrators gather to protest against the government restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 during celebrations of the 32nd anniversary of the pro-democratic Velvet Revolution that ended communist rule in 1989 in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP PhotoPetr David Josek)
Christina Aguilera performs "Camaleon" at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala honoring Ruben Blades at the Mandalay Bay on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP PhotoChris Pizzello)
A hooded youth throws a molotov cocktail to riot police during clashes in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Some 14,000 people marched peacefully through Greece's second-largest city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of a bloody anti-dictatorship uprising in 1973, but afterwards masked youths threw petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas and a water cannon. (AP PhotoGiannis Papanikos)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., presides over House passage of President Joe Biden's expansive social and environment bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (AP PhotoJ. Scott Applewhite)
Migrants warm themselves at a fire in frigid conditions as they gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. Belarusian state news agency Belta reported that Lukashenko on Saturday ordered the military to set up tents at the border where food and other humanitarian aid can be gathered and distributed to the migrants. (Leonid ShcheglovBelTA pool photo via AP)
Kyle Rittenhouse closes his eyes and cries as he is found not guilty on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The jury came back with its verdict after close to 3 12 days of deliberation. (Sean KrajacicThe Kenosha News via AP, Pool)
A wave of clouds roll in over the hills above Kuala Lumpur in the Genting Highland area in Malaysia, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP PhotoVincent Thian)
A security guard walks past a mirror at a sculpture installation, which is reflecting a nearby green space, at a public park converted from a former industrial area, on a day with high levels of air pollution in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP PhotoMark Schiefelbein)
The selection was curated by AP photo editor Pamela Hassell in New York.
Annie Polite, 87, of Brunswick, Ga., walks with her walker in front of a protest march as part of a Wall of Prayer event outside the Glynn County Courthouse during the Ahmaud Arbery trial, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga. The Rev. Al Sharpton organized the event after defense attorney Kevin Gough objected to the presence of Black pastors in the courtroom. (AP PhotoStephen B. Morton)
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A zoo curator using a kayak tries to catch a pelican in order to move him into its winter enclosure at the zoo in Liberec, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP PhotoPetr David Josek)
Relatives embrace a prisoner from the Litoral Penitentiary who was released after a deadly prison riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP PhotoDolores Ochoa)
A woman looks at the art work, "The Infinity Room," by Yayoi Kusama, part of a retrospective exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP PhotoOded Balilty)
Opposition activist Yunior Garcia Aguilera, playwright and one of the organizers of a protest march, stands at a window of his home with a white flower, in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. (AP PhotoRamon Epinosa)
A view of a car parked between birch trees in a forest near Lipsk, Poland, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP PhotoMatthias Schrader)
Danny Fenster, center, hugs his mother Rose Fenster as former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, right, looks on at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Fenster was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard labor. He was handed over Monday to Richardson, who helped negotiate the release. (AP PhotoSeth Wenig)
Passersby surround a car whose driver went past a barricade and into the flooded Nooksack River, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Ferndale, Wash. About a half-dozen citizens went into the river, where they stopped the car from floating further and muscled it back onshore. No one was injured. (AP PhotoElaine Thompson)
Police forces watch the migrants makeshift camp in Grande-Synthe, northern France, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. French police were evacuating migrants from the makeshift camp near Dunkirk, in northern France, where at least 1,500 people gathered in hopes of making it across the English Channel to Britain. (AP PhotoLouis Witter)
A woman bathes her daughter in the Yamuna River, covered by a chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution as the skyline is enveloped in toxic smog, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP PhotoManish Swarup)
Demonstrators gather to protest against the government restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 during celebrations of the 32nd anniversary of the pro-democratic Velvet Revolution that ended communist rule in 1989 in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP PhotoPetr David Josek)
Christina Aguilera performs "Camaleon" at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala honoring Ruben Blades at the Mandalay Bay on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP PhotoChris Pizzello)
A hooded youth throws a molotov cocktail to riot police during clashes in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Some 14,000 people marched peacefully through Greece's second-largest city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of a bloody anti-dictatorship uprising in 1973, but afterwards masked youths threw petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas and a water cannon. (AP PhotoGiannis Papanikos)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., presides over House passage of President Joe Biden's expansive social and environment bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (AP PhotoJ. Scott Applewhite)
Migrants warm themselves at a fire in frigid conditions as they gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. Belarusian state news agency Belta reported that Lukashenko on Saturday ordered the military to set up tents at the border where food and other humanitarian aid can be gathered and distributed to the migrants. (Leonid ShcheglovBelTA pool photo via AP)
Kyle Rittenhouse closes his eyes and cries as he is found not guilty on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The jury came back with its verdict after close to 3 12 days of deliberation. (Sean KrajacicThe Kenosha News via AP, Pool)
A wave of clouds roll in over the hills above Kuala Lumpur in the Genting Highland area in Malaysia, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP PhotoVincent Thian)
A security guard walks past a mirror at a sculpture installation, which is reflecting a nearby green space, at a public park converted from a former industrial area, on a day with high levels of air pollution in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP PhotoMark Schiefelbein)
