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• Nov. 16: Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won this year's Nobel Peace prize, opens the lid of a paella, a typical dish of Valencia, cooked by a Greenpeace activist using a solar kitchen outside the City of the Arts and Sciences complex in Valencia, Spain. Working until dawn, negotiators on Friday concluded a policy guide for governments on global warming that declares climate change is here and getting worse, one of its authors said. The brief Summary for Policymakers was to be released Saturday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
• Nov. 16: Forensic expert Rene Kosalka of Toronto, Canada, a member of the team from the International Commission for Missing Persons, inspects human remains at a mass-grave site in a remote mountain area in the village of Kamenica, near the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia. Forensic experts have recovered 60 bodies and 394 body remains. All of the exhumed bodies are believed to be those of Muslims from Srebrenica killed in July 1995 during the fall of the city. The remains will be identified by DNA. The exhumation of the mass grave began last month and is one of nine so-called secondary mass graves found in Kamenica, where Bosnian Serbs brought bodies from other sites to cover up the crime.
• Nov. 16: A blindfolded detainee is helped out of a vehicle at an Iraqi army compound in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The suspect was detained in a joint U.S. and Iraqi army operation on the western outskirts of Baqouba.
• Nov. 16: A Palestinian demonstrator in a wheelchair flees from tear gas fired by Israeli troops , not seen, during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security, while Palestinians call it a land grab.
• Nov. 16: A mourner of late Afghan parliamentarian Sayed Mustafa Kazimi cries during a memorial ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, for the six lawmakers who were killed in last Tuesday’s deadly homicide attack in Baghlan province, north of Kabul. More than 70 people were killed in Afghanistan's deadliest homicide attack since the Taliban's ouster.
• Nov. 16: Supporters of People's Power Party wave the party's flags and cheer during an election campaign in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's general election is set for Dec. 23.
• Nov. 16: An elephant removes a fallen tree that created a road block in Barishal, 75 miles south of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. A cyclone slammed into Bangladesh's coast with 140-mph winds, killing at least 425 people, leveling homes and forcing the evacuation of 650,000 villagers before heading inland and losing power Friday.
• Nov. 16: A man hitchhikes on the Champs Elysees Avenue while people ride bicycles in Paris on the third full transport strike day. The strike was centered on a protest over President Nicolas Sarkozy's promise to strip benefits that allow some public sector workers to retire earlier than most other workers with full benefits. The Arc de Triomphe is seen in background.
• Nov. 16: Passengers wait in long lines to be checked-in manually by Air Canada staff at Pearson's Terminal one in Toronto. Roughly 1,000 frustrated passengers were grounded at Canada's largest airport after a glitch with a major airline's computer reservation system caused flight delays.
• Nov. 16: Siruba Tacuri, a shaman from the Peruvian jungle, puts a bad luck spell on a doll representing Brazil soccer player Kaka in Lima. Peru will face Brazil in a 2010 World Cup qualifying match on Nov. 18.