15 November 2012Last updated at 13:22

Day in pictures: 15 November 2012

South Korean volunteers make 140 tons of kimchi

Some 2,000 South Korean volunteers make 140 tonnes of kimchi, a traditional dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, in a park outside the metropolitan government building in Seoul. City officials will hand out kimchi to about 14,000 poor households in an event marking the start of the winter season.

A visitor at the Art of the Brick exhibition in Singapore

A visitor looks at The Circle Torso during the media preview of The Art of the Brick exhibition in Singapore.

The Prince of Wales meets actor Mark Hadlow who plays Dori, a dwarf, in The Hobbit, during a tour of the Weta Workshop in Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand.

Bearded vulture Fausto spreads its wings as it inspects its new home in Frankfurt Zoo, Germany.

North Korea perform during the team technical synchronised swimming final at the ninth Asian Swimming Championships, in Dubai.

People walk along the south bank of the River Thames as mist shrouds the Tower of London and Tower Bridge in London

Londoners walk along the south bank of the River Thames as mist shrouds the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.

Spanish riot police officers protect themselves from a projectile in Madrid as workers across the European Union staged a series of protests and strikes against rising unemployment and austerity measures.

Palestinian relatives of Hisham Ghalban mourn over his body in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip

Relatives of Hisham Ghalban mourn over his body in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Thirteen Palestinians, mainly militants but also children, have been killed in an Israeli operation that began on Wednesday with the killing of Hamas military chief, Ahmed Jabari

An Israeli soldier throws out a blood-stained table from an apartment damaged after a rocket, fired from Gaza, landed in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi

Three people have been killed as rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel, amid escalating violence. They died when a four-storey building in the town of Kiryat Malachi was hit.

Xi Jinping leads the new Politburo Standing Committee onto the stage at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, signalling his elevation to the top of China's ruling Communist Party.

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Day in pictures: 15 November 2012

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