Week in pictures: 1-7 November

1 of 12 Drivers in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run cope with the rain as they crossed Westminster Bridge at the start of their journey.

2 of 12 Sir Ranulph Fiennes is back in London after running seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.

3 of 12 While on tour, Prince Charles lends a hand on the set of The Rising, a joint Anglo-Indian project filming in India.

4 of 12 A helicopter taking US troops to Baghdad is brought down in the deadliest anti-US attack since the war ended.

5 of 12 Members of the Anglican Church across the world debate its future after the consecration of Gene Robinson, its first openly gay bishop.

6 of 12 The parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman arrive at the Old Bailey.

7 of 12 The fatal stabbing of a pupil at a school in Lincolnshire leaves a rural village in shock.

8 of 12 A man lifts a burning barrel during the traditional British event of Tarbarreling on Bonfire Night.

9 of 12 David Chick scales a crane near Tower Bridge, London, to protest about father's rights.

10 of 12 Michael Howard appeals to fellow Tories to unite behind him now he has been crowned party leader.

11 of 12 Women in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott wait for polling stations to open to vote in the presidential elections.

12 of 12 Mick Jagger performing in Hong Kong in the first of two gigs by the Rolling Stones who headlined a post Sars-concert series.