Week in pictures: 29 Nov-5 Dec

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during the state opening of Parliament in London.

Duncan Zuur of the Netherlands rides on a wakeboard through a flooded St Mark's Square in Venice.

Singer Liza Minnelli takes her curtain call at the opening night of Liza's At The Palace on Broadway, New York.

In Beirut, Lebanese schoolgirls take part in a demonstration against Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The north of England awoke to a blanket of snow as some areas experienced the onset of winter weather.

Following last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, thousands took part in a demonstration, some chanting anti-Pakistan slogans.

Actors Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes attend the premiere of their latest film, The Reader, at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City.

British PM Gordon Brown speaks at a reception for the Teach First scheme in 10 Downing Street, which aims to get graduates to teach in disadvantaged areas for a year after they leave university.

An aid worker hands out biscuits to children living in a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 250,000 people have fled their homes to escape fighting.

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims pray inside the Grand Mosque, in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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