The best photos from around the world this week

Katy Perry at the annual Arias Awards in Sydney, protests in Ferguson, thousands of Buddhist monks in downtown Bangkok, Mickey Rourke at a boxing night in Moscow - check out these and many more photos in our selection of the best photos from the past week.

(Total 20 photos)

1. Katy Perry takes a selfie with fans at the 28th annual Arias Awards in Sydney, Australia. (© Ryan Pierse / Getty Images)

2. A Palestinian boy stands next to a burning barricade during clashes with the Israeli military in Hebron, West Bank. (© Abed Al Hashlamoun / EPA)

3. A protester stands in front of a burning building on West Florissant Avenue (Ferguson) during a demonstration against the decision of the Grand Jury not to bring charges against a white police officer who shot a black teenager. (© Christian Gooden/AP)

4. Miranda Jenatka (left) and Alex Little pose for the camera during the grand launch of the Christmas at Kew light installation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in southwest London. (© Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images)

5. Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in the center of Bangkok for a mass prayer to collect donations. (© Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters)

6. A member of the club of local "walruses" Ivan Abrosimov is wrung out in sub-zero temperatures near the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk. (© Vincent Kessler / Reuters)

7. Living Museum Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, USA. (© Ajay Verma / Reuters)

8. People stand in line to vote during the elections for the legislative assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, India. (© Ajay Verma / Reuters)

9. Finger-shaped cookies at The V, a vampire-themed bar in Beijing, China. (© Ajay Verma / Reuters)

10. A girl with hearing and speech impairments poses for a photo at a rehabilitation center in Bhopal, India. (© Reuters)

11. Bride race in the park in Bangkok, Thailand. (© Ajay Verma / Reuters)

12. A surfer conquers a huge wave off the coast of Portugal. (© AP)

13. In Moscow, 62-year-old boxer and famous American actor Mickey Rourke fought 29-year-old American fighter Elliot Seymour. In the second round of the fight, Mickey Rourke won by knockout. (© Yuri Kochetkov / EPA)

14. A woman is desperately fighting for a TV, which is claimed by other buyers, in the Asda store in Wembley, London. Black Friday 2014 is here in the UK, US and other countries, the start of the Christmas shopping season. (© Luke McGregor / Reuters)

15. US President Barack Obama pardoned the "chief turkey" while standing next to his daughters Sasha and Malia in the White House. This is an annual tradition around Thanksgiving. (© Getty Images)

16. In the center of Pyongyang, on Kim Il Sung Square, a mass rally was held to protest against a UN resolution that condemns the human rights situation and recommends that the case against the North Korean authorities be referred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. (© CTAC / EPA)

17. Firefighters rescue window cleaners in the center of Santiago, Chile. The platform, on which two window cleaners were working, tipped at a height of 50 meters due to a breakdown. (© Reuters)

18. Demonstrators are trying to overturn a police car during the riots in Ferguson. (© AP)

19. The Soyuz TMA-15M manned spacecraft with a crew of Russian Anton Shkaplerov, Italian Samantha Cristoforetti and American Terry Wurts starts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (© Reuters)

20. Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, November 27, 2014. (© Reuters)