Pictures of the Week

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  Workers wash the exterior of the National Aquatics Centre Nov. 10, in Beijing, China. The National Aquatics Centre, also known as The Water Cube, was the venue for the swimming and diving events during the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
  
  
  

  Cai Daizheng, ChinaFotoPress / Getty Images

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  The Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible picture of a planet circling another star. The planet is named Fomalhaut b, circling the star Formalhaut which is twenty five light years distant from Earth. In this image released by NASA this week, a dust ring, seen in red, surrounds the star Fomalhaut, that resides at the center of the image, but which is not visible to the human eye in this image. The Hubble Telescope discovered the fuzzy image of the planet, known as Fomalhaut b, which is no more that a white speck in the lower right portion of the dust ring that surrounds the star. Astronomers are ecstatic over the visual imaging of the first extra solar planet.
  
  
  

  NASA / ESA / AP

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  A large Spanish-style estate home burns, ignited by a wind-driven brush fire dubbed the "Tea Fire" in Montecito, Calif. on Nov. 13.
  
  
  

  Dan Steinberg, AP

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  The hand of a visitor to the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall reaches out to touch the name of a family member who had died in the Vietnam War, Nov. 11 in Tallahasse, Fla. The wall was on display as part of Veterans Day commemorations.
  
  
  

  Phil Coale / AP

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  Trees with Autumn foliage display a brilliant yellow, matched by a New York City taxi, in front of a building undergoing renovation, in New York, Nov. 12.
  
  
  

  Emmanuel Dunand, AFP / Getty Images

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  People cast long shadows as they walk through Canary Wharf in London's financial district on Nov. 11. Britain is seeing the highest rate of unemployment in more than a decade, and the financial district is suffering not only a loss of jobs, but a loss of prestige as well. Job vacancies in London's financial services industry dropped 48 percent in October.
  
  
  

  Kieran Doherty / Reuters

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  The shadow of an Israeli policeman is cast next to a poster of late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin during a memorial rally marking the 13th anniversary of his assassination in Rabin's square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 8. Some tens of thousands of Israelis gathered at the square where Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated, to remember the man and his legacy 13 years after his killing.
  
  
  

  Sebastian Scheiner, AP

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  A displaced child and sibling walk through the Kituku displaced camp in Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 10. One month ago, more than 200 families of park rangers from the Virunga national park , fled the fighting between rebels and government forces that has left tens of thousands of refugees desperate for international aid.
  
  
  

  Jerome Delay, AP

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  Small remembrance crosses placed at the Shrine of Remembrance on Nov. 11, in Melbourne, Australia commemorate those who died during World War I during the 90th Anniversary Remembrance Day Service, marking the end of that war.
  
  
  

  Kristian Dowling, Getty Images

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  A man dressed up to look like a Chinese emperor as a publicity gimmick to draw in shoppers walks outside a mall in Beijing, China, Nov. 10. China announced a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus package Sunday to boost government spending on roads, airports and other infrastructure and bigger subsidies to the poor and farmers.
  
  
  

  Ng Han Guan, AP