poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Nov 10, 3:42 PM ET At the Queen's Gallery : An employee at The Queen's Gallery views work by Italian artist Canaletto in London. (AFP/Odd Andersen)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Nov 10, 3:50 PM ET Police on the prowl : French rio police patrol a commercial center in 'La Madeleine' a poor neighbourhood of Evreux, 100 km west of Paris, on the first night of the curfew deployed to combat a nationwide wave of riots. (AFP/Christophe Simon)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Nov 10, 4:06 PM ET Family wave : An Indian Sikh family waves farewell as their Pakistani-bound train departs from the Amritsar Railway Station. (AFP/Narinder Nanu)
poon cho tang SG AFP/DDP - Thu Nov 10, 4:08 PM ET Rudolph? : Chief Santa Claus Frank Knorre rings his bell in front of Berlin's landmark Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church as the German capital's traditional Christmas tree is erected. (AFP/DDP/Marcus Brandt)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Nov 10, 4:11 PM ET Walking past Roiter : A visitor walks past paintings of Russian artist Andrey Roiter at an exhibit in Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Nov 10, 4:15 PM ET Flying by the SALT : South African aircrafts fly past the Southern African Largest Telescope (SALT) during its inauguration, near the town of Sutherland. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Nov 10, 4:25 PM ET Can can? : A tourist looks at an artist creation titled 'iCanmega,' a can-made reproduction of an iPod during the exhibit 'Canstruction' at the New York Design Center. (AFP/Tim Clary)
poon cho tang SG Field of Remembrance The Queen has opened the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey, London, to honour Britain's war dead.
poon cho tang SG Field of Remembrance The Queen and hundreds of veterans placed small wooden crosses bearing red poppies and the word "remembrance" on 250 regimental plots.
poon cho tang SG Field of Remembrance The Duke of Edinburgh also placed a cross in among hundreds of poppies. Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry then sounded the Last Post.
poon cho tang SG Field of Remembrance The royal couple joined veterans and relatives for a two-minute silence. Many other ceremonies will take place across the UK on Friday to mark Remembrance Day.
poon cho tang SG Field of Remembrance Veterans remembered their friends, as they looked at a huge ring of poppies bearing the words: "At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."
poon cho tang SG Field of Remembrance Veteran Joe Hubble, 73, said: "If they're mates, you remember them all the time, but, during this particular week, you remember them all."
poon cho tang SG Field of Remembrance Lance Sergeant Justin McGowan of the Coldstream Guards said: "We've lost so many people and this is one of the ways we can give it back to them."
poon cho tang SG Bangladeshi children welcome South Asian leaders visiting for a regional summit in Dhaka.
poon cho tang SG Buddhists monks look at a 2,500-year-old fragment of bone believed to be one of Buddha's fingers, on display in Seoul.
poon cho tang SG In earthquake-hit Pakistan, mourners pray at the mass grave of students killed when Balakot High School collapsed.
poon cho tang SG Thousands of Australians attend a ceremony at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance to mark the end of World War I.
poon cho tang SG People across the UK fall silent as Big Ben chimes 1100 GMT to remember all those who have died in wars.
poon cho tang SG Supporters wave flags to greet China's President Hu Jintao in Berlin, while human rights campaigners hold protests.
