THE WEEK AROUND THE PLANET

Manual labor
A man works at an aluminum factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 16. About 45 workers are employed at the factory and most of them work for 12 hours a day. The daily wage is about $1.70 for men and $1.40 for women.

Circle of yellow
Taxis line up to get their tanks filled on a viaduct in Chongqing municipality, China, on Nov. 17. Central and eastern Chinese provinces face the worst natural gas shortage in years.

Smoky protest
A Palestinian protester covers his head with a plastic bag to avoid tear gas during a protest against Israel's separation barrier outside the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, on Nov. 13. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab.

North vs. South
Policemen try to wrestle away a North Korean flag from activists attempting to burn it during a rally to welcome U.S. President Barack Obama and to denounce the North, near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov.19. Obama was in South Korea for talks with President Lee Myung-bak on trade and the North's nulcear program.

Junk food
Cattle search for food in a garbage dump in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Nov. 16.