Malaysian soldiers await their new King, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, at a guard of honour ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.
Chinese students at a memorial service to mark the 69th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. Japanese soldiers killed tens of thousands of civilians in the city in 1937.
Police in England are investigating the murder of three prostitutes and two other women, all found dead in woodland in Suffolk.
Vatican workers raise a 33-metre Christmas tree into place in St Peter's square, Rome.
Schoolchildren in Aceh learn the Tsunami emergency drill, two years after a tsunami killed 170,000 people in the Indonesian province.
A group of Naga Sadhus, Hindu ascetics, arrive ahead of the Ardh Kumbh Mela gathering of holy men in northern India.
A howling wolf in Moscow zoo - some of the zoo's animals have been unable to hibernate because of unusually warm weather.
Ethnic Hmong refugees wait for resettlement in Thailand on the day that 400 Hmong surrendered to the Laos government after decades on the run.
Workers decorate a giant Christmas tree outside the Edsa Shrine church in Quezon city, suburban Manila.
An Indian army stunt rider jumps through a ring of flame in Calcutta.