Week in pictures: 26 Nov-2 Dec
From the Cuban reaction to Fidel Castro's death to the Stading Rock protests - these are the images of the last seven days

SATURDAY, UK:

SUNDAY, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:

MONDAY, INDIA: Police detain an activist from the Congress Party's student wing during a protest against the government's controversial ban on high-value banknotes

TUESDAY, UK: Dancers from the National Ballet of China perform on stage during a dress rehearsal of The Peony Pavilion at Sadlers Wells Theatre in London

WEDNESDAY, COLOMBIA: Mourners pay tribute to members of the Brazilian football squad Chapecoense Real killed in a plane crash in the Colombian mountains on Monday

30 NOVEMBER, CUBA: A woman cries as she pays her respects to revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

THURSDAY, BARBADOS:

THURSDAY, US: Patty Sam Porter of the Colville tribe is greeted by activists at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation after canoeing the Missouri River to join the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline

THURSDAY, INDONESIA: Police arrest a protestor during a demonstration against Indonesian rule over the eastern region of Papua in Jakarta

FRIDAY, UK:
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