1001Places - The best photographs in news and culture from around the world, Part 02

Friday was declared a national holiday by the Pakistani government so people could rally against the anti-Islam film. A wounded Pakistani protester is helped during clashes with riot police

Photograph: Muhamme
The best photographs in news and culture from around the world!

As the controversy surrounding the topless photographs of her escalates, the Duchess of Cambridge smiles to locals through a car window at the Cultural Village in Honiara, Solomon Islands
Photograph: Daniel Munoz/AP

Thirteen years after his last show in London, Philip Treacy presents his spring/summer 2013 collection
Photograph: Jonathan Short/AP

A Syrian man carries his wounded daughter outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo
Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP

The Australian Ballet perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at the State Theatre in Melbourne
Photograph: Paul Jeffers/EPA

A Shia protester is detained by riot police during an anti-government demonstration in Bahrain’s capital Manama. 29 people were arrested as protesters marched in the city centre in defiance of a government ban
Photograph: Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP

Actors perform in a production re-enacting the rise of the Communist party in Jinggangshan, the birthplace of the Chinese revolution which saw Mao Zedong advance to power
Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

Masked Palestinians throw stones at Israeli security forces in Shuafat refugee camp, Jerusalem, after a demonstration against the film Innocence of Muslims
Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP

The Occupy Wall Street movement commemorates the first anniversary of its protest in New York's financial district
Photograph: Andrew Burton/Reuters

Orthodox Bratslav Hasidic Jews gather near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman in Ukraine to mark the Jewish new year
Photograph: Maksim Dondyuk/EPA

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns in Las Vegas. Romney bowed to sustained pressure from the Democrats this week by releasing a summary of his tax returns for the last two decades
Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

Designers Meadham Kirchhoff present their elaborate show A Cautionary Tale at London Fashion Week
Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

Libyans climb up electricity towers to watch a march in Benghazi against militias, in particular Ansar al-Sharia, which has been blamed for the murder of the US ambassador and three of his colleagues
Photograph: Mohammad Hannon/AP

A woman in Burma takes a break from unloading gravel from boats at a port outside Yangon, a job that earns three US cents a basket. Burmese opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi began her landmark tour of the US this week
Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Demonstrators in central Rome, Italy, shout against the film ridiculing the prophet Muhammad
Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP

Spectators wait by the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco to see the space shuttle Endeavour pass by on its final journey to the California Science Centre in Los Angeles
Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty

Members of a Syrian family cry outside a hospital in Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said this week that nearly 30,000 Syrians have been killed during the 18-month uprising against the Assad regime
Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP

A solarised portrait of Lee Miller which will go on display at the National Portrait Gallery when an exhibition of more than 150 photographs by American artist Man Ray opens in February 2013
Photograph: Lee Miller Archives/Man Ray Trust/PA Wir

Luc Delahaye's photograph 132nd Ordinary Meeting of the Conference, Opec Headquarters, Vienna, 2004. The photographer has been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet award 2012
Photograph: Prix Pictet/Courtesy of Galerie Nathalie Obadia

The Milky Way arches over a lake on the island of Réunion. The photographer Luc Perrot waited two years for the right conditions to take this shot which was highly commended at the Royal Observatory's Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards
Photograph: Luc Perrot

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