Friday: The day in photos
Los Angeles firefighters mop up at the break of dawn after fighting a stubborn blaze that destroyed a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles. The fire at Yoni Distributors on East 11th Street, where several other electronics wholesalers are located, was reported just after 4:30 a.m., drawing 150 firefighters to the scene. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Peter Lonard waits for a kangaroo to play through on the 12th hole at the Australian PGA Championship at Coolum on the country’s Sunshine Coast. Lonard, a three-time Australian PGA winner, would go on to bogey two of the final four holes and miss the cut on the second day of the tournament. (Dave Hunt / EPA)
A supporter of ruling party presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo sports party colors at a campaign rally in Accra, Ghana. Akufo-Addo will face longtime opposition leader John Atta Mills and six other candidates in presidential elections Dec. 7 as two-term leader John Kufuor prepares to hand off power in the West African nation. (Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press)
About 200,000 plastic figures representing every signature collected in support of a climate change initiative are set up in the city center of Poznan, Poland. The initiative was started by Swedish energy company Vattenfall. About 9,000 delegates from about 190 countries have gathered in Poznan for the 14th U.N. Conference on Climate Change. (Joe Klamar / AFP/Getty Images)
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Alexy II, the conservative patriarch who oversaw a post-Soviet renaissance of the Russian Orthodox Church yet was steadily criticized as subservient to the Kremlin, has died at age 79, the church said. Here, a Russian Orthodox believer lights a candle at a church in Moscow. (Alexey Sazonov / AFP/Getty Images)
A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag as protests continue against Jewish settlements in the village of Borqa near the West Bank city of Nablus. (Alaa Badarneh / EPA)
Protesters burn portraits of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as they call for her ouster in front of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in Manila. The protesters condemned the alleged bogus government assistance package for overseas Filipino workers who were laid off in Taiwan because of the financial crisis. (Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA)
Christie’s employee Becky Markley shows off the Wittelsbach Diamond in London. The diamond, estimated to sell for 9 million English pounds, is part of Christie’s “Jewels: The London Sale,” to be held Dec. 10. King Philip IV of Spain presented the 35.56-carat diamond to his daughter the Infanta Margarita Teresa in 1664 as part of her dowry. (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)
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The Harry Winston jewelry store near the Champs-Elysees in Paris, a day after robbers, some dressed in drag, made off with $100 million in loot in what police called one of France’s costliest jewel heists. (Francois Mori / Associated Press)
Polar bear Knut plays with a cushion that he was given for his second birthday at Zoo Berlin in Germany. The bear caused a global sensation when he survived rejection by his mother and attracted more than 2 million visitors to the zoo. (Michael Gottschalk / AFP/Getty Images)
