This Week in Photos, Nov 5-11, 2010

Fencer Andreea Pelei (L) of Romania celebrates a point during the saber match in the World Fencing Championships in Paris.

Children prepare to perform an Afro-Cuban dance during an AIDS-awareness event in Havana, Cuba.

Performers during a rehearsal in Cospicua in Valletta's Grand Harbour on the island nation of Malta.

An erect-crested penguin watches a baby La Plata river dolphin in Piriapolis, east of Montevideo, Uruguay.

A man looks at waves crashing against the seawall on the San Lorenzo beach in the northern Spanish city of Gijon.

A dancer performs "Songs of the Wanderers" by the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan during a dress rehearsal in Taipei.

Devotees offer prayers in the Yamuna River during the Hindu festival "Bhai Dooj" in the northern Indian city of Allahabad.

Blame beats Zenyatta (L) during the 2010 Breeders' Cup World Championship at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY.

A nun takes a picture of 9 clergymen in St. Peter Square at the Vatican.

One of the world's largest outdoor laundries, Dhobi Ghat is where Mumbai's traditional laundrymen wash clothes.

"Desert Quartert III" is from a collection of 20th-century British and Irish art at Christie's auction house in London.

The head of a giant Jesus Christ statue, soon to be the largest in the world, is placed on the body in Swiebodzin, Poland.

Runners cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge during the 2010 New York City Marathon.

Giant pandas play at Chimelong Giant Panda Center in Guangzhou Xiangjiang Safari Park in China.