This Week in Photos, Week of Nov 11-17, 2011

A caretaker looks on as 7-year-old elephant Laxmi rubs trunks with her daughter, 13-month-old Rani, during the Sonepur Mela in Sonepur near Patna, India.

Workers raise the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in NYC. This year's tree is a 74-foot Norway Spruce. It was cut down November 9, 2011, in Mifflinville, PA.

The valleys behind are covered by clouds as bikers ride during sunny autumn weather below the peak of Mount Rigi near Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.

Norman Goben, dressed in period Second Regiment uniform from 1775, watches the Veterans Day Parade in NYC.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (left) and Sophie, Countess of Wessex attend the Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.

Artist Liu Bolin, also known as the 'Vanishing Artist,' demonstrates an art installation by blending in with vegetables displayed on the shelves at a supermarket in Beijing. Liu

Stuntmen ride motorcycles around the inside of an attraction called the "Well of Death" during the Sonepur Mela in Sonepur near Patna, India.

A woman walks a dog in an empty Zuccotti Park a day after it was cleared of Occupy Wall Street protesters in an early morning police raid in NYC.

A surfer rides a wave in the Mediterranean Sea at Israel's southern city of Ashkelon.

Born in Liberia, Cynthia (left) 5, and her brother James, 11, say the Pledge of Allegiance during the children's citizenship ceremony at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Fairfax, VA.

A woman carries ceramic products to the market in Bat Trang village, outside Hanoi.

Alexander Yoong of Malaysia competes in the Mens Waterski Jump Final on day 7 of the 2011 Southeast Asian Games at Jakabaring Sports Complex in Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia.