cranapple dessert, cornbread stuffing and smoked turkey

 

 

Thanksgiving turkey dinners will be eaten closer to home this year due to financial worries.
 

Thanksgiving turkey dinners will be eaten closer to home this year due to financial worries

 

 

Auction organiser Giselle Oberti holds a 1.08kg white truffle in Rome. The truffle will be sold during a satellite-linked charity auction in Macau
 

Auction organiser Giselle Oberti holds a 1.08kg white truffle in Rome. The truffle will be sold during a satellite-linked charity auction in Macau

 

 

The new Ars Electronica Centre in Linz, Austria, is illuminated by some 40,000 LEDs. The new centre, housing the Museum of the Future,  will open on January 2 2009
 

The new Ars Electronica Centre in Linz, Austria, is illuminated by some 40,000 LEDs. The new centre, housing the Museum of the Future, will open on January 2 2009

 

 

A flooded farm near Itajai in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina
 

A flooded farm near Itajai in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina

 

 

Ntombi, a young female giraffe, waits in a container at Port Botany in  Sydney. Ntombi and a male giraffe called Forrest arrived in Sydney's Port Botany from Auckland Zoo on their way to Taronga Western Plains Zoo
 

Ntombi, a young female giraffe, waits in a container at Port Botany in Sydney. Ntombi and a male giraffe called Forrest arrived in Sydney's Port Botany from Auckland Zoo on their way to Taronga Western Plains Zoo

 

 

An Adelie penguin is seen near Commandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Station located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island
 

An Adelie penguin is seen near Commandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Station located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island

 

 

Amusement park employees dressed as Santa Claus ride a roller coaster at the Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea
 

Amusement park employees dressed as Santa Claus ride a roller coaster at the Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea

 

 

South Korean children wear Santa outfits for a year-end fund-raising campaign outside the main office of the Salvation Army in Seoul
 

South Korean children wear Santa outfits for a year-end fund-raising campaign outside the main office of the Salvation Army in Seoul

 

 

Mariachi musicians participate in an annual procession and Mass in honour of the Feast Day of St Cecilia, patron saint of music, in the Boyle Heights neighbourhood of Los Angeles
 

Mariachi musicians participate in an annual procession and Mass in honour of the Feast Day of St Cecilia, patron saint of music, in the Boyle Heights neighbourhood of Los Angeles

 

 

An elderly Nepalese Muslim pilgrim is pictured in Kathmandu before leaving for Saudi Arabia, for the Islamic annual Hajj pilgrimage
 

An elderly Nepalese Muslim pilgrim is pictured in Kathmandu before leaving for Saudi Arabia, for the Islamic annual Hajj pilgrimage

 

 

Thai riot police patrol inside Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok, after anti-government protesters besieged the airport
 

Thai riot police patrol inside Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok, after anti-government protesters besieged the airport

 

 

Factory workers overturn a police car during a protest outside Kaida toy factory in Dongguan,
 

Factory workers overturn a police car during a protest outside Kaida toy factory in Dongguan, China

 

 

A factory worker walks past an overturned police car outside Kaida toy factory in Dongguan, China
 

A factory worker walks past an overturned police car outside Kaida toy factory in Dongguan, China

 

 

The Longchang Apartments in Shanghai. The building is one of the protected cultural relics of Shanghai, where hundreds of impoverished families now live
 

The Longchang Apartments in Shanghai

 

 

A woman arranges gooseberries at a wholesale market in the northern Indian city of Allahabad
 

A woman arranges gooseberries at a wholesale market in the northern Indian city of Allahabad

 

 

An American toddler named Nicholas Holderman fell on his parents' car keys. One entered his eyelid and penetrated his brain. Surgeons removed the keys without damaging the eye or brain
 

An American toddler named Nicholas Holderman fell on his parents' car keys. One entered his eyelid and penetrated his brain. Surgeons removed the keys without damaging the eye or brain