Today in Pictures: Nov. 30, 2011

Cambodians work late into the night recycling garbage as fires burn at the local garbage dump, Nov. 30, 2011 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many children work part time in the dump to help support their families while attending school during the day. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

 

A fireman looks down while escalating on a fire ladder at the scene of a burning residential tower in Hong Kong, Nov. 30, 2011. The fire engulfed a Hong Kong residential tower in the Mongkok area of Kowloon, killing eight people and injuring 24, police said. (Aaron Tam/Getty Images)

 

A man pushes goods past protective blast walls in front of a church, Nov. 30, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq is transitioning as the U.S. military continues its withdrawal from the country by the end of December following the war that began in 2003. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

 

Election officials count ballots for the parliamentary elections in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 30, 2011. Egypt’s military rulers are taking credit for the strong turnout in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the head of the election commission proclaims that the turnout so far is ‘massive and unexpected. (Amr Nabil/AP Photo)

 

Protesters against public sector pension cuts march in support of a public sector strike in London, Nov. 30, 2011. Up to two million public sector workers in Britain went on strike over changes to their pensions, after the government responded to slashed growth forecasts with fresh spending cuts. (Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)

 

Indian police personnel talk to an injured person at the bomb blast site in Imphal, the capital city of India’s northeastern state of Manipur, Nov. 30, 2011. A bomb in Manipur killed a man suspected of planting the explosives, police said, days ahead of a visit by the prime minister. (AFP/Getty Images)

 

Anti-Wall Street demonstrators take to the streets prior to being raided by police near City Hall in downtown Los Angeles, California, Nov. 30, 2011 as Occupy LA protesters await an eviction raid from police officers. Hundreds of riot police flooded into downtown Los Angeles to clear anti-Wall Street protest camps in mostly peaceful operations that saw dozens arrested. (Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/AFP/Getty Images)

Afghan child Abdul Wahid, 10, waits for customers as he sells balloons at a cemetery in Kabul, Nov. 30, 2011. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor with the lowest standards in the world. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

 

Nepalese people light candles in the shape of the red ribbon, the universal symbol of awareness and support for those living with HIV, in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011. World AIDS Day will be marked across the world on Dec. 1. (AP Photo/Niranajan Shrestha)