Honduran election, Kenyatta sworn in and Pope Francis in Myanmar — in pictures

Border watch North Korean soldiers on duty near the spot where a comrade defected to the south on November 13

Political baggage Angela Merkel and Julia Kloeckner, deputy leader of the Christian Democratic Union, settle in for a meeting at party headquarters in Berlin

Weekend warriors History enthusiasts re-enact an 1812 battle between Napoleonic and Russian forces near the village of Bryl in Belarus

High hopes Salvador Nasralla, a former sports presenter known as Mr Television who is standing as the Alliance Against the Dictatorship candidate in the Honduras presidential election, awaits the outcome of the poll

Up and away Los Angeles firefighters use a helicopter to take a horse trapped by wildfires in Deep Creek, San Bernardino County, to a ranch in rural Apple Valley

Crowd control Police fire tear gas to keep Kenyans from forcing their way into the Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi for the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta

Young guns Students from the General Yermolov Cadet School at exercises involving trench training and forest survival studies near Stavropol, Russia

Burmese days Pope Francis and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s state counsellor, arrive for a meeting with members of the civil society and diplomats in Naypyidaw, the capital

High notes Chris Wintle tunes some of the more than 3,000 pipes in the organ loft at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent in time for the Christmas services

Bombs away North Koreans cheer as Kim Jong Un orders the launch of the Hwasong-15 ballistic missile, which Pyongyang says puts all of the US in range

Into the void A rocket dropped on the eastern Ghouta district of Damascus, the Syrian capital, failed to detonate but made a hole in the ground

Volcano vents Mount Agung spews heavy volcanic ash in Karangasem, Bali, where Indonesian authorities have raised the state of alert to its highest level

Tyre pressure Israeli police remove Jewish settlers who barricaded themselves in an illegal structure built on private Palestinian land in Elazar, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank

Flare up Spanish taxi drivers in Madrid protest at what they say is unfair competition from ride-hailing operators such as Uber and Cabify

Thin blue line Members of an honour guard prepare to receive Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh president, who is visiting Alexander Lukashenko, his Belarus counterpart, in Minsk

Passage to safety Rohingya refugees aboard a raft are towed across the Naf river from Myanmar to Teknaf, in Bangladesh

Child labour A Philippine boy collects used plastic bottles to be sold at a junk shop at the Divisoria market in Manila

Vantage point Members of the Houthi community in Yemen climb a fence during a rally marking the birth of Mohammad in Sana’a, the capital

Favela patrol A soldier during a security operation at the Barbante community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after suspected drug traffickers destroyed a police post

Hand of God Diego Maradona pulls England out of the pot to be included in group G during the Fifa 2018 World Cup draw at The Kremlin, Moscow