The weekend in pictures

Salisbury: Choristers carry candles through Salisbury Cathedral during the annual 'darkness to light' advent procession Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Tata, Hungary: A skein of wild geese flies over Lake Öreg Photograph: Attila Kovacs/EPA

Bangkok, Thailand: A shocked woman sits inside a bus as it is attacked by anti-government protesters Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Eloy, US: 63 women successfully attempt to break the vertical formation skydiving world record after leaping from a height of 18,000 feet (5,486m) from three aircraft over the desert Photograph: Niklas Daniel/United States Parachute Association/Reuters

Ascot: Visitors at a sweet shop in LaplandUK, a Christmas theme park which opened on 30 November Photograph: Bethany Clarke/Getty Images

Hura, Israel: A policeman on horseback chases demonstrators during a protest against the Prawer Plan, an Israeli government plan to forcibly remove up to 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their historic land in the Negev desert Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

Athens, Greece: Supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party demonstrate outside parliament to demand the release of their deputies from prison Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

Glasgow: The wreckage of a police helicopter is removed from the Clutha Vaults bar after it crashed on the night of 29 November, killing eight people and injuring 12 others
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian

London: Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris trips Danny Welbeck of Manchester United and gives away a penalty during their Premier League fixture at White Hart Lane. The match ended in a 2-2 draw
Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

Kiev, Ukraine: A flare thrown by protesters lands on riot police guarding the presidential administration building. Pro-EU demonstrators clashed with police in protest against President Yanukovych's decision not to sign a free trade pact deal with Brussels Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

New York, US: Carriages from a Metro-North passenger train lie next to the track after it derailed in the Bronx, killing four and injuring 63 Photograph: Edwin Valero/AP