Week in pictures: Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2011

The week’s best photography from around the world

<p>A man drinks water on a mattress floating along a flooded street in central Bangkok, October 29, 2011. Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the prime minister said Saturday, but high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city&#8217;s flood defences. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)</p>

A man drinks water on a mattress floating along a flooded street in central Bangkok, October 29, 2011. Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the prime minister said Saturday, but high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city’s flood defences. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

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