Photos of the week: Dubai Canal opens, Anti-Trump protests in the US, UK royals visit UAE

Laser lights, projections and fireworks lit up the Dubai skies as the Dhs2.7bn ($730m) Canal project was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Dubai’s Ruler on November 9, 2016. The 3.2 kilometre man-made canal links Business Bay with the Arabian Gulf, and has turned areas of Dubai including Satwa, Downtown, Zabeel, Oud Metha, Karama and Bur Dubai into one huge island. Photo credit: Dubai Media Office twitter.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, received HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, at his palace in Zabeel on November 8, 2016. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were in the UAE for a three-day tour to further strengthen relations between the UK and the UAE, as part of a larger regional tour, which also includes engagements in Bahrain and Oman as well. Photo credit: HH Sheikh Mohammed twitter

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shakes hands with his vice-president Mike Pence while flanked by members of his family and speaking to supporters during election night at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York on November 9, 2016. Photo credit: Getty Images

Thousands of anti-Donald Trump protesters shut down 5th Avenue in front of Trump Tower as New Yorkers react to the election of Trump as president of the United States on November 9, 2016 in New York City. Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in an upset to become the 45th president. Photo credit: Getty Images

A picture taken on November 9, 2016 shows a large printed photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hanging outside a door leading to a recreation of the small bedroom where he spent his final years at the new Arafat Museum in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The new Arafat Museum opens to the public in Ramallah on November 10, 2016, coinciding with the 12th anniversary of his passing. Photo credit: Getty Images

Indian residents exchange 500INR notes for coins at a roadside moneychanger, who charges 100INR per transaction, in Allahabad on November 9, 2016. India’s government tried to quell the panic caused by a bombshell decision to withdraw 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation, which left millions of people stranded without cash. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the notes would no longer be legal tender in a blitz against ‘black money’, his finance minister said replacement 500 and 2,000 rupee bills would be available from November 10 and only tax dodgers stood to lose out from the move. Photo credit: Getty Images

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