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It's a sombre day on social media as people mark #ArmisticeDay. Twitter users in the Middle East are asking if US protests are heralding an "American Spring" and we scrutinise the body language of Donald Trump and Barack Obama after their first meeting
Death shall have no dominion
It's not just Britain but many around the world who are marking Remembrance Day today.
French senator Joelle Garriaud-Maylam posted an image of poppies and cornflowers "to symbolize the mixed blood and the sacrifice of the soldiers who died for our freedoms". "Forget Trump for two seconds, return to France and remember that today is the armistice," said another French tweet.
Museums have showcased some fascinating items from their collections to mark the day.
In New Zealand, the national Te Papa museum posted a picture of a 1916 doll made from a chicken wishbone and fabric scraps - a way one woman remembered her fiance. The Australian History Museum has a drawing of a dugout at Somme from a diary kept by a Private McGregor and the UK's Colchester Museum featured a box of dominoes made by French prisoners during the Napoleonic war.
Allies in the animal kingdom have been remembered as well:
Is this the 'American Spring'?
Twitter users in the Middle East having been drawing parallels between demonstrations taking place across the US following Donald Trump's election win and the Arab Spring - a series of uprisings in the Middle East that began in 2011.
The hashtag #protests_sweep_America has been used almost 45,000 times today, with many opining America was having a taste of some of the destruction it had wreaked in the region.
"And the American Spring has begun..!! Oh God, make them drink from the same cup," said one user.
"You destroyed Muslim countries and here you are destroying yourselves," tweeted another.
A third posted a picture of a police car with smashed windows and asked sarcastically: "Where are the so-called human rights? Where's the freedom?"
Looking 'like two kids'
The first meeting between US President Barack Obama and his soon-to-be successor Donald Trump has been minutely scrutinised on social media.
People have used different pictures from the much-photographed press conference afterward to project their interpretations of how each was feeling.
To some, a second when Trump smiled and Obama looked sombre, it was "that look when you realize you're sitting at a table without leverage".Others thought Obama's frowning face "is all of America right now".
But by far the most popular interpretation was that: "Obama and Trump both look like two kids who's [sic] mothers forced them to apologize to each other."
If you want a better idea of how they behaved throughout the press conference though, and how misleading a single photograph can be, watch the whole video here.
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