• Dancers perform during the annual Miss Venezuela beauty pageant, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo / Matias Delacroix)
    Dancers perform during the annual Miss Venezuela beauty pageant, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo / Matias Delacroix)
  • Parts of the central business district under water at Forbes, New South Wales, Australia. EPA
    Parts of the central business district under water at Forbes, New South Wales, Australia. EPA
  • The 'Jardin des Plantes' outside the Museum of Natural History during the 'Illumination Mini Monde' (Small World Illumination) exhibition in Paris, France. EPA
    The 'Jardin des Plantes' outside the Museum of Natural History during the 'Illumination Mini Monde' (Small World Illumination) exhibition in Paris, France. EPA
  • Nasa's next-generation Moon rocket, the Space Launch System with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, seen from Sebastian, Florida. Reuters
    Nasa's next-generation Moon rocket, the Space Launch System with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, seen from Sebastian, Florida. Reuters
  • The Villaggio Mall at the Aspire Zone ahead of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Doha, Qatar. Getty Images
    The Villaggio Mall at the Aspire Zone ahead of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Doha, Qatar. Getty Images
  • French gendarmes escort migrants queuing to board buses for temporary shelter during the evacuation of their makeshift camp that housed hundreds, mostly Afghan, in Paris. AFP
    French gendarmes escort migrants queuing to board buses for temporary shelter during the evacuation of their makeshift camp that housed hundreds, mostly Afghan, in Paris. AFP
  • A woman adds a handwritten note to a display as prayers take place at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple for the success of children who at the same time were sitting the annual nine-hour college entrance exam in Seoul. South Korea closed its airspace to ensure silence and offered police escorts for tardy test takers on November 17 as more than half a million pupils sat high-stakes college admission exams. AFP
    A woman adds a handwritten note to a display as prayers take place at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple for the success of children who at the same time were sitting the annual nine-hour college entrance exam in Seoul. South Korea closed its airspace to ensure silence and offered police escorts for tardy test takers on November 17 as more than half a million pupils sat high-stakes college admission exams. AFP
  • A migrant camp on the banks of the Rio Bravo river (or Rio Grande as it is known in the US) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A US federal judge on November 15 ruled that the government could not use public health rules to block the entry of asylum-seeking migrants, the apparent end of a controversial Donald Trump-era policy criticised as cruel and ineffective. AFP
    A migrant camp on the banks of the Rio Bravo river (or Rio Grande as it is known in the US) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A US federal judge on November 15 ruled that the government could not use public health rules to block the entry of asylum-seeking migrants, the apparent end of a controversial Donald Trump-era policy criticised as cruel and ineffective. AFP
  • A farmer tending to a crop of finger millet on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India. AFP
    A farmer tending to a crop of finger millet on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India. AFP
  • An undated image from Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared camera shows the Protostar within the dark cloud L1527 with ejections from the star above and below appearing orange and blue in infrared view. Photo: Nasa
    An undated image from Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared camera shows the Protostar within the dark cloud L1527 with ejections from the star above and below appearing orange and blue in infrared view. Photo: Nasa

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Today's best photos: from Miss Venezuela to James Webb telescope

'The National' picks the most striking images from around the world

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November 17, 2022

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Updated: November 17, 2022, 5:28 PM
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