A look at the best photos from around the world.
Updated: February 17, 2017, 12:00 AM
World in focus — best photos for February 17, 2017
A boy and his dog beg for alms along a street in Manila, Philippines on February 16, 2017. Noel Celis / Agence France-Presse
Arnd Pfeiffer of Germany competes in the Men’s 20km Individual competition of the IBU World Championships Biathlon in Hochfilzen, Austria. Adam Pretty / Bongarts / Getty Images / February 17, 2017
US president Donald Trump hands coal miners the pen he used to sign a bill eliminating regulations on the mining industry in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC. The new law nullifies a rule from protecting streams. Nicholas Kamm / Agence France-Presse / February 16, 2017
Spectators watch as thousands of people of Miao ethnicity gather in circles to dance and play folk instruments known as lusheng at a public square in Zhouxi township in Kaili in southwestern China’s Guizhou province. The Lusheng festival is an annual festival and gathering for China’s Miao ethnic minority group. Chinatopix via AP / February 16, 2017
A woman walks next to a painting of former US president Barack Obama at the US-Mexico border fence in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora state, Mexico. Guillermo Arias / Agence France-Presse / February 15, 2017
Sadhu — or holy men — rest upon arrival for the upcoming Hindu festival Maha Shivaratri at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Hundreds of Sadhus from across the country and neighbouring India arrive to celebrate the birthday of lord Shiva, the god of creation and destruction which falls on February 24, 2017. Narendra Shrestha / EPA / February 17, 2017
Demonstrators try to cross a police barricade during a protest in Agartala, India, organised by India’s main opposition Congress party against demonetisation. Reuters / Jayanta Dey / February 17, 2017
Ayman Gharaibeh, UNHCR representative in Yemen, delivers a speech on the humanitarian situation in the country, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the United Nations, more than 7,400 people, including around 1,400 children, have been killed in two years of fighting in Yemen. Three million others have been displaced. Salvatore Di Nolfi / EPA / February 17, 2017