• Boys watch men digging a grave for 15-year-old Ziad Rihani, who was killed during shelling, ahead of his burial in a graveyard in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
    Boys watch men digging a grave for 15-year-old Ziad Rihani, who was killed during shelling, ahead of his burial in a graveyard in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
  • People watch the moon rise behind Coronado Heights near Lindsborg, Kansas. The brightest moon in almost 69 years is lighting up the sky in a treat for star watchers around the globe. Travis Heying / The Wichita Eagle via AP
    People watch the moon rise behind Coronado Heights near Lindsborg, Kansas. The brightest moon in almost 69 years is lighting up the sky in a treat for star watchers around the globe. Travis Heying / The Wichita Eagle via AP
  • A worker moulds rubber masks depicting President-elect Donald Trump on a production line at the Ogawa Studio in Saitama, north of Tokyo. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of rubber masks in Japan, is working non-stop to catch up with a flood of orders for Trump masks since his election victory one week ago. The 23 staff are trying to produce 350 likenesses of Trump a day, up from 45 before the US election, factory executive manager Takahiro Yagihara said. Eugene Hoshiko / AP Photo
    A worker moulds rubber masks depicting President-elect Donald Trump on a production line at the Ogawa Studio in Saitama, north of Tokyo. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of rubber masks in Japan, is working non-stop to catch up with a flood of orders for Trump masks since his election victory one week ago. The 23 staff are trying to produce 350 likenesses of Trump a day, up from 45 before the US election, factory executive manager Takahiro Yagihara said. Eugene Hoshiko / AP Photo
  • A car ‘crashed’ into the ground at Hackescher Markt in Berlin, Germany, ahead of the launch of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s new show, The Grand Tour, on Amazon Prime Video. Clemens Bilan / Getty Images for Amazon Prime Video
    A car ‘crashed’ into the ground at Hackescher Markt in Berlin, Germany, ahead of the launch of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s new show, The Grand Tour, on Amazon Prime Video. Clemens Bilan / Getty Images for Amazon Prime Video
  • Poland’s Bartosz Bereszynski, right, vies for the ball with Slovenia’s Miha Zajc during the international friendly football match Poland versus Slovenia in Wroclaw. AFP
    Poland’s Bartosz Bereszynski, right, vies for the ball with Slovenia’s Miha Zajc during the international friendly football match Poland versus Slovenia in Wroclaw. AFP
  • People release thousands of paper lanterns to mark the annual Yi Peng festival in the popular tourist city of Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. AFP
    People release thousands of paper lanterns to mark the annual Yi Peng festival in the popular tourist city of Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. AFP
  • An Iraqi barber cuts the hair of a young boy while other children watch, inside the al-Khazer camp for internally displaced people who fled the fighting around Mosul. AFP
    An Iraqi barber cuts the hair of a young boy while other children watch, inside the al-Khazer camp for internally displaced people who fled the fighting around Mosul. AFP
  • A full moon is seen through Christmas tree illuminations in Sapporo, northern Japan. Kyodo / via Reuters
    A full moon is seen through Christmas tree illuminations in Sapporo, northern Japan. Kyodo / via Reuters

World in focus – best photos for November 15, 2016


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A look at the best photos from around the world.