• 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.

LA LIGA FIXTURES

Friday Athletic Bilbao v Celta Vigo (Kick-off midnight UAE)

Saturday Levante v Getafe (5pm), Sevilla v Real Madrid (7.15pm), Atletico Madrid v Real Valladolid (9.30pm), Cadiz v Barcelona (midnight)

Sunday Granada v Huesca (5pm), Osasuna v Real Betis (7.15pm), Villarreal v Elche (9.30pm), Alaves v Real Sociedad (midnight)

Monday Eibar v Valencia (midnight)

Classification of skills

A worker is categorised as skilled by the MOHRE based on nine levels given in the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) issued by the International Labour Organisation. 

A skilled worker would be someone at a professional level (levels 1 – 5) which includes managers, professionals, technicians and associate professionals, clerical support workers, and service and sales workers.

The worker must also have an attested educational certificate higher than secondary or an equivalent certification, and earn a monthly salary of at least Dh4,000. 

MATCH INFO

Asian Champions League, last 16, first leg:

Al Jazira 3 Persepolis 2

Second leg:

Monday, Azizi Stadium, Tehran. Kick off 7pm

Packages which the US Secret Service said contained possible explosive devices were sent to:

  • Former first lady Hillary Clinton
  • Former US president Barack Obama
  • Philanthropist and businessman George Soros
  • Former CIA director John Brennan at CNN's New York bureau
  • Former Attorney General Eric Holder (delivered to former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz)
  • California Congresswoman Maxine Waters (two devices)
MATCH INFO

Crawley Town 3 (Tsaroulla 50', Nadesan 53', Tunnicliffe 70')

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