World in focus - best photos for October 15, 2019

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

A train drives across the bed of a drained area of the Sasyk-Sivash lake used for the production of salt near the city of Yevpatoria, Crimea. Reuters

A woman looks at flood-damaged homes in Nagano after Typhoon Hagibis. AFP

A villager crosses a field before the rain outside Moscow. AFP

Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects on the eve of the birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas at the illuminated Golden Temple in Amritsar. AFP

Protesters face police officers as they demonstrate at the airport, after a verdict in a trial over a banned independence referendum, in Barcelona, Spain. Reuters

A woman surrounded by candles and designs drawn on the ground with white powder lies with her eyes closed during a spiritual ceremony on Sorte Mountain where followers of indigenous goddess Maria Lionza gather annually in Venezuela's Yaracuy state. AP

A Team member from the Stanford Solar Car Project of the USA looks at the setting moon on the morning of Day 3 of the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge at Devils Marbles in Australia. Getty

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends the State Opening of Parliament in the Houses of Parliament in London. AFP

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