World in focus — best photos for November 18, 2016

Choristers from Winchester Cathedral don skates to try out the recently installed artificial ice rink beside the cathedral which opened on November 18, 2016 in Winchester, England. The opening of the ice rink coincides with the opening of the cathedral’s Christmas market. Matt Cardy / Getty Images

Tony Quinn of Australia lands after a jump in his BMW M3 car on November 18, 2016, during the first day of the World Rally Championship event, the Rally of Australia, in Coffs Harbour. William West / Agence France-Presse

Dubai Spartan Race competitors make their way across dunes in Sharjah, UAE, on November 18, 2016. Francois Nel /Getty Images

Families of miners await news as rescue workers search for trapped miners on November 18, 2016, at an accident site in Siirt, Turkey. Thirteen miners were trapped after the collapse of a copper mine on Thursday. Three deaths had been confirmed. Ilyas Akengin / Agence France-Presse

Fans watch the Pokemon Go virtual-reality game mascot Pikachu take part in a parade on November 18, 2016, during year-end events at the Changi International airport terminal in Singapore. Roslan Rahman / Agence France-Presse

A Tibetan Buddhist, wearing traditional attire, dances while welcoming the Rinpoche, an honorific religious teacher, for the purification ceremony of Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal on November 18, 2016. A three-day purification ceremony has been organised to purify Boudhanath Stupa, which was damaged in the 2015 earthquake, after the completion of its reconstruction. The Stupa will officially open to the public on November 22. Niranjan Shrestha / Associated Press

An injured man on November 18, 2016, sits amid the damage at a site hit by air strikes the day before in the rebel held Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters

A soldier is lowered from a helicopter to practice rescuing a person in the water during a joint rescue operation in the US-China disaster management exchange in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China on November 18, 2016. It was part of joint drill held between the two countries’ militaries. Andy Wong / Associated Press

An Indian naval officer stands in front of an indigenous rocket launcher on November 18 2016, during a media preview of the Indian naval ship INS Chennai, before its commissioning to the Indian navy, at the dockyard in Mumbai, India. The INS Chennai is the reportedly the third and last ship of the Kolkata-class (Project 15A) guided missile destroyers. Divyakant Solanki / EPA

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