Week in pictures: 4 - 10 November 2017
Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
A wax figure of British Prime Minister Theresa May has the finishing touches applied at Madame Tussauds, ahead of its unveiling to the public.
Men in traditional Chinese dress stand at the World Travel Market event in London in order to promote tourism to the Shaanxi region of China.
Sandra, a 42-year-old elephant, paints with her trunk in a Hungarian travelling circus in Budapest.
Joyce Mires leaves flowers at a memorial where 26 crosses were placed to honour the 26 victims killed at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas. On 5 November, Devin Patrick Kelley shot and killed the people when he opened fire during Sunday service at the church
A woman takes a selfie with an image of Vladimir Lenin at Independence Square in Minsk, as people gathered to mark Revolution Day, the official public holiday commemorating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
During an experiment at the University of Cambridge, which was reported this week, a sheep approaches an image of Barak Obama in order to demonstrate its ability to recognise familiar human faces
A Houthi follower emerges from a gap in a flag as he attends a rally to show support to the Palestinians in Sanaa, Yemen.
A woman holds a banner saying "freedom for politicians" as crowds gather at Saint James's Square, Barcelona to protest against the imprisonment of pro-Catalonia independence leaders.
Hubaib, a three-month-old Rohingya refugee boy, cries in a swing inside his shelter in Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. 
Racehorses train at sunrise at Middleham Park Racing ground, North Yorkshire.
