News in Pics, November 17: Best photos from around the world

The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty on November 16, 2020 in New York City. Credit: AFP Photo

Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock hosts a remote press conference to update the nation on the Covid-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London. Credit: AFP Photo

A man and his son use a smartphone in an interactive multimedia installation that connects Singapore and Japan in a time of separation, in Tokyo. Credit: AFP Photo

Berlin's mayor Michael Mueller, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder make there way to a news conference on the coronavirus following video consultations with the premiers of Germany's 16 federal states at Chancellery in Berlin. Credit: AFP Photo

Winemaker Simon Day poses for a photograph at Haygrove Evolution's Sixteen Ridges Winery in Ledbury, west of England. Credit: AFP Photo

A man swims near a section of the Palm Jumeirah monorail in Dubai on November 16, 2020, backdropped by the Atlantis Hotel. Credit: AFP Photo

A member of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz DRK explains a testing kit at the KVBB (Kassenaerztliche Vereinigung Berlin Brandenburg) Corona testing station inside the Metropolis at the film park Babelsberg in Potsdam, Eastern Germany. Credit: AFP Photo

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman interacts with the Directors and Deputy Secretaries of the Budget Division in New Delhi. Credit: PTI Photo