Pictures of the day: November 17, 2016

We look at 13 pictur­es from events around the world


Multimedia Desk November 17, 2016
Firefighters work after a fireworks-laden hot-air balloon ignited near a car before the balloon had reached a sufficient height during the closing ceremony of the Tazaungdaing Festival at Taunggyi, in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State. PHOTO: AFP

1_zkn_3_17-nov A Somali migrant fills a form outside the immigration office to cross Mexico and continue his journey to the US in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. PHOTO: REUTERS

2_zkn_4_17-nov Juan Pedro, 32, sits on a chair while waiting for paramedics to transport him to a hospital in Guadalajara, to undergo treatment in order to shed excess from his 500-kilo weight, in Aguascalientes, Mexico. PHOTO: REUTERS

3_zkn_5_17-nov Visitors look at " The Last Supper" Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece on a refectory wall of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. PHOTO: REUTERS

4_zkn_6_17-nov An employee assembles Father Frost toys, Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, at the "Biryusinka" toy factory, which has been producing decorations and toys for the festive season since 1942, in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. PHOTO: REUTERS

5_zkn_7_17-nov Boy stands in a pile of rubbish on landfile side on the outskirts of Sanaa. PHOTO: REUTERS

6_zkn_8_17-nov Tennis star Maria Sharapova (L) reacts as actor Patrick Dempsey tries to convince her to get into a Porsche 911 RSR race car at the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, US. PHOTO: REUTERS

7_zkn_9_17-nov A rocket is fired during military exercises in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. PHOTO: REUTERS

8_zkn_10_17-nov Staff work on the roof of the building of Japan Tobacco International (JTI) in Geneva, Switzerland. PHOTO: REUTERS

9_zkn_11_17-nov A woman wrapped in a blanket sits on a footpath as she waits for the bank to open to exchange her old high-denomination banknotes in the early hours, in the old quarters of Delhi, India. PHOTO: REUTERS

10_zkn_12_17-nov A woman is battered by a wave as he walks along the seafront in New Brighton, northern England. PHOTO: REUTERS

13_zkn_15_17-nov A man cleans the glasses of the vault of the Mexican stock exchange building on in Mexico City. PHOTO: AFP

14_zkn_16_17-nov School children look at a lifelike animatronics display of a dinosaur at the dinosaur-themed Zoo-rassic Park in Singapore. PHOTO: AFP

11_zkn_13_17-nov A man walks past the artwork "Infinity Head" by US street artist Mark Jenkins at the Cologne Fine Art fair, in Cologne, Germany. PHOTO: REUTERS

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