Week in pictures: 6 - 12 November 2021

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launchesImage source, Thom Baur / Reuters
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida en route to the International Space Station.
Image source, Reuters
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Hundreds of migrants endure freezing conditions to camp on the Belarus-Poland border, in the hope of crossing into the EU.
Image source, Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
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People wait for relatives after the arrival of a British Airways flight at New York's JFK International Airport, as the first foreign travellers arrived at US airports for 20 months.
Image source, Amir Cohen / Reuters
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Migrating Great White pelicans gather at a water reservoir in Mishmar Hasharon, Israel.
Image source, Chamila Karunarthne / EPA-EFA
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A Sri Lankan boy walks his dog along a submerged road after heavy rainfall and flooding in a Colombo suburb, which has killed at least 25 people and forced thousands of others to move to safety.
Image source, Juan Ignacio / EPA-EFA
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People in Buenos Aires celebrated the city's 30th Pride Parade which, after the virtual edition of 2020, returned to the streets.
Image source, Oli Scarff / AFP
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A woman in costume poses for a photograph during the biannual Whitby Goth Weekend festival in northern England, which attracts thousands of visitors from the UK and around the world.
Image source, Munir uz zaman / AFP
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Devotees offer prayers at the Shri Shri Lokanath Brahmachari temple during the Hindu religious fasting festival of Rakher Upobash in Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
Image source, Brendon Thorne / Getty Images
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Poppies are projected on to the Sydney Opera House in Australia at first light to mark Remembrance Day on 11 November, marking 103 years since the Armistice that ended World War One.
Image source, Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
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Youth climate activists protest against fossil fuels outside the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

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