A look at the best news photos from around the world.
November 16, 2020
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi onboard, Nov. 15, 2020, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Credit: NASA)
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Security forces guard the area before the crew of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket departs for the launch pad for the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Nov. 15, 2020.
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Carlo Gyselbrecht, co-owner of Pipa, a Belgian auction house for racing pigeons, shows a two-year old female pigeon named New Kim after an auction in Knesselare, Belgium. A pigeon racing fan has paid a world record 1.6 million euros for New Kim, in the once-quaint sport that seemed destined for near extinction only a few years back, people.
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Experts at the Observatoire Pelagis examine the dead body of a fin whale which was found stranded on a beach in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, France.