News in Pics, November 24: Best photos from around the world

Riot police stand in formation during a protest against racism, after Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas was beaten to death by security guards at a Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Credit: Reuters Photo

An Iranian woman rides a bicycle around the artificial Chitgar lake in the capital Tehran. The metropolis of over eight million at the foothills of the Alborz mountains is choked with vehicles running on subsidised fuel and has limited infrastructure for alternative modes of transportation. But its mayor believes trying to make a dent in the city's traffic and pollution problem by promoting a bike-sharing initiative is worth the effort. Credit: AFP Photo

Devotees light earthen lamps during 'Karthika Masam' in Hyderabad. Credit: PTI Photo

China on Tuesday launched an unmanned spacecraft to bring back lunar rocks -- the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the Moon in four decades. A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang'e-5 probe, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, blasted off from the Wenchang Space Center on the southern island province of Hainan. Credit: AFP Photo

Colombian cyclist, former soldier Juan Jose Florian, aka

Trucks are pictured behind burning waste on a road between Morocco and Mauritania in Guerguerat located in Western Sahara after the intervention of the royal Moroccan armed forces in the area. Morocco in early November accused the Polisario Front of blocking the key highway for trade with the rest of Africa and launched a military operation to reopen it. Credit: AFP Photo