Pictures in the News | November 11, 2015

A man visits the Vietnam Memorial Wall on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Actor Will Smith posed for photos and signed autographs for fans lined along Hollywood Boulevard, before the premiere of his new film, “Concussion,” at AFI FEST 2015 at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, in Hollywood.

A model gets ready in the backstage for the Victoria’s Secret 2015 fashion show in New York.

Activitsts protest in the LAPD lobby after getting kicked out of the L.A. Police Commission meeting in downtown Los Angeles.

Workers rally outside Los Angeles City Hall to press demands for a minimum wage of $15 per hour.

Duesseldorf’s main carnival character, the “Hoppeditz,” talks to the fools to open the carnival season in Duesseldorf, Germany.

Slovenian soldiers build a razor wire fence on the Slovenian-Croatian border in northeastern Slovenia. Slovenia’s army began on November 11 rolling out razor wire along the border with Croatia, in a move billed by the government as designed to better manage the influx of migrants.

Thousands of protesters marched coffins containing the decapitated bodies of seven Shiite Hazaras through the Afghan capital to demand justice for the gruesome beheadings, which prompted fears of sectarian bloodshed in the war-torn country.

A tourist shops at a souvenirs store in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. Usually buzzing with foreigners on a leisurely holiday, Sharm el-Sheikh’s night-time tourist spots have turned into deserted squares after thousands left the Egyptian resort following the crash of a Russian airliner.

A protester wearing a mask of the anonymous movement takes part in confrontations between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli security forces at the entrance of the Palestinian town of al-Bireh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Pakistani street performers sit around fire waiting for customers on a chilly evening in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Some parts of Pakistan are facing a harsh winter.

A confiscated female orangutan smuggled from Indonesia looks out from a cage before being sent back home to Indonesia, at Khao Pratupchang Wildlife Breeding Center in Thailand. Thailand will return fourteen smuggled orangutans to Indonesia after Thai authorities found them in 2010 by a roadside in Phuket province, apparently on their way to a private zoo.

Guatemala issued an orange alert over increasing eruptions from the country’s southeastern Fuego volcano and ordered the evacuation of a nearby hotel. The 12,346-foot high colossus -- whose name means “fire” in Spanish -- showed heightened activity overnight, sending columns of ash high into the sky, spilling lava down its side and provoking small tremors.