Today in Pictures, Nov 5, 2019

The body of the dead worker at the work site in Novena yesterday after the jib of a tower crane had failed, the clean-up of a crude oil spill in Brazil, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Nov 05, 2019, 12:25 PM

Police officers, with the body of the dead worker (foreground, covered by white sheet), at the work site in Novena yesterday. The Ministry of Manpower said the jib, or horizontal beam, of a tower crane had failed during a lifting operation. The police and MOM are investigating the incident. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

People stand under the installation "Visions in Motion" by artist Patrick Shearn and his studio Poetic Kinetics in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate on Nov 4, 2019. It is part of a week-long festival to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which took place on Nov 9, 1989. PHOTO: AFP

University students wear Guy Fawkes masks, popularised by the 'V For Vendetta' comic book film, before their graduation ceremony at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong on Nov 5, 2019. It marks a month after a colonial-era Emergency Regulations Ordinance to prohibit the use of face covering at protests came into effect, following its announcement by Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Oct 4. PHOTO: AFP

A volunteer shows his protective gloves encrusted with crude oil spilled at Praia de Busca Vida beach in Camacari, Bahia state, Brazil, during a clean up operation on Nov 3, 2019. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Sunday that "the worst is yet to come" with an oil spill that has affected more than 200 beaches on the country's coast. PHOTO: AFP

Foreign tourists wearing face masks visit the Taj Mahal under heavy smog conditions, in Agra, India on Nov 4, 2019. As smog levels exceeded those of Beijing by more than three times, authorities also parked a van with an air purifier near the Taj Mahal - the iconic 17th-century marble mausoleum 250 kilometres south of Delhi - in a bid to clean the air in its surrounds, the Press Trust of India reported. PHOTO: AFP

A Syrian man inspects the site of a car bomb explosion in the northern Syrian Kurdish town of Tal Abyad, on the border with Turkey, on Nov 2, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

Women take part in the desert trek "Rose Trip Maroc" on Nov 4, 2019 in the Erg Chebbi near Merzouga, Morocco. The Rose Trip Maroc is a female-oriented trek where teams of three must travel through the southern Moroccan Sahara desert with a compass, a map and a topographical reporter. PHOTO: AFP

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