A look at the best news photos from around the world.
November 7, 2017
![Igor Armicach, a doctoral student at Hebrew University's Arachnid Collection, looks at giant spider webs, spun by long-jawed spiders (Tetragnatha), covering sections of the vegetation along the Soreq Creek, near Jerusalem.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9CB9BA30-8964-4644-9FB8-9456B14A88FB_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Igor Armicach, a doctoral student at Hebrew University's Arachnid Collection, looks at giant spider webs, spun by long-jawed spiders (Tetragnatha), covering sections of the vegetation along the Soreq Creek, near Jerusalem.
![People gather and lay candles in the place where a man set himself on fire in an anti-government protest in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 6, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/F9213409-05A5-4713-9E80-33D26B8A289F_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People gather and lay candles in the place where a man set himself on fire in an anti-government protest in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 6, 2017.
![A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, is displayed at a Christie's auction room in London. The map is the first to name America, and it is expected to fetch 600,000 -900,000 UK pounds ($788,229-$1,182,344) when it is auctioned in London on Dec.13.](https://gdb.voanews.com/116CC3CA-9592-4C52-B4EA-7F75067D68C1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, is displayed at a Christie's auction room in London. The map is the first to name America, and it is expected to fetch 600,000 -900,000 UK pounds ($788,229-$1,182,344) when it is auctioned in London on Dec.13.