A look at the best news photos from around the world.
November 19, 2014
![Snowdrifts create a beautiful setting as a man tries to dig out his driveway on Bowen Road in Lancaster, New York. A lake-effect snow storm dumped 1.5 meters of snow in areas across western New York. Nearly another meter of snow is expected to fall in the area, bringing almost a years' worth of snow in three days.](https://gdb.voanews.com/724322c4-95be-4aa2-913e-e26ebc75bb7b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Snowdrifts create a beautiful setting as a man tries to dig out his driveway on Bowen Road in Lancaster, New York. A lake-effect snow storm dumped 1.5 meters of snow in areas across western New York. Nearly another meter of snow is expected to fall in the area, bringing almost a years' worth of snow in three days.
![Students take down security barriers placed by British police on Parliament Square during a protest against university tuition fees in London.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c5e04254-dc57-43cb-b41e-3ceb2d0c969a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Students take down security barriers placed by British police on Parliament Square during a protest against university tuition fees in London.
![A Syrian Kurdish refugee woman from the Kobani area holds a baby at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been attacked by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters.](https://gdb.voanews.com/be03179d-c111-4c5c-a13d-ca028c691da8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Syrian Kurdish refugee woman from the Kobani area holds a baby at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been attacked by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters.
![Pakistani children, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, play cricket in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/586a4f4c-309a-4175-bf80-a5c628de2b85_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pakistani children, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, play cricket in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.