Settembre 01, 2015
1 First graders take part in a ceremony to mark the start of a school year in Kyic, Ukraine.
2 A woman salvages a mattress from a pile of furniture left in a street of the popular downtown district of Hillbrow, South Africa, following an eviction of an occupied building.
3 Indonesian trade union supporters march towards the Presidential Palace in Jakarta to protest against job cuts and call for higher wages.
4 Earth's thin atmosphere stands out against the blackness of space in this photo shared by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly on board the International Space Station.
5 The TePee wildfire is seen burning at the Manning Bridge as it crosses the Salmon River near Riggins, Idaho, in this U.S. Forest Service picture taken Aug. 29, 2015. An 18-mile (29-km) portion of the Salmon River east of the Oregon border was closed to boating and fishing due to the Tepee Springs fire, which has charred more than 78,000 acres (316 square km) of the Payette National Forest and surrounding timber.
6 This combination of two satellite images provided by UNITAR-UNOSAT shows before (below) and after (top) a massive explosion was set off near the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, occupied by Islamic State militants.
7 A woman swims with a dog in the waters of the Yenisei River in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Aug. 31, 2015.
8 Police arrest a Hindu activist as demonstrators try to break through to a cordoned-off area near parliament in Kathmandu during a protest demanding that Nepal be declared a Hindu state.
9 Bibi rides her bike on the Playa during the Burning Man 2015 "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, USA, Aug. 31, 2015. Approximately 70,000 people from all over the world are gathering at the sold-out festival to spend a week in the remote desert to experience art, music and the unique community that develops.
10 Austin Cable rides past an art installation during the Burning Man 2015 "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, USA, Aug. 31, 2015.
Settembre 02, 2015
1 Vietnamese school children perform dances during a military parade in Hanoi, to mark the 70th anniversary of independence from France.
2 Activists of a trade union group stop motorcyclists to keep vehicles off the road during a daylong nationwide strike in the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar. Ten central trade unions staged a protest against changes in labor laws and privatisation of Public Sector Undertaking’s (PSU) by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
3 A woman sells an ice cream in the shape of executed Japanese war criminal Hideki Tojo at an ice cream store in Shanghai, China, to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
4 Migrants crowd the deck of the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship sailing along the Mediterranean sea. The Siem Pilot is carrying hundreds of migrants rescued in several operations in the Mediterranean sea, to the Italian Port of Cagliari.
5 The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-18M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Russian rocket carries Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Aydyn Aimbetov, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Denmark's astronaut Andreas Mogensen.
6 Local and government conservationists remove a rescued female orangutan in a palm oil plantation in Batang Serangan district, Langkat, North Sumatra province in this photo taken by Antara Foto, Sept. 1, 2015.
7 A man climbs on a road sign pole to escape the water from a tidal bore which surged past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept. 1, 2015.
8 An undated handout photo from the RSPCA shows a giant woolly sheep on the outskirts of Canberra as Australian animal welfare officers put out an urgent appeal for shearers after finding the sheep with wool so overgrown its life was in danger.
9 More than 700 new French police officers stand at attention during a ceremony at the Police Prefecture in Paris.
10 London's skyscraper, nicknamed the Walkie Talkie, has won the annual Carbuncle Cup, awarded to a building judged to be the UK's worst.
Settembre 03, 2015
1 Children dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna wait to participate in a fancy dress competition at a temple in Chandigarh, India.
2 Handout photos (bottom) released 5 from the RSPCA shows the 40.45 kilos of wool shorn off a giant woolly sheep being weighed in the outskirts of Canberra a day after Australian animal welfare officers put out an urgent appeal for shearers after finding the sheep with wool so overgrown its life was in danger. The heavily overgrown sheep had its massive fleece removed by by Australian Shearers' Hall of Famer Ian Elkins in a 42-minute process that he said was "certainly a challenge".
3 Protester Kayla Marks of Hollywood, FLorida, holds a sign before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met with Jewish community leaders at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie, Florida, USA. Biden tried to reassure Jewish leaders in south Florida that President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran would be a vital step toward making the world a safer place.
4 Birds are released at the end of the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing, China.
5 Chinese military medics take part in a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing.
6 An Indian Nihang, a religious Sikh warrior, deomonstrates Sikh martial arts skills known as 'Gatka' during a march to mark the 354th birth anniversary of the Sikh warrior Shaheed Baba Jiwan Singh at the Golden temple in Amritsar.
7 An Afghan boy walks in front of street art on a barrier wall of the NDS (National Directorate of Security) in Kabul.
8 U.S. President Barack Obama performs a traditional Yup'ik dance at a school in Dillingham, Alaska Sept. 2, 2015.
9 A woman looks at the painting 'Composition with lines and colour' by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian during a press preview of an exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin, Germany.
10 An aerial view of Burning Man 2015 "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, USA, Sept. 2, 2015.
11 A store employee walks past other staff members dressed as Stormtrooper and Death Star Gunner (R) from the film "Star Wars" before launching the film's new toys at Loft Variety Store in Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo, Japan.
12 A black cap capuchin monkey plays with some food in its enclosure at the Olmense Zoo in Olmen, Belgium, Sept. 2, 2015.
13 A surfer at Surf Snowdonia in Conwy, North Wales, Australia
14 An Israeli Antiquities Authority employee cleans an 1,800-year-old stone sarcophagus from the Roman Period at the storage of the National Treasures in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Workers found the sarcophagus at a building site.
15 Smartphones of the electronic company Samsung are displayed after a press conference at the company's stand at the IFA 2015 tech fair in Berlin, Germany.
Settembre 04, 2015
1 Indian artist Sudarsan Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture depicting drowned Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, 3, at Puri beach, some 65 kilometers away from Bhubaneswar. Photos of the child's lifeless body, lying on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey, have triggered a wave of emotion across the continent, despite deep divisions among European governments on how to deal with the crisis.
2 A rose is placed a the Kindertransport memorial outside of Liverpool Street Station in London. The statue is dedicated to remembering the effort by the U.K. prior to the outbreak of the World War II in taking in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children. PM David Cameron says Britain will welcome "thousands more" Syrian refugees, after an outpouring of emotion over the image of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach put him under pressure to act.
3 A protester uses his cellphone to take a photo during a demonstration against the poor quality of basic services, power outages and calling for trial of corrupt politicians in Baghdad, Iraq.
4 A girl (C) holds up a portrait of actor Johnny Depp in front of the entrance of the venue of the 72nd Venice Film Festival, northern Italy. Depp attended the red carpet event for the movie "Black Mass."
5 Supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) carry flags during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon. Thousands rallied to support a leading Christian politician's call for a presidential election, in the midst of a political crisis that has paralyzed the government and parliament.
6 A supporter of Leopoldo Lopez shouts "Freedom for Leopoldo" while holding a poster outside court in Caracas, Venezuela. The 19-month trial of the opposition leader is coming to a close as the imprisoned politician prepares to give his final remarks in a closed courtroom.
7 Guests take cover from the rain under umbrellas as they walk through a labyrinth of 125,000 sunflowers, to mark the opening of the new entrance to the Van Gogh museum and the 125th anniversary of the Dutch master's death in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
8 A worker hangs a banner with an image of former Greek prime minister and leader of leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras at the party's pre-election kiosk in Athens. Greece's conservative New Democracy party has taken a tiny lead among voters over leftist Syriza before the Sept. 20 election, an opinion poll shows.
9 Rowers warm up in early morning fog during the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, French Alps.
10 A woman dressed as the character Darth Maul attends the rollout of products in advance of the film "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" on "Force Friday" in Sao Paulo, Brazil. New "Star Wars" toys and other merchandise were released in stores across Sao Paulo during a global rollout of the popular products.
11 A Bahraini man rides his donkey cart as he competes in a local race in the village of Saar, West of the capital Manama.
12 Maia, 9, waits before performing in a music and dance performance by Romanian ethnic Russians in Bucharest, Romania. The multicultural international festival showcases traditional cuisine, clothing and arts taken from countries with diplomatic missions to the country.
Settembre 06, 2015
1 A serviceman of the 44th Artillery Brigade embraces his wife and child at a railway station in Kyiv after returning from the front line in the Eastern regions of Ukraine.
2 A German border police woman at the railway station of the airport in Frankfurt reacts after dozens of migrants unexpectedly disembarked a train that departed from Budapest's Keleti station.
3 People hold placards reading "Peace" and "Peace Bloc" gather for a meeting organized by the Peace Bloc to call for peace, in Istanbul, Turkey.
4 Yonif 700/Raider soldiers descend from a helicopter using a rope during a counter-terrorism drill at the University of Hasanuddin in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indoensia, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
5 Rowers warm up in the morning during the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France.
6 Villagers and military personnel contain a wildfire on a field in Rimbo Panjang, Riau province, Indonesia. Wildfires caused by illegal land clearing on Sumatra and Borneo islands often spread choking haze into neighboring countries.Â
7 Colored curd spills as Indian youth breaks the "Dahi handi," an earthen pot filled with curd hanging above, an integral part of celebrations to mark Janmashtami festival in Mumbai The festival marks the birth of Hindu god Krishna and the act seeks to reenact the story of Lord Krishna stealing butter during his childhood.
8 Indian youth form a human pyramid to break the "Dahi handi," an earthen pot filled with curd hanging above, to mark Janmashtami festival in Mumbai.Â
9 Filipino children play on a retired McDonnell Douglas DC-9 plane, which was placed on a vacant lot near their homes in suburban Paranaque city, south of Manila, tge Philippines.
10 England's Wayne Rooney (R) covers himself during the Euro 2016 qualifying soccer match against San Marino at the Olympic stadium in Serravalle, San Marino, Sept. 5, 2015.
Settembre 07, 2015
1 Eggs are thrown at policemen as farmers and dairy farmers from all over Europe take part in a demonstration, calling for more help with low prices and high costs, outside an emergency meeting of European Union farm ministers at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
2 Syrian children walk amid the dust during a sandstorm at a refugee camp on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek.
3 A wax work model of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is prepared at Madame Tussauds in London.
4 A member of the Pokrov youth military-patriotic club crushes a pile of bricks with a hammer on the stomach of a comrade as they demostrate their skills at Siberian Venice Park outside the Siberian town of Sosnovoborsk, Russia, Sept. 6, 2015.
5 Syrian refugees react as they arrive on the island of Lesbos, Greece, after crossing aboard a dinghy from Turkey.
6 The bride Dilges Baskin, her face covered by a scarf with yellow-red-green Kurdish colors, gets in her wedding car in Yuksekova in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern Hakkari province of Turkey, Sept. 6, 2015.
7 Bystanders look at a car that has partially fallen into a sinkhole on a street in Beijing, China, Sept. 6, 2015.
8 Jose, a reveler covered in grease, poses for a photo as he takes part in the annual Cascamorras festival in Baza, southern Spain, Sept. 6, 2015. The festival was inspired by a dispute between the town of Baza and Guadix over the possession of an icon of the Virgin of Piedad.
9 Aliya Assymova of Kazakhstan performs with the ball in the individual qualifications at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany.
Settembre 08, 2015
1 Balloons are released during a celebration event at the Potala Palace marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.
2 This composite image made from five frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of nine onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly 5 miles per second, seen from Shenandoah National Park, Front Royal, Virginia, USA, Sept. 6, 2015.
3 A pedestrian walks with a covered face during a sandstorm in Jerusalem. A heavy sandstorm swept across parts of the Middle East, killing two people and hospitalising hundreds in Lebanon and disrupting fighting and airstrikes in neighboring Syria.
4 Bangladeshis watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match between Jordan and Bangladesh, from a building in Dhaka.
5 A National League for Democracy (NLD) member pastes an NLD sticker in front of a voter's home as the party campaigns for the upcoming Nov. 8 general election, in Yangon, Myanmar.
6 The orange sky of sunrise is captured behind the skyline of Washington on the first day back to work for members of the U.S. Congress after their summer recess.
7 An Indonesian soldier uses swimming goggles to protect his eyes from smoke while helping to fight a fire in a peatland forest area in Parit Indah Village, Kampar, Riau province, Indonesia.
8 Colorado Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado (28) leaps into the stands but cannot reach a foul ball hit by San Diego Padres’ Wil Myers during the sixth inning of a baseball game in San Diego, California, Sept. 7, 2015.
Settembre 09, 2015
1 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets well-wishers before she unveils a commemorative plaque at Newtongrange railway station in the village of Midlothian on the day she becomes Britain's longest reigning monarch.
2 Palestinian school children ride a rickshaw during a sandstorm in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. A dense sandstorm engulfing parts of the Middle East left at least eight people dead and hundreds suffering from respiratory problems, as officials warned residents to stay indoors.
3 Combination picture (L to R) shows a migrant carrying a child tripping on TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo and falling while trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke village, Hungary, Sept. 8, 2015. Laszlo, a camerawoman for a private television channel in Hungary, was fired after videos of her kicking and tripping up migrants fleeing police, including a man carrying a child, spread in the media and on the internet.
4 The media stand behind a line of police officers as a foreign suspect in the August 17 Erawan shrine bombing, identified by the ruling junta as Yusufu Mieraili (not pictured), gets out of a police van during a reenactment with police officers nearby the Erawan shrine (not pictured) in Bangkok, Thailand.
5 Thousands of Ukrainian servicemen and civilians lay flowers in front of the parliament building in Kyiv where three officers were killed on Aug. 31. Police said 141 people had been wounded when a nationalist protest turned violent, with 10 of the injured in serious condition.
6 A member of the Lebanese Army's airborne regiment pulls an army truck during a live drill during the Security Middle East Show in Beirut.
7 Workers look on as a car is stranded in a sinkhole on a street in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China. The driver managed to get out of the car unharmed, local media reported.
8 Spectators use their mobile phones to take pictures and videos as Z-19 helicopters of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perform during an aerobatic display at the China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin.
9 Lebanese anti-government protesters throw eggs and water bottles at the unknown convoy of a politician leaving the parliament building during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis and government corruption in downtown Beirut.
10 The Lishui bridge is seen during a controlled demolition in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China, Sept. 8, 2015. The bridge, built in 1971, is 246.6-meters-long and 12-meters-wide. A new bridge will be built on the same location as replacement, local media reported.
Settembre 10, 2015
1 Workers remove the head of a statue of the late Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was buried in a forest to the east of Berlin. The 3.5-ton granite piece, long buried in a forest on the edge of the city, will become an eye-catching highlight of a new museum exhibit of key figures that played a role in Germany's turbulent history.
2 A Syrian refugee kisses his son as he walks through a rainstorm toward Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni.
3 Ethnic Kayan women wait for Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's speech during her campaign for the upcoming general election, in Demoso, Kayah state.
4 People are stranded on a road flooded by the Kinugawa river, caused by typhoon Etau in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Japan evacuated about 100,000 people from their homes after rare torrential rains unleashed floods that left at least two people missing and stranded many more when rivers surged over their banks.
5 Smoke and balls of fire rise from a military base after it was hit by Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen's capital Sana'a.
6 South Africa Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa kisses a reconstruction of Homo naledi's face during an announcement made at Maropeng Cradle of Humankind in Magaliesburg. Scientists say they've discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark chamber of a cave in South Africa.
7 A pile of garbage is seen blocking an entrance to a residential building as workers clean up one of its apartments, in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, Sept. 9, 2015. According to local media, authorities have started cleaning out the apartment of an elderly woman, with the help of her son. The authorities were acting on persistent complaints from the surrounding residents due to the woman's collection and storage of trash in her home.
8 People gather at the "Tribute in Light" in Lower Manhattan, New York, Sept. 9, 2015. The tribute was lit two days ahead of the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
9 A man flies a kite during a hazy day in Singapore. Air pollution in Singapore reached its highest level in a year as smog from Indonesian forest fires shrouded the island nation in a veil of gray.
10 An Mi-17 helicopter dumps water on a burning forest at Ogan Komering Ulu in Indonesia's south Sumatra province.
11 Taxis are seen parked on the street during a protest against the online car-sharing service Uber, in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 9, 2015.
12 A cat and its trainer perform during "The Circus Princess" at the National Circus in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
13 Television personality Jimmy Fallon (L) and actor and singer Justin Timberlake react to being shown on a video screen as they attend the quarterfinals match between Roger Federer of Switzerland and Richard Gasquet of France at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York, Sept. 9, 2015.
Settembre 11, 2015
1 Roses are placed on the memorial during a ceremony marking the 14th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center at The National September 11 Memorial and Museum in Lower Manhattan in New York.
2 Tamir Rivera, of Newark, pauses to look at the names on the "Empty Sky" memorial to New Jersey's victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
3 A Syrian woman embraces her child after they arrived with other migrants on a dinghy from Turkey to Lesbos island, Greece.
4 Myanmar lawyers wear yellow ribbons pinned to their jackets, a new symbol of defiance as public servants increasingly voice opposition to the military's dominance of public services, as part of a campaign in Yangon.
5 The sun sets behind the wreckage of a vehicle submerged in floodwaters in Joso city, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. Thousands of rescuers arrived in the deluged city north of Tokyo to help evacuate hundreds of trapped residents and search for 12 people missing after torrential rains triggered massive flooding.
6 People wave pro-independence Catalan flags, known as the Estelada flag, during a rally calling for the independence of Catalonia, in Barcelona, Spain. Separatists have used Catalan National Day for years to rally hundreds of thousands of people in Barcelona to call for the creation of a new Mediterranean nation.
7 Cut-outs depicting victims of human rights abuse during the rule of former dictator Augusto Pinochet hang on a fence next to the "La Moneda" Presidential Palace during a rally in Santiago. Friday marked the 42nd anniversary of the coup d'etat in Chile that ushered in a 17-year dictatorship under Pinochet.
8 The galaxy Messier 63 - nicknamed the Sunflower Galaxy - is seen in an undated image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope released Friday. Discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1779, the galaxy is about 27 million light-years away and belongs to the M51 Group.
9 Tourists write messages on a section of the Peace Wall in the loyalist Shankill area of West Belfast in Northern Ireland. Britain and Ireland sought to calm Northern Ireland's political crisis on Friday by urging Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists to preserve a power-sharing government that ended decades of sectarian violence.
10 Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates a point against Roberta Vinci of Italy during their women's singles semi-final match at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York.
11 A Malaysian man walks past the Palace of Justice shrouded in haze in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Wildfires caused by illegal land clearing in Indonesia's Sumatra and Borneo islands often spread choking haze to neighboring countries such as Malaysia and Singapore.
12 A Mickey Mouse fan hold balloons in front of the Sleeping Beauty Castle at the Hong Kong Disneyland. Hong Kong Disneyland is celebrating it's 10th anniversary.
13 An Emirati man walks with his Saluki dog during the Arabian Saluki beauty contest at the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian exhibition (ADIHEX) in the UAE capital.
14 A hot air balloon flies over a lake at Moehnesee, western Germany.
Settembre 13, 2015
1 A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire in Middletown, California, USA. The fast-moving fire has consumed 40,000 acres and is currently zero percent contained.
2 Galina Shalygina, 85, prepares to cast her ballot in a ballot box brought by election officials to villagers unable to travel to the polling station, in the village of Seltso, near Kostroma, 350 km (218 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia. Voters are casting ballots across the country for local legislators and governors, in elections expected to be won by candidates loyal to President Vladimir Putin.
3 Young children eat milk powder as they wait for a bus in a temporary holding center for migrants near the border between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary.
4 A Palestinian woman shouts slogans as she holds a Quran during clashes with Israeli police forces in Jerusalem's Old City. Israeli police raided the plaza outside Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday in what they said was a bid to head off Palestinian attempts to disrupt visits by Jews and foreign tourists on the eve of the Jewish New Year.
5 Cooks prepare a lentil stew in a giant pot in an attempt to break a Guinness Record during the Prado Rural fair in Montevideo, Uruguay. The stew is enough to feed 10,000 people.
6 Dancers perform between quarter times during the round of 16 basketball match between Serbia and Finland at the EuroBasket 2015 in Lille, northern France.
7 A dog catches a frisbee during a dog frisbee competition in Moscow, Russia.
8 Laborers work at a railway bridge construction site in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, Sept.12, 2015.
9 Derek Hough poses with his outstanding choreography award for "Dancing with the Stars" that he won along with Julianne Hough and Tessandra Chavez, backstage at the 2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, Sept. 12, 2015.
10 Mikhail Nastenko of Russia riding Reistag falls at the Lochan fence in the cross country event of FEI European Eventing Championship at Blair Castle, Scotland, Britain, Sept. 12, 2015.
Settembre 14, 2015
1 A boy plays inside a Soviet-era Yakovlev Yak-40 plane turned into their kindergarten in the Georgian city of Rustavi, some 25 km southeast of the capital Tbilisi. Local head teacher Gari Chapidze bought the old but fully functional Yak-40 from Georgian Airways and refurbished its interior with educational equipment, games and toys but left the cockpit instruments intact so they could be used as play tools.
2 Thousdands of protesters rally against Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's security bill and his administration, as police use parked buses to block protesters in front of the parliament building (bottom) in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
3 Nepalese police use water cannons to disperse Hindu protesters after they tried to enter a restricted area near the Constituent Assembly hall in Kathmandu. Nepal's Constituent Assembly rejected calls to revert the Himalayan nation back to a Hindu state during voting on a draft of the long-delayed new constitution.
4 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shares this photograph on social media, taken from the International Space Station on Sept. 10, 2015. Kelly wrote, "#GoodMorning Texas! Great view of you, the #moon, and #Venus this morning. #YearInSpace"
5 British Prime Minister David Cameron meets Syrian refugee families at a settlement camp in the Bekaa Valley on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
6 An aerial view shows an eruption of Mount Aso in Aso, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
7 A Pakistani vendor holds a goat while looking out the window of a bus upon arrival at a cattle market set up for the upcoming Muslim festival Eid-al-Adha in Karachi.
8 A destroyed vehicle under a carport after the Valley Fire raged through Middletown, California, USA, Sept.13, 2015. The rapidly spreading wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes and other buildings as it roared through the northern California village of Middletown and several nearby communities, chasing thousands of residents from their homes, fire officials said.
9 Waves crash into the harbor wall and over the lighthouse during high winds at Newhaven on the south coast of England.
10 Manchester United fans shield their eyes from the Sun during the Barclays Premier League football match between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, Britain.
11 A raindrop hangs on the shell of a snail sitting on a leaf near Burgdorf close to Hanover, central Germany.
12 A 166 elementary school children and their 112 parents pull a Boeing 787 jetliner at the Narita International airport in Narita, suburb of Tokyo, Sept. 13, 2015.
13 Miss Georgia Betty Cantrell, left, with Miss South Carolina Daja Dial, center, and Miss Oklahoma Georgia Frazier after being named Miss America 2016, in in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Sept. 13, 2015.
Settembre 15, 2015
1 Syrian refugees wait to disembark from a passenger ship at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece.
2 BMW CEO Harald Krueger collapses during the presentation on the first press day of the Frankfurt Auto Show IAA in Germany.
3 Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde (28) celebrates with fans after scoring on a 10-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California, Sept. 14, 2015. (Credit: Kirby Lee-/USA TODAY Sports)
4 An Indian artist gives the finishing touches to a figure of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha at a workshop ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in New Delhi.
5 Art installation "Fallen Men" in downtown Oslo, Norway (Photo taken by Maung Maung Myint)
6 Robert Hooper, exhausted after several days with little sleep, hugs his dog Toby on his property that was burnt by the so-called Valley Fire near Middleton, California, Sept. 14, 2015. The Northern California wildfire ranked as the most destructive to hit the drought-stricken U.S. West this year has claimed one life and burned at least 400 homes to the ground, fire officials reported, saying they expected the property toll to climb.
7 Members of the South Korea Navy Special Warfare unit parachute down during a ceremony in Incheon to mark the 65th anniversary of Incheon Landing Operations conducted by the U.S.-led United Nations troops during the 1950-1953 Korean War.
8 The new electric Porsche Mission E concept car is presented during the Volkswagen group night ahead of the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 14, 2015.
9 A house is damaged due to heavy rainfall caused by Typhoon Vamco hit Lingshui Ethnic Li Autonomous County, in Hainan province, China, Sept. 14, 2015.
10 Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses for photographers with one of his pieces at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
11 Jet Bussemaker, Minister of Education, arrives at the Hall of Knights for the official opening of the new parliamentary year in The Hague, Netherlands. Her shoes and handbag were printed with a 3D Printer at the University of Eindhoven.
Settembre 16, 2015
1 A man carries a wounded child following a government air strike on the rebel held Al-Maghair district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Western Aleppo is controlled by regime forces while rebels are in the east of the city.
2 Internally displaced Iraqis carry humanitarian aid distributed at a refugee camp in Baghdad's western neighborhood of Ghazaliyah.
3 Hungarian riot police fight migrants at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke. Police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesting migrants demanding they be allowed to enter from Serbia on the second day of a border crackdown.
4 Athletes check their results during the International Archery Challenge at Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome, Brazil, Sept. 15, 2015. The International Archery Challenge is a test event for Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
5 Former New Zealand rugby union player Jonah Lomu (Front R) and members of the Ngati Ranana London Maori Club perform a haka during a photocall in London's Covent Garden.
6 The transparent car of ZF company equipped with different security systems is presented on the second press day of the Frankfurt Auto Show IAA Frankfurt, Germany.
7 A man holds a child after rescuing him from a kindergarten affected by a fire at a commercial building, in Ningde, Fujian province, China. According to local media, more than 260 people were evacuated due to the fire. No casualties have been reported and the cause of it is still unknown.
8 A girl jumps off a mound of dirt that was piled up with one of the vehicles found after a flash flood, in Hildale, Utah, Sept. 15, 2015. Flash floods killed nine people near Utah's border with Arizona when a "large wall of water" triggered by heavy rain pounding nearby canyons swept them away in their cars, officials said.
9 Sparrows fight over food in a backyard in Springfield, Virginia, Sept. 13, 2015. (Photo taken by Diaa Bekheet)
10 A kitten with whiskers damaged by heat is inspected by a veterinarian at a property evacuated and partially burnt by the Valley Fire in Hidden Valley Lake, California, Sept. 15, 2015. The toll of property loss from the deadly Northern California wildfire has climbed to at least 585 homes and hundreds of other structures destroyed, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported.
11 A man looks on as cars are seen stuck in a sinkhole in a parking area after heavy rainfall in Haikou, Hainan province, China.
12 Andreas Steinfatt of the Paulaner brewery unveils a huge beer mug figure in preparation for the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.
13 Nepalese Hindu women, dressed in red, dance after paying homage to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction as they celebrate the Teej festival at the Pashupatinath temple area in Kathmandu.
Settembre 17, 2015
1 Davide Necchi of Iceland captured this great brightness and quick development of the aurora in late August.
2 People recover items from destroyed houses around a ship pushed onto land by the waves of a tsunami after an earthquake hit areas in Coquimbo city, north of Santiago, Chile.
3 Ahmed Mohamed, 14, gestures as he arrives at his family's home in Irving, Texas, USA. Ahmed was arrested at his school on Sept. 16 after a teacher thought a homemade clock he built was a bomb. He remains suspended and said he will not return to classes at MacArthur High School. President Barack Obama invited Mohamed to bring his clock to the White House.
4 Opposition lawmakers surge toward the chairman’s seat to protest as ruling party colleagues rush in to try to protect him during a committee voting of security bills at the upper house of the parliament in Tokyo, Japan.
5 Residents burn tires along a street in Ouagadougou after Burkina Faso's presidential guard declared a coup, a day after seizing the interim president and senior government members, as the country geared up for its first elections since the overthrow of longtime leader Blaise Compaore.
6 Boats set out from a port as the seasonal fishing ban ends in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, Sept. 16, 2015.
7 Troops hold colored cards during a military parade celebrating Independence Day at Zocalo Square in downtown Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 16, 2015.
8 People gather at the site of Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen's capital Sana'a. At least nine civilians were killed in airstrikes that targeted the home of a leader in the dominant Houthi movement in the capital, medical sources said.
9 View of the Christ the Redeemer statue with the new moon in the background, forming a shape as if the statue had wings, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 16, 2015.
10 Sandstone sculpted by water and wind erosion is seen in a slot canyon, one of hundreds that surround Lake Powell near Page, Arizona, USA.
11 A flock of sheep graze on the land during as sun sets, in Navaz, near to Pamplona, northern Spain, Sept. 16, 2015.
12 A fireman prepares to extinguish a forest fire in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Indonesia has intensified efforts to extinguish forest fires that cause the haze, which blanketed parts of the archipelago and neighboring countries.
13 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon. (Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
14 A model has her hair done before The Blonds Spring/Summer 2016 collection during New York Fashion Week, Sept. 16, 2015.
Settembre 18, 2015
1 Jorge Castro rescues dogs that got lost during the tsunami that followed an 8.3 earthquake on Thursday. The disaster has left 12 people dead and five more missing, in Coquimbo, 450 km north of Santiago, Chile.
2 Migrants wrestle to buy train tickets at the train station in Beli Manastir, Croatia. Migrant numbers in Europe will build up in coming days and their flows may fragment further into new routes, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.
3 Dengue patient Ritika Srivastava, 22, lays on a bed covered with a mosquito net in the dengue ward of a government hospital in Allahabad. Dengue fever, a mosquito-born disease with no known cure or vaccine, strikes fear into citizens of northern India when it arrives with the monsoon rains.
4 A supporter reacts with the "V" for victory sign as former Greek prime minister and leader of leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras delivers a speech during the final campaign rally prior to Sunday's general elections, on main Syntagma square in Athens, Greece.
5 Terraced rice paddy fields are seen during the harvest season in Hoang Su Phi, north of Hanoi, Vietnam.
6 A mother adjusts her daughter's mask as they head home from school in Kertapati district in Palembang, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The worsening haze across northern Indonesia, neighboring Singapore and parts of Malaysia forced some schools to close and airlines to delay flights this week, while Indonesia ordered a crackdown on lighting fires to clear forested land.
7 University students dressed in traditional costumes perform during the grand Confucian ceremony of Seokjeon at a shrine at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. Seokjeon is a biannual ritual to consecrate Chinese philosopher Confucius and his disciples as supreme teachers at civil temples.
8 Environmental protesters wear masks depicting (L-R) European Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Britain's PM David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande as activists stage a "tug-of-war" between polluting fossils fuels and renewable energy during a protest outside the European Union Council in Brussels, Belgium.
9 A woman looks at entries in the National Leek Championships at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, in northern England. The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show runs from Sept. 18-20, 2015.
10 Volunteers carry an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, in a pond for its immersion during the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India.
11 A model is reflected in a mirror as she presents a hairstyle during a national championship on hairdressing, nail esthetics, make-up and body art in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
12 A group of people with an umbrella displaying pictures of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her late father General Aung San, and the logo of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party take pictures of themselves in Mandalay. Myanmar’s general elections are scheduled for Nov. 8, 2015, the first since a nominally civilian government was installed in 2011.
13 A picture taken with a Hipstamatic application shows people on the beach looking a at yacht during the Nice Regatta in Nice, southeastern France.
14 A model displays a 2016 Spring/Summer design by Agatha Ruiz De La Prada at Madrid's Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain.
Settembre 20, 2015
1 Argentina supporters with zebra-shaped hats are seen before a Pool C match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup between New Zealand and Argentina at Wembley stadium, north London.
2 Sumo wrestlers hold up crying babies during a "Baby-cry Sumo" event at the Irugi Shrine in Tokyo. Japanese parents believe that sumo wrestlers can help make babies cry out a wish to grow up with good health.
3 Pope Francis arrives for Mass at Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba.
4 A Syrian refugee child reacts while sitting in a swing in Al Zaatari refugee camp, in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, Sept. 19, 2015.
5 Women wave Turkey's national flags during a rally against recent Kurdish militant attacks on security forces in Istanbul.
6 An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prepares to swing a chicken over his head as part of the Kaparot ritual in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak , near Tel Aviv, Israel.
7 Birds sit in their cages during a bird-singing contest in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat.
8 Migrant young boys eat bananas as refugees and migrants queue at a camp to register after crossing the Macedonian-Greek border near the town of Gevgelija.
9 A man dressed as a jester jumps during the traditional costume parade at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany.
10 Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia.
11 A male deer roars in a field near the village of Dobrovolya, southwest of Minsk, Belarus.
12 Members of the Castellers Joves Xiquets de Valls form a human tower or "Castellers" during the Saint Merce celebrations in San Jaime square in Barcelona, Spain.
Settembre 21, 2015
1 Nepalese cheer to celebrate the adoption of the country's new constitution in Kathmandu. Nepal formally adopted a much anticipated and long-delayed constitution that took more than seven years to complete following a decade of political infighting.
2 Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Hassidic sect Vizhnitz pray on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony in Herzeliya, Israel. Tashlich, which means "to cast away" in Hebrew, is a practice in which Jews go to a large flowing body of water and symbolically "throw away" their sins by throwing a piece of bread, or similar food, into the water before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which starts on Tuesday at sundown.
3 A crane drops a car at the site of a Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen's capital Sana'a.
4 Men cut the hair of a camel to make intricate decorative patterns at the animal market on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan.
5 An Afghan refugee seeks shelter in a phone booth during a rain storm in Victoria Square in central Athens, Greece where hundreds of migrants and refugees stayed overnight.
6 An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of small island cays in the Bahamas and the prominent tidal channels cutting between them.
7 Elderly and middle-aged people exercise with wooden dumbbells during a health promotion event to mark Japan's "Respect for the Aged Day" at a temple in Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular among the Japanese elderly.
8 Lights in the shape of a full moon are installed as part of a lighting show to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China, Sept. 20, 2015.
9 Pallbearers from one of the Surinamese capital's cemeteries dance and sing with a casket during a competition for best performing pallbearers group at the Hodie Mi Cras Tibi funeral hall in Paramaribo, Sept. 20, 2015.
10 Denny Hamlin does a burnout after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois, USA, Sept. 20, 2015.
Settembre 22, 2015
1 Pope Francis talks with President Barack Obama, accompanied by First Lady Michelle Obama, after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Sept. 22, 2015. Pope is spending three days in Washington before heading to New York and Philadelphia. This is the Pope's first visit to the United States.
2 A refugee woman faints upon her arrival on Kagia beach, west of the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey.
3 At a temporary refugee camp in Croatia, aid organizations are overwhelmed and unable to take care of all of the people. Families complain they have been separated from relatives as children are passed back and forth over a fence in Opatovac, Croatia.
4 Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan wave upon arrival at Boeing Field in Everett, Washington, USA.
5 An Afghan boy carries a sheep on his shoulders at a livestock market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Kabul.
6 Bodyguards escort Kosovo's Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, behind an umbrella, away from the stand as opposition members hurl eggs while he is addressing parliament in capital Pristina, on the latest agreement reached between Kosovo and Serbia.
7 Pablo Dona of Miami pauses while paddleboarding as sheets of rain fall in front of him off the shores of Bal Harbour, Florida, USA.
8 Japanese champion Shinsuke Yamanaka, right, gets a punch from Panama's challenger Anselmo Moreno in the eighth round of their WBC bantamweight boxing title match in Tokyo.
9 A man covers chewable tobacco as a municipal worker fumigates to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in Lucknow, India.
10 Visitors take a picture of the front of the "Sky Mirror" by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor in the Versailles castle in Versailles, France.
11 Dancers perform following the presentation of the Anya Hindmarch Spring/Summer 2016 collection during London Fashion Week in London, Britain.
12 A civil war veteran known as "Tecomatio" participates in a protest outside the Salvadoran congress building to call for the approval of a civil war veterans benefits law in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sep. 21, 2015.
Settembre 23, 2015
1 A model presents a creation of the Gucci's Spring/Summer 2016 collection during Milan Fashion Week in Italy.
2 A boy carries skewers to be sold as the Eid holiday begins in Peshawar, Pakistan.
3 Bangladeshi traders transport cattle to a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha festival in Dhaka.
4 A villager collects dried branches of a tree on the banks of the River Kuakhai, on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar.
5 Children of parents who work at the Lithuanian Embassy take selfies with Pope Francis as he departs the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Washington.
6 Hidekichi Miyazaki, 105, runs with other competitors over eighty years of age during a 100-meter-dash in the Kyoto Masters Autumn Competiton in Kyoto, western Japan. Miyazaki was authorized as the oldest sprinter who competed in a 100-meter-dash by the Guinness World Records.
7 An Israeli army soldier throws a sound grenade at Palestinians during clashes following the funeral of 19-year-old Palestinian student Hadeel al-Hashlamun in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli military said troops shot al-Hashlamun as she tried to stab a soldier. But relatives of al-Hashlamun denied the Israeli report saying she was executed. In a picture posted on Facebook, a soldier could be seen aiming his rifle at a woman said to be Hashlamun, standing a short distance away. She was completely covered in a black robe.
8 Indonesian President Joko Widodo inspects the aftermath of a recent forest fire during a visit in Banjarbaru, south Kalimantan province in this photo provided by Antara Foto.
9 Muslim pilgrims pray on Mount Mercy on the plains of Arafat during the annual haj pilgrimage, outside the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
10 People attend the Dandenong Festival of Lights in the suburb of Dandenong in Melbourne, Australia. The month-long festival, set up by the Chinese Cultural Works Light Spectacular, celebrates Chinese culture through a display of hundreds of beautiful and unique silk light displays, according to the event's website.
11 Cincinnati Reds third baseman Todd Frazier, left, is held back from falling further into a photo pit by teammate Keyvius Sampson after catching a foul ball hit by St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Adams for an out during the fourth inning of a baseball game in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Sept. 22, 2015.
Settembre 24, 2015
1 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago.​ Called the Veil Nebula, the debris is one of the best-known supernova remnants, deriving its name from its delicate, draped filamentary structures. (Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team)
2 A Muslim girl touches the holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
3 In this image released by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims make their way to cast stones at a pillar symbolizing the stoning of Satan in a ritual called "Jamarat," the last rite of the annual hajj in Mina on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
4 Muslim pilgrims and rescuers gather around the victims of a stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage. More than 700 pilgrims were killed and hundreds were injured​, Saudi authorities said.
5 Pope Francis conducts Mass outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2015.
6 Iraqi women bake bread at al-Takia refugee camp in Baghdad.
7 A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos.
8 People crowd on top of a train entering the Dhaka airport rail station as thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims head home to celebrate Eid-al-Adha.
9 An aerial picture above the Knokke-Heist beach shows the art installation of photographer Wim Tellier entitled "Time" and depicting a giant crab.
10 A Latino couple walk with a pinata of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in downtown Los Angeles, California, Sept. 23, 2015.
11 Muslims pray outside the newly restored Moscow Cathedral Mosque during celebrations of Eid al-Adha, in Moscow, Russia.
12 Visitors look at the Bloodhound Supersonic Car as it stands on display during a photocall to promote its World debut, at Canary Wharf in east London. The team behind the Bloodhound SCC is hoping to break the world land speed record in South Africa in 2016. The supersonic car is a mix of car and aircraft technology, and is powered by a jet engine and a rocket together with a auxiliary gasoline engine.
Settembre 25, 2015
1 Pope Francis visits the 9/11 Museum in New York City.
2 A Syrian refugee woman reacts while traveling in an overcrowded dinghy as it arrives at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey.
3 U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) holds a news conference after announcing his resignation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
4 A military honor guard await the arrival of President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
5 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, recently passed the halfway mark of his one-year mission to the International Space Station, photographed the Nile River during a nighttime flyover, Sept. 22, 2015. The photo was NASA's Image of the Day on Friday.
6 A security officer monitors Muslim pilgrims attending the annual hajj pilgrimage on CCTV screens at a security command center in Mina, Saudi Arabia, a day after a stampede killed more than 700 people.
7 Flags of Vatican City are hung in St. John the Baptist Church, in advance of Pope Francis's arrival tomorrow, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The events expected to draw the biggest crowds during Francis' six-day visit to the United States all occur in Philadelphia.
8 An activist of the environmental protection organization 'Greenpeace' holds a protest poster in front of a factory gate of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany. The supervisory board was meeting to discuss who to name as CEO after Martin Winterkorn quit over an emissions-rigging scandal that's rocking the world's top-selling automaker.
9 Palestinian boys throw sand at the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, during the second day of Eid al-Adha. . Eid (the Festival of Sacrifice) is celebrated throughout the Muslim world as a commemoration of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for God.
10 Competitors warm up in the backstage area of the Arnold Classic Europe bodybuilding event in Madrid, Spain.
11 Pro-independence supporters wave "estelada" or pro-independence flags during a rally of "Junts pel Si" or "Together for YES" in Barcelona, Spain. Catalans vote Sunday in regional parliamentary elections that the breakaway camp hopes will give them a mandate to put their region on a path toward independence.
12 A girl cools herself at a fountain at Alexander Garden near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia. Moscow residents who were disappointed by a largely cool and rainy summer have been relishing this week's sunshine and temperatures reaching nearly 30 degrees (85 F).
Settembre 27, 2015
1 Models parade at the end of the Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2016 collection show during Milan Fashion Week in Italy.
2 A family from Trenton, New Jersey, walks over the Benjamin Franklin Bridge ahead of a Sunday Mass to be delivered by Pope Francis in Philadelphia, Pensylvania, before flying back to Rome.
3 Polish Army soldiers adjust ribbons on coffins during the first burials of World War II heroes who were later secretly slain by the communists, at the Powazki cemetery in Warsaw, Poland. Remains of 35 Polish soldiers with bullet holes through the back of the skull were burried after being recently recovered from unmarked mass graves.
4 A statue is seen silhouetted against the moon in Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 26, 2015.
5 Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain throws the trophy into the air on the podium after winning the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, central Japan.
6 An idol of Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, is showered with colored powder and flowers as it is taken through a street on the last day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India.
7 A Alphorn band in traditional Bavarian clothes play instruments during the traditional concert at the 182nd Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.
8 A boy reacts as a butterfly stops on his nose during a butterfly exhibition at a park in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, Sept. 26, 2015.
9 Spectators watch as runners compete in the 42nd Berlin marathon, in Berlin, Germany.
10 A man takes part in an extreme run competition in Zhodino, east of Minsk, Belarus, Sept. 26, 2015.
11 People walk on the Champs Elysees during the "day without cars", in Paris, France.
12 France's Guillaume Rolland walks on the line during the Highline Extreme event in Moleson peak, western Switzerland, Sept. 26, 2015.
13 Celine Herbin of France gets sprayed with champagne after winning the women's Lacoste Open in Saint Jean de Luz, southwestern France.
14 A person wears a helmet during the Spring/Summer 2016 collections at the Milan Fashion Week in Italy, Sept. 26, 2015.
Settembre 28, 2015
1 Max Saatchi wears a mask depicting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a "No to Rouhani, Yes to Human Rights in Iran Rally" organized by the National Council of Resistance to Iran, outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, during the U.N. General Assembly meetings.
2 The Eiffel Tower is illuminated with a pink light, as part of the 'Ruban Rose' event for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, part of Octobre Rose (Pink October) in Paris.
3 Demonstrators, most of them Syrian refugees, according to organizers, gather during a "Thank you Austria" (Danke Oesterreich) demonstration in Vienna.
4 An exile Tibetan prays next to a glass enclosure containing traditional butter lamps at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India. The Dalai Lama, 80, remains at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester after cancelling his U.S. appearances for the month of October after doctors advised him to rest.
5 An armed Yemeni tribesmen from the Popular Resistance Committees, supporting forces loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed fugitive President Hadi, stands overlooking the great Dam of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, during ongoing clashes with Shiite Huthi rebels.
6 Protesters holding yellow umbrellas gather to observe a moment of silence to mark the first anniversary of the "Umbrella Movement" outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong. A year ago, Hong Kong's famously busy streets were shut down by pro-democracy activists who occupied them for 79 days.
7 A woman uses an umbrella against strong wind and rain brought by typhoon Dujuan in the Tamshui district, New Taipei City. More than 7,000 people were evacuated in Taiwan as the 'super typhoon' swirled towards the island, gathering strength as it bore down on the east coast.
8 A perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen behind the Washington Monument during a total lunar eclipse, Sept. 27, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The combination of a supermoon and total lunar eclipse last occurred in 1982 and will not happen again until 2033. (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
9 Buildings in the financial district are seen through a blanket of haze from the Garden by the Bay in Singapore, as a worker (L) washes a sculpture by renowned sculptor Marc Quinn of a sleeping boy depicting his infant son, Lucas.
10 People stand near a loudspeaker competition ahead of the Hindu Dussehra festival in Allahabad, India. Playing loud music has long been a part of local fairs in Allahabad, where owners of the sound system playing the loudest win awards.
11 Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson interacts with Pepper, a social humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran for SoftBank, during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York.
12 Katy Perry performs at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
13 Beachgoers view the sunset with the remains of the West Pier seen on the coastline at Brighton in southern England.
14 A model presents a creation from the Giorgio Armani Spring/Summer 2016 collection during Milan Fashion Week in Italy.
Settembre 29, 2015
1 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) twinkles to the parliamentary group leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Volker Kauder ahead of the faction meeting of CDU and CSU in Berlin.
2 Palestinians take cover from tear gas and protect their ears from a sound grenade fired by Israeli security forces, during a demonstration in the West Bank town of Hebron in solidarity with fellow demonstrators clashing with Israeli police at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
3 Visitors walk under umbrellas on display over Cheonggye stream during a campaign to raise donations to help underprivileged children in Seoul, South Korea.
4 U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Cuban President Raul Castro shake hands at the start of their meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
5 People ride past uprooted trees and damaged motorcycles, in the aftermath of Typhoon Dujuan in Taipei, Taiwan.
6 A woman wearing sunglasses reacts as she boards a train with migrants and asylum seekers near the registration camp after crossing the Greek-Macedonia border near Gevgelija.
7 A so-called supermoon is seen at the finish of a lunar eclipse behind an Orthodox church in Turets, Belarus, 110 kilometers (69 miles) west of capital Minsk, Sept. 28, 2015.
8 Students react after a surprise visit by Britain's Prince Harry to The Duke of York's Royal Military School in Dover, southern England, Sept. 28, 2015.
9 A view of the vehicles plying the causeway to Malaysia shrouded by haze in Singapore. Slash-and-burn agriculture in neighboring Indonesia has blanketed Singapore in a choking haze for weeks.
10 Men lash each other with burning coconut husks during the annual "Mesiat Geni" ritual at a Hindu temple in Bali, Indonesia, Sept. 28, 2015.
Settembre 30, 2015
1 A woman holds a baby wearing a white skull cap, at the end of Pope Francis' weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican.
2 Palestinian farmers harvest dates in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
3 A leopard’s head gets stuck when it attempts to drink water from a pot in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan state, India. Forest officials tranquilized the animal and sawed off the pot later in the day.
4 A paramilitary policeman holds onto a fence as tourists dodge tidal waves increased under the influence of Typhoon Dujuan, at the bank of Qiantang river, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. China ordered tens of thousands of boats back to shore and closed tourist attractions as a typhoon made landfall in the eastern province of Fujian after leaving two dead and hundreds injured in Taiwan.
5 Hot air balloons are prepared for a flight as others take off during an international hot air balloon festival at Maayan Harod National Park in northern Israel.
6 A soldier from the South Korean army special forces breaks stone slabs during a rehearsal for the 67th anniversary of Armed Forces Day at the Gyeryong military headquarters in Gyeryong. Seoul will celebrate the 67th Armed Forces Day on Oct. 1.
7 A South Korean Air Force F-15K fires flares during a rehearsal for the 67th anniversary of Armed Forces Day at the Gyeryong military headquarters in Gyeryong.
8 Models wear creations of Dries Van Notens as part of his Spring-Summer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collection, presented during the Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France.
9 Stirling Castle is seen above morning mist in Scotland.
