World News in Pictures

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A man rides a motorcycle carrying his children along the top of a dam which is flooded by an overflowing river near Junyue township of Pengzhou, Sichuan province



Honda rider Thitipong Warokorn of Thailand takes a tumble during the Moto 2 race, part of the San Marino MotoGP Grand Prix at the Misano world circuit in Misano Adriatico



A Nato supply convoy burns after it was attacked in Hub, about 25 km (16 miles) from Karachi. More than a dozen oil tankers and containers carrying Nato supplies caught fire after the convoy was attacked by rockets, police said



Sixteen people, including 11 students, have been confirmed dead in the road accident, when a passenger bus collided with a truck, and then fell off a bridge in Zhenwu Village, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, southwest China



A woman, with her face covered with coloured powders, dances during the Holi Festival of Colors in Lisbon. The festival, which is mainly celebrated during the Hindu spring festival Holi in some regions of India and Nepal, has become popular among people in other communities



The spire of Saint Wojciech church collapses as firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the church in Bialystok, eastern Poland

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This is the moment a daredevil risks his life by climbing a huge 84ft-high gas tower above a city centre. Thrillseeker James Kingston, 23, stands on a 1ft-wide rim on the top of the 112-year-old gas works - just yards from a Premier League football ground. He enraged the authorities by even completing two full laps of the red metal structure to take in a 360-degree aerial view of Southampton, Hants. Police and safety experts slammed Mr Kingston after he posted a picture of himself on top of the Northam Gas Works. The gas works is protected by an 8ft-high barbed wire fence and has clear signs warning people to stay out.



A child's dummy ended up in a penguin tank at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, USA. Zookeepers did not spot the offending mini litter lout and were thankfully able to recover the child's plaything before it caused any harm

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A member of the 'Ansar Dimachk' Brigade, part of the 'Asood Allah' Brigade which operates under the Free Syrian Army, uses an iPad during preparations to fire a homemade mortar at one of the battlefronts in Jobar, Damascus September 15, 2013.



Anti-government protesters sit in front of a closed shop with anti-government graffiti sprayed on it during a protest in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama, September 15, 2013. Dozens of protesters clashed with the riot police by throwing stones and molotov cocktails. Riot police fired tear gas and sound grenades to disperse the protest.



Children from Cal-Wood Education Center in Jamestown, Colorado board a rescue helicopter flown by the U.S. Air National Guard after severe flooding shut down major roads leading out of town in this September 14, 2013 handout photo. Colorado residents are beginning to assess the damage after torrential downpours unleashed flash flooding that killed five people and forced thousands to flee to higher ground as rising water toppled buildings and stranded motorists

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Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic returns the ball to Canada's Vasek Pospisil during their Davis Cup semi-final tennis match in Belgrade September 15, 2013.



Suzann Pettersen of Norway (L) is sprayed with champagne on the 18th green after winning the women's Evian Championship golf tournament in Evian September 15, 2013.



Police officers use water cannons during clashes with protesters near the Royal Palace in central Phnom Penh September 15, 2013. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) are protesting to continue with their demand for an independent probe into the July elections which they say were rigged to prolong the rule of the prime minister.

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Mount Sinabung spews ash and hot lava as it erupts near a mosque in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province September 15, 2013. Around 1,000 people from six villages have been evacuated from their homes to a safety area after the volcano erupted and no casualties are reported, local media said on Sunday.



Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates his victory over Canada's Milos Raonic after their Davis Cup semi-final tennis match in Belgrade September 15, 2013



The hand of a dead Muslim rebel from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), killed by the government during fighting, is pictured in a military truck in Zamboanga city, southern Philippines, September 15, 2013. A week of violence in the southern Philippines has undercut hopes of lasting peace in the resource-rich region and exposed the government to criticism for underestimating rogue Muslim rebels who feel ignored by a landmark deal last year.



Visitors walk past a full-scale replica of a ZTZ-99 tank, a main battle tank of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), made of bullet shells during an industrial exhibition in Shenyang, Liaoning province September 15, 2013. The replica, which weighs 6.5 tons, is made of a total of 48,356 different types of bullet shells, according to local media

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A powerful typhoon made landfall in central Japan on Monday, forcing the evacuation of 320,000 households across the country.


Torrential rain in Kyoto city caused a river to overflow, inundating homes and stores near Arashiyama mountain, a popular tourist site.

A 71-year-old woman was found dead after a mudslide crushed her home in Shiga Prefecture, according to the public broadcaster NHK. Four others were reported missing across three states.

Bullet train services were suspended throughout the day and over 400 domestic flights were cancelled because of the storm.











A bridge that collapsed into a flooded river in Kyoto as torrential rain hit western Japan

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Law enforcement officers at the scene of a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington DC. Read more here.



A man works on a pumpkin 'peanut' in Seyuan of Nantong, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province. Seyuan will hold its first All-Saint's Day Pumpkin Festival from September 25, during which more than 30,000 artificial pumpkins will form a pumpkin kingdom!



A Palestinian makes a sign, symbolising the crackdown in Cairo last month, during a protest against the closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza strip

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A Greenpeace activist spoon-feeds an activist chained to a railway track belonging to Swedish energy company Vattenfall in Welzow, Germany, in a protest against the company's planned brown coal mining



Buddhist monks who support the Cambodia National Rescue party react during a protest in Phnom Penh, challenging a disputed election.



The capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner begins to lift out of the water. The ship will be rotated using cables and hydraulic machines, pulling the hulk from above and below and slowly twisting it upright

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Relatives and policewomen sit at the back of an ambulance as they transport the body of a senior female police officer for burial in Helmand province. The woman was shot dead on Sunday, two months after her female predecessor was killed



A pharmacist clears up his pharmacy damaged in a car bomb explosion yesterday, in Baghdad's Mashtal neighbourhood



Pam Duggan, centre, arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. An inquest is being held into the death of her son Mark Duggan who died after being stopped by police in August 2011

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A man, left, is rescued from a zip-line over the audience during a performance by Justin Timberlake at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



Greek school guards sit in front of the police line during a protest outside the administrative reforms ministry in Athens. Police fired teargas to disperse school guards trying to enter the ministry in central Athens on Monday as teachers began a strike against public sector layoffs.



The French president, François Hollande, British foreign secretary, William Hague, US secretary of state, John Kerry, and French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, at the Elysée Palace before their meeting to discuss the removal of chemical weapons in Syria



South Koreans wait with their vehicles at the customs, immigration and quarantine office area just south of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju before they go to the inter-Korean Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea. North and South Korea have agreed to re-open the industrial park on a trial basis today

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Chinese People's Liberation Army navy soldiers and officer use string to measure positions of honour guard members before welcoming Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa outside the Great Hall of People in Beijing

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A member of an artillery unit catches a cannon shell during a military parade celebrating the 203rd anniversary of Independence Day at the Zocalo square in downtown Mexico City.



Bolivia's President Evo Morales greets Carmelo Flores, a native Aymara, outside his home in the village of Frasquia. If Bolivia's public records are correct, Flores is the oldest living person ever documented, allegedly celebrating his 123rd birthday in July

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Robert Pandolfi of Longmont, Colorado pauses for a moment while using a shovel to direct water from the basement of his employer's home as residents clean up in the wake of a week of heavy flooding.



Mary Ellen Briscoe, 81, of Longmont, pauses in her garage as she looks over historic family photos that were soaked in her basement during the floods. More than 600 people are unaccounted for and thousands were forced to evacuate after historic flooding devastated communities in Colorado.



A man is taken into custody by uniformed Secret Service Police officers on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington DC. The Secret Service arrested the man for tossing lit firecrackers over the White House fence

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Washington Navy Yard shooting




An official from the Washington, DC Office of the Medical Examiner wheels a body on a gurney out of the emergency room at George Washington University Hospital shortly after it was announced that the first victim of the shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington had died at the hospital, in Washington September 16, 2013.



Evacuees raise their hands as they are escorted from the scene of a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, September 16, 2013

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A woman wipes away tears as she arrives at a makeshift shelter for evacuated Navy Yard workers, at Nationals Park baseball stadium near the affected naval installation in Washington, September 16, 2013.



Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray speaks during a news conference as police respond to a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, September 16, 2013.






A helicopter pulls what appears to be a shooting victim up as it hovers over a rooftop on the Washington Navy Yard campus in Washington, September 16, 2013.

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Philippine rebel standoff




An armoured vehicle drives past government soldiers for another offensive against the Muslim rebels of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) positions in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines September 16, 2013.



Police inspect the scene of a mortar attack by Muslim rebels of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in downtown Zamboanga city in southern Philippines September 16, 2013



Government soldiers of Task Force Zamboanga (TFZ) fire a 60mm mortar round towards the Muslim rebels of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) positions in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines September 16, 2013.

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Residents who were displaced from their homes, due to fighting between government soldiers and Muslim rebels from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), stay in makeshift tents at a sports complex, which has been turned into an evacuation centre, in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines September 14, 2013.

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Colorado flash floods

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Homeowner Chris Ringdahl, left, is comforted by family friend Katherine MacIntosh, in front of her possessions as they cleanup from the floodwaters in Longmont, Colo., on Sept. 16. Floodwaters have affected a 4,500 square-mile section of the state inundating entire neighborhoods and destroying bridges and roads.



Rival members of local Longmont, Colo., high school football teams band together to help remove the floor of a shed displaced by flood waters as residents clean up on Sept. 16 in Longmont, Colorado. After a week of heavy flooding, more than 600 people are unaccounted for and thousands were forced to evacuate after historic flooding devastated communities in Colorado.

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Kristin McDonald, right, dries out family photos while her husband Stanley McDonald, left, wipes his brow after their basement flooded in Longmont, Colo.

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Three vehicles fell into a creek after the road washed out from beneath them near in Broomfield Colo., Sept. 12, during heavy flooding.

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Armoured personnel carriers approach a crime scene near Melk in Austria. A suspected game poacher shot two policemen and a paramedic after they tried to arrest him in woodland



What initially looks like a pile of chopped logs is an example of world champion body-painter Johannes Stötter's work. He renders his models invisible by merging them into the background scenery.

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Tents are pitched during the 2013 International I Camping Festival on Mount Wugongshan, China. The event attracted more than 15,000 campers



Mexican soldiers and police look for victims of a landslide caused by heavy rains in Xaltepec, Mexico after a tropical storm