Hurricanes Jose and Irma, an earthquake in Mexico, the Festival of the Winds in Sydney, the World Wingsuit Championship in China, a lightning storm in San Francisco, a 3,500-year-old tomb newly discovered in Egypt, Cassini’s grand finale above Saturn, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 9/9–9/15
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A Palestinian woman holds on to her son as an Israeli policeman detains him during a protest on September 8, 2017, in front of a Palestinian house whose occupants were forcibly evicted on September 5, to be given to Jewish claimants in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in east Jerusalem. The Shamasnehs, including 84-year-old grandfather Ayoub, were forcibly evicted from their home of more than 50 years, after a court ruled Israeli Jews were the legal occupants. #
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A woman is silhouetted by the setting sun as she waves to passing motorists below an overpass on Interstate 35 near Melvern, Kansas, on September 11, 2017. She had gathered with others to remember the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Area residents began manning the bridge with flags and waving to motorists on the anniversary in 2002 and have done it every since drawing about 300 people throughout the day. #
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A boat floats in an oil-fouled bay on the coast of Salamis Island, in Salamis, Greece, on September 13, 2017. The small tanker "Agia Zoni II" sank on September 10, while anchored off the coast of Salamis, near Greece's main port of Piraeus. It was carrying a cargo of 2,200 tons of fuel oil and 370 tons of marine gas oil. The island has suffered heavy pollution as a result in what has been called a "major environmental disaster" by officials. #
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A skull found in the New Kingdom tomb that belongs to a royal goldsmith in a burial shaft, in Luxor, Egypt, on September 9, 2017. Egypt has announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty. #
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A simulated self-driving vehicle using a “seat suit” to conceal the human driver, made by the Ford Motor Company. This was done to explore pedestrian reaction to external lighting signals that indicate when the vehicle is driving, yielding or accelerating from a stop, in Arlington, Virginia, in this handout photo obtained by Reuters on September 13, 2017. #
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This image made available by NASA shows the moon Enceladus and the edge of Saturn as seen from the Cassini spacecraft on its descent towards the planet on September 13, 2017. The probe disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday, September 15, 2017, after a journey of 20 years. #
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Cassini science team members Nora Alonge (right), Scott Edgington (center) and Jo Pitesky (left) hug as the final loss of signal from the Cassini spacecraft is confirmed, indicating Cassini's destruction in Saturn's atmosphere and the end of Cassini's 20-year mission to gain a better understanding of the ringed planet and its icy moons, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on September 15, 2017 . Within moments of loss of signal the spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere where it burned up and disappeared in what NASA called "The Grand Finale." #
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An orangutan sits in an enclosure at the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 10, 2017. The orangutan population on the island of Borneo has shrunk by a quarter in the last decade, with researchers urging a rethink of strategies to protect the critically-endangered great ape, after an international team of researchers used a combination of helicopter and ground surveys, interviews with local communities, and modelling techniques to draw a picture of change over the past ten years. #
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A Bangladeshi boy walks towards a moored boat as smoke rises from across the border in Burma, at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, on September 14, 2017. Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Burma, thousands were still flooding across the border on Thursday in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh. Those who arrived Wednesday in wooden boats described ongoing violence in Buddhist-majority Burma, where smoke could be seen billowing from a burning village, suggesting more Rohingya homes had been set alight. #
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A young Rohingya man carries an elderly woman, after the wooden boat they were travelling on from Burma crashed into the shore and tipped everyone out, on September 12, 2017, in Dakhinpara, Bangladesh. Recent reports have suggested that around 290,000 Rohingya have now fled Burma after violence erupted in Rakhine state. #
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The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft, carrying the crew of Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei of the the U.S., and Alexander Misurkin of Russia, blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on September 13, 2017. #
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Fashion model and former refugee Halima Aden, who is breaking boundaries as the first hijab-wearing model gracing magazine covers and walking in high profile runway shows, poses during a shoot at a studio in New York City, on August 28, 2017. #
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Filipino workers try to keep dry as they ride on a backhoe while crossing a flooded street in Manila, Philippines, on September 12, 2017. Classes in schools and work in government offices have been suspended in the capital and nearby provinces as heavy rains pour causing floods in low-lying areas due to Tropical Depression Maring. #
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A young boy walks across a dirty river, with its banks littered with garbage, in the Ngaliema neighborhood of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on September 12, 2017. #
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Qatari special operations personnel conduct a military free-fall jump over Qatar on August 21, 2017. In support of continued partnerships between the U.S. and Qatar, special forces from the two nations participated in the static-line and military free-fall parachute training exercise. #
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Students from the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), grouped in the University Student Movement, clash with riot police during a protest in Tegucigalpa, on September 13, 2017. UNAH students have been holding protests for three months, calling for the resignation of rector Julieta Castellanos and demanding that charges against two dozen student protesters be dropped. #
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A demonstrator who is a supporter of gay marriage tries to stabilize a giant rainbow flag against the wind during a counter-protest on September 15, 2017, in Berlin, Germany. Approximately 200 people who support gay marriage protested against a gathering of about two dozen supporters of "Demo fuer Alle" (Demonstration for All) who had arrived by bus near the Chancellery to demonstrate for traditional marriage between a man and a woman. Germany recently legalized gay marriage. #
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A sea lion kisses a visitor during a sea animal show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Japan, on September 11, 2017. #
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This photo shows a wingsuit flyer hitting a foam target during the 6th Carabao World Wingsuit Championship on Tianmenshan mountain in Zhangjiajie in China's central Hunan province, on September 11, 2017. #
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An altar to the Virgin of Guadalupe is covered with fallen debris inside the earth-damaged home where Larissa Garcia, 24, lived with her family in Juchitan, Oaxaca state, Mexico, on September 9, 2017. The family was caught under rubble when the house partially collapsed, leaving Garcia with a broken arm and her father with a head injury. Her mother, who had to be pulled out from underneath a foot-thick section of wall that collapsed on her back, remains in a wheelchair and unable to walk. #
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Josue Tolentino Gomez, 11, stands beside his family's home, where he was trapped under the rubble for an hour before being rescued when part of the structure collapsed during Thursday's magnitude 8.1 earthquake, in Juchitan, Oaxaca state, Mexico, on September 10, 2017. #
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A native key deer looks for food among the ruins left by Hurricane Irma in the Port Pine Heights neighborhood on Big Pine Key, Florida, on September 14, 2017. Many places in the Keys still lack water, electricity, or mobile phone service and residents are still not permitted to go further south than Islamorada. #
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Ammar Hammasho from Syria, who lives in Cyprus, kisses his children who arrived at the refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia outside Nicosia, Cyprus, on September 10, 2017. #
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A man takes a pictures as the the "Tribute in Light" illuminates the night sky, on September 10, 2017, in New York City, on the eve of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. #
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The robot Yumi holds a baton during a rehearsal prior to a concert where Yumi will conduct the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa, Italy, on September 12, 2017. #
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A Syrian woman removes and stomps on her niqab, as she arrives with her family at a Syrian Democratic Forces checkpoint in the eastern part of Deir al Zor, Syria, on September 12, 2017. #
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A baby sloth relaxes in the hands of a zookeeper during the official weighing at the zoo in Halle (Saale), Germany, on September 12, 2017. The baby, whose gender is not yet known, was born on September 5, 2017, and weighs 586 grams. #
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