Sep 16, 2014

Today in photos around the world.

: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a speech at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland September 15, 2014. Cameron appealed to Scots’ emotions on his last visit to Scotland before this week’s historic referendum by warning them on Monday that a vote to leave the United Kingdom would be irreversible. The referendum on Scottish independence will take place on September 18, when Scotland will vote whether or not to end the 307-year-old union with the rest of the United Kingdom. (REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)

: A man looks out of a window decorated with home-made pro-independence posters in Edinburgh, Scotland, September 16, 2014. The referendum on Scottish independence will take place on September 18, when Scotland will vote whether or not to end the 307-year-old union with the rest of the United Kingdom. (REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)

: Troops hold coloured cards during a military parade celebrating Independence Day at the Zocalo square in downtown Mexico City, September 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Edgard Garrido)

: A woman is seen jogging at Cunningham Park in the borough of Queens in New York, September 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

: A 10-year-old pet goldfish named George undergoes veterinarian Tristan Rich’s scalpel to remove a life-threatening head tumor in this handout picture taken September 11, 2014 and provided to Reuters by the Lort Smith Animal Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In a 45-minute long procedure described by Rich as ‘fiddly’, the fish was sedated by water laced with anaesthetic, the tumour removed and the wound sealed with tissue glue followed by antibiotics and painkillers. Picture taken September 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Lort Smith Animal Hospital/Handout via Reuters)

: A boy makes an offering of food at a pagoda during the Pchum Ben festival in Phnom Penh September 16, 2014. Cambodians visit temples during the 15-day Pchum Ben, or Festival of the Dead, to offer prayers to loved ones who have passed away. (REUTERS/Samrang Pring)

: A fishing boat passes the Super Shuttle Ferry 7 which capsized in strong winds and huge waves unleashed by Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally named Luis, in Manila Bay September 15, 2014. All 15 crew of the ferry were rescued. A strong typhoon slammed into the rice-producing Philippine northern region on Sunday, cutting power and communications lines and forcing people to flee to higher ground, national disaster agency officials said. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)

: A fire victim looks at the ruins of his house razed by a fire in Paranaque, Metro Manila September 16, 2014. Some 100 families were left homeless after 60 houses in the neighbourhood of Paranaque were destroyed by a fire caused by faulty electrical wiring on Monday evening, local media said. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)

: Children carry pieces of the wreckage of a war plane that crashed on the outskirts of Raqqa in northeast Syria September 16, 2014. Islamic State fighters shot down the Syrian war plane using anti-aircraft guns on Tuesday, the first time the group has downed a military jet since declaring its cross-border caliphate in June, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has been monitoring the civil war, said. (REUTERS/Stringer)

: Free Syrian Army fighters rest inside a damaged room, during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Al-Amiriya near the Artillery School in Aleppo, September 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah)

: A woman sharpens her knife using a stone while she cuts grass for her cattle on the outskirts of Kathmandu September 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)

: Juventus’ Paul Pogba (R) fights for the ball with Malmo’s Pa Konate during their Champions League Group A soccer match at Juventus Stadium in Turin September 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino)

: A woman walks past graffiti on a wall in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York, September 16, 2014. The picture was taken through car window with raindrops. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

: A Syrian refugee child eats inside his family’s tent at an informal settlement in Deir al-Ahmar, Bekaa valley September 16, 2014. Senior UN officials visited Syrian refugees, who now make up one-fourth of Lebanon’s entire population, in the Bekaa region on Tuesday and called for the international community to assist the Lebanese government in dealing with the refugee crisis. (REUTERS/Alia Haju)

: A man grieves at a cemetery in Najaf, south of Baghdad September 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani)

: Members of the military police march during a parade commemorating Independence Day in Tegucigalpa September 15, 2014. Honduras marks its independence from Spain on Monday. (REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera)

Mexico’s Independence, Scotland’s impending decision, a goldfish’s surgery | Sept. 16