Hazy ferris wheel, baby baboons, Scotland votes | Sept. 18
The day in pictures around the world.
- Palestinian Bedouins sit outside their dwelling in the West Bank village of Al-Eizariya, near east of Jerusalem September 18. 2014. As part of a plan to remove them from Area C that is under both Israel’s civilian and military aegis, the Israeli Civil Administration is expected to start evicting Bedouins in the West Bank from lands they have been living on for decades. The first measure to be taken is relocating nearly 2,400 Bedouins living in an area east of Jerusalem to expand the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim and other settlements, according to Israeli local media. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
- Pennsylvania State Police salute as they line the streets outside St. Peters’ Cathedral in Scranton, Pennsylvania September 18, 2014, as the casket carrying slain Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Corporal Bryon Dickson, 38 is carried into the Cathedral for his funeral service. The survivalist suspected of the ambush attack last week that killed Dickson and seriously wounded another is a member of a Cold War re-enactment group, state police said on Wednesday. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
- Pennsylvania State Police line the streets outside St. Peter’s Cathedral in Scranton, Pennsylvania September 18, 2014, ahead of the funeral service for slain Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Corporal Bryon Dickson. The survivalist suspected of the ambush attack last week that killed Dickson, 38, and seriously wounded another trooper is a member of a Cold War re-enactment group, state police said on Wednesday. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
- A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard at a checkpoint near the town of Horlivka in eastern Ukraine, September 18, 2014. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appealed to the U.S. Congress for lethal and non-lethal military aid, more sanctions and a special security status on Thursday during a visit to Washington to bolster U.S. support for his strategy in handling Russian-backed separatists. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)
- A sightseeing boat heads out through thick fog in central Stockholm harbour September 18, 2014. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/Reuters)
- People try to salvage a car that was swept away in a flooded street after tropical storm Odile hit the area with heavy rains, in Ciudad Juarez late September 17, 2014. About 25,000 tourists were also still trapped on the Baja California peninsula after tropical storm Odile on Monday felled trees, buffeted homes and business and smashed shops open to looters as tropical storm Polo became a hurricane off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Wednesday night, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre said. Picture taken September 17, 2014. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
- The Singapore Flyer observation wheel is shrouded by haze in Singapore September 18, 2014. (Edgar Su/Reuters)
- A dog waits for its master to vote outside the Queen’s Cross parish church in Aberdeen, Scotland, September 18, 2014. Polling in the referendum on Scottish independence is taking place on Thursday as Scotland votes whether or not to end the 307-year-old union with the rest of the United Kingdom. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)
- Presiding officer Anne MacKay (L) and her father and Poll Clerk George MacKay are seen outside the Coulags caravan polling station, in the Scottish Highlands September 18, 2014. Polling in the referendum on Scottish independence began on Thursday morning, as Scotland votes whether or not to end the 307-year-old union with the rest of the United Kingdom. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)
- Residents take part in a “short walk to freedom” march in Edinburgh, Scotland September 18, 2014. Polling in the referendum on Scottish independence began on Thursday morning, as Scotland votes whether or not to end the 307-year-old union with the rest of the United Kingdom. (Paul Hackett/Reuters)
- Baby Hamadryas baboons reach for milk bottles as a zookeeper feeds them at a zoo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province September 17, 2014. Picture taken September 17, 2014. (China Daily/Reuters)
- A Palestinian Bedouin woman stands next to her sheep in the West Bank village of Al-Eizariya, near east of Jerusalem September 18. 2014. As part of a plan to remove them from Area C that is under both Israel’s civilian and military aegis, the Israeli Civil Administration is expected to start evicting Bedouins in the West Bank from lands they have been living on for decades. The first measure to be taken is relocating nearly 2,400 Bedouins living in an area east of Jerusalem to expand the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim and other settlements, according to Israeli local media. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
- A boy who underwent circumcision rests inside a house in Kenya’s western region of Bungoma August 8, 2014. Circumcision rituals, which take place in August, are celebrated amongst some Kenyan tribes as an annual rite of passage into adulthood. The Bukusu group, a sub-tribe of the Luhya tribe which is one of the largest in Kenya, is one community to continue the tradition. The day before the ceremony, the boy’s uncle slaughters a cow and dresses him in a chunk of the meat as a personal gift and as permission for him to proceed with the circumcision. The boys, aged 16 and under, bathe in the river to numb their bodies before the ritual, which they must undergo without flinching. Similar circumcision rituals and rites of passage are celebrated in many parts of Africa. Picture taken August 8, 2014. (Noor Khamis/Reuters)
- A Bukusu youth waits outside his uncle’s home for a circumcision ritual in Kenya’s western region of Bungoma August 8, 2014. Circumcision rituals, which take place in August, are celebrated amongst some Kenyan tribes as an annual rite of passage into adulthood. The Bukusu group, a sub-tribe of the Luhya tribe which is one of the largest in Kenya, is one community to continue the tradition. The day before the ceremony, the boy’s uncle slaughters a cow and dresses him in a chunk of the meat as a personal gift and as permission for him to proceed with the circumcision. The boys, aged 16 and under, bathe in the river to numb their bodies before the ritual, which they must undergo without flinching. Similar circumcision rituals and rites of passage are celebrated in many parts of Africa. Picture taken August 8, 2014. (Noor Khamis/Reuters)
- The painted nails of a Kurdish Peshmerga female fighter are seen as she holds her gun during combat skills training before being deployed to fight Islamic State militants, at their military camp in Sulaimaniya, northern Iraq September 18, 2014. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)
- A policeman is silhouetted in front of flames from a petrol bomb thrown by protesters, during an anti-fascist rally in a suburb of Athens September 18, 2014. Thousands of people took part in an anti-fascist rally commemorating one year from the fatal stabbing of Greek rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a supporter of the far-right Golden Dawn party in the working-class neighboorhood of Keratsini. (Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)
- Qatari and Kazakhstan track cyclists train at the Incheon International Velodrome ahead of the 17th Asian Games September 18, 2014. (Olivia Harris/Reuters)
- French President Francois Hollande poses as he addresses a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, September 18, 2014. President Hollande, his popularity ratings at record low levels for a modern-day French leader, held on Thursday a marathon news conference outlining plans for the rest of his five-year mandate. (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)
- Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures during a speech at the 108th anniversary of Indian Merchant Chambers in Mumbai September 18, 2014. Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader said on Thursday that an unsettled border with China encompassing large parts of the Tibetan plateau was a problem for India and called for talks to resolve the dispute as Chinese President Xi Jinping toured India. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)