Human towers in Spain, World’s longest mustache, Thunderbirds, United Nations General Assembly | Sept. 24
The day in pictures around the world.
- “Castellers de Barcelona” form a human tower during a demonstration at the festival of the patron saint of Barcelona “The Virgin of Mercy” at Sant Jaume square in Barcelona. (Gustau Nacarino/Reuters)
- Padlocks clipped by lovers are seen on the fence of the Pont des Arts over the River Seine in Paris. A city hall campaign to save the bridges of Paris from the weight of hundreds of thousands of brass “love locks” has not checked the ardour of droves of tourists, who continue to view the City of Light as the City of Love. Iron grills lining the bridges have since 2008 been increasingly covered by brass locks purporting to symbolize the unending love of visiting tourists. The city has begun to install thick plastic panels on the Pont des Arts, depriving lovers of the grillwork needed to affix their locks. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)
- Indian man, Ram Singh Chauhan (61) displays his approximately 18 foot long moustache in Ahmedabad. Ram Singh Chauhan is to be felicitated by the Gujarat Lok Kala Foundation for having the World’s Longest Moustache, a feat which has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. (Sam Panthaky/Getty Images)
- U.S. Air Force pilots with the Thunderbirds perform the calypso pass maneuver in F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft during a practice session prior to the Gunfighter Skies air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. (US Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez/Handout via Reuters)
- Belarus’ Vasil Kiryienka competes in the men’s individual time trial at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships in Ponferrada. (Miguel Riopa/Getty Images)
- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), in New York City. The annual meeting, established in 2005 by President Clinton, convenes global leaders to discuss solutions to world problems. (John Moore/Getty Images)
- An Indian villager paddles a boat through floodwaters past a partially-submerged house at Balbala village, some 140 kms from Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern state of Assam. At least 55 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in flash floods and mudslides in India’s northeast after days of heavy rain, local authorities said September 24. The chief minister of the northeastern state of Meghalaya, where 35 people have died, said the floods were the worst in recent memory, and bad weather was hampering the rescue effort. (Biju Boro/Getty Images)
- An Indian villager examines a car damaged in flash-floods at Krishnai village, some 125 kms from Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern state of Assam. At least 55 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in flash floods and mudslides in India’s northeast after days of heavy rain, local authorities said September 24. The chief minister of the northeastern state of Meghalaya, where 35 people have died, said the floods were the worst in recent memory, and bad weather was hampering the rescue effort. (Biju Boro/Getty Images)
- Y alla, protects one of her two young Sri Lankan Leopard cubs at the zoo in Maubeuge. The two-month-old cubs are the first Sri Lankan Leopards to be born in a European zoo this year. (Philippe Huguen/Getty Images)
- A female Alpine Ibex, a species of wild goat that lives in the mountains of the European Alps, licks stones on a vertical dam (up to 80°) at the lake Cingino, at 2200 m altitude, with her young near Antrona Piana. At summer time, Alpine Ibexes use to come on the wall to lick the salt that seeps from the stones. (Olivier Morin/Getty Images)
- An injured girl looks on as she is being treated at a makeshift hospital in the besieged rebel bastion of Douma, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus following reported airstrikes by government forces. Some 191,000 people have been killed since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule erupted in March 2011. (Abd Doumany/Getty Images)
- An injured man looks on as he waits to be treated at a makeshift hospital in the besieged rebel bastion of Douma, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus following reported airstrikes by government forces. Some 191,000 people have been killed since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule erupted in March 2011. (Abd Doumany/Getty Images)
- A Kurdish Syrian refugee waits for transport during a sand storm on the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province. The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday it was making contingency plans in case all 400,000 inhabitants of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani fled into Turkey to escape advancing Islamic State militants. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)
- A Syrian Kurdish woman wipes her eyes during a dust storm on a hill where she and others stand watching clashes between jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish fighters, at Swedi village some 10 km west of Suruc in Sanliurfa province,. Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey fleeing an onslaught by the jihadist Islamic State group that prompted an appeal for international intervention. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)
- Young Syrian Kurdish refugees enter Turkey at the Yumurtalik crossing gate in Turkey. As many as 138,000 Syrian Kurds have poured into Turkey since September 19 fleeing the Islamic State (IS) group offensive in northeastern Syria, according to the UNHCR. (Getty Images)
- An armed Yemeni Shiite Huthi rebel child mans a checkpoint erected in the capital Sanaa. Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi vowed to restore state authority and warned of “civil war” in the Sunni-majority country as Shiite rebels were seen in near-total control of the capital. (Mohammed Huwais/Getty Images)
- A Ukrainian serviceman wears a mask depicting a skull on armored personnel carrier (APC) in a suburb of the eastern town Debaltseve in the region of Donetsk. Top UN human rights official Ivan Simonovic said on September 23 that the death toll in Ukraine’s conflict has soared past 3,000, likely by a significant margin. (Anatolii Stepanov/Getty Images)
- An Iraqi SWAT trooper covers his ears as he fires a mortar bomb during clashes with Islamic State militants, north of Muqdadiyah in Diyala province. (Reuters)
- U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State militants are wreaking in Iraq and Syria, the exponential spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa and deadlocked negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
- Models sit on the catwalk as they present creations at the end of Belgian designer Dries Van Noten Spring/Summer 2015 women’s ready-to-wear collection show during Paris Fashion Week. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)
- A Turkana man smiles at a fishing camp on the western shore of Lake Turkana, close to Todonyang, near the Kenya-Ethiopia border in northern Kenya. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
- A person wearing a Batman mask speaks prior to a City Council vote to increase minimum wage at City Hall in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles City Council has tentatively approved a $15.37 an hour minimum wage for workers at hotels with more than 150 rooms on a 12-3 vote. The issue will come back for a final vote October 1. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
- A devotee lights candles at a Chinese shrine during the annual vegetarian festival in Bangkok. The festival celebrates the local Chinese community’s belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help them obtain good health and peace of mind. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
- Mountains of used tires lay on a dump in the countryside in Sesena Nuevo, near Madrid, Spain. Used tires dump site in Sesena is a major environmental problem and was declared illegal back in 2003, It currently stores over 75.000 tons of tires. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)