Indian devotees celebrate in Mumbai and New York Fashion Week continues | Sept. 8
The day in photos around the world.
- A boy sits under coloured lights during the mid-Autumn festival at the Thean Hou temple in Kuala Lumpur September 8, 2014. (Olivia Harris/Reuters)
- People pray during the Mid-Autumn festival at Lama Temple in Beijing on September 8,2014. As a tranditonal custom, thousands of Chinese people head to temples to offer prayers during the festival in Beijing. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)
- Devotees carry an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, during a procession through the streets before immersing it in the waters of the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai September 8, 2014. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea, symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
- Indian devotees throng the streets as a huge idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha is brought on procession for an immersion in Mumbai on September 8, 2014. Hindu devotees take idols of the Lord Ganesha – believed to be the harbinger of good health, prosperity and wisdom, at the end of the ten-day long Ganeshotsav festival to be immersed in water bodies. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
- Devotees celebrate as they take out an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, from a place worship during a procession through the streets before immersing it in the waters of the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai September 8, 2014. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea, symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
- Indians look on from a rooftop as a huge idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha is brought on procession for an immersion in Mumbai on September 8, 2014. Hindu devotees take idols of the Lord Ganesha – believed to be the harbinger of good health, prosperity and wisdom, at the end of the ten-day long Ganeshotsav festival to be immersed in water bodies. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
- A devotee (C) cries as others prepare to immerse an idol of Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, on the banks of the river Yamuna in New Delhi September 8, 2014. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Anindito Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
- Family members of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, cry as they gather to pray Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing September 8, 2014, on the six-month anniversary of the disappearance of the plane. The Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on March 8 after taking off from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing. About two thirds of those on board were from China. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
- A Palestinian man plays with his baby on a beach on September 7, 2014 in Gaza city. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)
- Silhouettes of anti-government protesters are seen as they listen to a speech by their leader Tahir ul-Qadri, a Sufi cleric and leader of the political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), in front of the Parliament house in the Red Zone during the Revolution March in Islamabad September 8, 2014. Leaders of Pakistani protests demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation are making progress in talks with the government, officials said on Monday, trying to find a solution to a crisis that has destabilised the coup-prone nation. After weeks of deadlock, protest leaders Imran Khan, a former cricket star, and Qadri are now in talks with government officials. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)
- A buddhist monk holds an umbrella as he walks inside a temple in Bangkok September 8, 2014. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
- A Palestinian gestures in front of Israeli police during clashes that broke after the funeral of Mohammed Sinokrot outside Jerusalem’s Old City September 8, 2014. Scores of Palestinians rioted in East Jerusalem for a second day after hearing that the youth from their neighbourhood had died of wounds suffered in a clash with Israeli police last week. Sinokrot succumbed to a head wound suffered during a protest a week ago but the circumstances of how he sustained the wound were in dispute. (Ammar Awad /Reuters)
- A model is reflected in a mirror as she presents a creation during the Versus Versace Spring/Summer 2015 collection show during New York Fashion Week in the Manhattan borough of New York September 7, 2014. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
- Models present creations from the Tommy Hilfiger Spring/Summer 2015 collection during New York Fashion Week September 8, 2014. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)