John Kerry looks out over Baghdad, soccer in Colombo, Evel Knievel stuntman | Sept. 10
Today in pictures around the world.
- Army soldiers unload boats to be used for evacuating flood victims from their flooded houses following heavy rain in Jhang, Punjab province, September 10, 2014. The prime ministers of India and Pakistan have offered to help each other in efforts to alleviate flood havoc in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, lowering tension between the rival nations after weeks of army clashes and heated rhetoric. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
- British history enthusiast portraying German ‘Feldwebelleutnant’ officer Fritz Brandt (front) leads members of the Sturmabteilungbrandt group during the re-enactment of the First Battle of the Marne, which took place a century ago, at Chauconin-Neufmontiers, Eastern Paris September 6, 2014. Dozens of volunteers dressed in French and German military uniforms recreated the battle from two trenches dug out by local residents to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War (WWI). Picture taken September 6, 2014. (Charles Platiau /Reuetrs)
- Fernando Rivera Jr. poses at the open gate of the 18-foot (five-metre) high rusty steel barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border outside Brownsville, Texas September 2, 2014. Fernando says that immigrants regularly stroll through the gate and onto his property. The “Patriots” are a heavily armed group who patrol the U.S. border with Mexico, trying to deter immigrants from crossing the border illegally. The group, who portray themselves as defending the American way, use a strong display of force to intimidate anyone from making the crossing from Mexico into Texas. To critics, they are vigilantes spoiling for a fight. To the immigrants, they are another barrier to entry and to the U.S. Border Patrol, groups like this can either be a nuisance interfering with their operations or an aide in spotting migrants illegally trying to enter the country. Picture taken September 2, 2014. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- A model presents a creation from the Jeremy Scott Spring/Summer 2015 collection during New York Fashion Week September 10, 2014. (Lucas Jackson /REUTERS)
- Professional stuntman Eddie Braun reacts as the steam power rocket named ‘The Evel Spirit’ is tested along the edge of the Snake River Canyon outside Twin Falls, Idaho, September 9, 2014. In homage to Evel Knievel, professional stuntman Eddie Braun is preparing to attempt jump approximately 1,800 feet across the Snake River Canyon in a replica of Skycycle X-2, a steam-powered rocket Knievel used in 1974. Knievel’s effort fell short after a parachute prematurely deployed. Braun said no firm date for the jump has been set yet. Picture taken September 9, 2014. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
- Civilians transport an injured man on a motorbike after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus September 10, 2014. (Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)
- A twelve-year-old Syrian boy has his eyes checked by Dr. Yosef Pikel at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, northern Israel September 10, 2014. A hospital spokesperson said the boy was severely wounded, losing the sight in both eyes and suffering injuries to his arm and leg, when a shell exploded near his home in the outskirts of Damascus. After undergoing basic medical treatment in Lebanon, his brother took him by donkey across the border to an Israeli military post, where soldiers took him to hospital in Safed. The spokesperson said the boy was one of 10 Syrians being treated at the hospital, and one of several hundred since February 2013. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
- A wounded Syrian man walks in a hospital room he shares with other Syrians at Ziv Medical centre in Safed, northern Israel September 10, 2014. A hospital spokesperson said 10 Syrians are currently being treated at the hospital, part of several hundred since February 2013. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
- Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad aim their weapons as they take up positions inside the traffic police branch during what they said was an offensive against them by rebel fighters in the Bab al-Jenin neighbourhood of Aleppo September 10, 2014. (George Ourfalian/Reuters)
- Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad aim their weapons as they take up positions inside the traffic police branch during what they said was an offensive against them by rebel fighters in the Bab al-Jenin neighbourhood of Aleppo September 10, 2014. (George Ourfalian/Reuters)
- A boy runs to kick a soccer ball on the beach in Colombo September 10, 2014. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
- Kashmiri men stand on the roof of their flooded house as they wait to be rescued by Indian army soldiers in Srinagar September 10, 2014. Flood waters started receding in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, giving rescue teams a chance to reach tens of thousands of villagers stranded by the heaviest rainfall in half a century. Floods and landslides triggered by days of rain in the disputed Himalayan region have killed at least 450 people in India and Pakistan and cut off more than one million people from basic services. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
- A riot police removes a flag from a fence at a high school during a protest in Santiago September 10, 2014. Chilean students have demanded changes and an end to profiteering in the education system. (van Alvarado/Reuters)
- Kashmiri men row a boat to cross the flooded areas as they move toward higher ground in Srinagar September 10, 2014. Flood waters started receding in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, giving rescue teams a chance to reach tens of thousands of villagers stranded by the heaviest rainfall in half a century. Floods and landslides triggered by days of rain in the disputed Himalayan region have killed at least 450 people in India and Pakistan and cut off more than one million people from basic services. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
- A flood victim sits on a boat while being evacuated from her flooded house following heavy rain in Jhang, Punjab province September 10, 2014. The prime ministers of India and Pakistan have offered to help each other in efforts to alleviate flood havoc in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, lowering tension between the rival nations after weeks of army clashes and heated rhetoric. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
- Flood victims are evacuated by boat from their flooded house in Srinagar September 10, 2014. Flood waters started receding in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, giving rescue teams a chance to reach tens of thousands of villagers stranded by the heaviest rainfall in half a century. Floods and landslides triggered by days of rain in the disputed Himalayan region have killed at least 450 people in India and Pakistan and cut off more than one million people from basic services. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
- Ana Patricia Botin leaves a family residence in Somosaguas outside Madrid September 10, 2014. Emilio Botin, one of Spain’s most powerful men who transformed Santander from a small domestic lender into the euro zone’s biggest bank, has died of a heart attack, aged 79. The bank said on Wednesday it would hold a board meeting later in the day to nominate a successor as chairman. Analysts and investors have long expected this would be Botin’s eldest daughter Ana Botin, who heads Santander’s British business. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
- Women mourn as they watch from a window the funeral of Issa al Qitri, a Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli troops, at al-Amari camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah September 10, 2014. Israeli troops shot and killed 22-year-old Qitri on Wednesday during a raid on a West Bank refugee camp, Palestinian medics and the Israeli military said. The soldiers, seeking to detain a Hamas militant, were confronted by around 50 Palestinians who hurled stones, petrol bombs and burning tyres at them, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman said Qitri was shot while trying to throw an explosive device at the soldiers. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)
- A supermoon rises over Ciudad Juarez September 9, 2014. The September full moon, also known as the Harvest Moon, is the last of this summer’s three supermoons, and the final one of the year. Picture taken September 9, 2014 (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
- U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington September 10, 2014. President Barack Obama called Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Wednesday ahead of an evening speech in which the U.S. leader plans to lay out his strategy for defeating the militant group Islamic State, the White House said. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks out over Baghdad from a helicopter September 10, 2014. Kerry arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday as he began a tour of the Middle East to build military, political and financial support to defeat Islamic State militants controlling parts of Iraq and Syria. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/Reuter)
- A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter uses sandbags to make a gun placement over-looking the road to Makhmur that was retaken from the Islamic Sate, south of Erbil September 10, 2014. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)
- Dancers painted to look like tigers pose as they wait to take part in a performance during festivities marking the end of the annual harvest festival of Onam in Trichur city in the southern Indian state of Kerala September 10, 2014. The ten-day long festival is celebrated annually in India’s southern coastal state of Kerala to symbolise the return of King Mahabali to meet his subjects. (Babu/Reuters)