Daily life in September | Pictures in the news
Sometimes, the best photos don’t come from photo stories, but are just slices of every day life found by photographers or taken on daily assignments.
- A dog named Lucky gets a ride on the back of his owner as the man swims at the beach of the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
- Cheyenne East High school’s Taylor Stokes is thrown into the air as the cheerleading team practices on the front lawn of the school on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, in Cheyenne, Wyo. (Blaine McCartney/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle via AP)
- A young boy jumps over the sand of the beach while the sun sets, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015.(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
- A “Flat Francis” is given to students at Holy Angels School Friday, Sep. 25, 2015 in West Bend, Wis. (John Ehlke/West Bend Daily News via AP)
- Shenandoah University junior Lindy Hockaday, right, takes a selfie with the cake in she shape and size of a Steinway grand piano that was made for the university’s Ceremony of Celebration and Thanks for becoming an All-Steinway School Friday, Sept. 25. 2015 in Winchester, Virginia.(Scott Mason/The Winchester Star via AP)
- Jie Quan, second from right, of China, dips Juan Wang, also of China, as they pose for family members in front of the sculpture “Unconditional Surrender,” Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, in San Diego. The sculpture by Seward Johnson is inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
- A group of school children exercise on the plaza outside BC. Place stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
- Rawly Stanhope walks with his daughter Cambrin, 3, through a sunflower field, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015, near Lawrence, Kan. The 40-acre field, planted annually by the Grinter family, draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
- Visitors take photos as paintings by Vincent van Gogh are projected during an exhibition at a shopping mall in Beijing, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. The “Van Gogh Alive” exhibit includes over 3,000 images of the Dutch painter’s work as part of a multimedia display. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
- The sun dips behind a cloud as it rises between tall buildings in downtown Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. Today marked the autumnal equinox or the beginning of fall in which day and night are balanced to about 12 hours each. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
- In this Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015 photo, boys dance with flares during a wedding in Al Omraniayah, a suburb on the outskirts of Cairo. Since the 2011 uprising, the music of “Mahraganat,” Arabic for “festivals,” has emerged from and spread through impoverished communities, where local musicians play, especially during weddings, their auto-tuned beats and songs that tackle social, political and cultural issues. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
- Visitors walk under umbrellas on display over Cheonggye stream during a campaign to raise donations to help underprivileged children in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
- A flock of sheep graze on the land during as the sun sets, in Navaz, near to Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
- Erick Montiel, 7, cools off at Third Ward Park in Passaic, N.J., on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Temperatures climbed into the 90’s Wednesday and the heat is expected to continue Thursday. (Kevin R. Wexler/The Record of Bergen County via AP)
- A bird rests on a power line following a thundershower, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in Hidalgo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
- Jackson Eagleton, 5, covers his eyes as he puts his face in a fountain at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, Sept. 2, 2015. Jackson and his younger brother were sad that the pools in the area are beginning to close for the season, “Georgetown Park was the last resort for water,” says their father Jonathan Eagleton. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
- The waning crescent moon, rounded out with earthshine on the dark side and followed by Venus, rises above the Walla Walla Community College’s Dietrich Dome before dawn early Wednesday morning, Sept. 9, 2015, in Walla Walla, Wash. (Greg Lehman/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP)
- Tourists gather next to the sculpture “Sky Mirror”, by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015 in Versailles, west of Paris, France. The Chateau de Versailles welcomes the English artist Anish Kapoor for a major contemporary art exhibition in the gardens. The exhibition lasts until Nov. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
- A couple kiss next to the sculpture “Dirty Corner”, by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor, in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015 in Versailles, west of Paris, France. The Chateau de Versailles welcomes the English artist Anish Kapoor for a major contemporary art exhibition in the gardens. The exhibition lasts until Nov. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
- A scale reading “Two pesos” (12 cents) lies on the ground in the main square in Iguala, Guerrero State, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. An elderly man was using the scale to earn a meager income by charging passerby to weigh themselves.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
- People walk along the street during a rain shower in Beijing, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. China marked the Mid-Autumn Fesival on Sunday, traditionally a harbinger of cooler temperatures and more wintry conditions. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
- Pedestrians and vehicles make their way past the Potala Palace early on a rainy morning in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015. Chinese officials have taken foreign journalists on a visit to the region, normally off-limits to them, weeks after Communist Party officials commemorated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. (AP Photo/Aritz Parra)
- Pablo Dona, of Miami pauses while paddleboarding as sheets of rain fall in front of him, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, off the shores of Bal Harbour, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
- An Indian woman fishes with a traditional Assamese fishing tool at a paddy field in Tetelia village, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the U.N. General Assembly saying eliminating poverty is the top priority in his country, which has the worldís largest number of people living in extreme poverty. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
- Migrants and refugees are given food by local activists after boarding a train headed for the northern Croatian town of Botovo, after crossing the Serbian-Croatian border near the town of Spacva on September 26, 2015. Nearly 10,000 migrants entered Croatia September 25, a record daily influx since they started entering the country on their journey to seek a new life in western Europe, interior ministry said September 26. The overall number of the migrants who entered the European Union member from neighbouring Serbia during the past 10 days totalled 65,000, an interior ministry statement said. The influx started after Hungary sealed its border with Serbia earlier this month. (AFP Photo/Elvis Barukcic)
- A rainbow stretches across the Milan skyline, Italy, after heavy rain, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
- People on the London Eye look at London landmark Big Ben during a a bright September morning in London, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
- Savannah Anderson, left, kisses her sister Macy Saunders, 6, as they sit on top of a car to view a sunflower field at sunset, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015, near Lawrence, Kan. The 40-acre field, planted annually by the Grinter family, draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
- Israeli Arab youths play on a pier at the old port of Jaffa, a mixed Jewish-Arab part of Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
- Jose Mureo rests in the sand after burying himself along the Sacramento River as temperatures soared in the mid 90’s, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
- In this picture taken late Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, people look out to the Mediterranean Sea as a Lebanese angler casts a fishing pole from a rocky coastal area in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
- Palestinian boys play ball near the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- Commuters ride on a city trolley bus, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 in Pyongyang, North Korea. The city trolley is one of the more common forms of public transportation among North Koreans living in Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
- A North Korean traffic police woman directs vehicles at an intersection, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea, as residents commute at the end of the work day. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
- A Pakistani vendor makes a design on a camel to attract customers at a cattle market set up for the upcoming Muslims’ festival Eid-al-Adha, Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, in Karachi, Pakistan. Muslims all over the world celebrate the three-day festival Eid-al-Adha, by sacrificing sheep, goats, and cows to commemorate the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham to Christians and Jews) to sacrifice his son, Ismail, on God’s command. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
- A Pakistani monkey handler Naseer Khan plays flute to attract passers by for a monkey show to earn his living in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
- A Filipino girl carries a bucket filled with rocks which she gathered near her home in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015. The girl said the rocks would be used to build barriers to prevent floodwaters from entering her family home. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
- Filipino sculptor Frederic Caedo concentrates as he works on an image of the Virgin Mary at his workshop in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. Religious images are popular in the Philippines, Asia’s largest Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
- The Kremlin guards change at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin wall in downtown Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
- A mother reaches out to hold the hand of her young daughter, as they walk home after a church service in the village of Rwinkwavu, near to Akagera National Park, in Rwanda Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
- Children play on a swing at the newly built Meadowlands Park in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. The park features a mini soccer pitch. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
- Children wearing South Korea’s traditional costume “Hanbok” walk together hand in hand during a street campaign to encourage people to wear “Hanbok” for the upcoming country’s holiday, Chuseok, the Korean version of Thanksgiving Day, which falls on Sept. 27, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. South Koreans will visit their hometowns during the four-day holiday starting on Saturday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
- Civic Memorial High School Dean of Students Aaron Kilpatrick takes selfie with a criss cross pattern shaved on his head Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, during the Civic Memorial High School National Honor Society St. Baldrick’s Assembly at the school in Bethalto, Ill. The school raised $3,245 for St. Baldrick’s Foundation which funds childrens cancer research.(John Badman/The Telegraph via AP)
- Chelsea Davis, 7, left, Anna Hebert, 9, center, and Anastasia Dominguez, 7, wait to go in the pool during the after school program at the Boys and Girls Club in Pittsfield, Mass., Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. (Stephanie Zollshan/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)
- Flint residents Emily Green and Gail Edwards look on as Flint resident Blu Mykals plays a soprano saxophone while walking around Riverbank Park, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, in downtown Flint, Mich. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
- A man jumps into the Mediterranean Sea as Lebanese anglers cast their fishing poles from a rocky coastal area on the Beirut coastline, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
- A humpback whale breaches in the Columbia River near the Astoria-Megler Bridge Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, near Chinook, Wash. (Joshua Bessex/Daily Astorian via AP)
- Jose Juarez, of Cougar Marine in San Benito, Texas, welds anodized aluminum on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. (Jason Hoekema/Valley Morning Star via AP)
- Giang A Chang, 6, reacts after his father gave him VND 1,000 ($0.05 USD) to buy a snack in Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province, Vietnam, Sunday, Sept. 27th, 2015. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
- Brian Arneson, 48, does a push-up during his black belt test at Elite Martial Arts Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, in Bridgewater, Va. Arneson has been training in martial arts “off and on” since he was 6. (Austin Bachand/Daily News-Record via AP)