New human relative, student protest in Bangladesh, crossing the Mediterranean Sea | Sept. 10
The day in photos around the world.
- A woman clad in a burqa looks at other pieces of Afghanistan’s traditional, all-encompassing dress at a store in Mazar-i Sharif, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Mustafa Najafizada)
- Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby walks into a side door of the Baltimore Circuit Court on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015 in Baltimore. The trials for six police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray will be held in Baltimore, Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams ruled, saying it would be nearly impossible to find a place not inundated by publicity about the high-profile. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
- Bangladeshi students shout slogans standing above a passenger bus which they stopped and got parked across the road to block traffic during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept.10, 2015. Thousands of students from different private universities blocked traffic in different parts of the city protesting the 7.5 percent value-added tax (VAT) on their tuition fees in the 2015-16 budget. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad)
- Visitors look at stock price monitors inside the BM&F BOVESPA stock exchange headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Brazil’s financial markets fell Thursday in the aftermath of credit agency Standard & Poor’s downgrading the country’s sovereign debt to junk status. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
- Containers of gas sit at Victor Gonzalez’s make-shift service station in Uribia, Colombia, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, near the border with Venezuela. Gonzalez is one of many “pimpineros,” salespeople who buy gas from middlemen who purchase it cheaply in Venezuela, and sell it to commuters in Colombia at closer to retail price. Gonzalez says he used to charge clients about $5 dollars per gallon before Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro closed the border. Now he pumps it out to clients willing to pay double. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
- An Afghan woman embraces her husband as they arrive with others migrants from Turkey to Lesbos island, Greece, on a dinghy,Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. While migrants for years have taken death-defying trips across the Mediterranean to reach the relative peace and comfort of the Europe Union, the flow has hit record proportions this year – notably with an influx of Syrians, Afghans and Eritreans fleeing trouble back home. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
- In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 a refugee sleeps with her children on a ferry traveling from the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos to the Athens’ port of Piraeus. Greeces caretaker government chartered two extra ferries and sent additional staff to Lesbos to speed up the registration and ease overcrowding on the island, where more than 20,000 refugees and migrants had been living in precarious conditions after arriving on dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
- A boy passes from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia as other refugees and migrants wait, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Thousands of people, including many families with young children, braved torrential downpours to cross Greeces northern border with Macedonia early Thursday, after Greek authorities managed to register about 17,000 people on the island of Lesbos in the space of a few days, allowing them to continue their journey north into Europe. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
- Macedonian border police helps refugees and migrants to pass in heavy rainfall from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Thousands of people, including many families with young children, braved torrential downpours to cross Greeceís northern border with Macedonia early Thursday, after Greek authorities managed to register about 17,000 people on the island of Lesbos in the space of a few days, allowing them to continue their journey north into Europe. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
- Refugees and migrants walk on the railway tracks in heavy rainfall as they wait to pass from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Thousands of people, including many families with young children, braved torrential downpours to cross Greeces northern border with Macedonia early Thursday, after Greek authorities managed to register about 17,000 people on the island of Lesbos in the space of a few days, allowing them to continue their journey north into Europe. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
- Syrian refugee child Jana Makkiyeh, 3, whose family comes from Damascus, Syria, holds a teddy bear while standing near her family’s tent at a makeshift camp for asylum seekers in Roszke, southern Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Leaders of the United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday that Hungary faces a bigger wave of 42,000 asylum seekers in the next 10 days and will need international help to provide shelter on its border, where newcomers already are complaining bitterly about being left to sleep in frigid fields. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
- A young girl holding her mother’s hand waits in a queue for a bus that will take them to the center for asylum seekers near Roszke, southern Hungary in Roszke, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Leaders of the United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday that Hungary faces a bigger wave of 42,000 asylum seekers in the next 10 days and will need international help to provide shelter on its border. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
- Migrant people cross the serbian-hungarian border at the railway track near Roszke, southern Hungary in Roszke, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Leaders of the United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday that Hungary faces a bigger wave of 42,000 asylum seekers in the next 10 days and will need international help to provide shelter on its border. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
- Pakistani Rangers Director General (Punjab) Maj Gen Umar Farooq Burki inspects a guard of honor on his arrival at the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. A 16-member Pakistani delegation of border officers arrived the capital for three-day talks with Indian authorities to discuss unprovoked cease-fire violations alongs its border in the disputed Kashmir region in order to avoid civilian casualties. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
- A man carries belongings through a flooded street in Oyama, Tochigi prefecture, northeast of Tokyo Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Heavy rain is pummeling Japan for a second straight day, overflowing rivers and causing landslides and localized flooding in the eastern part of the country. (Kyodo News via AP)
- An Arab Israeli man walks with his camels on a closed air field during a sandstorm near the Arab town of Qalansuwa, Israel, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. The unseasonal sandstorm has swept across the Mideast, blanketing Beirut, Cairo and Damascus and causing the deaths of at least five people and sending hundreds of others to hospitals with breathing problems. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
- Syrian refugee Khitam, 21, holds her 18-month-old daughter Reeham inside her tent at a Syrian refugee camp in the town of Deir Zanoun, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, The UNHCR has said there are about 1,150,000 Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon, equal to a quarter of Lebanon’s own population of 4.5 million. Beirut estimates there are another 500,000 unregistered Syrians in the country. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
- In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 photo, Mustafa Jassim Mohammed, 29, practices paddling with an arm maimed in a bombing as he swims in the Tigris River in preparation to face the danger of crossing the Mediterranean Sea, in the Azamiyah neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. He knows that migrants — men, women and children — have died when their smuggler boats capsized, and hes seen the heart-wrenching pictures of the drowned Syrian boy who washed ashore in Turkey last week. But hes also seen the TV footage of hundreds of migrants making their way across Europe and being welcomed in certain quarters. After more than a decade of chaos and war, its a gamble hes willing to take. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
- In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 photo, Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Thousands of Muslims from all over the world have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca. Every Muslim is required to perform the hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca at least once in his or her lifetime if able to do so. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
- Smoke rises after an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on an army base in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. The impoverished country is torn between the Yemeni Shiite rebels, known as the Houthis, allied with army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and forces loyal to exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled to Saudi Arabia in March. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
- Retired Charlotte Fire Department Capt. Tony Bateman holds his niece, Lila Grace Nobles, 3, after helping place 2,997 Flags of Remembrance, at Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte, N.C., in honor of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The event is sponsored by the Firefighter Steven Coakley Foundation, in memory of Coakley a New York City firefighter who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
- Maria Pike of Chicago, holding a photo of her son Ricky Pike, attends a rally against gun violence, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The father of Virginia shooting victim Alison Parker is urging lawmakers to defy the powerful gun lobby and pass legislation to strengthen background checks for gun purchasers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
- South Africa Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, kisses a reconstruction of Homo naledi’s face during the announcement made at Maropeng Cradle of Humankind in Magaliesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Scientists say they’ve discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark chamber of a cave in South Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
- A woman is detained by national police during clashes between supporters of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and government loyalists outside the courthouse in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Supporters of a high-profile jailed Venezuelan opposition leader clashed with government loyalists Thursday outside a Caracas courthouse in anticipation of an impending verdict. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)