• A staff member plays a shot towards a putting green on a lake from a tee ground on top of a hill, at Zhangjiajie, Hunan province. A invitational competition for Chinese and Korean celebrities will be held this month in Zhangjiajie, and the player who can make a hole in one will be awarded $1,000,000, local media reported. Reuters
    A staff member plays a shot towards a putting green on a lake from a tee ground on top of a hill, at Zhangjiajie, Hunan province. A invitational competition for Chinese and Korean celebrities will be held this month in Zhangjiajie, and the player who can make a hole in one will be awarded $1,000,000, local media reported. Reuters
  • Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take up position near their camp in Gwar, northern Iraq. Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters
    Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take up position near their camp in Gwar, northern Iraq. Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters
  • Iraqis inspect the site of a Tuesday night car bomb attack on a busy commercial street in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. The bomb killed and wounded dozens of people, authorities said. Karim Kadim / AP
    Iraqis inspect the site of a Tuesday night car bomb attack on a busy commercial street in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. The bomb killed and wounded dozens of people, authorities said. Karim Kadim / AP
  • Syrian refugees wait at the Syrian-Turkish border near Sanliurfa. The Islamic State assault against dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Syria could create a mass exodus, with up to 400,000 seeking refuge in neighbouring Turkey, a United Nations official warned. Sedan Suna / EPA
    Syrian refugees wait at the Syrian-Turkish border near Sanliurfa. The Islamic State assault against dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Syria could create a mass exodus, with up to 400,000 seeking refuge in neighbouring Turkey, a United Nations official warned. Sedan Suna / EPA
  • Blind Thai students reach for bells in the shape of a Buddha, part of the exhibit on the Thai king’s royal boat, in a pilot project to develop tourism for the blind and visually impaired in the Thai Kingdom, allowing equality and vision to all who visit historical sites, in Bangkok, Thailand. Barbara Walton / EPA
    Blind Thai students reach for bells in the shape of a Buddha, part of the exhibit on the Thai king’s royal boat, in a pilot project to develop tourism for the blind and visually impaired in the Thai Kingdom, allowing equality and vision to all who visit historical sites, in Bangkok, Thailand. Barbara Walton / EPA
  • A girl cries outside the “Island Clinic”, a new Ebola treatment centre that opened in Monrovia after the death of her father and her mother by Ebola. The first members of a team of 165 Cuban doctors and health workers have arrived in Sierra Leone to help the fight against Ebola, a health official said Tuesday. Zoom Dosso / AFP
    A girl cries outside the “Island Clinic”, a new Ebola treatment centre that opened in Monrovia after the death of her father and her mother by Ebola. The first members of a team of 165 Cuban doctors and health workers have arrived in Sierra Leone to help the fight against Ebola, a health official said Tuesday. Zoom Dosso / AFP
  • A woman walking along the middle of a road in Yangon. Myanmar’s first census in three decades shows the country has a population of 51 million people, authorities said late August, around nine million fewer than an earlier estimate. Ye Aung Thu / AFP
    A woman walking along the middle of a road in Yangon. Myanmar’s first census in three decades shows the country has a population of 51 million people, authorities said late August, around nine million fewer than an earlier estimate. Ye Aung Thu / AFP
  • Ram Singh Chauhan, 62, shows his moustache, which he claims to be 5.4 meters (18ft) long, during a ceremony in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Chauhan, who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest moustache, claims he has not trimmed it since the age of 17. Amit Dave / Reuters
    Ram Singh Chauhan, 62, shows his moustache, which he claims to be 5.4 meters (18ft) long, during a ceremony in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Chauhan, who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest moustache, claims he has not trimmed it since the age of 17. Amit Dave / Reuters
  • A masked Ukrainian serviceman, with the words ‘War is Hell’ written on his helmet is seen on an armoured military vehicle near the eastern city of Debaltseve, Ukraine. Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said 22 September that a buffer zone along the front line with government forces will not be implemented soon. Konstantin Grishin / EPA
    A masked Ukrainian serviceman, with the words ‘War is Hell’ written on his helmet is seen on an armoured military vehicle near the eastern city of Debaltseve, Ukraine. Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said 22 September that a buffer zone along the front line with government forces will not be implemented soon. Konstantin Grishin / EPA

Best photography from around the world, Sept. 24

Rob Gurdebeke

September 24, 2014

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The National View’s photo editors pick the best images of the day from around the world

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