World in focus - best photos for September 4, 2017

Aarne Bielefeldt, right, is announced as the third place finalist at the 2017 Remington Beard Boss World Beard & Moustache Championships in Austin, Texas. Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP Photo
Visitors at Tokyo's National Art Centre. Behrouz Mehri / AFP Photo
A young Nepalese girl dressed as living goddess Kumari waits for Kumari Puja to start at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu. Niranjan Shrestha / AP Photo
Police officers stand guard outside the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tatan Syuflana / AP Photo
Cows graze on a meadow in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany. Angelika Warmuth / dpa via AP
Russian president Vladimir Putin, left, and Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. attend the plenary session during the Brics Summit in Xiamen, south-eastern China. Fred Dufour / AFP Photo
A South Korean Hyunmoo-2 missile is launched during a live-fire exercise in response to North Korea's sixth nuclear test a day earlier. EPA
A Muslim woman cries during prayers at the end of a rally in support of the persecuted Rohingya minority outside the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Darren Whiteside / Reuters

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September 04, 2017

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