• Elderly patients are transported in a boat by the Self Defence Force after they were evacuated from a hospital in Joso in Ibaraki prefecture. Thousands of rescuers arrived in a deluged city north of Tokyo to help evacuate hundreds of trapped residents. Jiji Press / AFP
    Elderly patients are transported in a boat by the Self Defence Force after they were evacuated from a hospital in Joso in Ibaraki prefecture. Thousands of rescuers arrived in a deluged city north of Tokyo to help evacuate hundreds of trapped residents. Jiji Press / AFP
  • Supporters of the campaign not to legalise assisted dying hold a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain. Members of the British Parliament are holding a debate on whether terminally ill adults should be allowed to end their lives under medical supervision. Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA
    Supporters of the campaign not to legalise assisted dying hold a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain. Members of the British Parliament are holding a debate on whether terminally ill adults should be allowed to end their lives under medical supervision. Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA
  • Migrants and refugee children wait near a registration camp in the southern Serbian town of Presevo. A record 5,000 migrants have arrived at Serbia’s border with Hungary over the past 24 hours. Armend Nimani / AFP
    Migrants and refugee children wait near a registration camp in the southern Serbian town of Presevo. A record 5,000 migrants have arrived at Serbia’s border with Hungary over the past 24 hours. Armend Nimani / AFP
  • A refugee dries his passport next to a fire before heading to Belgrade from the southern Serbian town of Presevo. Most of the migrants are moving through Hungary on their way to Germany and other northern countries where they hope to win asylum. Armend Nimani / AFP
    A refugee dries his passport next to a fire before heading to Belgrade from the southern Serbian town of Presevo. Most of the migrants are moving through Hungary on their way to Germany and other northern countries where they hope to win asylum. Armend Nimani / AFP
  • The sun rises as refugees and migrants walk to pass from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia. The sudden onset of autumn has taken tens of thousands by surprise all along the Balkans route from Greece to Hungary, the main gateway to Western Europe for more than 160,000 asylum seekers already this year. Giannis Papanikos / AP
    The sun rises as refugees and migrants walk to pass from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia. The sudden onset of autumn has taken tens of thousands by surprise all along the Balkans route from Greece to Hungary, the main gateway to Western Europe for more than 160,000 asylum seekers already this year. Giannis Papanikos / AP
  • Visitors to the London Eye look at Big Ben during a September morning in London. Frank Augstein / AP
    Visitors to the London Eye look at Big Ben during a September morning in London. Frank Augstein / AP
  • An explosion and smoke rise after an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition at a weapons depot in Sanaa. Hani Mohammed / AP
    An explosion and smoke rise after an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition at a weapons depot in Sanaa. Hani Mohammed / AP
  • Nato forces stand behind a wreath during a memorial ceremony on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States at the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Rahmat Gul / AP
    Nato forces stand behind a wreath during a memorial ceremony on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States at the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Rahmat Gul / AP

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World in focus — best photos for September 11, 2015

Jen Thomas

September 11, 2015

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A look at the best photos from around the world.

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