A look at the best photos from around the world.
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A woman passes an image of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre in Havana. Pope Francis flies to Cuba on Saturday for a three-night visit seen as a potential public relations coup for Cuba but also a risk he might speak more bluntly about democracy and human rights than the Communist government would like. Edgard Garrido / Reuters -
Yuki Ishikawa of Japan spikes before the match against Iran during the FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Cup Japan 2015 at the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium. Koki Nagahama / Getty Images for FIVB -
A refugee carries her belongings on her head as she walks towards the border in Nickelsdorf where they board the buses which takes them further in to Austria. Vladimir Simicek / AFP Photo -
Refugees crowd on a train from Gyor to Hegyeshalom in Hungary. During the night they were transported from the Croatian border in buses organised by the Hungarian authorities. Hungary has finished placing barbed wire along 41 kilometres of its border with Croatia in a bid to stem a flow of migrants from that country, a defence ministry spokesman said. Vladimir Simicek / AFP Photo -
A rebel fighter fires heavy artillery during clashes with government forces and pro-regime shabiha militiamen in the outskirts of Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADHOUR -
A boy looks out from a broken window after boarding a train heading to Serbia near the town of Gevgelija at the border line between Greece and Macedonia. Land routes to northern Europe from the Balkans were all closed for migrants, after Croatia closed their border with Serbia because of the unprecedented human wave. The crisis, challenging the EU’s humanitarian reputation and its vaunted policy of border mobility, has triggered an extraordinary summit, bringing leaders of the 28-nation bloc together next week. Nikolay Doychinov / AFP Photo -
A man climbs through the window as refugees struggle to get on a train from Gyor to Hegyeshalom in Hungary on September 19, 2015. During the night they were transported from the Croatian border in buses organised by the Hungarian authorities. Hungary has finished placing barbed wire along 41 kilometres (25 miles) of its border with Croatia in a bid to stem a flow of migrants from that country, a defence ministry spokesman said. Vladimir Simicek / AFP Photo -
A young man attracts the attention of a wild cow after a bullfight at La Algaba bullring near the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain. Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters
World in focus — best photos for September 19, 2015
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