• Pedestrians walk along a footbridge connecting buildings in Hong Kong. Anthony Wallace / AFP
    Pedestrians walk along a footbridge connecting buildings in Hong Kong. Anthony Wallace / AFP
  • Britanie Eichenholc, from France, right, is seen silhouetted during her performance at the Miss Trans Star International 2016 show celebrated in Barcelona, Spain. Manu Fernandez / AP Photo
    Britanie Eichenholc, from France, right, is seen silhouetted during her performance at the Miss Trans Star International 2016 show celebrated in Barcelona, Spain. Manu Fernandez / AP Photo
  • A woman displays her hands during a rally/prayer vigil at Marshall Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. With officials refusing to release any video of the Tuesday shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, anger built as two starkly different versions emerged: Police say Scott disregarded repeated demands to drop his gun, while neighbourhood residents say he was holding a book, not a weapon, as he waited for his son to get off the school bus. The protest started as a downtown prayer vigil, but an angry group left the peaceful event and marched through downtown Charlotte. Jeff Siner / The Charlotte Observer via AP
    A woman displays her hands during a rally/prayer vigil at Marshall Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. With officials refusing to release any video of the Tuesday shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, anger built as two starkly different versions emerged: Police say Scott disregarded repeated demands to drop his gun, while neighbourhood residents say he was holding a book, not a weapon, as he waited for his son to get off the school bus. The protest started as a downtown prayer vigil, but an angry group left the peaceful event and marched through downtown Charlotte. Jeff Siner / The Charlotte Observer via AP
  • Graduates queue to have their photograph taken after a graduation ceremony at Oxford University in England. Paul Hackett / Reuters
    Graduates queue to have their photograph taken after a graduation ceremony at Oxford University in England. Paul Hackett / Reuters
  • Tibetan pilgrims seen in the smoke of a bonfire offering ritual outside Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Sera Monastery is known as one of the ‘great three’ Gelug university monasteries of Tibet founded in 1419. Tibetan Buddhism continues to be a source of political dispute in Tibet, where the population maintains its faith and beliefs while the Chinese government tries to keep its political ramifications under control. EPA
    Tibetan pilgrims seen in the smoke of a bonfire offering ritual outside Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Sera Monastery is known as one of the ‘great three’ Gelug university monasteries of Tibet founded in 1419. Tibetan Buddhism continues to be a source of political dispute in Tibet, where the population maintains its faith and beliefs while the Chinese government tries to keep its political ramifications under control. EPA
  • A window cleaner hangs from a rope as he descends after cleaning an office building in Beijing. Greg Baker / AFP
    A window cleaner hangs from a rope as he descends after cleaning an office building in Beijing. Greg Baker / AFP
  • A child looks on at the Kara Tepe migrant camp, where mainly migrant families are hosted on the Greek island of Lesbos. Thousands fled days earlier when dozens of tents and shelters at the Moria camp on the island were torched, in a blaze sparked when migrants of different nationalities got into a brawl. Some migrants were shifted to the island’s second camp of Kara Tepe and some spent the night in churches, said Efi Latsoudi, a human-rights activist who was decorated for her work on Lesbos by the UN refugee agency earlier this month. AFP
    A child looks on at the Kara Tepe migrant camp, where mainly migrant families are hosted on the Greek island of Lesbos. Thousands fled days earlier when dozens of tents and shelters at the Moria camp on the island were torched, in a blaze sparked when migrants of different nationalities got into a brawl. Some migrants were shifted to the island’s second camp of Kara Tepe and some spent the night in churches, said Efi Latsoudi, a human-rights activist who was decorated for her work on Lesbos by the UN refugee agency earlier this month. AFP
  • Ferries are docked at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, during the first day of a 48-hour strike by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Union (PNO) to protest new austerity measures that the government plans. Bailout-dependent Greece has agreed to carry out new austerity measures and reforms to secure vital rescue loans from its European creditors. Petros Giannakouris / AP Photo
    Ferries are docked at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, during the first day of a 48-hour strike by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Union (PNO) to protest new austerity measures that the government plans. Bailout-dependent Greece has agreed to carry out new austerity measures and reforms to secure vital rescue loans from its European creditors. Petros Giannakouris / AP Photo
  • A man walks his dog along an acre in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany. Michael Probst / AP Photo
    A man walks his dog along an acre in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany. Michael Probst / AP Photo

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World in focus – best photos for September 22, 2016

Fatima Al Marzouqi

September 22, 2016

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A look at the best photos from around the world today.

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