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View through the porthole
The new "Tim and Gina Fairfax Discovery Center" opened at the National Museum of Australia these days.
Children playfully explore the stories of fictitious animal characters - including the underwater world of manatees and turtles, from a submarine perspective.
Photo: Lukas Coch / EPA
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In the shadow of the space capsule
A woman stands in front of blankets hung on linen in the Kazakh city of Baikonur.
The Baikonur Cosmodrome is located near the city.
From there, two Russian and one American cosmonaut started the first joint flight since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
Photo: Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP
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Golden mean
A police officer at the opening of a multiplex cinema in Srinagar, India.
Photo:
Tauseef Mustafa / AFP
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wine time
The Ministry of Agriculture expects a harvest of up to 45.6 million hectoliters of wine in France.
In the cellar of a winery in the south of the country, harvested grapes lie in the destemmer: the device separates the stems from the grapes.
Photo: Guillaume Horcajuelo/epa
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Flaming protest
Queen Elizabeth's death caused grief around the world.
But there were other moods in the Commonwealth as well: Aboriginal activist Wayne Wharton burns an Australian flag in Brisbane - as a rejection of the British monarchy.
Photo: Russell Freeman/epa
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Pulled out of thin air
A Palestinian takes a quail from a net.
What at first glance seems like a liberation is actually a hunting method.
In order to catch migratory birds, hundreds of meters of nets are set up on the Mediterranean coast of the Gaza Strip in the second half of September every year.
Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / REUTERS
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darkness after the storm
In Miches, Dominican Republic, a woman watches her son repair the roof.
The storm killed at least five people in Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
Hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity.
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Orlando Barria/epa
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The shoulders of giants
Photos of high profile bodybuilders on the wall of a gym in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The gym in the Alexandria district is only a few hundred meters from the house where Nelson Mandela lived.
The unemployment rate in the neighborhood is 50 percent, and the average income is $1,950 a year.
The studio teaches a holistic approach to bodybuilding.
It is both physical and mental strengthening.
The trainers teach discipline and also make it possible to develop skills for the working world.
Photo: Kim Ludbrook/EPA
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Danceable fashion
Dancers from the Spanish National Ballet, wrapped in chiffon tiered skirts, present the designs of designer Juan Duyos.
The Madrid designer celebrated his 25th professional anniversary at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in his hometown.
Photo: Susana Vera / REUTERS
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Goddess in progress
Under the gray plastic sheet is the unfinished statue of the goddess Durga.
The goddess of perfection, who embodies power, knowledge, action and wisdom, among other things, is the most popular goddess of India.
For them alone, celebrations lasting several days are held every year.
This year she will be honored from October 1st to 5th.
The festival celebrates female power and the victory of good over evil.
Photo: Piyal Adhikary/epa
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education prohibited
These Afghan girls are on their way to school in the city of Kandahar.
The UN had called on the ruling Taliban to give girls access to secondary schools again.
But the radical Islamists only opened primary schools for them.
Photo: Stringer/EPA
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light against oblivion
Human rights groups light candles in the Philippine city of Manila.
With the action they commemorate the imposition of martial law in the South Asian state by the then dictator Ferdinand Marcos 50 years ago.
11,103 people have now been officially classified as victims of torture, murder, enforced disappearance and other ill-treatment and have been compensated.
However, activists criticize that the human rights violations have never been seriously investigated and those responsible have not been held accountable.
Photo: Aaron Favila/AP
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Reunited
Ukrainian woman Yuliia hugs her husband Eugine at the Kyiv train station.
The woman returned to her homeland for the first time since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression.
Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP
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Scorched earth
A half-ruined landscape in the Brazilian municipality of Lábrea in southern Amazonas state.
According to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), fires in the Amazon reached a record average of 1,400 fires per day in the first half of September.
Photo: Michael Dantas / AFP
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Mammals with a shield
A man looks at the description of a sculpture of a 17-year-old chimpanzee.
The statue is in London and was created by artist duo Gillie and Mark.
Photo: Vadim Ghirda/AP
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Big rockets very small
A man sells model rockets in a souvenir shop in Baikonur.
The nearby cosmodrome is the world's first and currently largest spaceport.
The first manned space flight took off from there in 1961.
Photo: Yuri Kochetov / epa
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observed
Reporters and other media workers cover the speeches of the heads of state and government during the United Nations General Assembly from their small booths at the UN headquarters in New York.
Photo: Amr Alfiky / REUTERS
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outlined
A man with an umbrella walks past a restaurant in a business district in Tokyo, Japan.
Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon / REUTERS
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lack of water
The shadow of a Syrian girl falls on a water tank near Raqqa in northern Syria.
Cholera cases are increasing in the north of the country.
One cause is not enough clean water.
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Delil Souleiman / AFP
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perspective
A broken window reveals a roundabout in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Clashes broke out again in the city between security forces and gunmen over the arrest of two Palestinian militants.
Photo: Mohamad Torokman / REUTERS
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gold in the ear
The weighty decorative element worn by a model down the catwalk at London Fashion Week June Edition looks like the end of a curtain cord.
It was designed by the London designer Michael Halpern, who is presenting his upcoming spring/summer collection at the show.
Photo: Niklas Halle'n / AFP
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Saved
A view of sleeping migrants through the window of a ship owned by the Spanish NGO Open Arms.
Around 400 people from Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia were saved from drowning in the Mediterranean during the night.
Photo: Petros Karadjias/AP
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a smoke
In the tourist village of Paya Tumpi in the Indonesian province of Aceh: A man tries a cigarette in a tobacco factory.
Photo: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP
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Where the sugar flows
A worker in Indonesia's Aceh province boils sugar cane - to make homemade brown sugar.
Photo: Chaideer Mayuddin / AFP
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node
Two people search for seashells in the Tiaozini Wetland on the Yellow Sea coast.
The area is a key area and central hub on the East Asia-Australia migratory bird route.
Photo: ALEX PLAVEVSKI / EPA