2. A migrant holds a child as they warm themselves by the fire at a makeshift camp in Roszke, Hungary on Sept. 8. A huge tide of migrants is transiting the country as they try to reach Germany.
3. Refugees and migrants push each other as they try to board a bus following their arrival at the port of Piraeus, Greece on Sept. 7. Greece is struggling to cope with the thousands of refugees fleeing war in Syria that make the short crossing from Turkey to Greece`s eastern islands.
4. Despearate residents wait for rescue helicopters in an area flooded after a levee along a nearby river breached in Joso, Japan on Sept. 10. The breach came after Tropical Storm Etau tore through Japan, bringing more than 20 inches of rain within a 72-hour period. This prompted an emergency warning and the forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 people.
5. Smoke billows from a British Airways plane that caught fire after an engine failure at McCarren International Airport in Las Vegas on Sept. 8. Passengers used inflatable slides to escape the blaze just before the plane was to embark on a 10-hour flight to London Gatwick.
6. Workers clean out the cracks at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sept. 9 to make room for more paper notes ahead of the upcoming Jewish New Year. The notes, which contain prayers to God, are collected twice a year and buried on the nearby Mount of Olives.
7. A discharged Ukrainian serviceman kisses his girlfriend at a Kiev railway station shortly after returning on Sept. 9 from a year of fighting at the conflict zone in eastern-Ukraine. Close to 8,000 civilians, Ukrainian soldiers and pro-Russian separatists have been killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine since April last year, according to the U.N.
8. The crowd disperses after attending an election campaign rally by the opposition Workers` Party in Singapore on Sept. 6. Once written off as too left wing for a country that had built its success on unabashed capitalism, the Workers` Party of Singapore could give the People`s Action Party (PAP), which has had 50 years of virtually unchallenged rule, a stiiff competition as this wealthy city-state heads into an election on Sept. 11.
9. Queen Elizabeth II waves from a carriage window at Edinburgh`s Waverley Station after boarding a steam train on Sept. 9 to inaugurate the new Scottish Borders Railway. That same day she became Britain`s longest reigning monarch, overtaking her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria`s record of 63 years and 216 days
10. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis cries out after being released from the Carter County Detention Center on Sept. 8 in Grayson, Ky. Davis, the county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, was released Tuesday after five days behind bars.
11. Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian police to allow passage across the border from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm near Idomeni, Greece, on Sept. 10. Most of the people flooding into Europe are refuges fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries and have a legal right to seek asylum, the United Nations said on Tuesday
12. Migrants cross into Roszke, Hungary as they walk over railroad tracks at the Serbian-Hungary border at dusk on Sept. 9. Thousands of migrants have continued to cross into Hungary over the last few days from Serbia. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called "Balkans route" has exploded as they journey to the EU via Hungary.
13. A meteor lights up the night sky near Lietzen, Germany on Sept. 7. The meteor was believed to be part of the Perseid shower which occurs every summer when the Earth passes through the debris and dust of the Swift-Tuttle comet.
14. Rawly Stanhope walks with his daughter Cambrin, 3, through a sunflower field on Sept. 5 near Lawrence, Kan. The 40-acre field, planted annually by the Grinter family, draws hundreds during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers.
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