Pictures of the day: September 21, 2016

We look at 13 pictur­es from events around the world


Multimedia Desk September 21, 2016
A veterinary from Saving the Survivors and RHINO911 crew attend to a previously wounded Rhino during an operation of RHINO911 Non Governamental Organization at the Pilanesberg National Park in the North West province, South Africa. PHOTO: REUTERS

View of ash spewed by the Turrialba volcano in Cartago, 35 Km east of San Jose. PHOTO: AFP

Models parade on a catwalk in Yellow River Stone Forest for iconic French fashion designer Pierre Cardin in Baiyin, Gansu province, Northeastern China. PHOTO: AFP

Birds sit in their cages during a bird-singing contest in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat. PHOTO: AFP

A crocodile with a used motorcycle tyre around its neck as seen on a river in Palu, Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia. Residents suspect the tyre was garbage thrown into the river before it became trapped around the crocodile's neck. PHOTO: REUTERS

A park worker holds a monitor lizard at Lumpini park in Bangkok, Thailand. PHOTO: REUTERS

A man takes out a quail from a net after catching it on a beach in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. PHOTO: REUTERS

Israeli soldiers from the navy take part in a combined drill with a helicopter squadron, practicing the evacuation of a wounded person to land from a vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Ashdod, southern Israel. PHOTO: REUTERS

A bird sits on the pitch during the German first division Bundesliga football match between VfL Wolfsburg and Borussia Dortmund at Volkswagen Arena in Wolfsburg, central Germany. PHOTO: AFP

Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs on stage at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris. PHOTO: AFP

Workers are reflected in a building's windows as they walk through the developing office and residental area of Barangaroo in Sydney's inner-city. PHOTO: AFP

Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) play football at the camp in Llanos del Yari, Caqueta department, Colombia. PHOTO: AFP

Wreckage is lit along a hillside where an Air Force U-2 crashed in Sutter, California on September 20, 2016. A US pilot was killed and another injured after they ejected from a U-2 spy plane on a training mission in rural California, the Air Force said. With a maximum altitude of 70,000 feet (21,300 meters,) the U-2 was initially designed to fly out of reach of Soviet air defenses. PHOTO: AFP

The picture shows an adult male brown widow (Latrodectus geometricus) entering a web. Widow spider males, known for their tendency to end up as a post-coital snack, have developed a rather gruesome method of saving their own skins, scientists revealed. PHOTO: AFP

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