Pictures of the day: September 9, 2016

We look at 13 pictur­es from events around the world


Multimedia Desk September 09, 2016
A mountain jackdaw flies past a little praying Madonna statue on top of the Piz Boe mountain in the Dolomites Alpine region near Arabba, Italy. PHOTO: REUTERS

Volunteers are lowered on a platform with large idols of Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesh brought by Hindu devotees for immersion at a water tank during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Bangalore. PHOTO: AFP

A member of a fire fighting Brigade crouches while working during a fire in A Illa, a village next to Entrimo, northwestern Spain. PHOTO: AFP

People demonstrating against President Nicolas Maduro are blocked by the National police in front of the Electoral National Council in San Cristobal, Venezuela. PHOTO: AFP

A giant statue of former Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong is seen behind a red wall at the campus of Fudan University in Shanghai. PHOTO: REUTERS

A Hanjin Shipping Co ship is seen stranded outside the Port of Long Beach, California. PHOTO: REUTERS

Ryoo Yong-gyu, Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring Division Director, points at where seismic waves observed in South Korea came from, during a media briefing at Korea Meteorological Administration in Seoul, South Korea. PHOTO: REUTERS

University students participate a competition of folding quilts during a military training at the start of a new semester in Hengyang, Hunan Province, China. PHOTO: REUTERS

Traders sleep on a coat amid the goats at a livestock market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Kolkata, India. PHOTO: REUTERS

US President Barack Obama smiles at a question about comments by Donald Trump as he holds a news conference at the conclusion of his participation in the ASEAN Summits in Vientiane, Laos. PHOTO: REUTERS

Partial view of a mural painted at the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Centre in Mexico City showing Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata. PHOTO: AFP

View of the destruction of weapons seized by the police and others voluntarily handed over by citizens for the National Service of Disarmament (Senades in spanish) in Caracas. PHOTO: AFP

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's plane approaches Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Missouri. PHOTO: AFP

Thousands of Basotho Shepherds gather to watch and attend a horse racing competition in Semonkong. PHOTO: AFP

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