Sep 14, 2011

Pictures of the month Sept.



Pictures of the month Sept.


Devotees carry an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the water from Girgaum Chowpatty beach before immersing it in the waters of the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai September 11, 2011. Idols of Ganesh are made two to three months before the day of "Ganesh Chaturthi", a popular religious festival in India. The idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, to be immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual send-off of his journey towards his abode in "Kailash", while taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.

Devotees carry an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the water from Girgaum Chowpatty beach before immersing it in the waters of the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai September 11, 2011. Idols of Ganesh are made two to three months before the day of "Ganesh Chaturthi", a popular religious festival in India. The idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, to be immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual send-off of his journey towards his abode in "Kailash", while taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. less 

A villager wades through flooded water carrying his bicycle near Megha village, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. Around 700,000 people have been affected by floods in 14 districts of Orissa even as the state government launched relief and rescue measures on a war-footing, according to a news agency. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

The Tribute in Light rises over the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 in New York. Sunday will be the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the United States. (AP Photo/Peter Lennihan)

A young boy jumps from a tower into the Ammersee lake in Utting, southern Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

A nun belonging to the order of the Missionaries of Charity walks past a portrait of Mother Teresa during the mass of Birth Centenary Closing Eucharistic Celebration in Kolkata on September 4, 2011. Mother Teresa, the "Angel of Mercy," a Nobel peace prize winner and Roman Catholic saint-in-waiting, was born on August 26, 1910 to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje in Macedonia.

A view of a house shelled by pro-Gaddafi forces in Om El Khanfousa September 7, 2011. The house was liberated by National Transitional Council fighters on Tuesday.

A clay idol of the Hindu goddess Durga lies on the ground for drying at a workshop in Kolkata September 6, 2011. The idols will be used during the Durga Puja festival from October 2-6, which is the biggest religious event for Bengali Hindus. Hindus believe that the goddess Durga symbolises power and the triumph of good over evil.

Flood waters surround airplanes parked at the Bloomsburg Airport, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, in Bloomsburg, Pa., after remnants from tropical Storm Lee continued to produce heavy rain overnight. (AP Photo/Mel Evans).

An anti-Mubarak protester lies on the ground as riot police surround the area outside the police academy where former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's trial is taking place, in Cairo September 7, 2011. An Egyptian court trying Mubarak over the killing of protesters who ousted him convened on Wednesday to hear more testimonies after police witnesses suggested this week that neither he nor his interior minister gave orders to shoot.

Policemen stand next to an image of Hindu Goddess Kali, the Hindu goddess of power, painted on the wall of a temple during a protest by India's main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against Wednesday's bomb blast outside Delhi's High Court, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad September 8, 2011. Indian police detained three people for questioning on Thursday, including the owner of an Internet cafe, over an email allegedly claiming responsibility for a bombing that killed 12 people in New Delhi, senior police sources in Kashmir told Reuters.

Firefighters put out a blaze at a national forest reserve in Brasilia September 9, 2011. Drought, high temperatures and low humidity have caused fires to start at several places in Brasilia, according to officials.

Workers bury the bodies of four fighters loyal to Col. Moamer Kadhafi at a cemetary dedicated to Kadhafi fighters in the Ganat area of Misrata, on September 5, 2011. Fighters besieging the Libyan town of Bani Walid fretted that their opponents still loyal to Moamer Kadhafi would use inhabitants as human shields as they awaited an order to attack.

Railway workers push a wagon loaded with coal back to its track after it derailed at Sabarmati power house in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad September 7, 2011. Four people were injured after six wagons of a goods train carrying coal got derailed on Wednesday due to heavy rains, a railway officer said.

A woman looks at pictures of Anti-Gaddafi fighters, killed during the current revolution, hanging on the wall of a court house in Liberation square in Benghazi, September 10, 2011.

A girl walks past graffiti on a market wall in Niger's capital Niamey September 11, 2011. Inextricably bound to its rich northern neighbour by ancient tribal ties and modern political interests, Niger was for years propped up by the oil-fuelled largesse of Muammar Gaddafi in everything from agriculture to tourism. The arrival in the capital Niamey of top Gaddafi loyalists this week has fuelled speculation that Gaddafi himself might try and seek refuge in the vast desert nation.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France bites the ball during his match against Mardy Fish during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola).

Flowers float in the reflecting pool outside City Hall during the Sept. 11 Tenth Anniversary commemoration in Hermann Square Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, in Houston. Mayor Annise Parker joined others in a ceremony in front of the reflection pool at City Hall to honor those to lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer).

Serena Williams reacts after winning her semifinal match against Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

A Palestinian rides his donkey through a burning field as an Israeli army jeep drives by, after arsonists set fire to an olive grove in the West Bank village of Burin, near Nablus, Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. Palestinian witnesses say Jewish settlers set fire to an olive grove in a West Bank village Monday, after a mosque was torched allegedly by Jewish settlers in another West Bank village earlier. Both incidents occurred after the Israeli military razed three buildings in an unauthorized West Bank Jewish settlement outpost before dawn, and clashed with defiant settlers who reject a Supreme Court ruling ordering the enclave to be dismantled. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son's name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial during tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2011. The 9/11 attacks changed life in the United States forever, but 10 years after the devastating hit, New Yorkers have learned to live in a more dangerous world and are ready to move on. REUTERSJustin Lane/Pool.
 
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