CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for September - 2015
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- 2015-09-29Although poor weather conditions in parts of the United States dampened opportunities to spot the supermoon eclipse, countries around the world saw the lunar event. Here, John Eggebrecht shared a photo he captured of the supermoon in Milwaukee.
- 2015-09-29Barack Obama and Russian President Valdimir Putin toast during a luncheon hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the 70th annual U.N. General Assembly on September 28 in New York City.
- 2015-09-29Afghan special forces prepare to launch an operation to retake the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan, from Taliban insurgents on Tuesday, September 29. The Taliban took control of most of the city the day before in its biggest victory since 2001.
- 2015-09-29Aziza Hamad, 14, talks to her mother minutes after being rescued from Mount Sinjar in Iraq on August 14, 2014. A year after she and other Yazidi Iraqis were saved from the murderous advance of ISIS, CNN's Ivan Watson tracked Aziza down.
- 2015-09-29A couple walks through fallen trees in the business district of Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, September 29. Typhoon Dujuan made landfall near the border of Hualien and Yilan counties in northeast Taiwan just after 5 p.m. Monday.
- 2015-09-28A Yazidi woman kisses the hand of a relative before a bus takes women and children who were captives of ISIS to an airport in the Kurdish region of Iraq. From there, they will fly to Germany, where the German government is resettling up to 1,000 former ca
- 2015-09-28Never in their wildest dreams did the Walker family think their 13,000-mile journey would culminate in a meeting with the Pope. But that's what happened in Philadelphia after the Vatican called.
- 2015-09-27Hundreds killed in Hajj stampede
- 2015-09-27Children sit with their rifles at a ceremony taking place in South Sudan on the issue of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers. The process was overseen by UNICEF and partners in February 2015.
- 2015-09-27Rahul Kohli of the CW's "iZombie" is one of many celebrities participating in the viral #15SecondShakespeare campaign to raise money for the Red Cross.
- 2015-09-26President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, to the White House for a state dinner on Friday, September 25.
- 2015-09-25Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on Thursday, September 24. During the Pope's six-day visit of the United States, he is also making stops in New York and Philadelphia.
- 2015-09-25Photographer Joaquin Trujillo took this portrait of his nephew Mel in 2006. It's part of his "Los Ninos" series, which re-creates the family portraits he remembers from his childhood in Mexico.
- 2015-09-25Britain's Prince William prepares to take off in a Chipmunk airplane at a Royal Air Force base in Coningsby, England, on Tuesday, September 22. He was attending events commemorating the Battle of Britain. See that and more in the "The week in 40
- 2015-09-24Muslim pilgrims make their way to cast stones at a pillar in the "stoning the devil" ritual Thursday, September 24, in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia. At some point during this last rite of the annual Hajj, a stampede occurred, killing and injuri
- 2015-09-23Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the ceremonial opening of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque on Wednesday, September 23. The mosque was demolished and rebuilt to be one of the biggest mosques in the country, with room for 10,000 worshipers.
- 2015-09-23Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcoming ceremony for U.S. President Barack Obama at the Great Hall of the People on November 12, 2014 in Beijing, China.
- 2015-09-22Few images exist of 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, a founding figure of the American West. This portrait has become one of the standard representations of him and was done in the early 1900s by a Mexican priest, Father Jose Mosqueda, who
- 2015-09-21Luc Jamet's photo "Eclipse Totality over Sassendalen" was the overall winner of the annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest that is run every year by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London. Sassendalen is a valley in Svalbard,
- 2015-09-18Children compete in traditional horse races as part of the Moyo Festival in Sumbawa, Indonesia, on Monday, September 14. See more remarkable images from "The week in 39 photos."
- 2015-09-18A migrant holds his child after Hungarian riot police used tear gas and water cannons at the Serbian border crossing on Wednesday, September 16. Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told CNN that Hungarian forces had been driven to respond when yo
- 2015-09-17A crew member of a helicopter operated by Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency checks a water-bombing operation in Pelalawan, Indonesia, on Thursday, September 17. Choking smog across Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia can be linked to the burning o
- 2015-09-17A man tries to calm his daughter moments after they and other migrants arrived on the Greek island of Kos in August. More than 366,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea this year in search of a better life in Europe, according to the United Nation
- 2015-09-16A man dressed as a traditional Mongol warrior is photographed at the Naadem festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in 2013. Photographer Stanislas Guigui wanted to invoke a sense of timelessness in the portraits and make them look as though they were painted.
- 2015-09-13Kelly Slater surfs at the Hurley Pro on Saturday, September 12, in Lower Trestles, California.
- 2015-09-12A crane collapsed Friday, September 11, at one of Islam's most important mosques, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. At least 107 people were killed and 238 others injured, Saudi Arabia's civil defense authorities said.
- 2015-09-12A twin-propeller plane carrying crew from a Tom Cruise movie set crashed Friday, September 11, in foggy conditions in the mountains near San Pedro de los Milagros, Colombia.
- 2015-09-11A funeral is held in Kobani, Syria, for 2-year-old Aylan Kurdi, his brother, Galip; and their mother, Rehen, on Friday, September 4. The three were among 12 refugees who drowned while trying to sail across the Mediterranean Sea. A photo showing Aylan&apos
- 2015-09-11Police officers are egged by protesting farmers in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, September 7. Thousands of angry European farmers set off fireworks, blared horns and blocked streets with tractors as they demanded emergency European Union funds to help the
- 2015-09-10The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is attending an exhibition of his work outside China for the first time in five years. He was granted a passport this July by the Chinese authorities, four years after it was confiscated.
Here, he stands among his trees at th
- 2015-09-09A refugee, holding his son and daughter, cries tears of joy after their boat arrived on the Greek island of Kos on Saturday, August 15. The island in the Aegean Sea has been overwhelmed by Syrian refugees.
- 2015-09-08Britain's Queen Elizabeth II -- with her husband Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh -- travels to her coronation ceremony in London on June 2, 1953. She ascended to the throne a year earlier, when her father died of lung cancer in February 1952. She was 2
- 2015-09-08Thai security officials escort bombing suspect Yusufu Meerailee, arrested last week near the Cambodian border, as he is transferred from military to police custody at the metropolitan police headquarters in Bangkok on September 7, 2015.
- 2015-09-08Britain's Queen Elizabeth II poses for her official Golden Jubilee portrait in November 2001. Photographer Polly Borland was commissioned for the shoot.
- 2015-09-07Israel is struggling to deal with right-wing Jewish attacks on Palestinians. In August, authorities ordered the detention without trial of Meir Ettinger. Police said Ettinger was suspected of "nationalist crimes" but did not accuse him of direct
- 2015-09-05Long, short, tamed or wild - beards have taken a multitude of forms throughout the years. Despite their long and turbulent history, beards are more popular than at any other time in living memory. Xtopher Grey, pictured, is a prominent competitive beard g
- 2015-09-04Renas Lelikan, an Australian man of Kurdish origin, is pictured with children in the Makhmour refugee camp in northern Iraq. Lelikan is attempting to flee the camp, which is being targeted by ISIS militants.
- 2015-09-04A migrant lies on the track with a baby as she is detained in Bicske, Hungary, on Thursday, September 3. Few want to go to the migrant camps set up by authorities, fearing that once there, they may not be able to continue on to other European Union member
- 2015-09-04Participants make their way through dust at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada on Wednesday, September 2. The 29th annual alternative living event is traditionally centered around the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy. See more remarkabl
- 2015-09-04A new study led by Yale University estimates the Earth is home to 3 trillion trees -- more than 7 times greater than what was previously believed. But the study also estimates that the globe's tree population has been cut almost in half since the sta
- 2015-09-03Illustration by Murat Sayın, an artist living in Ankara, Turkey. "To see a child in such a position, lying dead in a beach at a country that was supposed to give him refuge and a future ... seeing a child who was running away from war and death. ...
- 2015-09-02Migrants wear identification bracelets aboard a Norwegian ship during a search-and-rescue mission off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, September 1. Europe is in the midst of a migration crisis. Desperate men and women, often with children in tow, are fleeing
- 2015-09-01Playing cards fly in this 1976 photo taken by Jill Freedman at a New York fire station. For her 1977 book "Firehouse," Freedman spent more than a year living side by side with the firemen.