Salvage crew workers are seen in front of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner after the start of the 'parbuckling' operation outside Giglio harbour.
Ruth Duccini (R), 95, who portrayed the Munchkin Town Lady in the classic film 'The Wizard of Oz', poses with costumed character from the film the 'Tin Man' at the world premiere screening of 'The Wizard of Oz' in Hollywood, California, Sept. 15, 2013.
A hand-rickshaw puller waits for customers at a roadside wholesale sugarcane market in Kolkata. India's sugar output is expected to be 25 million tonnes in the season starting from October, up from a previous forecast of 23.7 million tonnes.
A police boat patrols near the scene of a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington. At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard.
Miss New York Nina Davuluri, 24, is crowned as Miss America 2014 by Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan in Atlantic City, N.J., Sept. 15, 2013.
Members of the Dutch Royal Guard of Honour guide their horses through thick smoke during a rehearsal ahead of the Dutch 2014 budget presentation, at the beach of Scheveningen, Netherlands.
Indonesian workers march during a rally against cheap wages in Jakarta. Thousands of workers staged the rally demanding the Jakarta government to set a new regional minimum wage at Rp. 3,7 million.
A man walks back from Enoshima beach as a typhoon approaches nearby in Fujisawa, near Tokyo. Powerful typhoon Man-yi was bearing down on Japan and went past Tokyo leaving one dead and dumping torrential rains, damaging homes and flooding parts of the country's popular tourist destination of Kyoto.
Buddhist monks who are supporters of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), react during a protest as party leader Sam Rainsy announces the result of a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh.
Passengers inside a tram pass in front of the main arch of Praca do Comercio square where the Finance Ministry is located, in Li*****on, Portugal.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party CDU stands in front of her election campaign tour bus before a CDU board meeting in Berlin.
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Supporters listen to the speech of the former Hungarian prime minister and chairman of Democratic Coalition Party, Ferenc Gyurcsany (not in pic) during a demonstration on the Freedom Bridge in Budapest, Hungary.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shake hands after making statements following meetings regarding Syria, at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, seated, and his two sons Gamal Mubarak, left, and Alaa Mubarak, right, attend a hearing in a courtroom at the Police Academy, Cairo.
Workers guide a crane to position a shipping container as they build a hotel by piling up shipping containers at a tourism resort in Yantai, Shandong province, China.
A boy carries his brother as they camp out at a stadium to flee the fighting between government forces and Muslim rebels in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines.
A residential neighborhood and a connecting road in Lyons, Colorado, USA, are cut in two by flood waters as flooding continues to devastate the Front Range, Sept. 13, 2013.
Spectators react as a ball lands in the stand hit for 6 runs by Australia's George Bailey during the fourth one-day international against England at Sophia gardens in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
An Afghan child lifts a piece of mangled wreckage from a vehicle at the scene of a blast in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
An employee stands near the space suits of U.S. astronaut Michael Hopkins, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy are scheduled to be part of a mission to the International Space Station that will launch on Sept. 26, according to the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos.
Competitors (L-R) - Australia's Emma Jackson, Ireland's Aileen Reid, Britain's Jodie Stimpson, Australia's Emma Moffatt and New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt - run during the women's race in the ITU World Triathlon Series at Hyde Park in London.
A model displays a wedding dress created by designer Andres Sarda during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain.
The "Rising Moon", a giant lantern, containing 7,000 recycled plastic water bottles with LED lights, measuring 20 meters in diameter and 10 meters in height, shines behind traditional Chinese lanterns at Hong Kong's Victoria Park.
A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a position as he aims his weapon at the Justice Palace, which is controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo.
Workers sort out rice at a paddy field at Sukakarya village in Bekasi, Indonesia's West Java province.
A vendor sleeps inside her store next to walls lined with mink fur at a fur market in Chongfu township, Zhejiang province, China.
Boats carrying slum dwellers pass photographs of garment workers taken by students of the Counter Foto photography department, by the waterfront of Korail slum at Gulshan area in Dhaka September 13, 2013. The photographs of garment workers are a celebration of the hardworking Bengali woman, in support of their struggle for socio-economic justice, and are part of the "Dignity in Industry" project by French artist J.R. and Inside Out Project, organizers said.
Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, USA, rolls out its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. The Antares is scheduled to launch Cygnus on Sept. 17 on a demonstration cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Residents are transported to a safer place after the government enforced an evacuation of villagers near the stand-off between government forces and Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City in southern island of Mindanao, Philippines.
New Jersey firefighters spray water at a burning building as they work to control a massive fire in Seaside Park in New Jersey, USA. The fire engulfed several blocks of boardwalk and businesses in Seaside Park, a shore town that was still rebuilding from damage caused by Superstorm Sandy.
Peasants dance in their underwear during a demonstration to demand an audience with the Federal District authorities in Mexico City, Mexico, Sep. 12, 2013. The protesters belong to a group called the "400 villages," who insist that land that they claim was unjustly taken away from them in Tabasco.
A man wearing a mask of U.S. President Barack Obama robs a Bank of America branch, as seen in this undated surveillance video released on Sept.12, 2013 by the Merrimack Police Department in Merrimack, New Hampshire. John Griffin Jr., 52, was charged with robbing the Bank of America branch while wearing a mask of U.S. President Barack Obama, police said.
Artist Liu Bolin (3rd row, R) and other participants, painted as part of a project called "Red Theatre", make themselves look exactly the same as the seats in a theatre, in Beijing, China.
Ian Neale of Newport (L) with his first prize giant carrot, Graham Tranter (2ndL) of Bridgnorth 4th place tomato, Joe Atherton of Mansfield (3rdL) 1st place tomato and Graham Walford of Bridgnorth 4th place leek pose for a photograph during the first day at the Autumn flower show in Harrogate, northern England.
A soldier from the South Korean army special forces uses his hand to break beer bottles as part of the reenactment event of the Battle of the Naktong Bulge near the Waegwan railway bridge in Waegwan, South Korea.
A Pakistani boy reacts to the cold water as he showers himself with leaking water from a supply pipe in Islamabad.
Dancers perform on the steps of an installation entitled "Endless Stair" outside the Tate Modern art gallery, with St. Paul's Cathedral partially visible in the background, during an event to launch the London Design Festival.
Indonesian anti-terror troops take part in a hostage situation during the closing of Counter Terrorism Exercise at Indonesia Peace and Security Center in Sentul, Bogor-West Java.
Canada's fans cheer during the Davis Cup semi-final tennis match between Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Canada's Vasek Pospisil in Belgrade, Serbia.
A model displays a Spring/Summer design by Roberto Verino during Madrid's Fashion Week, in Madrid, Spain.
