A fossilized dinosaur skull in Paris, protests over high fuel prices in Haiti, wildfires and mudflows in California, continued warfare in eastern Ukraine, a music festival in Rio de Janeiro, drag racing in Thailand, mourning for Queen Elizabeth in the United Kingdom, and much more

An aerial view shows the iconic Mont-Saint-Michel surrounded by sea at sunrise, during the highest tide of the year, off France's Normandy coast, September 11, 2022. #

Racers enter the water as they start the swim leg during the Ironman Wales on September 11, 2022, in Tenby, Wales. #

Competitors steer their homemade vehicle during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on September 11, 2022. #

Men escape from a bull during the Toro de la Vega bull festival in Tordesillas, near Valladolid, Spain, on September 13, 2022. Hundreds of people took part in the centuries-old bull-chasing festival, but under orders once again that the animal should not be harmed. #

A drag racer rides his modified motorbike during the NGO Street Drag Race event in Thailand's Chonburi province on September 11, 2022. #

A waxwork figure of Rowan Atkinson, as the character Mr. Bean, on display at the Face 2 Face Wax Museum in the Konyaalti district of Antalya, Turkey, on September 9, 2022 #

An image of the late Queen Elizabeth is projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House on September 10, 2022, in Sydney, Australia. #

A gun salute is fired for Britain's King Charles, following the death of Queen Elizabeth, in London, England, on September 10, 2022. #

Britain's King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence walk behind the hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth's coffin as it moves along the Royal Mile during the procession from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral on September 12, 2022, in Edinburgh, Scotland. #

Britain's King Charles III attends a vigil at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, on September 12, 2022. #

People look at flowers and messages placed for Queen Elizabeth at a memorial in Green Park, next to Buckingham Palace, in London, on September 15, 2022. #

Jessica Macaulay of Canada dives from the 22-meter platform during the final competition day of the sixth stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Sisikon, Switzerland, on September 11, 2022. #

Concrete blocks are exposed in the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China, on September 14, 2022. The Yangtze River's water level has dropped because of sustained high temperatures and little rain. #

Burned trees stand in the south of Chernobyl's exclusion zone in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, on September 13, 2022, following a large forest fire. #

Kenya's outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta inspects his final guard of honor, mounted by members of the Kenya Defense Forces, before the swearing-in ceremony of the incoming President William Ruto in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 13, 2022. #

The Berlin State Ballet (Staatsballett Berlin) ensemble performs the program "From Berlin with Love" on the deck of a ship touring Berlin's landmarks on the Spree river, in Germany on September 12, 2022. #

Megan Thee Stallion performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 11, 2022. #

Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, stops to greet a newlywed couple as she makes her way to the New York Public Library on September 15, 2022, in New York City. From September 14 through October 2, in partnership with St. Ann's Warehouse, Little Amal will perform at 55 events throughout the five boroughs of the city, meeting with children, artists, politicians, and community leaders to highlight the experiences of displaced refugees and migrants. #

A photographer takes pictures of a model during an outdoor photo shoot in a street in Beijing, China, on September 13, 2022. #

A firefighter stands in front of flames during a wildfire in Saumos on the western outskirts of Bordeaux, in southwestern France, on September 12, 2022. #

An aerial view shows plumes of smoke rising over burning vegetation during a wildfire in Battleship Mountain, British Columbia, Canada, on September 10, 2022. #

A glacier calves into a river in Queulat National Park, in Aysen, Chile, September 9, 2022. #

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters put out a fire after a Russian rocket attack hit an electric-power station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 11, 2022. #

Nina Gonchar stands in her cellar entrance in Bohorodychne village in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on September 13, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. #

A soldier's helmet lies on the ground in a wood after Russian Forces withdrew from Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast, on September 15, 2022. #

A destroyed Russian armored personnel carrier burns in a field on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine, on September 14, 2022. #

A firefighter uses a drip torch to light backfires while fighting the Mosquito fire in Volcanoville, California, on September 9, 2022. #

A mudflow covers a road after heavy rains battered land charred by the El Dorado wildfire, in Oak Glen, California, on September 12, 2022. #

A man runs with looted goods near burning cars during protests over rising fuel prices and crime, as inflation surged to its highest in a decade, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on September 14, 2022. #

The fossilized skull of an Iguanodon is displayed at the Alexandre Giquello auction house on September 9, 2022 in Paris, France. Zephyr, a dinosaur fossil from the Jurassic Period, discovered in Colorado on 2019, will be auctioned on October 20, 2022, at the Drouot Hotel in Paris. #

A person attempts to cross a river after flooding destroyed a bridge in the Swat region of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on September 7, 2022. Massive floods have swept away hundreds of houses, restaurants, bridges, and even several multistory hotels perched on the banks of the Swat River. #

Flood victims seek higher ground in Sindh province, Pakistan, on September 10, 2022. #

Syrian children and young men, all amputees due to their country’s civil war, play while taking part in swimming lessons at Hutva Education Center in Idlib, Syria, on September 7, 2022. #

A model displays an outfit by designer Andres Sarda during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain, on September 15, 2022. #

Sheryl Lee Ralph sings as she accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for "Abbott Elementary" at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, on September 12, 2022. #

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