Week in pictures 21 September 2024
WATER ORTON: Mining engineers inspect the progress of the Bromford Tunnel in Water Orton, England, on Tuesday, September 17. The construction of the high-speed rail tunnel has reached the halfway point (1.75 miles) (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
TEFE’: A man rides a boat in front of sandbanks at the Solimões River, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River, during a Greenpeace flyover to inspect drought conditions near Tefé, Brazil, on Tuesday, September 17 (Jorge Silva/Reuters)
MOSCOW: A partial lunar eclipse is seen over a residential building in Moscow on Wednesday, September 18. Sky-gazers around the world were able to glimpse the eclipse while September’s harvest supermoon was shining brightly (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
COUNTY MEATH: Horses race at the Laytown Racecourse in County Meath, Ireland, on Monday, September 16 (Niall Carson/PA/AP)
MEXICO CITY: A soldier with an eagle prepares to participate in a military parade in Mexico City on Monday, September 16 — the country’s Independence Day (Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP/Getty Images)
ARRANCADA: Firefighters give water to a dog that was rescued during a wildfire in the Portuguese village of Arrancada on Tuesday, September 17. Wildfires across Portugal forced authorities to close highways and roads, disrupting travel throughout the country, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday (Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images)
VARZEA: A wildfire consumes a rural area in Várzea Paulista, Brazil, on Saturday, September 14 (Andre Penner/AP)
CASCO VIEJO: A man holds his daughter's dress at the Casco Viejo neighborhood in Panama City, Panama, on Sunday, September 15 (Matias Delacroix/AP)
RIDGEFIELD PARK: A great blue heron eats a fish in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, on Thursday, September 12 (Julian Leshay Guadalupe/USA Today Network/Imagn Images)
KARACHI: A student in Karachi, Pakistan, attends Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi celebrations, the birth anniversary of the Prophet Mohammad, on Tuesday, September 17 (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)