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Houseboats sit on a depleted Lake Oroville which is currently at 23% of its capacity. Much of California is currently gripped by excessive heat, drought and a series of wildfires. Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
 

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Putty, Australia
Kelly Elfalak (centre), the mother of the missing boy AJ Elfalak, is helped by family and friends as she rushes to the site where the three-year-old has been found alive on the family property near Putty, south-west of Sydney. AJ had been missing for four days
Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP
 
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London, England
Workers stand underneath one of the clock faces on the Elizabeth Tower, or Big Ben, as hands and dials are restored to the original Prussian blue colouring, while renovation works continue at the Houses of Parliament
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
 

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Whipsnade, England
Nandi, a two-week-old southern white rhino calf, explores her enclosure for the first time, at ZSL Whipsnade zoo
Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
 
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Members of Taliban security forces stand guard as crowds of people walk past in front of a money exchange market in Kabul, Afghanistan. Reuters/Stringer
 
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Students attend class under new classroom conditions at Avicenne University in Kabul, Afghanistan, 6 September 2021 in this picture obtained by Reuters from social media. Reuters
 
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Traders in the Ring at the London Metal Exchange, in the City of London, after open-outcry trading returned for the first time since March 2020, when the Ring was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading.
 
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On Monday, the United Nations appealed for almost $200m in extra funding for life-saving aid in Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover last month resulted in the exodus of aid workers and subsequent funding cut. “Basic services in Afghanistan are collapsing and food and other life-saving aid is about to run out,” said OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke on Monday.
 
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New York, US
A fisherman in Brooklyn prepares his line on a pier before the Tribute in Light public art installation commemorating the 9/11 2001 terrorist attacks, shining up from the city skyline of lower Manhattan
Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
 
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A couple look at the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the largest Confederate statue remaining in the US, the day before the monument was removed in Richmond, Virginia. Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein
 
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Inglewood, US
The deputy district attorney Habib A Balian holds up a latex mask that was in the possession of alleged murderer Robert Durst when police arrested him, as the prosecution begins closing arguments before the jury in California
Photograph: Getty Images

In 2015 HBO documentary series, The Jinx, he appeared at one point to admit to several murders. In the film's production, Durst was caught on film saying, "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course."

Loved the documentary The Jinx, Durst is such a fascinating character.
 
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TAPESTRY: Workers pose next to a 16th century allegorical tapestry during a photocall for the Early Vernacular Furniture and Textiles from The Collection of Lady Hamlyn at Bonhams auction house in London on Thursday. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA
 
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New York City
USA model prepares backstage for the LaQuan Smith show during New York fashion week
Photograph: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
 
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Ballarat, Australia
A car stops for a group of swans to cross the road at Lake Wendouree
Photograph: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
 
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A lone kayaker is escorted by a group of sharks. Every year from December to April, a school of dusky sharks arrives to the area near the Hadera power station in Israel. The warm waters around the station attract fish and their predators – which in turn attract kayakers, scuba divers and swimmers
Photograph: Ido Meirovich/Drone Photography Awards 2021
 
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Reuters / Thursday, September 09, 2021
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at the painting "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" as she opens the largest exhibition on the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in Germany - "Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection" at the Old Masters Picture Gallery of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), Germany. REUTERS/Matthias Rietschel/Pool
 
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THANK-YOU GIFT: President Michael D Higgins invites the Italian ambassador to Ireland, Paolo Serpi, to view the La Pieta sculpture on the grounds of Áras an Uachtaráin – which was given as a gift of thanks from Italy to Ireland after the second World War – ahead of the president’s trip to Rome next week to meet heads of state. Photograph: Maxwells

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"La Pieta" was gifted by the Italian people, in thanks for Irish aid after World War II.
 
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Gorgeous choreography … Stephanie McKeon as Anna and Oliver Ormson as Hans in Frozen. Photograph: Johan Persson

With some changes in the kingdom of Arendelle, Disney Theatrical Productions’ Frozen officially opened at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane September 8 following previews that began August 27. Among the adjustments are a new duet between Elsa and Anna, among other script changes, a new 70-foot ice bridge, and an updated set design for the ice palace. Based on the 2013 Oscar-winning animated film, Frozen tells the story of two sisters—one isolated with a mysterious secret and the other's journey to save her. The musical features music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and a book by Jennifer Lee.
 
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Sep 12, 2021; Flushing, NY, USA; Daniil Medvedev of Russia reacts after winning a game in the third set against Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the men's singles final on day fourteen of the 2021 U.S. Open tennis
 
Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Nap Time” by Elissa Title. Location: Svalbard, Norway.
 

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Personnel from HMS Enterprise have been marching through the capital to pay 'the Constables Dues'. It is a tradition that dates back to the 14th century, when ships who turned up in London were ordered to pay a form of toll to the king. The payment would range between anything from wine to oysters. It used to be a regular tax but now the ceremony takes place on average once a year.

Today, the Royal Navy paid their dues with rum.
 

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Holon, Israel

Hai Shaulian, a well-known activist against coronavirus vaccines, died yesterday morning at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon due to the coronavirus. Shaulian called on his followers on social media not to get vaccinated against the virus under the headline: "There is no epidemic - the vaccine is unnecessary and dangerous."
 
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Malka Leifer the former principal of a Melbourne ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls school is charged with 74 offences against three sisters between 2004 and 2008. Photograph: Mahmoud Illean/AP

The alleged victims of accused child abuser Malka Leifer have started to give evidence against her in her committal hearing in a Melbourne court. Leifer, the 55-year-old former principal of a Melbourne ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls school, is charged with 74 offences against three sisters between 2004 and 2008.
 
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Amritsar, IndiaOne of the Punjab police force’s Shakti teams – all-female squads formed with the aim of tackling crime against women – attend a launch ceremony
Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images
 

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