News photos of the day

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Melbourne, Australia
Construction workers clash at a protest at the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union headquarters. The workers are protesting against mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations
Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Union head CFMEU secretary John Setka says 'morons' and 'professional protesters' caused the construction shutdown and he believes only a small number of protesters who were at the union headquarters yesterday taking part in action that turned violent were actually union members.

He said he believed there were neo-Nazis in the crowd, despite also saying "I wouldn't know one if I fell over one". He said there were also anti-vaccination protesters not involved in the construction industry.

"Thanks to these morons, 300,000 Victorians are sitting at home for at least the next couple of weeks," he said. "It could drag out even longer."

 

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Las Vegas, US
LSDREAM perform onstage during the Life Is Beautiful music and art festival in Nevada
Photograph: FilmMagic/Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival

 

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CHELSEA GIRL: Dame Judi Dench with members of the Chelsea Pensioners group of ex-military servicemen for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show press day at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire

 

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Russian State University following a campus shooting in Perm, about 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Sept. 21, 2021.

 

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Karachi, Pakistan
A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child
Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images

 

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Coronavirus? Third Wave? Masks?
Commuters cling onto a crowded train as it leaves a railway station in Ghaziabad, 21 September 2021. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters

 

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Connemara, Ireland
NATIVE SON: Friends of the late Risteard Mac Aodha play music and dance at his graveside in Leitir Mór cemetery, Connemara. Born in Boston and a Vietnam veteran, Mac Aodha came to Connemara and embraced its Gaelic language and music traditions. He died last March, was cremated and his ashes returned to Boston, but his family decided to return his ashes to Connemara, for interment at the cemetery. Photograph: Seán Ó Mainnín

 

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Bokakhat, India
Seized rhino horns are set on fire near Kaziranga national park on World Rhino Day
Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters

 

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Marlow, Germany
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts feeding Australian lorikeets at Marlow Bird Park. Photograph: Georg Wendt/dpa.

Germans vote on Sunday in elections that will ultimately bring down the curtain on Angela Merkel’s final term as chancellor of Germany, after 16 years in power.

 

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Honolulu, US
Boxes containing remains of two South Korean soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean war are placed on seats of Moon Jae-in’s presidential jet at Hickam air force base in Hawaii, as South Korea and the US hold an alliance ceremony to transfer the remains of Korean and American troops killed during the conflict.

Photograph: Yonhap/EPA

 

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Hong Kong, China
Pro-democracy activist Alexandra Wong demonstrates outside West Kowloon court where 47 pro-democracy defendants appear charged with conspiracy to commit subversion
Photograph: Isaac Lawrence/AFP/Getty

 

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Milton Keynes, England
A resident picks up a delivery from an autonomous robot delivering groceries from a nearby Co-op supermarket. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty

 

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A Palestinian man rides his donkey cart past a building that was destroyed during the recent 11-day war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement, in Gaza City, on 23 September, 2021. AFP

 

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In this undated file photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Defense, a Chinese PLA J-16 fighter jet flies in an undisclosed location. (Taiwan Ministry of Defense via AP)



TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- China sent 24 fighter jets toward Taiwan in a large display of force yesterday (Thursday), after the self-governing island announced its intention to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group that China has also applied to join.

China's People's Liberation Army flew fighter jets toward Taiwan twice on Thursday, once in the morning with 19 planes, and once in the afternoon with five more. Taiwan deployed air patrol forces in response to the Chinese jets and tracked them on its air defense systems, the island's Defense Ministry said in a statement.

 

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Nauru detention centre. Photograph: AP

Australia will continue its policy of offshore processing of asylum seekers indefinitely, with the home affairs minister signing a new agreement with Nauru to maintain “an enduring form” of offshore processing on the island state.

 

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Washington DC, US

Cultural heritage preservation scholar Katharyn Hanson (right) and DePaul University professor Patty Gerstenblith look at the Gilgamesh tablet at a repatriation ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. The 3,500-year-old cuneiform clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia had been smuggled into the US and is being returned to Iraq. It was forfeited by arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby after being seized by federal authorities. A Sumerian ram sculpture from approximately 3,000 BC is also officially being returned to Iraq in the ceremony
Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

 

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A one-horned rhinoceros crosses a road inside Kaziranga national park, India, on World Rhino Day. Kaziranga is home to nearly 2,500 one-horned rhinos and is the world’s largest habitat for the rare animal.
Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP

 

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Friday 24 September
Former United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be officially installed as Queen's University's first female chancellor at a ceremony to be held at the end of the first week of the new academic year.

 

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Reuters / Thursday, September 23, 2021
A registered nurse attempts to find a vein to administer the Regeneron monoclonal antibody to Cathy Hardin, who was vaccinated prior to testing positive for the coronavirus, at the Sarasota Memorial Urgent Care Center in Sarasota, Florida. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleto

Yesterday, the World Health Organization recommended Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid-19. The global body says the combination treatment can be used in COVID-19 patients who are at high risk of severe disease as well as in severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients who have not yet developed antibodies.​

 

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Former supermarket boss Don Tidey, who was kidnaped by the IRA in 1983, speaking to Margaret Sheehan mother and sisters Grainne and Jennifer of Garda Gary Sheehan who was awarded posthumously a Gold Scott Medal for bravery at a ceremony in Dublin Castle. Garda Sheehan was killed during the search for Mr Tidey in a forest in Co Leitrim. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

 

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Prime minister of Finland on September 23, 2021

 

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Giza, Egypt
People riding camels through the pyramid complex, a Unesco world heritage site. The UN World Tourism Day 2021 is observed on 27 September and this year will focus on tourism for inclusive growth
Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA

 

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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jesus Taborda and Sabrina Amuchastegui compete in the final round of the Tango World Championship stage category
Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

 

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Lyon, France
Italian team members celebrate with gusto after winning first prize in the pastry competition of the Bocuse d’Or, a biennial world chef championship. The Japanese and French runners-up look on
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

 

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Siberia, Russia
A pack of Siberian wolves is captured by a camera trap in a nature reserve
Photograph: Russia President Press Office/President Press Office/Tass