A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 11, 2015
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The sun sets behind the wreckage of a vehicle submerged in floodwaters in Joso city, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. Thousands of rescuers arrived in the deluged city north of Tokyo to help evacuate hundreds of trapped residents and search for 12 people missing after torrential rains triggered massive flooding.
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People wave pro-independence Catalan flags, known as the Estelada flag, during a rally calling for the independence of Catalonia, in Barcelona, Spain. Separatists have used Catalan National Day for years to rally hundreds of thousands of people in Barcelona to call for the creation of a new Mediterranean nation.
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Cut-outs depicting victims of human rights abuse during the rule of former dictator Augusto Pinochet hang on a fence next to the "La Moneda" Presidential Palace during a rally in Santiago. Friday marked the 42nd anniversary of the coup d'etat in Chile that ushered in a 17-year dictatorship under Pinochet.
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The galaxy Messier 63 - nicknamed the Sunflower Galaxy - is seen in an undated image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope released Friday. Discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1779, the galaxy is about 27 million light-years away and belongs to the M51 Group.