A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 25, 2015
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, recently passed the halfway mark of his one-year mission to the International Space Station, photographed the Nile River during a nighttime flyover, Sept. 22, 2015. The photo was NASA's Image of the Day on Friday.
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A security officer monitors Muslim pilgrims attending the annual hajj pilgrimage on CCTV screens at a security command center in Mina, Saudi Arabia, a day after a stampede killed more than 700 people.
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Flags of Vatican City are hung in St. John the Baptist Church, in advance of Pope Francis's arrival tomorrow, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The events expected to draw the biggest crowds during Francis' six-day visit to the United States all occur in Philadelphia.
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An activist of the environmental protection organization 'Greenpeace' holds a protest poster in front of a factory gate of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany. The supervisory board was meeting to discuss who to name as CEO after Martin Winterkorn quit over an emissions-rigging scandal that's rocking the world's top-selling automaker.