A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 17, 2015

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Davide Necchi of Iceland captured this great brightness and quick development of the aurora in late August.

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People recover items from destroyed houses around a ship pushed onto land by the waves of a tsunami after an earthquake hit areas in Coquimbo city, north of Santiago, Chile.

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Ahmed Mohamed, 14, gestures as he arrives at his family's home in Irving, Texas, USA. Ahmed was arrested at his school on Sept. 16 after a teacher thought a homemade clock he built was a bomb. He remains suspended and said he will not return to classes at MacArthur High School. President Barack Obama invited Mohamed to bring his clock to the White House.

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Opposition lawmakers surge toward the chairman’s seat to protest as ruling party colleagues rush in to try to protect him during a committee voting of security bills at the upper house of the parliament in Tokyo, Japan.