September 26, 2013

The collapsed upper car park of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents continued fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid discusses the potential government shutdown, while standing in front of a countdown clock, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Reid, a Democrat, rejected plans by Republicans in the House of Representatives to advance a debt limit increase bill that contains measures such as delaying "Obamacare."

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-10M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Michael Hopkins, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy.

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a fertilizer depot in Sao Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The dense smoke, produced by ammonium nitrate at the building, forced to evacuate more than 150 families.

Relatives of Haj pilgrims wave in the rain, as they see off their relatives who are leaving Ahmedabad, India, for Mecca in Saudi Arabia to take part in the annual religious Haj pilgrimage.

A performer poses as a Sherlock Holmes human statue at King's Cross Square, the new public area outside the central London rail station.

Nepalese look at a helicopter that crashed in Lukla. The helicopter crashed while attempting to land near Mount Everest, injuring all four people on board, Nepalese police said.

A man carrirs chickens at a chicken wholesale market in Rangoon, Burma.

Oracle Team USA sails on San Francisco Bay after winning the 19th race against Emirates Team New Zealand in the 34th America's Cup sailing event in San Francisco, California.

Turkish soldiers walk on a hillside overlooking the Syrian town of Kobani, near the Turkey-Syria border.

After getting his first major league base hit and his first major league home run against the Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles second baseman Jonathan Schoop gets a shaving cream pie to the face from teammate Chris Dickers following their MLB American League baseball game in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Sep. 25, 2013.