September 9, 2015

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets well-wishers before she unveils a commemorative plaque at Newtongrange railway station in the village of Midlothian on the day she becomes Britain's longest reigning monarch.
 

Palestinian school children ride a rickshaw during a sandstorm in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. A dense sandstorm engulfing parts of the Middle East left at least eight people dead and hundreds suffering from respiratory problems, as officials warned residents to stay indoors.

Combination picture (L to R) shows a migrant carrying a child tripping on TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo and falling while trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke village, Hungary, Sept. 8, 2015. Laszlo, a camerawoman for a private television channel in Hungary, was fired after videos of her kicking and tripping up migrants fleeing police, including a man carrying a child, spread in the media and on the internet.

The media stand behind a line of police officers as a foreign suspect in the August 17 Erawan shrine bombing, identified by the ruling junta as Yusufu Mieraili (not pictured), gets out of a police van during a reenactment with police officers nearby the Erawan shrine (not pictured) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Thousands of Ukrainian servicemen and civilians lay flowers in front of the parliament building in Kyiv where three officers were killed on Aug. 31. Police said 141 people had been wounded when a nationalist protest turned violent, with 10 of the injured in serious condition.

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Workers look on as a car is stranded in a sinkhole on a street in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China. The driver managed to get out of the car unharmed, local media reported.

Spectators use their mobile phones to take pictures and videos as Z-19 helicopters of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perform during an aerobatic display at the China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin.

Lebanese anti-government protesters throw eggs and water bottles at the unknown convoy of a politician leaving the parliament building during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis and government corruption in downtown Beirut.
 

The Lishui bridge is seen during a controlled demolition in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China, Sept. 8, 2015. The bridge, built in 1971, is 246.6-meters-long and 12-meters-wide. A new bridge will be built on the same location as replacement, local media reported.