Pictures of the day from The Huffington Post brings you the very best news and sports images from around the world, chosen and created by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland and Tahira Mirza.
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(01 of20)
VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 02: John Hawkes, Jason Clarke, Emily Watson, Josh Brolin, Baltasar Kormakur and Jake Gyllenhaal attend the 'Everest' Photocall during the 72nd Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2015 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) (credit:Franco Origlia via Getty Images)
(02 of20)
Cars remind underwater in Lorenskog, near Oslo after heavy rains on September 2, 2015. (credit:HAKON MOSVOLD LARSEN via Getty Images)
(03 of20)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 2: Actress Emma Thompson seen outside Shell's HQ on the Southbank where she recited a poem in protest over Arctic drilling on September 2, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Alex B. Huckle/GC Images) (credit:Alex B. Huckle via Getty Images)
(04 of20)
SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 02: Reece Topley of England just fails to grasp a difficult chance during an England training session at Ageas Bowl on September 2, 2015 in Southampton, England. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images) (credit:Mike Hewitt via Getty Images)
(05 of20)
Jury member Elizabeth Banks attends the Venezia 72 Jury Photocall during the 72nd Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2015 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Venturelli/WireImage) (credit:Venturelli via Getty Images)
(06 of20)
Actress Emma Thompson joins an act of mass defiance against a Shell legal injunction later today, in protest against the company’s Arctic oil drilling.Speaking after performing a self-penned poem in front of the oil giant’s HQ, Emma told the press she is going to be the first of scores of people to break a legal injunction banning Greenpeace UK staff and activists from crossing a line drawn around the Shell building on the South Bank.At around 2pm today, Emma will attempt to stick a giant paw print onto the building. It will carry thousands of names that make up some of the seven million people who have joined the Arctic movement by signing up at savethearctic.org/ArcticRoar. More than 600,000 of them are from the UK.Emma Thompson, acclaimed actor and screenwriter, said: “Shell has drawn a line around its headquarters and its lawyers say we’re banned from crossing it. Well, Shell crossed a line when it moved its rig into the Arctic, so I’m going to step over its line. And when I do I’ll be carrying the names of thousands of people who stand for Arctic protection. We’re drawing our own line, a line in the ice, and we’re telling Shell to pull back its rig.” (credit:Greenpeace )
(07 of20)
New flower beds are built at Xidan District for the up coming military parade on September 1, 2015 in Beijing, China. A military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II will be held inTiananmen on September 3 in Beijing. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
(08 of20)
In this photo taken July 31, 2015, an orca whale breaches in view of Mount Baker, some 60 miles distant, in the Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands, Wash. The Southern Resident killer whales living in the area have lost about 20 percent of their population since the 1990s, likely because of dwindling food sources and contamination. This particular group of whales, now numbering at 81, is endangered. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(09 of20)
Employees for Japanese toymaker Wakamatsuya wear masks of a wolf and a pug to demonstrate the company's latest products at a toy exhibition on September 2, 2015. The company will put the animal masks of white tiger, wolf and pug on sale on September 7 for the Halloween costumers. (credit:YOSHIKAZU TSUNO via Getty Images)
(10 of20)
Russia's Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Aydyn Aimbetov, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Denmark's astronaut Andreas Mogensen from the European Space Agency blasts off from the launch pad at Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome on September 2, 2015. (credit:KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV via Getty Images)
(11 of20)
A military band leads a military and civilian parade in front of the mausoleum of late president Ho Chi Minh, founder of today's communist Vietnam, as the communist regime celebrates its 70th anniversary in Hanoi on September 2, 2015. Vietnam's President Truong Tan Sang addressed tensions in the disputed South China Sea in his speech before the nation on the country's independence day celebrations. (credit:HOANG DINH NAM via Getty Images)
(12 of20)
Changeable weather led to a beautiful rainbow stretching over the London Eye and the River Thames just before sunset in London (credit:Paul Brown/REX)
(13 of20)
US President Barack Obama points to Bear Glacier during a boat tour of the Kenai Fjords National Park on September 1, 2015 in Seward, Alaska. Bear Glacier is the largest glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MANDEL NGAN via Getty Images)
(14 of20)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 01: Andy Murray of Great Britain reacts against Nick Kyrgios of Australia during their Men's Singles First Round match on Day Two of the 2015 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 1, 2015 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images) (credit:Clive Brunskill via Getty Images)
(15 of20)
BOREHAMWOOD, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 01: (L-R) Janette Manrara, Ola Jordan, Aliona Vilani, Otlile Mabuse, Peter Andre, Kristina Rihanoff, Joanne Clifton, Karen Clifton and Natalie Lowe attend the red carpet launch of 'Strictly Come Dancing 2015' at Elstree Studios on September 1, 2015 in Borehamwood, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) (credit:Karwai Tang via Getty Images)
(16 of20)
Jeremy Corbyn launches his vision for the future of the arts, Arcola Theatre, London, Britain - 01 Sep 2015 (credit:Vickie Flores/LNP/REX)
(17 of20)
Migrants demonstrate outside the main Eastern Railway station in Budapest, Hungary, September 1, 2015. Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated on Tuesday demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as the biggest ever influx of migrants into the European Union left its asylum policies in tatters. (Photo by Arpad Kurucz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
(18 of20)
Pope Francis leads a prayer in St. Peter's basilica at the Vatican,as part of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation , on September 1, 2015. Todya, Pope Francis called on priests to pardon women who have abortions, and the doctors who perform them, during the upcoming Jubilee year -- overruling hardline traditionalists within the Catholic Church. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO (Photo credit should read ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANDREAS SOLARO via Getty Images)
(19 of20)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 01: The overall general atmosphere at the Dylan's Candy Bar Union Square grand opening on September 1, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Dylan's Candy Bar) (credit:Mike Coppola via Getty Images)
(20 of20)
Migrants are helped to board on the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship during a migrant search and rescue mission off the Libyan Coasts, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Four dead bodies and hundreds of migrants were transferred on the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship from an Italian Navy ship and a Doctor Without Borders vessels after being rescued in different operation in the mediterranean sea. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)