Pictures Of The Day: The Best Images From Around The World On Friday 18th September 2015

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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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A model walks the runway at the Angel Chen show at Fashion Scout during London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016 on September 18, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Anthony Harvey/Getty Images) (credit:Anthony Harvey via Getty Images)
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Britain's Andy Murray celebrates after winning semifinal tennis singles match of the Davis Cup againsr Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis in Glasgow, Scotland Friday Sept. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Migrants arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey, to the island of Lesbos, Greece, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. More than 250,000 people have reached Greece clandestinely so far this year, the vast majority of them Syrians or Afghans fleeing conflict at home. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A bee collects pollen from a sunflower on September 18, 2015 in Dresden, eastern Germany. AFP PHOTO / DPA / ARNO BURGI +++ GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read ARNO BURGI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ARNO BURGI via Getty Images)
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Carlos Sainz of Spain and Scuderia Toro Rosso drives during practice for the Formula One Grand Prix of Singapore at Marina Bay Street Circuit on September 18, 2015 in Singapore. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images) (credit:Clive Mason via Getty Images)
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Kendall Jenner attends the Calvin Klein Spring/Summer 2016 show during Fashion Week on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (credit:Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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US President Barack Obama poses with US Army Specialist Alek Skarlatos (L), US Air Force Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone (2nd L), and Anthony Sadler (R) following a meeting on September 17, 2015 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. The three friends helped overpower a gunman on a Paris-bound train on August 21. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MANDEL NGAN via Getty Images)
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IRVING, TX - SEPTEMBER 17: Ahmed Mohamed (Front), a Texas Muslim teen arrested after taking his homemade clock to school, poses with his sister at his house in Irving, Texas on September 17, 2015. A Texas Muslim teen arrested after taking his homemade clock to school, on Wednesday accepted an invitation by President Barack Obama to show off his invention at the White House. (Photo by Bilgin S. Sasmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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SRINAGAR, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 16: Protesters run towards safe place as a tear smoke shell exploded near them during clashes on September 16, 2015 in the downtown area of Srinagar, India. Kashmir valley has witnessed a shutdown after a call by separatists to protest the mysterious killing of three youths in north Kashmir. An organisation called Hizbul Mujahideen said that the three belonged to their group and had been killed by police. However, Indian officials from the police forces have said that they were killed by a rival militant group. (Photo by Abid Bhat/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) (credit:Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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A Palestinian protester burns a tire during clashes with Israeli security forces following an anti-Israeli protest after the weekly Friday prayers on September 18, 2015 in the Israeli-controlled area called H2, in the West Bank town of Hebron, after Hamas called for a 'day of rage' following three days of clashes around Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound Islam's third holiest site, which is also considered the holiest site in Judaism and known to Jews as Temple Mount. Palestinians fear Israel will seek to change rules governing the holy site, with far-right Jewish groups pushing for more access and even efforts by fringe organisations to erect a new temple. AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HAZEM BADER via Getty Images)
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A Syrian refugee man plays with his daughter after spending night near an abandoned military barrack in Beli Manastir, near Hungarian border, northeast Croatia, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. Croatian police say some 13,300 migrants have entered the country from Serbia since the first groups started arriving more than two days ago. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A anti-terrorist unit of the Dutch police carry a man who locked himself in a toilet of a Thalys high-speed train heading for Paris, in Rotterdam central station, Netherlands, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. Police said in tweets that the arrest happened at Rotterdam Central station without incident. The train was evacuated as a precaution.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko (center L), Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov (C), Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin (center R) other officials and former and current football players start the 1000-day countdown to the 2018 FIFA World Cup at Manezhnaya square in Moscow on September 18, 2015. (credit:KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV via Getty Images)
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SANKT LEON-ROT, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 18: A dance performance is seen at the first tee prior to the morning foursomes on day one of the Solheim Cup 2015 at St Leon-Rot Golf Club on September 18, 2015 in Sankt Leon-Rot, Germany. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images) (credit:David Cannon via Getty Images)
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A man takes a picture of a giant rugby ball breaking the wall of Cardiff castle on September 18, 2015, ahead of the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup. (credit:DAMIEN MEYER via Getty Images)
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Scotland's players applaud during their official welcoming ceremony at the Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucester on September 17, 2015, on the eve of the beginning of the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup. AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCERESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo credit should read LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:LOIC VENANCE via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 17: HRH Prince Harry looks at the Webb Ellis Cup during the RFU Rugby World Cup Welcome Event at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, on September 17, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by David Rogers - RFU/The RFU Collection via Getty Images) (credit:David Rogers - RFU via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 18: Waisake Naholo of the All Blacks during a New Zealand All Blacks gym session at Lensbury on September 18, 2015 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images) (credit:Phil Walter via Getty Images)
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BREZICE, SLOVENIA - SEPTEMBER 17: Refugees are seen on the windows of a train at a train station near the Slovenian-Croatian border in Brezice, Slovenia on September 17, 2015. Slovenia intends to reinforce its border with Croatia to prevent a possible influx of migrants seeking a new route into Europe. (Photo by Ales Beno/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A fire-fighting plane drops water at the site of a wildfire that broke out the day before, on September 18, 2015 near Cerbere, south-western France. (credit:RAYMOND ROIG via Getty Images)
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While wearing a toilet seat on his head, David Hu accepts the Physics Prize, for his research on the principle that mammals empty their bladders of urine in about 21 seconds, from Dudley Herschbach, right, the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, while being honored during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine at Harvard University for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Members of a special unit of Dutch police are in action near a Thalys train on a platform of Rotterdam central station, on September 18, 2015, as a man has locked himself in the train'sbathroom. The Thalys plus several platforms have been evicted. AFP PHOTO/ANP JERRY LAMPEN netherlands out (Photo credit should read JERRY LAMPEN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JERRY LAMPEN via Getty Images)
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: Cat Deeley arrives at Audi Celebrates Emmys Week 2015 at Cecconi's on September 17, 2015 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic) (credit:Jon Kopaloff via Getty Images)
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BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 18: Chinese Ballett dancers showing their skills prior to the IAAF Congress Opening Ceremony at the Great Hall of the People at Tiananmen Square on August 18, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images for IAAF) (credit:Alexander Hassenstein via Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: Wendi Murdoch attends The Broad Museum Black Tie Inaugural Dinner at The Broad on September 17, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images) (credit:Jerod Harris via Getty Images)
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Nepalese Hindu women recite prayers led by a priest as they sit on the banks of the Bagmati River to mark 'Rishi Panchami' in Kathmandu early on September 18, 2015. Rishi Panchami marks the end of the three-day long Teej Festival, celebrated in Nepal and some parts of India by married Hindu women by fasting during the day and praying for long lives for their husbands, while unmarried women wish for handsome husbands and happy conjugal lives. AFP PHOTO / Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PRAKASH MATHEMA via Getty Images)
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 18: Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes (aka Jay and Silent Bob) pose during a media call at Sydney Opera House on September 18, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage) (credit:Don Arnold via Getty Images)
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Ahmed Mohamed, 14, right, waves to the media from the front door of his house as his sister, Eyman Mohamed, looks on before a news conference, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Irving, Texas. Ahmed was arrested after a teacher thought a homemade clock he built was a bomb. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Migrants talk at the railway station in Beli Manastir, near Hungarian border, northeast Croatia, early Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. Croatia has suddenly become the latest hotspot in the 1,000-mile plus exodus toward Western Europe after Hungary sealed off its border Tuesday with a razor-wire fence and then used tear gas, batons and water cannons to keep the migrants out. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Bella Thorne attends Macy's Presents Fashion's Front Row on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Michael Zorn/Invision/AP) (credit:Michael Zorn/Invision/AP)
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A fallow deer swims in a lake in a stated owned hunting area of the SEFAG Forestry and Timber Industry Joint Stock Company near Barcs, 245 kms south of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. (Attila Kovacs/MTI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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TOVARNIK, CROATIA - SEPTEMBER 17: Migrants force their way through police lines at Tovarnik station to board a train bound for Zagreb on September 17, 2015 in Tovarnik, Croatia. Migrants are now diverting to Croatia from Serbia after Hungary closed its border with Serbia, with the majority of them trying to reach Germany amid divisions within the European Union over how to manage the ongoing crisis. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) (credit:Jeff J Mitchell via Getty Images)
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A Croatian police officer tries to stop people from sneaking under a wire in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik, with people trampling and falling on each other amid the chaos, as more than 2,000 men, women and children were stuck at the local train station for hours in blazing heat and sun on Thursday, waiting to board trains and buses for transport to refugee centers. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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