Today in Pictures, Sept 13, 2023
A miner is seen inside a salt mine in Heilbronn, Germany, race horses and riders in action in Laytown, Ireland, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A miner is seen at a construction site on Sept 12, in a salt mine in Heilbronn, Germany, to build the 700km-long SuedLink electric power line which will transport green energy from wind turbines in the northern coast to the south.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Jockeys in action during the Pride Of Place Maiden Laytown Race at the Laytown Racecourse in Ireland, on Sept 12.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A volunteer stands amid the rubble of destroyed houses in the village of Douzrou in Morocco, on Sept 12, following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake. Hopes dim in the search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains.
PHOTO: AFP
A man looking at damaged cars, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Derna, Libya, on Sept 12. Thousands of people were killed and at least 10,000 missing after the floods burst some dams, which swept away buildings and wiped out much of the eastern coastal city.
PHOTO: REUTERS
The Soyuz 2.1a booster rocket with the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft during installation on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Sept 12.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Italian Air Force Eurofighter jets participating in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's Baltic Air Policing Mission in Lithuanian airspace near Siauliai, Lithuania, on Sept 12.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Devotees worshipping the Dipankara Buddha during the Pancha Daan festival in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu, on Sept 12. The event is also known as the festival of five summer gifts, where people gather to donate rice grains, unhusked rice grains, salt, pulses and money to monks.
PHOTO: AFP
A land art painting called All Of Us!, highlighting the plight of civilians in armed conflicts, created by Swiss-French artist Saype, on display at the Place des Nations in front of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept 11.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Tourists dressed in Thai traditional costumes visiting Wat Arun or the Temple of Dawn in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sept 12.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Horses are prepared ahead of a rehearsal at the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, London, on Sept 12. It involves controlling teams of six horses pulling wheeled guns at high speed.
PHOTO: AFP