Today in Pictures, Sept 14, 2018

Lanterns at VivoCity’s Sky Park in Singapore, Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton meets fans at Suntec City in Singapore, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Sep 14, 2018, 10:27 AM

Six-year-old Gideon, riding on the shoulders of his father, Mr Michael Lee, 37, being drawn to the Disney Tsum Tsum lanterns at VivoCity’s Sky Park on Sept 13, 2018. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/KELVIN CHNG

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton met fans at Suntec City on Sept 13, 2018. The 33-year-old Briton generated a big buzz as he appeared at a Mercedes meet-and-greet session alongside teammate Valtteri Bottas ahead of this weekend’s Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/MARK CHEONG

Residents walk in flooded streets as the Neuse River floods its banks during Hurricane Florence September 13, 2018 in New Bern, North Carolina. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/AFP

An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDPI) sprays red paint at holes in a wall made by shrapnel from a rocket attack days earlier at the party's headquarters in Koysinjaq, 100 kilometres east of the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region Arbil, on September 12, 2018. PHOTO: AFP

Leone D'Aniello, owner of the antique bookshop "Ex Libris", shows a bijou almanac in Rome, Italy September 13, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

A worker stands in a ferris wheel during construction works at the Oktoberfest beer festival fair ground Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany, on September 13, 2018. The world's biggest beer festival runs from the September 22, until October 7, 2018. PHOTO: AFP

Lighting designers Motoko Ishii and Akari-Lisa Ishii present a two-day special light show on the Eiffel Tower to celebrate the Japanese cultural season and 160 years of diplomatic relations between France and Japan in Paris, France, September 13, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Visitors look at the installation of Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist "Show a Leg" during a Pop-Up-Event at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich, Switzerland, 13 September 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

This handout photo released by Mumm/Novespace on September 13, 2018 shows Jamaican retired sprinter Usain Bolt (C) gesturing in zero-gravity conditions in an aircraft on September 12, 2018 above Reims. PHOTO: HANDOUT VIA AFP

EDM artist Marshmello sits in the car of Austin Dillon, driver of the #3 DOWFROST Chevrolet, during the NASCAR Burnout Boulevard Fueled by Sunoco on September 13, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/AFP

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