Today in Pictures, Sept 20, 2024
Tidal phenomenon in France, severe flooding in Poland, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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People ride a Mascaret wave (tidal bore) on surfboards and paddleboards in Saint-Pardon along the Dordogne river, south-western France on Sept 18, 2024. The Mascaret is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave of water that travels up a river or narrow bay.
PHOTO: AFP
People bing evacuated by helicopters of the Italian Air Force during floods in the small village of Traversara, on Sept 19, 2024. Many inhabitants were caught by the flood are still stuck in their homes sourrounded by flood water.
PHOTO: AFP
This recent handout photo released by the Berlin Zoological Garden on Sept 19, 2024 shows Giant Panda Meng Meng with one of her cubs born at the zoo in Berlin, Germany. Female panda Meng Meng has given birth to twins on Aug 22, five years after giving birth to her first offspring. Both cubs are developing rapidly and have cracked the 1kg mark, the zoo said in a statement.
PHOTO: AFP
France's President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he visits the "Nanterre Arboretum", an office campus entirely from wood in Nanterre near Paris, on Sept 19, 2024. Presented as Europe's largest solid wood campus, it features 126,000 square meters of office space set in nine hectares of riverside parkland.
PHOTO: AFP
Deers clash with their antlers as the annual rutting season begins, during above average seasonal temperatures, in Richmond Park, London, Britain, on Sept 19, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Brest's Hugo Magnetti shoots the ball past SK Sturm Graz's Kjell Scherpen and scores the first goal of the match between Brest and SK Sturm Graz in Guingamp, France, on Sept 19, 2024
PHOTO: REUTERS
An Afghan man with children, rides a bicycle along a street in Rabat village at the Sholgara district of Balkh province, Afghanistan, on Sept 19, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
