Today in Pictures, Sept 23, 2020

Students take a virtual tour of Sultan Mosque, village in Indonesia hit by flash floods, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Sep 23, 2020, 09:44 AM

Pupils of Qihua Primary School taking a virtual tour of Sultan Mosque on Sept 22, 2020, with the help of a remotely controlled mobile monitor and Mr Robert Chan (on screen), 70, a volunteer guide with the National Heritage Board’s Preservation of Sites and Monuments division. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/ONG WEE JIN

A car is submerged in mud after flash floods swept through Cibuntu Village in Sukabumi, West Java Province, Indonesia, Sept 22, 2020. PHOTO: ANTARA FOTO/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS

State civil employee candidates wearing face masks and shields sit for an exam inside a plastic chamber after they tested positive during a coronavirus rapid test in Surabaya on Sept 22, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

Rescuers work to save a pod of pilot whales stranded on a sandbar at Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania on Sept 22, 2020. PHOTO: THE ADVOCATE/HANDOUT VIA AFP

Firefighters combat the Bobcat Fire burning near Cedar Springs in the Angeles National Forest on Sept 21, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. PHOTO: AFP

Beneficiaries such as Mr Fong Wei Keong (left), 75, received care packs from Keppel Land, in partnership with Lions Befrienders Service Association (LBSA), in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The care packs were distributed by Keppel Land volunteers, led by its CEO Tan Swee Yiow (centre, with LBSA board member Daniel Ong). PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/GIN TAY

An elderly woman selling tissue paper at Waterloo Street on Sept 22, 2020. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/KELVIN CHNG

Police officers on guard as activists of Extinction Rebellion Fashion Action are glued to the front door of Vogue House, during a protest outside Conde Nast in London, Britain, Sept 22, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman walks her dogs in front of the buildings of Moscow's International Business Centre in Moscow on Sept 22, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

A photo released on Sept 22, 2020, shows an aerial view of a canola crop near Harden, New South Wales, on Sept 15, 2020. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

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