Today in Pictures, Sept 25, 2024
Nigeria’s “slum party”, a forest fire in Ecuador, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A fire breather performing during a slum party in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sept 24, 2024. The yearly dance festival, organised by Ennovate Dance House, is an initiative that highlights the positive side of the slum community and brings the community together through performance arts.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Smoke from a wildfire in Quito, Ecuador, on Sept 24, 2024. At least three forest fires were burning simultaneously in the capital, covering it with smoke and ash, amid a water crisis caused by Ecuador's worst drought in 61 years.
PHOTO: AFP
A model presenting a creation by Germanier for the Women's Ready-to-wear Spring-Summer 2025 collection as part of Paris Fashion Week, in France on Sept 24, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Bystanders and reporters looking at the destruction on the street next to a residential building whose top two floors were hit by an Israeli strike, in the Ghobeiri area of Beirut's southern suburbs in Lebanon, on Sept 24, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A worker unloading bananas from a truck at a market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Sept 24, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Farmers salvaging their harvest from a flooded rice field in Hanoi's Chuong My district on Sept 24, 2024. Serious flooding in central Vietnam has killed three people and forced more than 10,000 residents to evacuate their homes, disaster officials said.
PHOTO: AFP
A visitor walking past artwork on display at the "Women in War - Palestine" exhibition in Kuwait City on Sept 24, 2024. The exhibition features the artworks of more than 100 global artists who donated their art in support of Palestine, in a unified call for peace in the Arab world.
PHOTO: AFP
Teddy bears symbolising Gazan children who have lost their lives since Oct 7 are displayed for sale at an exhibition organised by Qatar Charity, with sales proceeds to be donated to the people of Gaza, in Doha, Qatar, on Sept 22, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
People helping to extinguish a wildfire in Quito, Ecuador, on Sept 24, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
