September 18, 2014

Ryan Randall plays the bagpipes outside a voting station in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland votes whether or not to end the 307-year-old union with the rest of the United Kingdom.

French President Francois Hollande speaks at a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris.

An aide helps Chinese President Xi Jinping tie his shoe after visiting Rajghat, the memorial to India's independence leader Mohandas Gandhi, in New Delhi, India. President Xi's wife is pictured with his wife, Peng Liyuan. 

Tibetan exiles are detained by police during a protest outside of a meeting between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, India.

A man looks for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings after what activists said was a vacuum bomb dropped by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Maarat Al-Nouman, south of Idlib.

Pennsylvania State Police salute outside St. Peters' Cathedral in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, as the casket for State Police Corporal Bryon Dickson, 38, is carried into the cathedral for his funeral service. The suspected shooter in the attack last week that killed Dickson and seriously wounded another person, is a member of a group that re-enacts the Cold War, state police said.

A man runs through burning charcoal without shoes as he participates in a tradition called "Lianhuo", or "fire walking", in Pan'an county, Zhejiang province, China.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at a Nevada Democratic caucus rally in Las Vegas, Feb. 20, 2016.

Bible Lands Museum director Amanda Weiss (R) holds an ancient Siddur, or Jewish prayer book, as she puts it on display at the museum in Jerusalem. Dating back some 1,200 years, the 9th-century A.D. Siddur is the oldest Jewish prayer book known to exist. Originating in the Middle East, it contains around 50 pages written in Hebrew.

Baby Hamadryas baboons reach for milk bottles as a zookeeper feeds them at a zoo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Wood pieces and cars are seen stuck under a bridge over the Bitoulet River in Lamalou-les-Bains, southern France. Five people died when storms turned a peaceful river that bordered their camping site in southern France into an extremely powerful river that swept them away, rescue workers said.

A model wears a creation for Just Cavalli women's Spring/Summer 2015 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy.

Members of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) forensic unit carry equipment into a house that was involved in pre-dawn raids in the western Sydney suburb of Guilford September 18, 2014.

A firefighter battling the King Fire sprays water on a backfire in Fresh Pond, California, USA. Fire crews in California's rocky Sierra Nevada battled to put out a blaze that threatened at least 2,000 homes and has displaced hundreds of residents as the fire continued to burn for a fifth day.

The Singapore Flyer observation wheel is covered by haze.

Gardener Silvia Manteuffel measures her giant pumpkin in a garden near Fuerstenwalde, eastern Germany. Her first try at growing a pumpkin produced the giant plant weighing around 260 kilograms.