World in focus – best photos for September 21, 2016
Boston Red Sox outfielders, from left, Chris Young, Jackie Bradley Jr, and Mookie Betts celebrate after a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore. Boston won 5-2. Patrick Semansky / AP Photo
Spectators share their umbrellas as they take shelter in rain falls during the women’s singles second round match between Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic and Monica Puig of Puerto Rico at the Pan Pacific Open women’s tennis tournament in Tokyo. Puig, the 2016 Rio Olympic gold medal winner, later won the match. Franck Robichon / EPA
Migrants who fled the Moria camp after dozens of tents and shelters were torched in a blaze collect water in the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos. Greek police arrested nine migrants after clashes and a huge fire at an asylum seekers’ camp, as the UN warned that 2016 could be the deadliest year yet for refugees trying to reach Europe. AFP
Members of the military investigate the site where an Air Force U-2 crashed in Sutter, California. A US pilot was killed and another injured after they ejected from a U-2 spy plane on a training mission in rural California, the Air Force said. AFP
A couple kiss while they take pictures in the middle of a cosmos field at Olympic Park in Seoul, South Korea. Ahn Young-joon / AP Photo
A man stands near flowers laid in front of the monument dedicated to the victims of the industrial explosion at the AZF chemical plant in Toulouse as people commemorate the 15th anniversary of the blast. The blast caused the death of 31 people and injured more than 2,500 people on September 21, 2001. Eric Cabanis / AFP
Migrants fix their makeshift tent made from blankets in the Moria camp, on the island of Lesbos. Thousands of migrants were forced to flee to safety on September 19 when their camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was badly damaged in a fire apparently set on purpose, police said. On Lesbos itself there are in excess of 5,600 people, more than 2,000 more than the nominal capacity of the camps. AFP
People dry crops on a farm in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China. Reuters
