A large U.S. flag waves in gusty winds and pedestrians cross the street under red streetlights in Newark, New Jersey. A tornado watch has been issued for parts of New Jersey, New York City and New York’s lower Hudson Valley until 7 p.m. The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center says lightning, hail and wind gusts up to 70 mph are possible. (AP)
A Bangladeshi child laborer carries empty bottles at a plastic bottle recycling center in Dhaka. (AP)
Firefighters work to extinguish flames on a government vehicle after it was set on fire by Kashmiri protesters in Srinagar, India as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. (AP)
The artifacts in the Vistula riverbed revealed by low water levels are pictured with a power plant in the background in Warsaw, Poland. A huge cargo of elaborate marble stonework that sank to the bottom of Poland’s Vistula river four centuries ago has re-appeared after a drought and record-low water levels. (Reuters)
Afghan police and officials walk at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. A suicide bomber blew himself up alongside a minivan carrying foreigners on a major highway leading to the international airport in the Afghan capital, police said, killing at least 10 people, including nine foreigners. (AFP)
Space shuttle Endeavour is seen atop NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft or SCA at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, September 17, 2012. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, will fly Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, dance during a ‘fatale’, a singing and dancing event, in Funafuti on Tuvalu. (AFP)
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economy Maxime Verhagen, left, at the opening of the new parliamentary year by Dutch Queen Beatrix with a speech outlining the government’s plans for its 2013 budget in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP)