September 18, 2014

Ryan Randall plays the bagpipes outside a polling 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 addresses a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris.

An aide helps Chinese President Xi Jinping wear his shoe, with his wife Peng Liyuan standing beside, after visiting Rajghat, the memorial to India's independence leader Mohandas Gandhi, more popularly called Mahatma Gandhi, in New Delhi, India.

Tibetan exiles are detained by police during a protest outside the venue 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 carrying slain State Police Trooper Corporal Bryon Dickson, 38, is carried into the cathedral for his funeral service. The survivalist suspected of the ambush attack last week that killed Dickson and seriously wounded another is a member of a Cold War re-enactment group, state police said.

A man runs through burning charcoal barefooted as he participates in a traditional ritual called "Lianhuo", or "fire walking", in Pan'an county, Zhejiang province, China, Sept. 17, 2014.

Residents recover pieces of wood after high waves dragged their beach stalls into the sea in Coyuca de Benitez, on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico, Sept.17, 2014. Tropical Storm Polo is forecast to become a hurricane off Mexico's Pacific Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, just days after a severe storm battered the Baja California peninsula.

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 ninth 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, Sept. 17, 2014.

Wood pieces and cars 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 a raging torrent 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, Sept. 17, 2014. Fire crews in California's rugged Sierra Nevada battled to gain the upper hand against a blaze that threatened at least 2,000 homes and has displaced hundreds of residents as flames roared for a fifth day through dry timber and brush west of Lake Tahoe.

The Singapore Flyer observation wheel is shrouded by haze in Singapore.

Hobby gardener Silvia Manteuffel measures her giant pumpkin in a garden near Fuerstenwalde, eastern Germany. Her first attempt of growing a pumpkin led to the giant plant weighing around 260 kilograms.