Day in Photos: Fires in Portugal, Exploding Pagers, and Voting in India
A road surrounded by smoke in a burnt area is pictured during a wildfire at Lourizela, Agueda in Aveiro, Portugal, on Sept. 18, 2024. Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: Fires in Portugal, Exploding Pagers, and Voting in India

A look into the world through the lens of photography.
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Remains of exploded pagers on display at an undisclosed location in Beirut's southern suburbs in Lebanon on Sept. 18, 2024.  AFP via Getty Images
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Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (R) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2nd-L) and U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Herro Mustafa Garg (L) at Tahrir palace in the center of Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 18, 2024. Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images
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An Indian security personnel stands guard at a polling station during the first phase of assembly elections in Bijbehara, India, on Sept. 18, 2024. Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images
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Pope Francis waves from the popemobile surrounded by bodyguards at the end of the weekly general audience at St. Peter's square in The Vatican, on Sept. 18, 2024. Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images
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Migrants are pictured after a Spanish Salvamento Maritimo (Sea Search and Rescue agency) vessel rescued a 'cayuco' boat with 58 migrants, including 3 women and 4 children, one of them blind, at La Restinga port on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, on Sept. 18, 2024. Antonio Sempere/AFP via Getty Images
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The Indonesian Air Force's Jupiter Aerobatic Team performs during the Bali International Airshow at the Ngurah Rai International Airport near Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Sept. 18, 2024. Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP via Getty Images
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A resident covers her face as a New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) worker fumigates during a drive in a residential area to prevent dengue mosquito breeding in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 18, 2024. Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images
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Sri Lanka's president and independent presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe (C) greets his supporters during an election rally ahead of the upcoming presidential elections in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Sept. 18, 2024. AFP via Getty Images
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A worker sprays chemicals to process leather at a tannery in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Sept. 18, 2024. Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images
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Soldiers take part in the burial ceremony for two British soldiers, Lieutenant Dermod Anderson and Private Henry Moon, who died during Operation Market-Garden in 1944, at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, on Sept. 18, 2024. Rob Engelaar/ANP/AFP via Getty Images
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Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on Sept. 18, 2024. Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images
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Afghan school girls travel in a car along a road in Faizabad district of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 18, 2024. Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images
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A U.S. Capitol Police counter sniper team stands guard on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building following a first nail ceremony for the construction of the 2025 presidential inauguration platform in Washington on Sept. 18, 2024. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of killed fellow soldier Agam Naim, 20, who served as a female paramedic in Kibbutz Mishmoret in central Israel, on Sept. 18, 2024. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
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A shipment of emergency medical aid provided by Iraq to Lebanon is unloaded off of an Iraqi Air Force C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft upon arrival at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon on Sept. 18, 2024. Fadel Itani/AFP via Getty Images
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A woman hangs her laundry to dry after the heavy flood in Stronie Slaskie, southern Poland, on Sept. 18, 2024. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images
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Workers are silhouetted against the setting sun at a construction site in Pushkar, India, on Sept. 18, 2024. Himanshu Sharma/AFP via Getty Images
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Pedestrians walk past an installation featuring a power transformer in Kyiv's city center, Ukraine, on Sept. 18, 2024. Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images
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Queen Letizia of Spain attends the opening of the 2024/2025 Professional Courses at the ‘Doctor José Zapatero Domínguez’ High School in Castro-Urdiales, Spain, on Sept. 18, 2024. Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images