Gallery: The best photos from around the world this week

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Gallery: The best photos from around the world this week

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From the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Center to the first SpaceX private crewed mission to space, these are the best photos from around the world in the past week, as chosen by The Age's photo editors.

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The Tribute In Light shines up from Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2021 in New York City. The nation is marking the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, when the terrorist group al-Qaeda flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center, Shanksville, PA and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. Credit:Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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Organ grinder Nicole Salgado kisses her parrot called Blue during the funeral of organ grinder and 'Chinchinero' Hector Lizana, 93, who died from COVID-19, three weeks after his son Manuel also died from COVID-19, in Santiago, Chile. A 'Chinchinero' is an urban street performer in Chile, who plays a bass drum-type percussion instrument with long drumsticks strapped to his back which also involves a rope with a noose tied around the performer's foot to play the cymbals which also form part of this improvised instrument. Credit:Esteban Felix/AP Photo

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Children pose for a photo as they play in a camp for internally displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan. Credit:Felipe Dana/AP Photo

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Workers wrap the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris. The "L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped" project by late artist Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be on view from, September 18 to October 3, 2021. The famed Paris monument will be wrapped in 25,000 square meters of fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope.Credit:Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP Photo

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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his kids as part of the Kaparot ritual in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Observant Jews believe the ritual transfers one's sins from the past year into the chicken, and is performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year which starts at sundown Wednesday. Credit:Oded Balilty/AP Photo

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with four private citizens onboard, lifts off in this time-exposure photo from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Credit:John Raoux/AP Photo

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Kim Kardashian attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" exhibition, in New York. Credit:Mike Coppola/Getty Images

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Billy Besson, Helmsman of France SailGP Team sails during Race Day One of SailGP on Saint-Tropez Harbour in St Tropez, France. Credit:David Ramos/Getty Images

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A hot air balloon reflects in a pond on the Snowmass Club Golf Course during the 46th annual Snowmass, Colorado, Balloon Festival.Credit:Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times

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Nuns and other pilgrims arrive for an open-air mass with Pope Francis in Sastin, Slovakia. Today's mass concludes an apostolic trip by the Pope to Central Europe from September 12 to 15. The Pontiff visited five cities, starting with Budapest, Hungary, for the closing mass of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress, continuing with the Slovak capital Bratislava, and visiting Kosice, Presov and Sastin. Only fully vaccinated and a limited number of tested worshippers have been allowed to attend public gatherings on this occasion. Credit:Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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Inmates fight for the ball during a rugby match at the Santa Teresa field in La Victoria, Aragua state, Venezuela. The seventh rugby festival was held on a farm where the Santa Teresa brand produces rum in Venezuela near Caracas, with the participation of male and female inmates from 16 prisons throughout the country. The competition is part of the social work carried out by the NGO Proyecto Alcatraz. Credit:Matias Delacroix/AP Photo

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Labourers wait in the street to be hired, in Kabul, Afghanistan.Credit:Bernat Armangue/AP Photo

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Lightning strikes in the area of Sugarloaf Ridge State Park near Santa Rosa, California.Credit:Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP

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Jessica Macaulay of Canada dives from the 21 dives from the 21 metre platform during the final competition day of the fourth stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series on September at Downpatrick Head, Ireland. Credit:Romina Amato/Red Bull via Getty Images

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People steer their SUP boards during a SUP (Stand Up Paddle)-Surfing festival at Krylatskoye Olympic rowing canal in Moscow, Russia. Credit:Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo

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A western lowland gorilla is seen in its habitat at Zoo Atlanta. Nearly all of the zoo's 20 gorillas are showing symptoms of having contracted the coronavirus from a zoo staff worker, according to zoo officials. The confirmed cases of those gorillas tested have come back positive for the COVID-19 Delta variant. Credit:Ron Harris/AP Photo

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People ride on a back of a truck on a street in Conakry, Guinea.Credit:Sunday Alamba/AP Photo

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People wait in a queue to receive their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at a public COVID-19 vaccination centre in Hanoi, Vietnam. Hanoi is aiming to mass test the entire city and vaccinate all its adult population with at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot by September 15. Vaccinations in Vietnam are picking up pace as increased supplies arrive in the country, which is the EU's largest trading partner in Southeast Asia.Credit:Linh Pham/Getty Images

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An Indigenous woman attends an Indigenous women's march to protest the policies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and in favor of women's rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands in Brasilia, Brazil. Credit:Eraldo Peres/AP Photo

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Children play at a park in Kabul, Afghanistan.Credit:Bernat Armangue/AP Photo