
Week in Pictures
The Week in Pictures: Sept. 5 - 12
A capsized ship off Georgia, a squirrelly hug, New York’s Tribute in Light and more.


Amazing rescue
People look at a capsized cargo ship off the St. Simons Island Pier, Ga., on Sept. 8.
Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped men alive from the ship on Monday, drilling into the hull's steel plates to extract the crew members more than a day after their vessel overturned while leaving a Georgia port.

Painful anniversary
Alexandra Hamatie, whose cousin Robert Horohoe was killed during the attacks, pauses at the National September 11 Memorial during a morning commemoration ceremony in New York on Sept. 11.


Love at first sniff
A ground squirrel appears to take a deep whiff of a flower in Vienna on June 5.
Dick van Duijn, an amateur photographer took the trek especially for pictures of the ground squirrels and after almost 500 shots, captured this moment. "Afterwards, he ate the flower," he said.




Alaskan glacier
A boat tours near a glacier's terminus in the Kenai Mountains near Primrose on Sept. 6.
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey have been studying the glaciers in the area since 1966 and their studies show that the warming climate has resulted in sustained glacial mass loss as melting outpaced the accumulation of new snow and ice.

Dorian's aftermath
A destroyed house stands among trees following Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, Bahamas, on Sept. 8.
Hurricane Dorian's death toll in the Bahamas climbed to 50 on Monday as more deaths were reported from the storm that plowed through the country last week, officials said.

Recovering the dead
Members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force remove a body from a destroyed neighborhood following Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, Bahamas, Sept. 9.
Forty-two bodies have been found in Abaco and eight recovered on Grand Bahama, said Anthony Ferguson, commissioner of Royal Bahamas Police Force.
Thousands of people remain missing, and relief efforts were underway on the battered islands.


Xenophobic attacks
A group of men lay on the ground after being arrested by members of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police in Johannesburg Katlehong Township as police combated a new wave of anti-foreigner violence on Sept. 5.
A wave of attacks on foreign-owned stores in South Africa has claimed 10 lives.

18 years on
The Tribute in Light illuminates New York's skyline on Sept. 11.
The art installation of 88 searchlights marked the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.