Day in Photos

September 6, 2023

People pull ashore a car submerged in the sea at the Arapia camping site near Tsarevo, along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Heavy rain and thunderstorms that began Monday are causing rivers to overflow, damaging bridges and causing more than 100 seaside holidaymakers and locals to be evacuated to safer areas.

Burned cars are seen at the site of a Russian military strike in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine.

A local walks past damaged cars as Storm Daniel hits central Greece, in the village of Milina.

Containers are scattered next to a train station in the aftermath of floods caused by heavy rains in Istanbul, Turkey. Fierce rainstorms battered neighboring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, triggering flooding that caused at least seven deaths, including two holidaymakers swept away by a torrent that raged through a campsite in northwestern Turkey.

Shiite Muslim devotees reach to receive a blessing from the tomb of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, at the Imam's shrine in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala, during the Arbaeen religious festival.

Muslim worshippers approach to kiss and touch the Hajar al-Aswad, or "Black Stone," a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, which is believed to be the only piece remaining from an altar built by the patriarch Abraham, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.

Hindu girls — dressed as Radha and Lord Krishna during the Janmashtami festival — pose for a picture during the Hindu community's celebration of the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

People look out over Manhattan, from the Edge, in New York City, Sept. 5, 2023.

Military Police from the 8th Battalion patrol on Asian water buffalos in Soure, Marajo Island, Para State, Brazil, Sept. 5, 2023. The police force has adopted the buffalo as a means of transportation to cross waterlogged areas when needed for operations on the island.

A fan who ran onto the field is tackled by a Truist Park security guard in the eight inning of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves, in Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 5, 2023.

A passerby strolls on a path alongside duckweed covering the surface of the River Lee Navigation canal in London. Recent warm weather has caused the floating weed to proliferate, starving the water of oxygen that's much needed by aquatic wildlife, and posing a risk to animals that might mistake it for grass.