28 September 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Hindus prepare to immerse an idol of the goddess Durga in the Buriganga river, marking the end of the Durga Puja festival, the biggest in the Hindu communityPhotograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters21 September 2009, Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Manuel Zelaya, the deposed president of Honduras, has made a surprise return to the central American country. He told supporters he would ‘topple the dictatorship’ Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP17 September 2009, Edinburgh, UK: What is said to be Britain's biggest puppet began a three-month tour of Scotland yesterday. Devised by the Puppet Lab, he is eight metres tall and operated by eight puppeteers. See audio slideshow here.Photograph: Murdo MacLeod
Raja Ampat, Indonesia: A man patrols a coral reef in Birds Head, . This photo is in the Thrive! exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery from 18 September. Photograph: Conservation International8 September 2009, Calgary, Canada: An Edmonton Eskimos cheerleader takes flight in front of a record 41,000 crowd at the Labour Day football game against the Calgary Stampeders. Edmonton lost 32-8Photograph: Todd Korol/Reuters4 September 2009, Edinburgh, UK: Members of the Staatsoper Stuttgart choir perform Actus Tragicus, in which the everyday routines of life are set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach and seen in a cross-section of a four-storey buildingPhotograph: Murdo Macleod3 September 2009, Nuremberg, Germany: Female Indian baby rhinoceros Seto Paitala, meaning ‘white foot’ in Nepalese, was born in the zoo at Nuremberg last week, and stands next to her mother, Purana Photograph: Timm Schamberger/AFP/Getty Images31 August 2009, Notting Hill, UK: Europe’s biggest street party reached a colourful climax yesterday as hundreds of thousands of revellers turned out to enjoy the sunshine and spectaclePhotograph: M Crossick/Empics
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