Best pictures from September 3
A woman flies a kite in front of the skyline of New York's Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, September 3, 2013. New York will mark the 12th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center next week.GARY HERSHORN/Reuters
Tuesday, September 03, 2013 - Canmore, Alberta - Canadian Cross-country skier Brian McKeever who trains in Canmore, Alberta is preparing for the upcoming winter Olympics in Sochi. In 2010, he became the first Canadian athlete to be named to both Paralympic and Olympic teams.Chris Bolin/The Globe and Mail
Crossing guard Cynthia Yen, 11, a Grade 6 student at Renfrew Elementary School, holds a stop sign as she waits to assist students crossing East 22nd Ave. on the first day of school in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday September 3, 2013.DARRYL DYCK/The Globe and Mail
A Somali policeman runs from the scene of an accidental explosion at a petrol storage facility within the former United States residential housing in capital Mogadishu, September 3, 2013.FEISAL OMAR/Reuters
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans against the military and interior ministry during a protest and rally named "The coup is terrorism" in the southern suburb of Maadi, September 3, 2013. An Egyptian military court sentenced supporters of Mursi to long jail terms on Tuesday on charges of attacking soldiers in the city of Suez, a military statement said.AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/Reuters
A man records members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi walking on a railing and showing the "Rabaa" or "four" gesture on his mobile phone, during a protest at a highway in the southern suburb of Maadi, September 3, 2013. An Egyptian military court sentenced supporters of Mursi to long jail terms on Tuesday on charges of attacking soldiers in the city of Suez, a military statement said.AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/Reuters
Bus driver Felix Aguero, one of nine Route 30 public bus drivers that have had themselves nailed to wooden crosses in protest over their dismissal, is pictured in Luque, on the outskirts of Asuncion September 3, 2013. The bus drivers carried out the action following their dismissal by a transportation company after it rejected their plea for higher pay, and have been nailed down for 18 days, according to Olga Ferreira de Lopez, a member of Paraguay's House of Congress who is monitoring the situation.JORGE ADORNO/Reuters
A tourist walks inside Attalos Arcade in the ancient agora (market) in Athens September 3, 2013. Spending by tourists in Greece surged in June, according to central bank data, confirming forecasts that a record summer season could give the debt-laden country a welcome injection of foreign cash.JOHN KOLESIDIS/Reuters
Christian volunteers take part in a grape harvest in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Har Bracha, near Nablus September 3, 2013. Coming from various countries, the volunteers, who belong to a Christian organisation that supports farmers in West Bank Jewish settlements, take part in harvests every year.NIR ELIAS/Reuters
Labourers work at a coal dump site outside Kabul September 3, 2013.MOHAMMAD ISMAIL/Reuters
Olivia, 6, and James, 10, Lehmann make their way into Tomekichi Homma Elementary school in Richmond, B.C. September 3, 2013 for the first day of school.John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail
Lebanese young adults prepare to jump into the Mediterranean Sea off the Corniche, or waterfront promenade, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013.Nariman El-Mofty/The Associated Press
Dustin Bockman is pictured with his record setting alligator, weighing 727 pounds (330 kg) and measuring 13 feet (3.96 m), captured in Vicksburg, Mississippi on September 1, 2013 and released to Reuters on September 3, 2013. Dustin Bockman, a 27-year-old UPS driver, and his crew spotted the mammoth creature in the Mississippi River and trailed it for two hours before getting close enough to spear it. It took another two hours to hook it with a second line and noose its neck.HANDOUT/Reuters
Four-year-old Zain Siddiqui and his mother Tabassum arrive at his first day of school at Fraser Mustard Learning Academy in Toronto, Ontario Tuesday, September 3, 2013. The youngster is starting all-day kindergarten.Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail