Photos of the Day for Sept. 7
Trenton Duerksen, exhibition maintenance manager at the American Museum of Natural History, vacuums the the 94-foot-long blue whale model in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life in New York.Mary Altaffer/The Associated Press
Maria Silva, Milena Cortes, Maria Arteaga, Jackeline Bastidas and Gissy Abello pose for a picture at the Famproa dog shelter where they work, in Los Teques, Venezuela.Carlos Garcia Rawlings/Reuters
US President Barack Obama drinks from a coconut as he makes a surprise stop for a drink alongside the Mekong River in Luang Prabang, Laos.Saul Loeb/AFP / Getty Images
Team Canada goalie Corey Crawford makes a save during practice for the World Cup of Hockey practise at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.Marc DesRosiers
Crew members of the International Space Station (ISS), (L to R) US NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, sit in the landing module of the spacecraft after landing some 150 kms to the east of the city of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.Maxim Shipenkov/AFP / Getty Images
A pilgrim prays at Mount Al-Noor, where Muslims believe Prophet Mohammad received the first words of the Koran through Gabriel in the Hera cave, ahead of the annual haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
A gust of wind blows away Pope Francis' skullcap during his weekly general audience in St. Peters's quare at the Vatican.Andreas Solaro/AFP / Getty Images
Brazil's judo athlete Rafaela Silva holds the Olympic torch during a ceremony at the Christ the Redeemer statue ahead of the 2016 Rio Paralympic games.Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
Air Force Capt. Jennifer Lee, right, kneels as she presents an American flag to Terry Harmon, center seated, daughter of World War II pilot Elaine Danforth Harmon, during burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/The Associated Press
A couple kiss as they row a small boat at the Retiro park, during a hot day in Madrid, Spain.Francisco Seco/The Associated Press