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20 INTERESTING photos of the month

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Here are some of the most interesting photographs shot in the month of September.

Children watch Bolivian dancers perform during a parade to mark the traditional 'Day of America' festival, in central Oviedo, northern Spain. The Asturian capital celebrated its traditional day of America on September 19.

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Three-year-old Wang Wuka practises snooker as his father Wang Yin positions the balls on the table at their home in Xuancheng, Anhui province. Wang Yin, a snooker fan, has been teaching his son the sport for more than two years. The boy, who vows to be a top snooker player, undergoes five hours of training daily to shoot the balls with precision.

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Sukhoi Su-27 jet fighters release flares as they perform during the "Russia Arms Expo 2013" 9th international exhibition of arms, military equipment and ammunition, in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil.

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Residents walk on a road barrier along a flooded highway in Paranaque, Metro Manila September 23. Heavy monsoon rains caused flooding in parts of Metro Manila and the nearby provinces, making roads impassable to small vehicles, local media reported.

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A woman takes part in "TWERKERS", an event organised to break the Guinness World Record for largest number of people to perform a dance known as "twerking", in New York.

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The damaged side of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen at the end of the 'parbuckling' operation outside Giglio harbour September 17. Salvage crews on the Italian island of Giglio raised the Costa Concordia cruise liner, completing one of the most difficult and expensive wreck recovery projects ever performed.

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Visitors take pictures of tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, September 22.

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An ethnic Pa-O boy dives into the stream while his mother bathes a baby near Inle lake in Shan state, one of the main tourist attractions in Myanmar. The number of international visitor arrivals to Myanmar in the first eight months of 2013 has reached over 1 million, an increase of 58 per cent compared to the same period of 2012, local media reported.

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A feeder holds a giant panda cub who was the only survivor of the triplets given birth by giant panda Jiaozi at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

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Two dogs in costume share a board during the Surf City surf dog competition in Huntington Beach, California, September 29.

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Models present creations by Italian designer Riccardo Tisci from his Spring/Summer 2014 women's ready-to-wear collection for Givenchy during Paris Fashion Week.

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A swimmer passes a temporary floating sculpture as he trains on the Serpentine Lake at Hyde Park in London.

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A Palestinian militant jumps as other run through smoke during a graduation ceremony in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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A member of the Muslim rebels of Moro National Liberation Front helps a fellow rebel drink water after they surrendered to the government soldiers, as they wait to be fingerprinted at a police station in Zamboanga city, in southern Philippines September 26.

The death toll from more than two weeks of fighting between the government soldiers and the rebels reached 173 people and the fighting displaced more than 109,000 people, according to the police.

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Relatives of Haj pilgrims wave in the rain, as they see off their relatives who are leaving Ahmedabad for Mecca in Saudi Arabia to take part in the annual religious Haj pilgrimage, September 26. The first batch of 450 Haj pilgrims set off on Thursday for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest site for Muslims.

A total of 6,800 pilgrims from the Gujarat state are expected to perform this year's ritual, authorities said.

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Riders run to their motorbikes at the start of the 36th Le Mans 24 Hours motorcycling endurance race in Le Mans, western France.

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An African migrant, working as a street vendor, waits for customers in south Tel Aviv. Israel's supreme court on Monday struck down a year-old law that meant African migrants could be held in detention for up to three years without charge.

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A destroyed house with one of its walls still clinging on is seen in Jamestown, Colorado, after a flash flood destroyed much of the town.

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Residents flee as winds whip flames from the Morgan fire along Morgan Territory Road near Clayton, California in unincorporated Contra Costa County.

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A woman gestures in support of demonstrators during a protest against signs in Serb Cyrillic script placed in the city of Vukovar. Several hundred Croat protesters tore down the signs that were put up on Monday in the Croatian city devastated during the independence war with Serb-dominated Yugoslavia, state radio said.

The signs were put up in Vukovar in line with a law in the newest European Union member that makes bilingual signs mandatory in any area where more than one third of the local population belongs to an ethnic minority group. Vukovar was reduced to rubble during a three-month siege by Yugoslav and Serbian forces in late 1991. Though rebuilt, the town remains poor, with high unemployment and ethnic tensions.

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