A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 15, 2024
![This still image taken from a SpaceX and Polaris broadcast shows the manned Polaris Dawn mission's "Dragon" capsule splashing down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, completing the first human spaceflight mission by non-government astronauts of the Polaris Program. ](https://gdb.voanews.com/57ac60dd-a133-4164-a47a-f82bc3b34813_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This still image taken from a SpaceX and Polaris broadcast shows the manned Polaris Dawn mission's "Dragon" capsule splashing down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, completing the first human spaceflight mission by non-government astronauts of the Polaris Program.
![A man holds a cat as he is evacuated by rescuers on a flooded street, following heavy rainfall in Jesenik, Czech Republic.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9068e7af-2524-4dbb-b579-46c41803ff4b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man holds a cat as he is evacuated by rescuers on a flooded street, following heavy rainfall in Jesenik, Czech Republic.
![Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a fire in a residential building following a missile attack in Kharkiv.](https://gdb.voanews.com/79c2f21b-6d8d-43ac-9e08-8841052906eb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a fire in a residential building following a missile attack in Kharkiv.
![A man prays as notes to God were placed in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, to make space for new notes ahead of the Jewish New Year, in Jerusalem's Old City.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7155f5b2-948a-4b81-a195-d804589d69d1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man prays as notes to God were placed in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, to make space for new notes ahead of the Jewish New Year, in Jerusalem's Old City.