Photos of the day

A selection of some of the top AP photos taken over the past 24 hours. 

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Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria

A plantain field stands under water after the passing of Hurricane Maria in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, Thursday, September 21, 2017. As of Thursday evening, Maria was moving off the northern coast of the Dominican Republic with winds of 120 mph (195 kph). The storm was expected to approach the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas late Thursday and early Friday. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks Childhood Lost

In this Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017 photo, new arrived Rohingya Muslim children beg for food and money on the road between Teknaf and Cox Bazar in Bangladesh. Children make up about 60 percent of the sea of humanity that has poured in to Bangladesh over the last four weeks - Rohingya Muslims fleeing terrible persecution in Myanmar. And the U.N.'s child rights agency UNICEF has so far counted about 1,400 children who have crossed the border without their parents. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

Alishaan, a Rohingya Muslim man, carries his sick mother Aishya Khatoon to a hospital at Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on police posts prompted Myanmar's military to launch "clearance operations" in Rakhine state. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait to receive handouts near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. With Rohingya refugees still flooding across the border from Myanmar, those packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh are desperate for scant basic resources and fights erupt over food and water. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Mexico Earthquake

Rescue workers carry a body recovered from a building felled by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, in the Ciudad Jardin neighborhood of Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Thousands of professionals and volunteers are working frantically at dozens of wrecked buildings across the capital and nearby states looking for survivors of the powerful quake that hit Tuesday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Mexico Earthquake

People embrace during an outdoor Catholic Mass near the Enrique Rebsamen school that collapsed during the earthquake in Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has stunned central Mexico, killing more than 200 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico Earthquake

Rescue workers search for survivors at an apartment building located on Amsterdam street, at the intersection with Laredo street, that collapsed during an earthquake in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has stunned central Mexico, killing more than 200 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Mexico Earthquake

A rescue dog is helped to recuperate by volunteers after he became exhausted during search and rescue operations at a building felled by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, in the Ciudad Jardin neighborhood of Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Thousands of professionals and volunteers are working frantically at dozens of wrecked buildings across the capital and nearby states looking for survivors of the powerful quake that hit Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Uganda Protests

An activist opposed to the extension of presidential age limits is arrested and carried off by uniformed and plain-clothes police, while shouting for America and Israel to come to the rescue of Ugandans, near the Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Ugandan police on Thursday fired tear gas to disperse protesters and arrested dozens of people opposed to plans to introduce legislation that could allow the longtime president Yoweri Museveni to extend his rule. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Britain EU

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson waves to the media as he arrives for a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May will give a speech on Britain's ongoing negotiations about leaving the EU in Florence, Italy on Friday, and she will brief the cabinet on its contents. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Spain Catalonia

People gesture and shout slogans during a protest in Barcelona, Spain Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Thousands have gathered at the gates of Catalonia's judiciary body in Barcelona to demand the release of a dozen officials arrested in connection with a vote on independence that Spanish central authorities are challenging as illegal. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain Catalonia

Two man dressed in donkey masks and wrapped with an "estelada" or pro independence flag rest during a protest in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Thousands have gathered at the gates of Catalonia's judiciary body in Barcelona to demand the release of a dozen officials arrested in connection with a vote on independence that Spanish central authorities are challenging as illegal. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Brazil Rock in Rio

Alice Cooper performs at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

France Protest

A demonstrator holds a flare during a march against President Emmanuel Macron's new pro-business labor policies in Lyon, central France, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. French labor unions have staged fresh protests against President Emmanuel Macron's contested labor law reforms _ a day before he adopts them by executive order. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Germany Oktoberfest

Visitors enjoy an amusement park ride behind a ferris wheel at the 184th Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2017. The world's largest beer festival will be held from Sept. 16 until Oct. 3. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Belarus Circus

Circus artists perform during the International Festival of Circus Art in the State Circus in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Belarus Circus

Spectators watch the performance of the artist during the International Festival of Circus Art in the State Circus in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Participants from 16 countries take part in the event. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Germany Daily Life

A woman walks her dog along trees and bushes as the sun sets in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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