The Week in Pictures: Sept. 24 - Oct. 1, 2015 - NBC News

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1. The supermoon rises behind Glastonbury Tor on Sept. 27, 2015 in Glastonbury, England. Sunday night's supermoon, so called because it takes place when a full moon makes its closest approach to Earth, is particularly rare as it coincided with a lunar eclipse. The combination had not happened since 1982 and won't happen again until 2033.
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2. Pope Francis waves during a parade leading to an open-air mass at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Penn., on Sept. 27.
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3. First Lady Michelle Obama adjusts President Barack Obama's tie as they await the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan for a State Dinner at the White House on Sept. 25 in Washington, D.C.
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4. A paramilitary police officer holds onto a fence as tourists dodge tidal waves stregthened from Typhoon Dujuan, at the bank of Qiantang river, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China on Sept. 29. China ordered tens of thousands of boats back to shore and closed tourist attractions as a typhoon made landfall in the eastern province of Fujian early on Tuesday after leaving two dead and hundreds injured in Taiwan.
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5. Guillaume Rolland of France stands on the line during the Highline Extreme event in Moleson, Switzerland on Sept. 25. Europe's best slackliners competed on six different lines ranging from 148 ft to 1,624 ft.
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6. A boy reacts as a butterfly stops on his nose during a butterfly exhibition at a park in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, on Sept. 26.
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7. Secretary of State John Kerry attends a U.N. Security Council meeting on settlement of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa and countering the terrorist threat in the region during the 70th Session of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 30 in New York.
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8. Hilary Benjamin sits in a recliner that belongs to her good friends Julie and John Bercik, after a tornado hit their house on Sonny Boy Lane in Johns Island, S.C., on Sept. 25. "I've been in this chair so any times, it's just weird to sit in it like this", Benjamin said before helping the Berciks' clean up their house.
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9. An Indian boy walks up the steps of the historic Chand Baori stepwell in Abhaneri village in Rajasthan on Sept. 24. For a few hours on one day each year local residents are permitted to descend into the 100-foot-deep, 1,200-year-old stepwell, as Hindu devotees in the area mark a local festival, at the same time as Hindus worldwide observe Ganesh Chaturthi festivities. Chand Baori is one of the oldest and largest stepwells in the world, with some 3,500 steps laid out in a geometric design down to the water at its base.
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10. Refugees arrive on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on an inflatable boat on Oct. 1 near village of Skala Sikaminias, Greece. Despite bad weather, migrants and refugees continue to risk their lives in search of a better one in the European Union. Officals have warned that a rise in migrant deaths is expected as weather conditions gradually worsen.
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11. Migrants and refugees stand in line as they wait to board a train at the registration camp after crossing the Macedonian-Greek border near Gevgelija on Sept. 28. Macedonia is a key transit country in the Balkans migration route into the EU, with thousands of asylum seekers and migrants entering the country every day.
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12. A man gestures as volunteers help a Syrian woman as they arrive with others from Turkey to the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos on an inflatable dinghy on Sept. 26. More than 260,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Greece so far this year, most reaching the country's eastern islands on flimsy rafts or boats from the nearby Turkish coast.
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13. Pope Francis kisses and blesses Michael Keating, 10, of Elverson, Pa. after stopping his motorcade when he saw the disabled boy after landing at the Philadelphia International Airport on Sept. 26. Keating has cerebral palsy and is the son of Chuck Keating, director of the Bishop Shanahan High School band that performed at Pope Francis' airport arrival.
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14. A member of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without borders) checks the temperature of a refugee onboard a search and rescue vessel after they were rescued from their rubber boat in the Meditterranean sea off the coast of Libya on Sept. 29. The Italian coastguard said it has coordinated the rescue of 1,151 migrants in 11 separate operations off the Libyan coast.
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15. Community members from Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., attend a memorial service in Hildale on Sept. 26 for 12 women and children swept away in a deadly flash flood nearly two weeks earlier on the Utah-Arizona border. One six-year-old boy is still missing.
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16. Pope Francis shakes hands with an inmate as he meets with prisoners at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia on Sept. 27.
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17. Emmanuel Rutema, 13, from Tanzania holds a plush toy that he sleeps with because it makes him feel safe at night, as he poses for a portrait on Sept. 21 in the Staten Island borough of New York. He lost his fingers and left arm in an attack in Tanzania, where albinos are targeted for their body parts and are highly valued in witchcraft.

Rutema and three other Tanzanian children spent their summer in New York being fitted with prosthetic limbs and learning the simple childhood joys of splashing in a pool and playing backyard soccer.

Image released by Reuters on Sept. 30.
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18. A man watches as firefighters extinguish fires on boats at the Shau Kei Wan typhoon shelter on Sept. 27 in Hong Kong. A fire swept through several boats anchored at the Shau Kei Wan typhoon shelter.
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19. Catalonian pro-independence supporters wave "estelada" flags during a "Junts pel Si" or "Together for YES" rally in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 25. Pro-secession parties pushing for Spain's northeastern Catalonia region to break away and form a new Mediterranean nation won a landmark vote Sunday by capturing a regional parliamentary majority, setting up a possible showdown over independence with the central government in Madrid.
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