Week in pictures: 11 - 17 September 2021 - BBC News

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Claudia Castano touches the name of her brother German, etched on a wall at the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. In a video released on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack in New York City, President Biden paid tribute to the 2,977 people who lost their lives.

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Lava flows down the side of Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano.

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A worker carries jute to a boat at a rural market in Munshigonj, Bangladesh.

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US rapper Lil Nas X at the 2021 Met Gala - one of fashion's biggest and starriest events - at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Gala returned after being cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Workers clean a water fountain at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

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Botanical horticulturalist Alberto Trinco holds the upturned leaf of a Victoria Amazonica - the world's largest water lily species - at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. Kew Gardens has set a new record for the largest living plant collection at a single site, according to Guinness World Records.

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Workers attach sheets of fabric to the exterior of the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris. The work is part of a posthumous installation, known as L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, conceived by Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who died last year, and his late wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude.

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Locals play football on a dusty pitch in Soweto, South Africa.

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Hindus pour milk over the idols of Goddess Radha and Lord Krishna to mark Radha Ashtami at a temple in Amritsar, India.

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Icebergs are seen at the mouth of the Jakobshavns ice fjord at sunset near Ilulissat, Greenland.