This Week in Pictures: September 15 - 21

Cos-players,Minnie Mouse and all sorts of other imaginary character rode their bikes through the streets of the Russian capital to support road safety.

On September 14, Hurricane Florence hit the East Coast of the United States; the 350-mile (563 km) wide storm claimed 35 lives and forced 10,000 North Carolina residents to take refuge in community storm shelters, leaving a million residents of the state without power.

September's typhoon Mangkhut,which hit China and Philippines,became the 22nd typhoon to strike world this year. Meteorologists recommend that the local authorities be ready for an emergency and promptly take all the necessary measures to eliminate the consequences of the possible catastrophe.

On September 17, dozens of protesters, mostly from Ukraine's far-right groups, blocked the entrance to the building of prosecutor general's office in Kiev with a trash can and set it on fire and then tried to storm it with a demand to sack the deputy prosecutor general who signed the permission to extradite a Russian citizen Timur Tumgoyev, wanted by Moscow as a suspected Islamist fighter.

Artists from the Belgian group Captian Boomer performed a rescue simulation on a hyper realistic fibreglass art installation of a beached whale as part of an inauguration of the city's Fall Season cultural program in the Manaznares river in Madrid, Spain.

Warsaw's statute of Poland’s 17th-century monarch King Sigismund III Vasa was covered with a chasuble reading the word "Constitution" by opponents to the judicial reforms. Their raft by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government aims at replacing judges in the common courts, the National Judiciary Council (KRS), the Constitutional Tribunal and Supreme Court.

During his visit to Kalashnikov's shooting range in Kubinka outside Moscow, Vladimir Putin hit three out of five targets firing from the SVCh-308, a new semi-automatic rifle first unveiled at the Army-2017 military-technical forum last year.

The Italian national team performing at the gala-concert of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

Turkey's first tech fest kicked off this week in Istanbul, once the mighty and ancient capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

After getting the right to drive, Saudi women strive for new challenges as these female divers, who prepare to deflate their BCDs (buoyancy control devices) to dive in the sea at Half Moon Beach open-water dive site in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Philippe Gillet, 67 year-old Frenchman, lives with more than 400 reptiles and tamed alligators, gives chicken to his alligator Ali in his living room in Coueron near Nantes, France.

The YARKOcross Night Edition color run race took place in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on September 15.

With many people fleeing from armed conflict and staying in make-shift camps in the Yemeni Hajjah Province,the United Nations is working to open a humanitarian air bridge to take Yemeni cancer patients for treatment at qualified facilities.

London Fashion Week kicked off on September 15 in the UK capital, struggling to part with the United Europe, but striving to dispute the image of its fashion center.

The international cat show "Zvezda 2018" took place in Moscow, bringing the best and rarest pedigrees from around the globe.

The week has been marked with a breakthrough in inter-Korean relations as the South's President Moon Jae-in came for a visit to the DPRK to talk to its leader. North Korea will close its Tongchang-ri missile testing site, he said after the summit with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.

The week has been marked with a breakthrough in inter-Korean relations as the South's President Moon Jae-in came for a visit to the DPRK to talk to its leader. North Korea will close its Tongchang-ri missile testing site, he said after the summit with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.

After heavy downpours, 13 flood alerts were in place across Wales as Storm Bronagh followed Storm Ali, which hit parts of the UK.

Th two-day EU Informal Summit of Heads of State or Government took place in Salzburg, Austria, which is holding the bloc's rotating presidency now.

Diesel-electric submarine Kronstadt of the 677 project "Lada" was launched during an inauguration ceremony in Saint Petersburg.

Hundreds of people the Kogi State, Nigeria, were forced out of their homes with a flood.

Jewish people all over the world started celebrating the holiest day of the year in Judaism Yom Kippur,dedicated to atonement for personal and national sins, on September 18.

The Floating Bridge at the Russian capital's newly opened park Zaryadye close to the Red Square has turned to one of Moscow's main attractions.

AA protest calling for lifting the Israeli blockade on Gaza and demand the right to return to their homeland, renewed at the Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Gaza City in September.

Denver Broncos won an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders that took place on September 16.

Thirteen countries suspended Belgian pork imports after 10 wild boars were discovered to have died from swine fever.

The 18th edition of the Lyon Dance Biennial kicked of in eastern France on September 16 with a parade dedicated to peace.

London Fashion Week kicked off on September 15 in the UK capital, struggling to part with the United Europe, but striving to dispute the image of its fashion center.

A team from the local emergency disaster agency are putting down a fire burning in Ogan Ilir, near Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia.

Air balloons floating over the Russian Southern Stavropol region during the Fest "Caucasian Mineral Waters, Russian Pearl".