![A pangolin emerging from an underground tunnel at Save Vietnam's Wildlife [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/000_8Q383V.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
While arrests and prosecutions are up in Vietnam, conservationists warn the scourge of trafficking continues.
![Louisville police detain a man after a group marched in Louisville, Kentucky. [John Minchillo/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AP_20267751185239.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Demonstrators pour onto the streets of several cities across US, chanting “Say her name” and “No justice, no peace”.
![People who were relocated from remote during a government-organised media tour at Chengbei Gang'en community, in Yuexi County, China's Sichuan Province. [Roman Pilipey/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/h_56363421.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
China lifted over 800 million people out of poverty over 40 years. For the relocated, the transition...
![Kashmiri groom Haseeb Mushtaq is greeted with an offer of some hand sanitiser as he arrives at his bride's home on the outskirts of Srinagar for their wedding ceremony. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/395308d75aac4299ae1ea33234a1f223_8.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
The pandemic has dampened the traditional wedding rituals and cutdown in week-long feasting.
![Internet and televisions are an unattainable luxury in the homes of San Miguel Amoltepec Viejo in the mountains of southern Mexico. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/7c4cc971ddbb41f196852ab47be6fa62_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Distance learning is difficult amid the COVID pandemic, with the impoverished south lacking access to internet or TV.
![A city worker drives through the flooded streets in downtown Pensacola. [Chandan Khanna/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/57f8768104ab44dbad54c79ecdcb9773_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The slow-moving storm flooded communities leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power.
![A man wearing a sombrero walks near Santa Cecilia square in downtown Tijuana, on September 15, on the 210th anniversary of Mexico's Independence. [Guillermo Arias/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/022b36ef0c4542be88904802e3ad1efc_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
For the first time in 153 years, Mexicans marked Independence Day without big ceremonies due to COVID-19 restrictions.
![Portraits of late US guitarist Jimi Hendrix in Moroccan coastal city of Essaouira. [Fadel Senna/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/8c993a436d5d4adb8f94428bc42b8c40_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
There are no soundtracks or images from his journey to Diabat but countless myths surround his fleeting trip.
![An aerial view shows smoke rising into the air around the Cuiaba river in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. [Amanda Perobelli/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/24118dea2a8b40718fddac717194a9b8_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Fire burning in the wetlands of west-central Brazil is threatening one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet.
![Passengers arrive in a public taxi boat to the Shipibo Indigenous community of Pucallpa, located along the Ucayali river in the Amazonian rainforest of eastern Peru. Transportation is one of the biggest hurdles in treating Indigenous groups - some can only be reached by helicopter or an eight-hour boat ride. [Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4a82890712c849a39d11be0aac01f840_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Peru has world’s highest per-population confirmed COVID-19 mortality rate, forcing the Indigenous to find own remedies.
![Round one - Breonna Taylor: Taylor, 26, was shot dead by police in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky on March 13. One police officer involved was fired by the city's police department in June. Two other officers have been placed on administrative reassignment. No criminal charges have been filed against any of the three. [Frank Franklin II/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/02452642e52b4866b7a17ba9a070461f_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
US Open champion wore masks with different names for each of her seven matches to honour Black victims of violence.
![The opening of Afghan peace negotiations in Doha, Qatar [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a772e6171da548f08cc689d187cafea1_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
A ceremony to launch talks aimed at ending 19 years of war took place in Doha on Saturday after months of delays.
![The San Francisco skyline is obscured in orange smoke and haze. [Brittany Hosea-Small/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/77251c6bced242438177f1c8b578c66d_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Skies were so dark it appeared more night than day at times, while in some places ash fell like snow.
![Taoist temple Jiuyang Palace and Jiuyang Pagoda stand in Laiwu, Shandong province, China. The monastery complex, where a small community of priests lives, sleeps, eats and worships, is spread across a rocky hill. [Tingshu Wang/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/7637f1a8e739474b8a4d4537014f5eac_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Taoist priest honours China’s coronavirus dead with memorial tablets.