A look at the best news photos from around the world.
September 22, 2019
![Birds sit in their cages during the annual bird-singing competition in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d7d93a24-3910-4075-8d46-c72107d96817_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Birds sit in their cages during the annual bird-singing competition in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat.
![Children scream during the Oktoberfest parade, at the 186th 'Oktoberfest' beer festival in Munich, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d14f11a6-e274-4974-a346-58ffdcde05e0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children scream during the Oktoberfest parade, at the 186th 'Oktoberfest' beer festival in Munich, Germany.
![People take part in a ceremony to mark the 'death' of the Pizol glacier (Pizolgletscher) above Mels, eastern Switzerland. In a study earlier this year, researchers of ETH technical university in Zurich determined that more than 90 percent of Alpine glaciers will disappear by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are left unchecked.](https://gdb.voanews.com/72a54cdd-26e5-4a06-ba79-a46a32b4094e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People take part in a ceremony to mark the 'death' of the Pizol glacier (Pizolgletscher) above Mels, eastern Switzerland. In a study earlier this year, researchers of ETH technical university in Zurich determined that more than 90 percent of Alpine glaciers will disappear by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are left unchecked.
![A man cleans his boat in Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d0de64e3-a74a-4dd6-a308-ddbdaab388ba_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man cleans his boat in Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.