This week in photos (Sept. 26-30)

View a gallery of photos from the week of Sept. 26, 2011.

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Sat., Oct. 1, 2011

Cincinnati Reds shortstop Paul Janish (7) leaps over New York Mets' Nick Evans after getting Evans out at second base and throwing to first base to get Mets' Josh Thole out for a double play in the ninth inning to end the baseball game Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, in New York. The Reds won 6-5.

Kathy Kmonicek Fr170189 Ap
Models take the catwalk during the Gianfranco Ferre' women's Spring-Summer 2012 collection that was presented in Milan, Italy, Monday, Sept. 26, 2011.

Luca Bruno Associated Press
A gopher frog is seen at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. The endangered frog that lives only in Mississippi would have a lot more hopping room under the latest proposal from the federal government. The government wants to more than triple the area proposed as critical habitat for the Mississippi gopher frog, mostly in Mississippi but also including its last known Louisiana breeding ground.

Gerald Herbert Associated Press
A four-day old African spurred tortoise, Geochelone sulcata, one of eight babies, sunbathes on the head of its mother in their enclosure in Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, 226 kms (140 miles) east of Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.

Attila Balazs Mti
Napoli's fans wave flags during a Champions League, Group A, soccer match against Villarreal in Naples, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.

Gregorio Borgia Associated Press
A tactical satellite lifts off form the Alaskan Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex in Kodiak, Alaska on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. The rocket is carrying an experimental Navy communications satellite designed for safer combat communications.

Pam Foreman Kmxt Radio
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is seen reflected off President Barack Obama's TelePrompTer screen during an event at Abraham Lincoln High School, Tuesday, Sept., 27, 2011, in Denver.

Pablo Monsivais Associated Press
A team of engineers, from left, Dan Gach, Emma Cardini, center, and Katie Francis, harnessed to ropes , inspect the exterior of the Washington Monument for damage caused by last months earthquake, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, in Washington.

Evan Vucci Associated Press
A Pakistani man showers in a watercourse in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011.

Muhammed Muheisen Associated Press
An armored vehicle drives trough a pool during a demonstration event held for the media by the German Bundeswehr in Munster near Hannover, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011.

Michael Sohn Associated Press
A dog casts a long shadow in the morning in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011.

Dmitry Lovetsky Associated Press
Models wear creations by British fashion designer Gareth Pugh during his spring-summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection presented Wednesday Sept.28, 2011in Paris.

Francois Mori Associated Press
Women and children enjoy the sunset at a sunny late summer day at the Teufelsberg (Devil's Hill) in Berlin, central Germany, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011.

Markus Schreiber Associated Press
Two-year-old lion cub Ajani, left, yawns as he lies in the grass at his new home, the Pittsburgh Zoo, with his brother Razi Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 in Pittsburgh. The two 400-pound male lion cubs arrived in August from the Virginia Zoological Park in Norfolk, Va.

Gene Puskar Associated Press
Vehicles brake for moose at aptly named Moose Run Golf Course Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 on Arctic Valley Road in Anchorage, Alaska.

Erik Hill Anchorage Daily News
Mexican artist Brama Santos performs covered in corn at an event marking National Corn Day in Mexico City, Thursday Sept. 29, 2011. Environmental organizations commemorated National Corn Day to show their opposition to transgenic corn and demand the government annul two permissions given in 2009 that allow for the experimental planting of transgenic corn in Mexico.

Moises Castillo Associated Press
American actor Sean Penn holds an Egyptian national flag in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. The placard at right, in Arabic, reads, "we did the revolution to change, but we found the field marshal sleeping in the bed."

Mahmoud Bakry Associated Press
Two Palestinians are silhouetted by the setting sun during a horse race in Gaza City, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011.

Hatem Moussa Associated Press
In this photo provided by the Philippine Air Force, the roof of a house and the top of the trees can be seen above flood waters as flood have inundated the area Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 in Bulacan province, north of Manila, Philippines. Heavy rains from Typhoon Nesat that battered northeastern Philippines early this week filled up dams prompting officials to relase water overnight.

Frederick Bermas Philippine Air Force