The referendum in Scotland, the Californian fires, the ongoing crisis in northern Iraq and Syria – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
Photographer Noah Berger has been with firefighters in California this week battling the King fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains. By Wednesday, the out-of-control wildfire had burned through 111 square miles and was threatening more than 2,000 homes. Here, a firefighter battles the King fire as a backfire burns along Highway 50
The remains of a house destroyed by the Boles fire in Weed, California, is photographed by Justin Sullivan in front of Mount Shasta. Fuelled by high winds, a fast-moving wildfire swept through the town, burning 100 structures that included the high school and a lumber mill
Marko Djurica continued his strong reportage from Donetsk this week. Here, a man carries out a coffin from an undertaker's showroom which had been shelled. Ukraine's parliament passed a law this week that will give 'special status' to the separatist-minded eastern regions including a degree of self-governance for a three-year period
Scotland voted this week in an independence referendum that could have broken up the centuries-old United Kingdom and created Europe's newest state since the collapse of Yugoslavia. Here, piper Ryan Randall leads a pro-Scottish independence rally in the suburbs of Edinburgh
Photographer Murdo MacLeod produced sterling work from the referendum. Here, Kayla and Kacey Campbell join Orange Order marchers in a pro-union parade. An estimated 55% of voters rejected Scottish first minister Alex Salmond’s plans for Scotland to become a separate nation and decided to stay part of the 307-year-old union with England and Wales
A model walks down the runway during the Simone Rocha spring/summer 2015 collection during London fashion week
Members of the President's Own Marine Band stand during a fireworks display commemorating the bicentennial of the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner at Fort McHenry National Historic Park in Baltimore, Maryland. The poem verses were written by Francis Scott Key in the War of 1812, during a British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry from the Chesapeake Bay
A photograph from the European Space Agency shows an illustration of the supermassive black hole located in the middle of the very dense galaxy M60-UCD1. It weighs as much as 21 million times the mass of our sun. Lying about 50 million light years away, M60-UCD1 is a tiny galaxy with a diameter of 300 light years
Palestinian teachers carry a table in a classroom at a UN-run school in Gaza City the day before children returned to school after a three-week delay caused by the war between Israel and Hamas. Schools run by the UN Palestinian refugee agency are occupied by more than 300,000 internally displaced Gazans, half of whom are children
A Palestinian Bedouin from the Jahalin tribe stands in the doorway of his home in the Judea desert, east of Jerusalem, West Bank. According to media reports, Israel is planning to relocate Palestinian Bedouins from the area surrounding East Jerusalem to a new town in the Jordan Valley
A rebel fighter holds a position in Aleppo. The conflict in Syria began as a popular revolt demanding the removal of president Bashar al-Assad but quickly escalated into a brutal civil war that brought jihadists streaming into the country
Shia fighters, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against militants of the Islamic State, take part in field training in Najaf, Iraq
The horizon is seen through a telescopic rifle belonging to a Kurdish Peshmerga sniper on the frontline near Arbil, Iraq
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter launches mortar shells towards the city of Zummar, northern Iraq, which is controlled by Islamic State mlitants
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