Week in Pictures | Sept. 10 – 17, 2017

Cassini mission team members Scott Eddington and Nora Alonge embrace at the Jet Propulsion Lab auditorium in La Cañada Flintridge after the spacecraft Cassini burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere.

Flight director Julie Webster gets emotional in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory after confirmation of Cassini’s demise.

In the San Marco area of Jacksonville, Carol Orr wades through knee-deep waters to check on his 82-year-old father Bernard Orr who lives beside the St. Johns River.

Trailer homes at the Sea Breeze trailer park in Islamorada were destroyed by Hurricane Irma.

Opponents of conservative speaker Ben Shapiro raise their voices amid a heavy police presence on the UC Berkeley campus.

A c hild depicted in a 70-foot-tall art installation created by French artist JR appears to peek over the border wall that bisects Tecate, Mexico and Tecate, Calif.

People wander among flags at the 9/11 memorial set-up up each year on the lawn of Pepperdine University to honor the victims of the 2001 terror attacks.

Pedestrians walk in front of a large video screen showing a news report about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un following a North Korean missile test that passed over Japan.

President Trump provides encouragement as Frank Giaccio, 11, of Falls Church, Va., realizes his dream in the Rose Garden of the White House on Sept. 15, 2017. Frank, who has his own lawn mowing business, wrote a letter to the president asking if he could mow the lawn at the White House.

A flag-festooned airliner carrying the French Olympic delegation arrives at Paris’ DeGaulle airport after attending the International Olympic Committee meeting in Lima. Peru, where Paris was officially awarded the 2024 Olympics and Los Angeles was designated to host the 2028 Games.

Krystal Escalante, 16, participates in a march and rally to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in Los Angeles.

Rohingya refugees wade ashore after arriving by boat in Shah Porir Dip, Bangladesh. Around 370,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh since late August to escape violence in Rakhine state.

Pro-European Union demonstrators rally during the People’s March for Europe against Brexit in Parliament Square in central London. Thousands joined the march calling on politicians to “unite, rethink and reject Brexit.”

George Clooney poses with fans at the premiere of “Suburbicon” at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Models present creations of Ulises Merida’s spring 2018 collection at Madrid Fashion Week.

Iraqi Kurds wave Kurdish flags during a rally in support of the upcoming independence referendum in the town of Akra, about 300 miles north of Baghdad. Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region will hold a historic referendum on statehood this month, despite opposition to independence from Baghdad.

Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman steps in front of Indianapolis Colts receiver Donte Moncrief to break up a pass at the Coliseum.

Sloane Stephens reacts to the size of her winner’s check after defeating fellow American Madison Keys in the U.S. Open women’s singles final at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Onosho of Japan, right, flips grand sumo champion, or “yokozuna,” Harumafuji of Mongolia to defeat on the fifth day of the 15-day Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo.

Ducati team rider Jorge Lorenzo of Spain falls from his bike during the San Marino Moto GP Grand Prix at the Marco Simoncelli Circuit in Misano.

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, illuminate the sky over the beach of Flakstad in the Lofoten Islands, a Norwegian archipelago above the Arctic Circle.

Runners are sprayed with red dye during the annual 5-kilometer Color Run, in Johannesburg. The event attracts thousands of participants who are spritzed with five different colors of dye as they run the course through parks and city streets.