Photos of the Day: Sept. 7, 2015

Originally published September 7, 2015 at 2:34 pm Updated September 7, 2015 at 2:36 pm

Kai, a six week old tiger cub is walked on a leash at Tiger Island in the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Australia, on September 7, 2015. Kai was the first tiger in seven years to be born at Dreamworld and the fourth litter to be born at Tiger Island which opened 20 years ago. (DAVE HUNT / EPA)

A woman sits at the beach on Labor Day in Coney Island September 7, 2015 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Labor day signals the traditional, if not the calendar, end of the summer season. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)

Pakistani boys attend school a day ahead of the International Literacy Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, on September 7, 2015. International Literacy Day is observed on 08 September annually and the theme this year is ‘Literacy and Sustainable Societies’. (BILAWAL ARBAB / EPA)

Syrian refugees gather outside the government house at Independence Square, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. Some members of a group of Syrian refugees who were welcomed to Uruguay last year are staging a protest outside the government house, demanding authorities allow them to leave the South American country. They say local officials promised more than they could deliver and that Uruguay is expensive and there are no jobs. (Matilde Campodonico / The Associated Press)

Refugees and migrants take part in a protest to demand faster processing by local authorities of their registration and the issuing of travel documents, at the port of Mytilene, on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. Greece’s caretaker government, appointed ahead of elections on Sept. 20, says at least two-thirds of the estimated 15,000 to 18,000 refugees and economic migrants stranded in “miserable” conditions on the Aegean island will be ferried to the mainland in the next five days. (Santi Palacios / The Associated Press)

Volunteers help organize food and clothing aid as they prepare to welcome migrants, in a fraction party room in the regional parliament Thuringia in Erfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. Some hundreds of refugees are scheduled to arrive during the next hours in central Germany. (Jens Meyer / The Associated Press)

Residents cover their face and run in smoke as a municipal worker fumigates a residential area to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in New Delhi, India, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. With several cases of Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, being reported across the capital, the civic authorities are taking precautions to contain the disease. (Tsering Topgyal / The Associated Press)

Supporters of television comedian and presidential candidate for the National Front of Convergence party Jimmy Morales, flash the victory sign in front of a screen at their party headquarters in Guatemala City, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015. The former television comic, a wealthy businessman and a former first lady were ahead in early returns in voting for Guatemala’s next leader, days after the Central American nation’s president resigned over a corruption scandal. (Luis Soto / The Associated Press)

Syrian refugees react as they arrive after crossing aboard a dinghy from Turkey, on the island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some 20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (Petros Giannakouris / The Associated Press)

A man holds his child as he tries to talk to Hungarian police officers in Roszke, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, as the migrants move away from a temporary holding center controlled by Hungarian authorities, just over the border from Serbia. The situation is confused with many hundreds of migrants moving in several directions and trying to reach a migrant registration camp, rather than wait for a unreliable bus service. (Marko Drobnjakovic / The Associated Press)

Police are sprayed with a hay machine during a farmers demonstration in Brussels on Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. European dairy farmers demonstrated in Brussels on Monday to protest against what they believe are unfair prices on their dairy products. (Virginia Mayo / The Associated Press)

Vice President Joe Biden pose with Brooklyn, left, and Kemora Holley as their mother, Linda Holley, right, takes their picture as Biden walks in the annual Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (Keith Srakocic / The Associated Press)

An officer of the Afghan border police throws an assault rifle to a policeman participating in a military exercise on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. Twelve female and seventy male border police personnel participated in the military exercise near the border with Iran in Herat province. (Hoshang Hashimi / The Associated Press)

Keeper Rohan Cleave shows on the palm of his hand a rare phasmid Dryococelus australis (Lord Howe Island stick insect or tree lobster) at Melbourne Zoo in Melbourne, Australia, on September 7, 2015. The Lord Howe Island phasmid, also called ‘the rarest insect in the world,’ is in the listing of critically endangered species. The species was thought to be extinct by 1920, and only in 2001 it was rediscovered by two Australian scientists on the small islet of Ball’s Pyramid, with a population that consisted of 24 individuals. (TRACEY NEARMY / EPA)

A migrant runs after he entered the territory of Hungary by crossing the temporary protection fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border as a Hungarian police car approaches at Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (Edvard Molnar / The Associated Press)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, is swarmed by supporters as he arrives to march in the Labor Day parade Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, in Milford, N.H. (Jim Cole / The Associated Press)

France’s Blaise Matuidi, left, celebrates his second goal with his teammates Bacary Sanga, center, and Benoit Tremoulinas during a friendly soccer match against Serbia at Matmut Atlantique stadium in Bordeaux, western France, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (Michel Euler / The Associated Press)

Donald Young, of the United States, returns a shot to Stan Wawrinka, of Switzerland, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, in New York. (Jason DeCrow / The Associated Press)

Iraqi riot police throw tents into the river as they prevent protesters from camping in front of a provincial council building in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. Iraq’s top Shiite cleric said on Friday the government must start hunting the “big heads” as part of its anti-corruption drive, calling for “convincing and assuring steps” as proof of the government’s seriousness in implementing its highly-touted reform plan. (Nabil al-Jurani / The Associated Press)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Greater Boston Labor Council Labor Day Breakfast, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, in Boson. Obama will sign an Executive Order requiring federal contractors to offer their employees up to seven days of paid sick leave per year. (Andrew Harnik / The Associated Press)

A Pakistani monkey handler Naseer Khan plays flute to attract passers by for a monkey show to earn his living in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (B.K. Bangash / The Associated Press)

A man inspects on the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (Hani Mohammed / The Associated Press)

A wax work model of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is prepared at Madame Tussauds in London, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. The model is undergoing a commemorative redress. The Queen on Wednesday will become the longest ever reigning monarch in British history. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / The Associated Press)

A Kashmiri municipal worker sweeps a closed market area during a general strike on the first anniversary of the devastating floods that killed hundreds, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. Kashmiri traders have called a day???s strike on Monday in protest against government not providing adequate financial assistance to the flood victims. (Mukhtar Khan / The Associated Press)

Youths dressed in gorilla costumes to represent the newly-named gorillas, entertain the crowd by mimicking the animals’ behaviour, at a baby gorilla naming ceremony in Kinigi, northern Rwanda, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Rwanda has named two dozen baby mountain gorillas in an annual naming ceremony that reflects the African country’s efforts to protect the endangered animals, which attract large numbers of foreign tourists to the volcano-studded forests where they live. (Ben Curtis / The Associated Press)

heep graze on a pasture in the area of the Tatra mountains, near Zakopane, Poland, on September 7, 2015. The Tatra mountains’ peaks are dusted with this year’s first snow already. (GRZEGORZ MOMOT / EPA)

A Kashmir Muslim flood-hit family looks from a window of a temporary tin shed they have been living since devastating floods, at Rakh Hakar Mullah area of Budgam the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, on September 7, 2015. (FAROOQ KHAN / EPA)

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Colin Diltz

Seattle Times staff

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