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Seawater penetrated as much as half a kilometre (one-third of a mile) inland in places.

Irma's winds of around 175mph (290kph) tore down trees, and flattened homes, schools and hotels, destroying some of the world's most exclusive tourist resorts.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, is heading directly towards Florida after it lashed the Caribbean.

Smashed hotels, boats tossed into piles, and flooded streets and homes on Sint Maarten, the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.

Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history, barrels across the Caribbean en route to Florida.

The best photographs from around the world of phenomena like clouds, lightning, rain, fog or snow, and the impact of weather on mankind.

Idols of the elephant-headed god, Lord Ganesha – large and small – are carried through the streets and immersed in bodies of water.

Gary Blackburn has transformed his home with red telephone boxes, life-sized models of the Queen (and her corgis) and a tank.

Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, died after breaking through layers of security and running into the flames as the event's titular effigy burned.

Photos of Burning Man's art installations, temples and mutant vehicles in desert dust storms look like surrealist paintings by Salvador Dali.

IBTimes UK looks at how Eid al-Adha is celebrated around the world, from going home on an overcrowded Bangladesh train, to selecting a sheep and getting it home.

The Texas-Louisiana border bore the brunt of Harvey's second coming, this time as a tropical depression.

This year's Burning Man festival in the middle of the Black Rock Desert of Nevada is expected to be the hottest ever.

Harvey has dumped 15 trillion gallons (56 trillion litres) of rain on the Houston area, with another five trillion gallons to come.

The sounds of steel bands made London feel more exotic for a couple of days. Even the weather this year was tropical.

Berlin's huge Tiergarten park is crawling with a species of crayfish native to America's Deep South.

Russian photographer Denis Esakov presents Moscow from a different perspective – from above.

Macau has been devastated by Typhoon Hato – the most powerful storm to hit the territory in half a century.

People are abandoning their villages and moving to cities, leaving only the elderly behind in crumbling houses.

"Let's make all carriages, on all our trains, safe for all passengers," Aslef said.

Typhoon Hato, a maximum category 10 storm, slammed into Hong Kong with winds of up to 155 kmh (95 mph).

The popular Italian tourist island of Ischia off the coast of Naples was hit by an earthquake, killing at least two people and injuring dozens.

The Elizabeth Tower, completed in 1859, is showing its age. The masonry is chipped and crumbling, and the clock faces are disintegrating.

The worst monsoon floods in a decade have killed more than 800 people and displaced over a million across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Millions of Americans armed with protective glasses have staked out their positions for what should be the most observed and photographed eclipse in history.

The Palio di Siena has been held in the Piazza del Campo in the centre of the medieval town, twice a year, almost without fail since 1656.

Nominees include a wheelchair that can climb stairs, the world's first translating earpiece, ink made from air pollution, and a robot that carries your stuff while rolling along behind you like R2-D2.

The colours of the Indian flag were projected onto buildings and painted on the faces of children across the nation of 1.3 billion people.

Thousands of fans have shrines to Presley in their homes and consider visits to Graceland a pilgrimage.