Friday Sept. 19: Our World In Pictures
NEW YORK — A Balloon Inflates for Adirondack Festival: Landon Pelkey, 5, from Warren County, N.Y., watches in amazement as a balloon inflates during the first day of the Adirondack Balloon Festival at Crandall Park in Glens Falls on Thursday evening.
SIERRA LEONE — Ebola Prevention Taught at Freetown: A child holds up a poster, as he and others are educated on how to prevent and identify the Ebola virus in their communities by charity worker’s from GOAL Ireland humanitarian agency, at Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday. Shoppers crowded streets and markets in Sierra Leone’s capital on Thursday stocking up for a three-day shutdown that authorities will hope will slow the spread of the Ebola outbreak that is accelerating across West Africa.