Photos of the Week: 9/3-9/9

A German sunrise, the opening of the 2016 Paralympics in Rio, the ‘Day Of The Goose’ in Spain, Roman soldiers on Hadrian’s Wall, a 300-year-old lighthouse in Boston Harbor, and much more.

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