Apr 24, 2012

April 24 Photo Brief: GRAPHIC poaching, Murdoch Mafia and Hunger Games in Utah?

Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief Africa, animal rights, China, Congo, crabs, elephants, England, Hunger Games, Lebanese Armenians, Maryland, Murdoch, Netherlands, North Korea, poaching, South Korea, Syria, Tibet, tigers, Turkey

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GRAPHIC CONTENT: Ivory poaching still a big problem in Africa, James Murdoch gives evidence to The Leveson Inquiry in London, dangerous booby traps found on a trail in Utah, and more in today’s daily brief.

: Protesters from the campaign group ‘Avaaz’ demonstrate outside the High Court with large James and Rupert Murdoch masks as former News International chairman James Murdoch gives evidence to The Leveson Inquiry in London, England. This phase of the inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press in the United Kingdom is looking at the owners of various media groups. Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp, will give evidence tomorrow. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

: A U.S. Forest Service officer on foot patrol discovered booby traps – made of sharpened sticks and rocks – set along a hiking trail in Provo Canyon, Utah in early April after spotting a trip wire on the ground. The traps were crafted near a fort-like shelter on the Big Springs Trail in Provo Canyon, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Salt Lake City. (Utah County Sheriff’s Department/Reuters).

: Dutch Queen Beatrix visits the preparatory secondary vocational education (VMBO) school De Meerwaarde where the finals of the National Bricklaying and Flushing take place in Barneveld. (Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images)

: Freshly caught blue crabs sit atop a bushel lid on the stern of the crabbing boat of Pat and Kenny Norris the Chesapeake Bay near Ridge, Md. (Glenn Fawcett/Baltimore Sun)

: A visitor sits in the Audi A7 35 FSI at Auto China 2012 in Beijing. Global luxury auto brands are piling in to tap China’s seemingly endless appetite for Audis and BMWs but, amid the ambitious sales forecasts, some signs point to trouble ahead for sleek high-priced vehicles. (Jason Lee/Reuters)

: The carcasses of some of the 22 elephants slaughtered in a helicopter-bourne attack lie on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Garamba National Park. A record number of big ivory seizures were made globally in 2011 and the trend looks set to continue in 2012 as elephant massacres take place from Congo to Cameroon, where as many as 200 of the pachyderms, listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as “vulnerable”, were slain in January. (DRC Military/Reuters)

: A female supporter of Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh wears pins with his pictures as she demonstrates outside the Cabinet building to demand an investigation into the assassination attempt on Saleh last year, in Sanaa. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

: An animal rights activist washes herself with red dye to mimic blood during a protest against the testing of shampoo on animals in Barcelona. (Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images)

: Former North Korean defectors living in South Korea release balloons containing snacks called “Choco Pie” and anti-Pyongyang leaflets towards the North near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Ganghwa, northwest of Seoul. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)

: Members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards of North Korea attend a military training in this picture released by the North’s KCNA news agency in Pyongyang. KCNA said the picture was taken on April 23, 2012. A target (R) reads, “(South Korean President) Lee Myung-bak.” (KCNA/Reuters)

: A boy cools off with water from a hose on a hot day in Manila. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)

: Syrian refugees who fled the violence in Syria wait for meals at their temporary home in the Jordanian city of Al Ramtha, near the Syrian border. The U.N. World Food Programme has began distributing hot meals to about 1,000 Syrian refugees living in guest houses in Al Ramtha. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)

: A Lebanese Armenian man gestures obscenely through a torn Turksih flag during a protest outside the Turkish embassy in Rabieh, northeast of Beirut, to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the Ottoman Turkish genocide against the Armenian people. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)

: A foreign tourist poses for a photo with a tiger at Tiger buddhist temple in Karnchanaburi province, western Thailand. Thailand is one of just 13 countries hosting fragile tiger populations and is a hub of international smuggling. Worldwide, numbers are estimated to have fallen to only 3,200 tigers from approximately 100,000 a century ago. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images)

April 24 Photo Brief: GRAPHIC poaching, Murdoch Mafia and Hunger Games in Utah?

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