Apr 27, 2012

April 27 Photo Brief: Space travel, funky outfits, animal fights and rights

Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, animal fighting, anti-fur, astronauts, bombing, clowns, dogs, England, Enterprise, goth, Greece, India, International Space Station, Lady Gaga, Maryland, New York City, recycling, refugees, smiley face, Somalia, Space Shuttle, Syria

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Space shuttle Enterprise takes it turn in the sky, International Space Station crew members land in Kazakhstan, dogs, clowns and goths (oh my), and more in today’s daily brief.

: A Tunisian clown plays with Somali refugees in a refugee camp in Choucha, near the Tunsia-Libya border. The UNHCR camp shelters some 6,000 refugees. (Khaled Mechergui/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

: NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Enterprise mounted atop flies up the Hudson River past the New York City skyline on its way to John F. Kennedy International Airport. During the weeks following the arrival, Enterprise will be “demated” from the 747 and placed on a barge that will be moved by tugboat up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in June. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

: From left, Mark Soper stands alongside Nancy Starkey as they pose for a portrait with both sets of working boarder collies. Nancy Starkey and Mark Soper own and train sheepdogs and will be at the upcoming Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival located on the Howard County Fairgrounds. (Nate Pesce/ Patuxent Publishing)

: Cyber Goth James Kirby stands outside an ice cream parlour at the start of Whitby Goth Weekend in Whitby, England. Whitby Gothic Weekend, which started in 1994 to celebrate all things dark and mysterious, has now grown to a twice yearly event for Goths. Whitby was partly chosen because Bram Stoker wrote his famous Dracula story in the fishing town with the Gothic Whitby Abbey as his inspiration. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

: A shoe lies next to blood stains at the site of a blast in the central Midan district of the Syrian capital Damascus. A deadly suicide bombing rocked the Syrian capital, killing at least 11 people and fueling growing skepticism about hopes for the success of a UN-backed peace plan. (Louai Beshara/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

: A dog looks at the camera whilst Israeli anti-fur activists hold banners during a rally, organized by an animal protection association called the “International coalition against fur,” against the exploitation of seals in the Israeli Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv. The annual seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals which started in Canada and Namibia. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

: Afghan men attend an organized ram fight in Kabul. Spring marks the start of the “fighting season” for humans involved in Afghanistan’s decade-long war, but for birds, dogs, camels and even kites it reaches its peak. The game, as well as dog fighting, camel-fighting and Buzkashi (hunting mountain goats on horseback), are part of Afghanistan’s social entertainment. (Bay Ismoyo/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

: The Soyuz TMA-22 capsule carrying International Space Station (ISS) crew members U.S. astronaut Daniel Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, lands in Kazakhstan, some 88km (55 miles) north-east of Arkalyk. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool/Reuters)

: Russia’s space agency ground personnel help US astronaut Dan Burbank shortly after the landing of Soyuz TMA-22 capsule. US astronaut Dan Burbank, Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, landed today safely in the Kazakh steppe after a stay of over five months aboard the International Space Station. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

: Afghan people sit on a fairground boat swing ride in Band-e-Qargha Gulestan Park in Kabul. The park in the Afghan capital is a popular destination for weekend excursions. (Johannes Eisele/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

: Students stand in formation on a field as they form a smiley face in an attempt to break a world record in celebration of the 110th anniversary of their university in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. A total of 3,110 students from Nanjing Agricultural University broke the Guinness World Record for “World’s Largest Smiley Face” on Friday, overtaking the last world record of 2,961 volunteers in Canada on July 2011, local media reported. (Sean Yong/Reuters)

: A municipal worker fumigates a residential colony as the children of local residents sitting in a rickshaw watch the fumes at Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi. (Parivartan Sharma/Reuters)

: South Korean women dressed in costumes pose as they wait for a concert by US pop diva Lady Gaga outside Seoul’s Olympic Stadium. Some religious groups in South Korea have opposed the concert, saying Lady Gaga has advocated homosexuality and performed in an explicitly sexual manner. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

: Scrap yard’s employees weight supermarket trolleys filled with recyclable metallic items brought by immigrants in Athens. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

: An Afghan shepherd (R) leads his flock across a street in the old city of Kabul. Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

April 27 Photo Brief: Space travel, funky outfits, animal fights and rights

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