Apr 22, 2012

April 22 Photo Brief: Earth Day, soap bubble festival, naked cleaning company

Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Daily Brief Budapest, Buddhist monks, Czech Republic, Earth Day, Greenpeace, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Manila, Panama, Russia, South Africa

Earth Day around the world, Russia’s biggest soap bubble festival, a South African cleaning company offers services in the buff, and more in today’s daily brief.

: Workers are silhouetted as they replace broken LED lights on a huge bronze globe in front of a mall in Manila for Earth Day. At night, the structure will turn into an LED globe, a video display with resolution and full graphics made possible by the LED’s 26,300 pieces of point lights. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

: Indonesian environmental activists parade during a protest to mark Earth Day in Malang. Activists across the globe are celebrating Earth Day on April 22 with events aimed at bringing awareness of environmental concerns. (Aman Rochman/AFP/Getty Images)

: Activists from the environment action group Greenpeace hold black and white balloons with the slogan, ”Be Next: Clean your cloud,” during a protest in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on the sidelines of a ” Microsoft ” exhibition on April 22. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

: Thousands of cyclists hold up their bicycles at Budapest’s city park, at the end of the Critical Mass bicycle ride across the Hungarian capital. The ride was organized to commemorate World Earth Day. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)

: Children participate in the “Clean Up Our Guatemala 2012″ initiative organized in commemoration of Earth Day. More than 50,000 volunteers in 22 regions across the country are taking part in this initiative, according to local media. (William Gularte/Reuters)

: Participants wear masks at a parade demanding a stop to all nuclear power plants in Japan as part of an event for Earth Day in Tokyo. Japan is set to have no nuclear power within weeks for the first time in over 40 years following last year’s crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

: An Indian worker crosses India’s first 1MW canal-top solar power plant at Chandrasan village of the Mehsana district. This solar power plant will generate some 1.6 million units of clean electricity per year and will also prevent evaporation of some 90 lakh litres of water per year from the canal. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)

: A young man takes part in the biggest Russian soap bubble festival in Moscow. Over a thousand young people gathered in the city center to participate in the festival. (Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty Images)

: Buddhist monks pray while promoting world peace at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)

: A snowboarder glides on the water as he tries to cross a 20 meter long pool of water at the Bobrovy Log ski resort near Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. About 100 skiers and snowboarders took part in the 5th “Gornoluzhnik” amateur event to mark the end of the ski season. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: A South African business called “Natural Company” is advertising naked cleaning and other services, like the one above. The business averages two bookings a day, mostly by rich, middle-aged white men, for services from body shots at hen parties to cleaners and plumbers wearing only a smile costing around 400 rands ($50, 38 euros). Photo taken April 2. (Rodger BoschAFP/Getty Images)

: A dog waits as its owner stands in a polling booth before voting in the first round of 2012 French presidential election at a polling station in Nice. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

: People gather around a cow, waiting for the village elders to sacrifice it to their deceased parents, to ask for their forgiveness, at a mass grave in Carrefour, Duekoue. (Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters)

: Protesters hold signs as they march during a demonstration in support of a 15-year-old boy, who said he was assaulted by three Roma men last week, in Breclav. The banner reads: “Stop the gypsy terror” and “Town hall sleeps, gypsy kills”. (David W Cerny/Reuters)

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