May 15, 2012

May 15 Photo Brief: Paralympic swimmers, Pakistani workers, Congolese refugees

Work and play in Pakistan, foraging “freegans” in Canada, preparing for the Paralympics and more in today’s daily brief.

: Pakistani workers unload watermelons from a truck at a fruit market in Lahore. Watermelon is considered an essential seasonal fruit to beat the summer heat and avoid dehydration. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

: A worker rides past a garbage dump as she returns home along highway 5, near Hanoi, Vietnam. (Kham/Reuters)

: Visitors pose for a picture through a window of a house, which is decorated with coconut shells, during the Pahiyas Festival in Lucban town, Quezon province, south of Manila. Filipinos give thanks to patron saint San Isidro Labrador during the Pahiyas festival. (Romeo Ranoco;/Reuters)

: Congolese refugees stand in a camp outside the western Ugandan town of Kisoro at the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Displaced families have begun to return to their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during a lull in fighting between the army and mutineers. The regular Congolese army went on the offensive last week after the expiration of a deadline for mutineers to rejoin their ranks under a 2009 peace pact. These soldiers, formerly members of the rebel National Council for the Defense of the People (CNDP), mutinied to protest bad conditions, food and pay and to demand the full implementation of the 2009 accords. (Michele Sibiloni/AFP/Getty Images)

: Paralympic swimmer Lorena Homar, 20, of Spain attends a training session on the Balearic island of Palma de Mallorca. (Enrique Calvo/Reuters)

: Paralympic swimmer Xavi Torres, 37, of Spain carries his orthopaedic legs after a training session on the Balearic island of Palma de Mallorca. This summer, Torres, who has previously won 16 paralympic medals, will participate in his sixth paralympic games. He currently owns four world swimming records in different categories. (Enrique Calvo/Reuters)

: A boy searches for coins thrown by Hindu devotees in the waters of the river Yamuna during early morning in New Delhi. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

: African Barbie dolls are displayed during a Barbie exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia. (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)

: Indoor skydivers 10-year-old Kyra Poh (R) and 11-year-old Choo Yixuan, both of Singapore, greet the media during an indoor skydiving session for a media event at iFly Singapore on Sentosa Island. iFly Singapore announced Tuesday that it will play host to the indoor Skydiving World Championships at its world’s largest skydiving wind tunnel facility from December 13 to 16. (Tim Chong/Reuters)

: A family made of Lego bricks sit on a bench at the Legoland themepark in Guenzburg, southern Germany. The park will celebrate its 10th anniversary on May 17, 2012. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man pauses as he works by candlelight during a power outage at a printing press in Karachi, Pakistan. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)

: Mya Wollf (R), 28, and Robin Pickell, 23, who are both ‘freegans’, sort through a dumpster for edible food in an alley behind Commercial Drive in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 10, 2012. A ‘freegan’ is someone who gathers edible food from the garbage bins of grocery stores or food stands that would otherwise have been thrown away. Freegans aim to spend little or no money purchasing food and other goods, not through financial need but to try to address issues of over-consumption and excess. (Ben Nelms/Reuters)

: A student exits a class on April 17, 2012 at a secondary school sponsored by the European Union in the Somaliland town of Sheikh. Spared from the violence that has ravaged southern Somalia for two decades, the breakaway Somaliland region is investing in education to lure youngsters away from extremism and piracy. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

: This picture taken on May 12, 2012 shows a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldier walking into an abandoned outpost of the Myanmar army in Laja Yang, some 12 kilometers south of Laiza, a KIA-controlled stronghold in Myanmar’s northern Kachin state on the border with China. Ethnic rebels from the Kachin Independence Army have battled the Myanmar army for a year in a conflict that has displaced around 50,000 civilians and cast a shadow over government reforms. Fighting appears to have worsened in recent weeks — despite a revamped peace talk team — and the insurgents say they are ready to defend their remote northern stronghold of Laiza. (Patrick Bodenham/AFP/Getty Images)

: Sri Lankan army Special Force commando soldiers on motorcycles take part in a Victory Day parade rehearsal in Colombo. Sri Lanka celebrates war heroes week with a spectacular military parade scheduled for May 19. The parade comes to celebrate the third year of the military wiping out the Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009, ending a 37-year long separatist conflict. (Ishara S.Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images)

: Pakistani youths play snooker in a slum area of Karachi. Pakistan’s 180 million people are well known for being cricket-mad but the nation also boasts a proud history in field hockey — three Olympic golds, four World Cups and three Champions Trophies — and squash, where the Khans, Jansher and Jahangir, ruled the world in the 1980s and 1990s. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)