May 21, 2012

May 21 Photo Brief: Underwater Morning Tea, convicted Lockerbie bomber buried, blast kills 90 in Yemen

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The only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing is buried in Libya, suicide bomber kills 90 in Yemen, underwater tea party and more in today’s daily brief.

: A Yemeni military policeman shows his bloodied gloves as he and colleagues collect evidence at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Sanaa on May 21, 2012. A Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion the Yemeni capital, killing 96 troops and wounding around 300, a military official and medics said. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)

: Divers Martin Garwood (L) and Amanda Elzer enjoy an ‘underwater morning tea’ at the Sydney Aquarium May 21, 2012. The divers enjoyed an ‘underwater tea’ to support a Cancer Council initiative to raise money for cancer research. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)

: Friends and relatives bury the body of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi — the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people — during his funeral on May 21, 2012 in Janzur, a suburb West of the Libyan capital. Megrahi, who always maintained his innocence, died on May 20, almost three years after the Scottish government freed him on compassionate grounds following his diagnosis with prostate cancer. (Mahmid Turkia/AFP/Getty Images)

: Sunni Muslim gunmen attend the funeral of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed and his religious aide in their hometown al-Bireh, north of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on May 21, 2012. Army troops shot dead the Sunni cleric on May 20, when his convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in north Lebanon, that was set up following a week of intermittent clashes in the northern port of Tripoli between Sunnis hostile to the Syrian regime and Alawites who support President Bashar al-Assad. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)

: Sunni gunmen chant slogans during the funeral of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed and his religious companion in their hometown al-Bireh, north of Beirut on May 21, 2012. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)

: An armed Sunni Muslim man stands by, as the body of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed (R) draped in the Lebanese flag, arrives to Amar al-Bakawat at the entrance of his hometown al-Bireh, north of Beirut, for his funeral on May 21, 2012. Wahed was shot dead by army troops when his convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in the northern Lebanese town of Koueikhat. The incident took place following a week of intermittent clashes in the northern port city of Tripoli between Sunnis hostile to the Syrian regime and Alawites who support President Bashar al-Assad. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)

: The destroyed church in San Carlo is pictured on May 21, 2012 following an earthquake the day before. Several thousand Italians spent the night in cars or temporary shelters after a strong earthquake hit the northeast Sunday, killing six people and reducing homes and historic buildings to rubble. (Giuseppe Cacace/AF/Getty Images)

: Ducks huddle together during rainfall on the shores of Dal Lake in Srinagar on May 21, 2012. Rains have further plummeted the temperatures in the Kashmir valley, a destination favoured by Indian tourists to escape the scorching heat of the Indian plains. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)

: Mauritanian police officer Momar Oulely, 23, rests in a khaima (traditional Mauritanian tent) before heading to work in the eastern town of Nema, about 165 miles from the border of Mali, May 21 2012. Mauritanian officials have stepped up security around the country’s Sahara desert border with Mali due to the heightening security risks from armed groups like Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in northern Mali. (Joe Penney/Reuters)

: Cast member Jeremie Renier attends a photocall for the film “Elefante Blanco”, by director Pablo Trapero, at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, May 21, 2012. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)

: A snail is pictured on the red carpet during the 65th Cannes film festival on May 21, 2012 in Cannes. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Egyptian farmer leads his camel as it carries Palm fronds in the village of Saqqara some 40 kilometers south of Cairo on May 21, 2012. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)

: A flag with Queen Elizabeth II’s portrait made entierly of lego is pictured in the window of a shop in central London, on May 21, 2012, ahead of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. (Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images)

: An annular solar eclipse is seen from Tokyo on May 21, 2012 . For the first time in 932 years, a swathe of the country was able to see the annular solar eclipse, when the moon passes in front of the sun, blocking out all but an outer circle of light. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

: Children jump up to grab toys and other goodies suspended in the air as they take part in street festivities during the annual Feast Day of St. Rita of Cascia in suburban Manila on May 20, 2012. The town celebrates the feast of their patroness, St. Rita de Cascia, annually by holding parades and organizing parlor games for the children. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

: A villager transports his belongings to a shelter as a dead goat lies on the road in Sari Pul, capital of the northen Sari Pul province on May 20, 2012 after flash floods hit the area. Flash floods triggered by torrential rains in northern Afghanistan killed at least 19 people and left thousands homeless, an official said. Another 56 people were missing after the flood hit on May 19 in Sayyad and Share Naw districts. (Qais Usyamstrdel/AFP/Getty Images)

: Holly Bleasdale of Britain competes during the Pole Vault in front of Manchester Town Hall during the Great City games in Manchester north-west England on May 20, 2012. (Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty Images)

: Afghan youth play football in the evening in the city of Herat on May 19, 2012. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman from the Turkana tribe carries a baby on her back at the Lake Turkana Festival in Loiyangalani, near Lake Turkarna in Northern Kenya on May 19, 2012. The festival is an annual cultural festival designed to promote tourism in the area and to forge better relationships between the seven different tribes in the area. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images)

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Al-Qaida linked suicide bomber kills 90 in Yemen
Mohammed Ghobari and Tom Finn

SANAA (Reuters) – A suicide bomber with explosives strapped under his uniform killed more than 90 people at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, an attack which will alarm Washington as its involvement in the front-line state deepens.

An al Qaida affiliate in Yemen said it had carried out the attack, its most serious yet, to target the defense minister and army commanders. It said it would strike again if a U.S.-backed military campaign against militants in the south did not stop.

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, whose predecessor was toppled in an uprising, said security forces would become ‘tougher and more determined in pursuing terrorist elements’.

May 21 Photo Brief: Underwater Morning Tea, convicted Lockerbie bomber buried, blast kills 90 in Yemen

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