May 24, 2012

May 24 Photo Brief: Hammer time, Pot seizure, High tech Buddhists

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Daily Brief Buddist, Forumula One, Lady Gaga, Monaco, monks, Myanmar, Siberian Tiger, South Korea, synchronised swimming, Yemen

Women’s track and field,tons of marijuana seized in Colombia, novice monks don 3-D glasses at a tech museum and more in today’s daily brief.

: Andrea Fuentes of Spain competes in the Solo Free routine preliminaries during the 2012 European Synchronised Swimming Championships at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium in Eindhoven, Netherlands. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)

: An Indonesian activist takes part in protest against US pop diva Lady Gaga’s upcoming concert in Jakarta. Lady Gaga’s Indonesian promoters vowed to fight to save her show, despite police denying it a permit and Islamic hardliners threatening “chaos” if she comes to the mostly Muslim nation. (Oscar Siagian/Getty Images)

: A golden snub-nosed monkey is seen in a cage decorated with lotus lanterns at Everland amusement and animal park in Yongin, south of Seoul. The largest amusement park in South Korea organized the event to celebrate Buddha’s birthday on May 28. (Jung Yeon-Jejung/Getty Images)

: An Afghan woman carried her child in the old section of Kabul. The war-torn country still faces poverty, unemployment and lack of infrastructure (Aref Karimi/GettyImages)

: The Christ the Redeemer statue on the Corcovado mountain stands out from theGuanabara Bay in the background at daybreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Christophe Simon/Getty Images)

: Red Bull Racing’s German driver Sebastian Vettel looks at a control screen in the pits during the second practice session at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo ahead of the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix. (Boris Horvat/Getty Images)

: Germany’s Betty Heidler competes to win in the women’s hammer throw competition of the Zlata Tretra (Golden Spike) athletics meeting in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava. (Robert Michael/Getty Images)

: A police officer and a dog stand guard near packages of marijuana seized in Cali, Colombia. Narcotics police seized eight tons of marijuana at checkpoints on roads in Valle del Cauca, authorities said. (Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters photo)

: A pack of riders cycles during the 149-km Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia, from San Vito di Cadore to Vedelago. (Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters photo)

: A Siberian tiger cub feeds at a private zoo in Abony, east of Budapest. Three female Siberian cubs were born near Hamburg in Germany, but came to Hungary when they were only two and a half weeks old, after their mother became ill and could not feed them any more. They are six weeks old now and growing fast, fed on goats’ milk and special tiger food. (Reuters photo)

: Vishal (L) and Rahul, feed pigeons at a pigeon feeding park in the Mumbai suburbs. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters photo)

: Boys, who are living as novice monks and experiencing life as Buddhist priests at a temple for three weeks, wear 3-D glasses as they visit the SK Telecom T.um Museum in Seoul, S. Korea. (Kim Gi-tae Newsis/Reuters photo)

: Smoke comes out from a Caterham Formula One car as driver Heikki Kovalainen of Finland checks it during the first practice session of the Monaco F1 Grand Prix. (Max Rossi/Reuters photo)

: A child sleeps in a hammock hung between sacks of rice at a farm near Pyapon, Myanmar. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters photo)

: A Cal Fire aircraft drops flame retardant on the Topaz Ranch Estates Fire in Wellington, Nevada. Evacuations were lifted today as the fire moved north into the canyons. (James Glover/Reuters photo)

: Miners on strike take pictures near barricades of burning tires on the A-6 motorway, on the second day of a strike to protest the government’s spending cuts in the mining sector, in El Montico, near Oviedo, northern Spain. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters photo)

: Katinka Hosszu of Hungary competes at the women’s 200 m individual medley final during the 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters photo)

: Soldiers carry coffins during the funeral of dozens of soldiers killed in Monday’s suicide bombing in Sanaa, Yemen. A man with explosives strapped under his army uniform killed more than 90 people in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday when he blew himself up in the midst of a military parade rehearsal, the defence ministry said. (Reuters photo)

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