Jun 1, 2012

June 1 Photo Brief: Naked and profane protesters, military men, big balls of light

Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief Al-Qaeda, Australia, Bahrain, British Royal Navy, China, Diamond Jubilee, Disney, England, euro, Femen, France, Germany, Giorgio Armani, India, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, McDonald’s, naked, oil, Pixar, President Obama, Queen Elizabeth ll, SpaceX, Vladimir Putin, Walmart, Yemen

Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee begins tomorrow, protestors show their goods for the goods of others, celebrities on display and more in today’s daily brief.

: A racegoer poses wearing a homemade Diamond Jubilee hat during Ladies Day, the first day of the Epsom Derby horse racing event, at Epsom in Surrey, southern England. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)

: Justin Timberlake entertains the crowd during the annual Wal-Mart shareholders’ meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. (Jacob Slaton/Reuters)

: Space Exploration Technologies’ unmanned Dragon capsule sits on a barge after being lifted out of the Pacific Ocean off of Baja California in this May 31, 2012 handout image courtesy of SpaceX. The splash down completing a pioneering mission for commercial firms seeking a major role in space travel. (SpaceX/Reuters)

: People interact with Colour 3 by Mandylights group design during the Vivid Festival in Sydney. Vivid Sydney, a festival of light, music and ideas, will run until June 11. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)

: U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to deliver remarks on the economy at the Honeywell Golden Valley facility in Minneapolis. Obama is in Minnesota to urge Congress to pass legislation creating a Veterans Jobs Corps. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

: This picture taken on May 31, 2012 shows 77-year-old designer Giorgio Armani waiting at the entrance to the venue for his fashion show at the 798 art complex in Beijing. Entitled “One Night Only in Beijing,” the show presented 12 autumn/winter collections and was billed as a celebration of “over a decade of Armani in China.” (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Bahraini Shiite Muslim man holds a placard depicting prison bars and reading in Arabic “Where are (Bassiouni’s) recommendations?” — referring to the human rights recommendations made by expert Cherif Bassiouni — during a demonstration in solidarity with political prisoners in the village of Shakhora, west of Manama. (Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images)

: The crew of the British Royal Navy ship HMS Daring forms the words “E II R” on May 10, 2012, in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee. The diamond jubilee public holiday long weekend running from Saturday June 2, 2012 to Tuesday June 5, 2012, will see Britons participate in events across the country to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne. (Keith Morgan/AFP/Getty Images)

: Yemeni soldiers fire a tank shell near the town of Jaar, a jihadist stronghold north of the Abyan provincial capital Zinjibar, on May 30, 2012 as Yemeni forces continue their offensive against Al-Qaeda loyalists in the south. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

: People stand in the installation “Administrating Eternity” from 2011 by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist during a media preview of her exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in the eastern Swiss city of St. Gallen. The exhibition ‘Pipilotti Rist – Blutbetriebene Kameras und quellende RÃ¤ume’ is opened to the public from June 2 to November 25. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)

: Dancers perform on stage during US pop icon Madonna’s first MDNA world tour concert in the Ramat Gan Stadium, near Tel Aviv, on May 31, 2012. Madonna’s Tel Aviv concert sold 32,000 tickets and it is the first in her world tour spanning 30 countries and 86 concert dates to promote her new MDNA album. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

: Postal Service mail carrier Dennis Blase delivers commemorative “First Day of Issue” commemorative covers to a host of Disney cast members and Disney-Pixar characters June 1, 2012 at the new Disney’s Art of Animation Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The new “Mail a Smile” postage stamps feature animated film characters Flik and Dot (“Bug’s Life”); Woody, Jessie and Bullseye (“Toy Story 2″); Mr. Incredible and Dash (“The Incredibles”); Boo, Mike and Sulley (“Monsters, Inc.”) and Nemo and Squirt (“Finding Nemo”). (Matt Stroshane/Disney Parks/Getty Images)

: Denise Gray holds two extra large soft drinks from McDonald’s in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. In an attempt by the administration to fight obesity, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans yesterday to implement a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts. The ban has proven controversial with many people saying it will not decrease obesity and will be a further erosion of personal choice. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

: A girl stretches out as she sits with her mother in an alley-way to escape the heat at the Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi, India. A Heat wave is continuing across the Northern India capital and expects to remain above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) all week. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images )

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