Jun 11, 2012

June 11 Photo Brief: Pig predicts soccer match outcome, Training for the Olympics in a bullet-riddled stadium, Baby jumping festival

Stokely Baksh 1 Comment Daily Brief China, El Colacho, England, France, Greece, India, Kiev, Mogadishy, Montreal, Nepal, Olympics, Rusalye, Scotland, Somali, Spain, surfing, VI Tomatina Colombiana, Volcom Pro Fiji

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Funtik the pig predicts the soccer match between England vs. France, baby jumping festival in Spain, Somali athletes train in a bullet-riddled stadium and more in today’s daily brief.

: Funtik the pig eats in a bowl marked with France’s national flag during its prediction session for the match England vs. France on June 11, 2012 in a fan zone in Kiev, during the Euro 2012 football championships. (Genya Savilogenya/AFP/Getty Images)

: People enjoy throwing tomatoes to each other during the “VI Tomatina Colombiana” festival on June 10, 2012, in Sutamarchan. According to the organizers, four tons of tomatoes were thrown by the participants. (Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images)

: Chinese motorists wear masks as they make their way along a busy intersection in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province on June 11, 2012. The Chinese metropolis of Wuhan was blanketed by thick yellowish cloud, raising fears of pollution among its nine million inhabitants. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

: A view of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in downtown Shanghai is seen on a hazy day June 11, 2012. China’s carbon emissions could be nearly 20 percent higher than previously thought, a new analysis of official Chinese data showed on Sunday, suggesting the pace of global climate change could be even faster than currently predicted. (Aly Song/Reuters)

: Somali athletes stretch along a street as they train during preparations for the 2012 London Olympic Games in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Training in a bullet-riddled stadium where the remains of a rocket propelled grenade lies discarded on the track’s edge counts as progress for Somali Olympic hopeful Mohamed Hassan Mohamed. A year ago, Mogadishu’s Konis stadium was a base for Islamist militants and a work out meant at times running through the streets, dodging gun-fire and mortar shells in one of the world’s most dangerous cities. Picture taken March 14, 2012. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)

: A man dressed up as the devil jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street during ‘El Colacho’, the ‘baby jumping festival’ on June 10, 2012 in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos. Baby jumping (El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish practice dating back to 1620 that takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Cesar Mansocesar/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man carries containers filled with water from a pond as he makes his way back home in the ancient city of Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu June 11, 2012. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

: Tourists watch the changing of the guard at the Greek Parliament, in central Athens, on June 11, 2012. Pro-bailout or anti-austerity, whoever wins Greece’s crunch election on June 17 will inherit an economy in tatters after two years of incomplete reforms and despite billions of euros in EU-IMF support. (Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)

: Belarussian villagers throw their crowns as they celebrate the pagan holiday of Rusalye, devoted to water nymphs, in the village of Sosny, 170 kilometres from Minsk on June 10, 2012. According to legends, during the spring and summer flowering plants mermaid out of water and visit the village, walking through fields and meadows. (Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)

: Kashmiri activists including the father of of Wamiq Farooq (C) hold photographs of him, on the anniversary of his death, as they take part in a protest rally in Srinagar on June 11, 2012, during a one day strike called by separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The strike is being observed to commemorate the deaths of dozens of local youth in alleged police actions during the 2008-2010 civilian unrest. Geelani accused Indian authorities of allegedly inflecting atrocities on the people of Kashmir as part of ‘repressing measures’. (Tauseef Mustafa//AFP/Getty Images)

: A potter collects earthen tea cups in a basket for drying inside a workshop in Kolkata June 11, 2012. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

: An Indian vendor strains to lift marigold flowers at a market on the outskirts of New Delhi on June 11, 2012. In recent years, the Indian flower industry has been shifting from traditional flowers to cut flowers for export. Exports of flower products have been valued at 700 million rupees (USD 20 million) in past years. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)

: In this handout image provided by LOCOG, Torchbearer 039 Matthew Cox carries the Olympic Flame during Day 23 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay on June 10, 2012 in Lerwick, Scotland. The Olympic Flame is now on Day 24 of a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles. (LOCOG via Getty Images)

: A protester attacks a commerical unit during a protest in downtown Montreal June 10, 2012. Police in Montreal arrested dozens of protesters before Sunday’s Grand Prix, as students rallying for months over tuition hikes used the Formula One event to highlight their plight. (Steeve Duguay/AFP/Getty Images)

: In this handout photo released by ASP International on June 11, 2012, Gabriel Medina of Brazil competes in the men’s final of the Volcom Pro Fiji surfing event in Tavarua, Fiji. Kelly Slater won the event over Gabriel Medina with a score of 18.16 to 10.87 out of 20. (Kirstin Schlotz/ASP International/AFP/Getty Images)