Jun 20, 2012

June 20 Photo Brief: Solstice yoga, Ascot hats, indigenous in the city

Yoga takes Time Square, indigenous tribesmen take on Rio, El Salvador’s gangs play nice and more in today’s daily brief.

: A model of giant fish made with plastic bottles is exhibited at Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro. The United Nations Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development will be held from June 20 to June 22. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

: An art installation of 857 empty school desks stands at the National Mall, near the Washington Monument, in Washington. Each of the desks represents a U.S. student who drops out every hour of every school day, according to the College Board which set up the installation. A team of local college students, supporting the “Don’t Forget Ed” national movement, collected signatures on site for a petition to be sent to U.S. presidential candidates asking them to prioritize education in the presidential campaign.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

: A boy plays at a fountain in New York . With air conditioners cranking as a heat wave bears down on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, demand for power should surge but not to record levels. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)

: French Olympic champion swimmer Alain Bernard sits on a dolphin (not pictured) at the Marineland aquatic park in Antibes. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

: A dolphin jumps in the air at the Marineland aquatic park in Antibes, France. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

: Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice on Times Square in New York. Thousands of yogis gathered on Times Square to celebrate the longest day of the year during the event which features four free mass yoga session at the heart of Manhattan.(Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images)

: A noticeboard with pictures of a portion of gang members held at the prison of Izalco is seen, about 65 km (40 miles) from San Salvador. Last Saturday marked the 100th day of an unprecedented truce between two violent Salvadoran gangs to reduce the high rate of homicides in the Central American country, which has begun to yield the expected results, said the Catholic church. The leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang and their rival 18 decided last March to end the fighting and killing among them to reduce the alarming murder rates in the impoverished country. (Ulises Rodriguez/Reuters)

: Gang tattoos are seen on the head of a gang member during a mass at the prison of Izalco, about 65 km (40 miles) from San Salvador. Last Saturday marked the 100th day of an unprecedented truce between two violent Salvadoran gangs to reduce the high rate of homicides in the Central American country, which has begun to yield the expected results, said the Catholic church. The leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang and their rival 18 decided last March to end the fighting and killing among them to reduce the alarming murder rates in the impoverished country. (Ulises Rodriguez/Reuters)

: An indigenous man stands in a subway train as he makes his way to the People’s Summit at Rio+20 for Social and Environmental Justice in Rio de Janeiro. The People’s Summit at Rio+20 for Social and Environmental Justice is a parallel event of the Rio+20 United Nations sustainable development summit. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

: Brazilian indigenous Xavante chief Damiao walks in Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior 3 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the sidelines of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Greenpeace meets the Xavantes to support them on their fight to recover their Maraiwatsede (Virgin Land) reserve. (ANTONIO SCORZA/GettyImages)

: Racegoer Chloe White poses for photographs on the second day of racing at the Royal Ascot, southwest of London. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)

: Racegoers watch the Prince of Wales’ Stakes race at Royal Ascot in Ascot, England. The five-day meeting is one of the highlights of the horse racing calendar and the Season. Thousands of race fans are expected to attend the five-day meeting. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

: Children cover up their faces as wind blows up heavy dust at a construction site on the outskirts of Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China. (Reuters photo)

: A Nicaraguan Ministry of Health employee fumigates a house against mosquitoes, as part of a campaign to prevent the proliferation of dengue fever, in Managua. (Nicolas Garcia/Getty Images)

: Chinese students look at a model of an “alien” on display at a science fiction exhibition in Beijing. Three Chinese astronauts on June 19 entered an orbiting module for the first time, in a move broadcast live on China’s state television network and a key step towards the nation’s first space station. (Getty Images)

: US actress and singer Jennifer Lopez performs during her concert as part of the “Dance Again” World Tour in Santiago, Chile. (FRANCESCO DEGASPERI/Getty Images)

: US soldiers from the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment of “The Old Guard” carry the coffin of Korean War veteran US Army Corporal Robert I. Wax, during a full military honors burial at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. The US Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office said the remains of Cpl. Robert I. Wax were recovered months after a 1950 battle but were not identified until last year. In August 1950, Wax ‚Äî part of Battery A, 555th Field Artillery Battalion ‚Äî was fighting North Korean forces in a battle known as the “Bloody Gulch,” near Pongam-ni, South Korea. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)

: A man sits in front of a closed shop on a roadside in old part of Delhi. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

: North Carolina State University scientists are developing contacts for C’Sar, the oldest elephant at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, North Carolina. Here, C’Sar receives treatment for cataracts. (John T. Conte/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)