Jun 6, 2012

June 6 Photo Brief: Polar bear Anori, mud bath, bee sting therapy and a new view of Venus

The transit of the Space Shuttle Enterprise, NASA’s view of Venus, polar bear Anori and more in today’s daily brief.

: Baby polar bear Anori jumps in the pool of its enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany. Anori was born on January 4, 2012 and has the same father as world famous polar bear Knut, who died in 2011. (Claudia Otte/GettyImages)

: Anori, the polar bear cub, swims in her enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal. (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)

: A Thai fisherman catches freshwater white tilapia fish at a fish farm in Samut Prakarn province. The price per kilo of white tilapia fish has decreased to almost half the price it was before historic floods hit Thailand last year. The country’s exports unexpectedly fell in April from a year earlier as industry continued to feel the impact of the flooding but the Commerce Ministry expects a significant improvement in the second half of the year. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)

: Thai school children gather in a meeting room during a ceremony for donation of various items from the King of Thailand in the restive southern province of Narathiwat. (Madaree Tohlala/Getty Images)

: Visitors pass “House of Knowledge” by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa in the Kiev Botanical Garden. Kiev will host the first international festival of contemporary sculpture “Kiev Sculpture Project” from June 2 to July 2. (Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters)

: The Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its way up the Hudson River past a busy street as it is towed to the Intrepid Museum in New York. Enterprise was moved by barge to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York where it will be permanently displayed. (Don Emmert/GettyImages)

: A horse and exercise rider leave the track after a morning workout at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

: The planet Venus makes a transit as a person watches the sun set over the Great Salt Lake outside Salt Lake City, Utah. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of Venus as it nears the disk of the sun. Venus’s 2012 transit will be the last such event until 2117. (NASA)

: Venus moves across the sun in this image captured by Japan’s satellite Hinode. (Reuters/JAXA)

: An Indian Saddhu (holy person) watches the transit of Venus across the sun with protective eyewear in Guwahati. Sky-gazers around the world held up their telescopes and viewing glasses to watch a once-in-a-lifetime event as Venus slid across the Sun. (GettyImages)

: A bee sting therapist holds a bee to sting the arm of a patient in a bee farm in Silang, Cavite south of Manila. Farm owner Joel Magsaysay uses bee sting to treat patients with ailments such as hypothyroidism, paralysis and cancer. Magsaysay said the bee’s venom contains a potent cocktail of proteins that boost auto-immune system that let the body activate the nerves and heal itself. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)

: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2L) stands with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as she unveils a portrait of herself in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace in London. The portrait was painted by Canadian artist Phil Richards (L) as Governor General David Johnston (R) looks on. Queen Elizabeth II attended a Commonwealth luncheon in London following a grand four-day diamond jubilee celebration which was marred by the illness of her husband, Prince Philip. (Sean Kilpatrick/GettyImages)

: French President Francois Hollande (R), speaks with a WWII veteran as he attends the ceremony commemorating the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France began in 1944, in the british war cemetery of Ranville, northwestern France. Some 156,000 Allied personnel landed in France on June 6, 1944 during the World War II , event which changed the course of history. An estimated 10,000 Allied troops were left dead, wounded or missing, while Germany lost between 4,000 and 9,000, and thousands of French civilians were killed. (David Vincent/GettyImages)

: Children visit the grave of their relative who died during the Korean War at Seoul National Cemetery in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea today marks the 57th anniversary of the Memorial Day for those killed in the 1950-53 Korean War. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

: Tourists enjoy mineral-rich mud at the Israeli Dead Sea resort of Ein Gedi. (Menahem Kahana/GettyImages)

: A Kashmiri woman collects lotus roots to feed cattle on Dal Lake in Srinagar. (Tauseef Mustafa/GettyImages)

: A man performs as the newspaper man living statue near the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid. Since the beginning of the economic crisis in Spain, the number of living statues has increased in Madrid. Spain has the highest unemployment rate in the industrialized world, with 24.44 percent of the workforce idle, according to the national statistics office. (Domonique Faget/GettyImages)