July 2 Photo Brief: Spain wins UEFA EURO 2012, bicycles trending in Austria
Spain wins UEFA EURO 2012 beating Italy 4-0, 11 percent of Austria’s population rides a bike as their main means of transportation, and more in today’s daily brief.
- Iker Casillas of Spain lifts the trophy as he celebrates following victory in the UEFA EURO 2012 final match between Spain and Italy at the Olympic Stadium on July 1, 2012 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)
- Fireworks are let off in the fanzone in Kiev after the final between Italy and Spain of the Euro 2012 football championships on July 1, 2012. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images)
- Wolfgang Brunner, a retired bicycle mechanic, poses with his tricycle on a street in Vienna June 29, 2012. Bicycles have increased in popularity in Austria in recent years, with eleven percent of the population using bicycles as their main means of transport, according to the Ministry of Transportation, Innovation and Technology. Picture taken June 29, 2012. (Lisi Niesner/Reuters)
- Members of rebel group Khaled ibin al Walid Fighters pose with their weapons at the frontline fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces at Hamidiyeh district in the central city of Homs July 1, 2012. Picture taken July 1. (Yazen Homsy/Reuters)
- A view of a burnt house and trees, which survived the passage of a wildfire, surrounded by burnt trees and ash in Alcublas on July 02, 2012. Two forest fires sweeping Spain’s eastern Valencia region that have forced 3,000 people to evacuate their homes showed no sign of abating on July 1, authorities said. (Jose Jordan/AFP/Getty Images)
- An organizer moves a dice on a giant board as people play a game of backgammon on the beach in Tel Aviv July 2, 2012. The board is the largest in Israel and was set up as part of a beach festival taking place at Israeli beaches. (Nir Elias/Reuters)
- A visitor looks at a display in the Floral Marquee at The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on July 2, 2012 in London, England. The 23rd Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which is the biggest gardening show in the United Kingdom, opens to the public tomorrow and runs until July 8, 2012. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
- Young Indian students take part in a martial arts demonstration on the concluding day of a self-defense training program in New Delhi on July 2, 2012. More than 50 girls took part to learn self-defense skills in a city where there has been an alarming rise in sexual assault cases. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian artist waits for her turn to perform at a function on the concluding day of a self-defense training program in New Delhi on July 2, 2012. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)
- A man walks down stairs as protesters carry a body bag July 2, 2012 near the United Nations in New York. The protesters are calling for an end to the “body bag” approach to arms control. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)
- Domesticated animals are seen near flooded houses in the Sonitpur district of the northeastern Indian state of Assam July 1, 2012. Incessant heavy rains in northeast India have caused massive flooding and landslides, killing more than 60 people, local media reported on Sunday. Picture taken July 1, 2012. (Stringer/Reuters)
- Whippets compete during their greyhound race at a racetrack in Hamburg July 1, 2012. Whippets, also called English Greyhounds, are able to reach speeds up to 60 kilometres per hour (about 37 mph) on the 350 meter long race track. (Fabian Bimmer/Reuters)
- The Supertree Grove is illuminated during the Gardens by the Bay, Light and Sound show on July 2, 2012 in Singapore. The display features over 220,000 plants, the vertical gradens of the Supertrees, the Flower Dome, Cloud Forest and a Skywalk. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
- Russian space agency rescue team members carry U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit (C) shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz TMA-03M space capsule, about 150 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan on July 1, 2012. The Soyuz capsule, which carried U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, and Netherlands’ astronaut Andre Kuipers safely returned to Earth on July 1 after a half-year stint on the international space station, with a landing on the Kazakh steppe. (Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Images)















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