July 10 Photo Brief: Spam is 75 y/o, Pamplona’s big heads parade
Hormel’s infamous “spiced ham” celebrates 75th years of canned meat goodness, a child forages through a forest of automotive parts in Mumbai, giants and big heads wander the streets of Pamplona and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A can of Spam meat made by the Hormel Foods Corporation is pictured outside a store in front of a delivery truck in Silver Spring, Maryland, on July 5, 2012. Hormel’s famous canned meat, which was born in Austin, has been a part of American’s lives since 1937. Spam, celebrating its 75th anniversary, its name a hybrid of the words “Spiced” and “Ham,” is a canned precooked meat product. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A formation of military AT-3 fighter jets perform during Taiwan Air Force’s demonstration in Songshan Airport in Taipei. (Yi-ting Chung/Reuters)
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- A female orangutan gets into a cage after being rescued from a resident’s home in Pasuruan, East Java. A male and female orangutan has been rescued by policemen and environmental activists, where they have been moved to a wildlife rehabilitation prior to their eventual release back into the wild in Kalimantan. (Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters)
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- A vendor carries a basket containing onions and potatoes to prepare Chilli Bhaji, a local cuisine, at his stall decorated with green chillies to attract customers, on the Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai (Babu/Reuters)
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- Abdul Samad, 13, carries a part of a used car engine inside an automobile workshop in Mumbai. An Indian automobile industry body on Tuesday slightly lowered its car sales growth forecast for the year ending next March, as higher costs and slower economic expansion impinge on demand. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
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- Contestants of the Miss Tourism Planet beauty contest promote their upcoming television show in front of the parliament in Athens. (Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters)
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- Activists from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with fake injuries and bound hands and feet demonstrate on Champs Elysees Avenue in front of the Iran Air airline company in Paris condemning the imprisonment of journalists and citizen journalists in Iran, and calling for their immediate release. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)
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- Milk flows into a drain during a protest by milk producers outside the European Parliament in Brussels. Protesters created an “overflowing milk pool” symbolizing the European market’s overproduction of milk. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
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- Migrant laborer Osleidis takes a break from building his home on a piece of fallow state-owned land on the outskirts of Havana. In spite of restrictions on migration inside Cuba, thousands of migrant workers from the east of the country arrive every year in Havana and the outskirts, build homes illegally to settle, and start new jobs and lives. If a family manages to build a house and put a roof, doors and windows on it before the authorities can intervene, it then becomes much more difficult to evict them. Picture taken June 21, 2012. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)
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- Displaced Congolese families trek back into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) side of Bunagana after spending a night across the border in Uganda. Rebels in Congo said on July 6 they had seized the eastern DRC town of Bunagana on the border with Uganda after days of fierce fighting with government troops during which a U.N. peacekeeper was killed and thousands of residents displaced. (James Akena/Reuters)
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- An extreme cycling enthusiast performs a stunt with a bicycle during a diving activity at the East Lake in Wuhan, Hubei province. This activity, which is held by local netizens, attracts many extreme cycling enthusiasts to take part, local media reported. Picture taken July 9, 2012. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- A man runs near brooms placed by members of the Rio de Paz (Peace Rio) Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at Copacabana beach as a form of protest in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 81 brooms, which represent the number of senators in the country, were placed at the beach to symbolize the need to “sweep off” corruption in the Brazilian senate. (Sergio Moraes/Reuters)
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- Bosnian Muslims carry an unconscious woman past coffins of her relatives, prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe’s worst massacre since World War Two. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
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- Hridoy, 7, works in front of a small kiln at a glass bangle factory in Old Dhaka. According to the management of the factory, around 150 women and children work some 15 hours a day manufacturing glass bangles. Workers earn about 500-700 takas per week ($6.25 – $8.75). (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
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- Seals are set out for skinning and distribution to the town as the people Iqaluit, Canada, hold their annual Celebration of the Seal. (Kim Murphy/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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- A pelican, which was named “Mahrouma”, meaning deprived in Arabic, by Lebanese fisherman, Abed Ibrik, waits to be fed in the Lebanese port city of Sidon. Ibrik rescued Mahrouma four years ago after she was shot in the wing while flying over Sidon and he now feeds her every other day and considers her as part of the family. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man dressed as a giant holds a young girl during the giants and big heads parade of the San Fermin festival in the Northern Spanish city of Pamplona. The festival is a symbol of Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups. (Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Welly O’Brien poses for pictures as the Southbank Centre launches Unlimited: The Revelation Festival featuring deaf and disabled artists in London, England. (Neil Mockford/Getty Images)
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- Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Center in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe’s worst massacre since World War Two. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
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