July 11 Photo Brief: Dolphins, leopards and bulls, oh my!
Missiles in Syria, needles in China, a guy named “Spike” and more in today’s daily brief.
- Children watch the dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)
- “Argoun” (L), a three-month-old Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is pictured with its mother, “Elixa” (R), during its first time out at the zoo in Mulhouse, eastern France. Amur leopards population is estimated to about fifty in nature around the world. (Sebatien Bozon/GettyImages)
- Participants run in front of Fuente Ymbro’s bulls during the fifth San Fermin Festival bull run in Pamplona, northern Spain. 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/GettyImages)
- A patient suffering from facial paralysis undergoes acupuncture treatment at a traditional Chinese medical hospital in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. (Reuters)
- Kashmiri villagers stand near the wreckage of a bus at Nambal Nard some 55 kms northwest of Srinagar. A teacher and a student were killed and 51 others injured when a school bus carrying students on a picnic trip fell into a gorge near the Gulmarg tourist resort in Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The bus carrying students to Baba Reshi shrine near Gulmarg fell into the gorge at Nambal Nard near Tangmarg, 45 kms from here, a police officer said. (Tauseef Mustafa/GettyImages)
- Three year-old boy Alessandro plays near a banana-shaped meeting point for lost children on the beach of Oostduinkerke, Belgium. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
- Indian farmers Hansaben(L), Geetaben (R) and Jesingbhai (C) plough a field in preparation for sowing cotton seeds in Nani Kisol village, around 70 km from Ahmedabad. Agriculture contributes about 15 percent to India’s GDP but only 40 percent of farms are irrigated. The livelihood of hundreds of millions in the country of 1.2 billion people is dependent on the farming sector. (Sam Panthaky/GettyImages)
- An Agusta Westland helicopter flies through a gap in the clouds during a flying display at the third day at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, southern England. Thousands of industry executives from the worlds of aerospace and defense are gathered at the biennial show. (Adrian Dennis/GettyImages)
- A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), shows the launching of a missiles, named “Joulan 1” and “Joulan 2”, meaning Golan in Arabic, reffering the Syrian Golan Heights, during Syrian army maneuvers at an undisclosed location in Syria. (Getty Images)
- Shyrine Ziadeh (C), owner of the Ramallah ballet center, leads a class in the West Bank city of Ramallah. From corner fruit stalls in Hebron to chic Ramallah ballet studios, Palestinian women are making their mark in business, some out of necessity and others looking to break the gender mould and pursue a dream. However, the deeply traditional, male-dominated society that is prevalent across much of the Arab world, coupled with bureaucratic restraints unique to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, pose particular challenges for women seeking to get ahead.(Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)
- Commuters disembark from crowded suburban trains during the morning rush hour at Churchgate railway station on World Population Day in Mumbai. According to a 2011 census conducted by the government of India, Mumbai has a population of more than 12 million with an estimated population density of about 20,482 persons per square kilometre. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)
- A girl (front) in a lifebuoy reacts to the waves as other residents play in the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. (Darley Shen/Reuters)
- Swimmers rest on a platform holding a pole used to support a high voltage power line, on the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei province. The Chinese characters on the sign read, “High voltage power, danger”. (Darley Shen/Reuters)
- A Bosnian muslim woman prays among 520 body caskets laid out in preparation for a mass burial ceremony at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Cemetery in Potocari. Tens of thousands of people arrived in Potocari on July 11 to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the moment the UN-protected enclave fell to Bosnian Serb troops. The remains of 520 people will be buried alongside the 5,137 victims of the massacre already buried in the vast cemetery which faces the former UN army base. Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in just a few days after the eastern town under UN protection was captured by Bosnian Serb forces 17 years ago. (Elvis Barukcic/GettyImages)
- Blood flows down the face of an injured protester who was injured during clashes between supporters of Spanish coal miners and riot police as they ended a “Marcha Negra” (Black March) near the Industry Ministry in Madrid. Thousands of miners and supporters, chanting and throwing firecrackers, marched through the centre of Madrid on Wednesday in protest against government austerity measures, but Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced more pain in a new series of taxes and spending cuts. Joined by trade unionists in the capital, the miners rallied noisily at the climax of a 44-day protest against a 60 percent cut in coal subsidies which they say will force mines to close and put many out of work. (Paul Hanna/Reuters)
- Armenian soldiers of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabagh walk in a trench at the frontline on the border with Azerbaijan near the town of Martakert. EU president Herman Van Rompuy urged last week enemies Armenia and Azerbaijan to end frontline clashes that have raised fears of renewed war over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh. Armenia-backed separatists seized Karabakh from Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s that left some 30,000 dead, and no final peace deal has been signed since the 1994 ceasefire. (Karen Minasyan/Getty Images)
- National League All-Star Clayton Kershaw #22 of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches in the fifth inning during the 83rd MLB All-Star Game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh meets Ian “Spike” Betterton, Chair of The Friends of St Georges Park, Kidderminster, at Worcester Guildhall in Worcester, England. The visit is part of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh’s Diamond Jubilee tour of the United Kingdom. (Heathcliff O’Malley/Getty Images)