July 12 Photo Brief: A news photographer gets a little too close and London prepares for the Olympics
A news photographer gets up close and personal with his work, London makes final preparations for the upcoming Olympics, clashes in Northern Ireland and more in today’s daily brief.
- A macaca nigra eats a frozen fruit handed by zoo keepers at the Israeli zoo of Ramat Gan, north of the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, as temperatures reached 34 degrees Celsius (Jack Guez/Getty Images)
- French tattoo artist Chime kisses his son Tamatoa during the street art Mula Fest festival in Madrid. (Dominques Faget/Getty Images)
- A visitor walks through an installation made of around a million photos downloaded and printed from the image hosting website flickr by Dutch artist Erik Kessels at the Kieler Kunsthalle museum in Kiel, northern Germany. (Carsten Rehder/Getty Images)
- Indian children play in a water-logged street after a spell of monsoon rain in New Delhi. The monsoon rains, a key to India’s economy, covered the entire country, but it was 23 percent below average, officials said amid worries of its impact on two cereal-producing states. (Sajjad Hussain/Getty Image)
- Thousands of Indonesian workers rally to demand higher wages and scrap the labor outsourcing policy outside the presidential palace in Jakarta. The demonstrators marched from central Jakarta to the presidential palace paralyzing traffic in some areas of the capital. (Romeo Gacad/Getty Images)
- US Honor Guard troops stand at attention as a cannon is fired in salute to the arrival of the Russian General of the Army during a full honor cordon at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)
- Workers construct satellite dishes for the world’s media ahead of the Olympic Games in the London 2012 Olympic Park at Stratford in London. Preparations for the London Olympics have put Britain’s intelligence agencies under significant pressure, as the country stages its largest ever peacetime security operation. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters photo)
- Sky Procycling rider and wearer of the leader’s yellow jersey Bradley Wiggins of Britain (C) cycles with the pack during the 11th stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Albertville and La Toussuire. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters Photo)
- Nationalist youths clash with riot police after trouble erupted in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast, Northern Ireland. Police fired water cannon at Catholic youths in Belfast after rioting erupted when a small Protestant parade, celebrating a 17th century military victory over Catholic forces, passed their estate. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters photo)
- Workers prepare to remove a giant rock embedded in the hull of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia near the harbour of Giglio Porto. Part of the rock will be used as a memorial for the 32 people who died when the cruise liner slammed into the coastline off the island of Giglio. (Remo Casilli/Reuters photo)
- A policeman secures the area in front of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft as it is being transported to its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters photo)
- Street vendors sell vegetables in front of a graffiti-covered wall along the streets of Kathmandu (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters photo)
- Work continues on preparing the Olympic Stadium ahead of the Opening Ceremony in the London 2012 Olympic Park at Stratford in London. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters photo)
- A combination photo (top-bottom, L-R) shows Reuters photographer Joseba Etxaburu being knocked down by a wild cow and getting up during festivities in the bullring following the sixth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Etxaburu suffered some scratches on his right elbow but was able to continue shooting afterwards. (Susana Vera/Reuters photo)
- People travel over the Bosphorus in a passenger-vehicle ferry in Istanbul. (Murad Sezer/Reuters photo)
- A tribesman, loyal to the al-Houthi Shi’ite rebel group, performs a traditional dance at the conclusion of a two-day tribal gathering in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada, on the border with Saudi Arabia(Khaled Abdullah/Reuters photo)