July 17 Photo Brief:The President and an Orangutan both get a kiss
An Orangutan gets a birthday kiss, a deadly shooting in Toronto kills two, strange Tiger golf fans in Britain and more in today’s daily brief.
- Police officers watch over what appears to be a dead body at a crime scene following a shooting in Scarborough, a suburb in east Toronto. Two people were killed and at least 19 injured in a shooting at an outdoor party in Toronto, police said. (Mark Blinch/Reuters photo)
- A worker pushes a tyre past the Olympic Stadium in the London 2012 Olympic Park at Stratford in London. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters photo)
- U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are shown kissing on the “Kiss Cam” screen during a timeout in the Olympic basketball exhibition game between the U.S. and Brazil national men’s teams in Washington. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters photo)
- People carry an effigy of demon Ghantakarna as another effigy of the demon is burnt to symbolize the destruction of evil, during the Ghantakarna festival in the ancient city of Bhaktapur. According to legend, the demon is believed to “steal” children and women from their homes and localities. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters photo)
- A Syrian refugee who fled the violence in Syria is seen at Bashabsha camp near the Jordanian city of Al Ramtha, at the Syrian border. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters photo)
- John Daly of US wearing bright trousers during a practice round for the 2012 British Open Golf Championship at Royal Lytham and St Annes in Lytham, north-west England ahead of the Open Championship which begins on July 19. (Peter Muhly/Getty Images)
- A woman crosses a road as activists from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), detained by police during a protest against price hike in essential commodities, hang onto the doorway of a bus along with their fellow protestors while shouting slogans in Kolkata. Placard reads: “Stop the extraordinary rise in prices of essential commodities”. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters photo)
- Young divers attend a training session at a gymnasium in Hefei, Anhui province. (Reuters photo)
- Villagers carry the coffin and portrait of a victim who was killed by a flash flood as they wade through a stream during a funeral in Sujia village of Zhaotong, Yunnan province. (Wong Campion/Reuters photo)
- A rickshaw puller waits for passenger in the rain in Dhaka. (Andrew Biral/Getty Images)
- A paratrooper from Chosen Company of the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry photographs a rainbow towards the end of a helicopter assault mission to improve their biological database, near the town of Ahmad Khel in Afghanistan’s Paktiya Province. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters photo)
- A man stands inside an empty train station in Athens. The employees of Electric Railways (ISAP) proceed to a four-hour strike as they protest against the merging of the insurance fund institutions. (Tzortzinis Angelos/Getty Images)
- An Afghan labour grinds wheat at a traditional mill in Nahr-e Shahi district of Balkh province. Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country. (Qais Usyan/Getty Images)
- Golf spectators wearing tiger suits wait for Tiger Woods of the US during practice at Royal Lytham & St Anne’s in Lytham, north-west England ahead of the 2012 British Open Golf Championship which begins on July 19. (Peter Muhl/Getty Images)
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai leaves after a police graduation ceremony at the interior ministry in Kabul. Five hundred and thirty five police officers graduated during a ceremony at the interior ministry in Kabul. (Massoud Hossain/Getty Images)
- Sebastien Laurent (R), manager of the zoo, gives, mouth to mouth, a slice of cake to Major, the holdest captive Orang-Outang in the world, as part of its 50th birthday ceremony at the La Boissiere-du-Doree zoo near Nantes, western France. (Alain Jocard/Getty Images)
- Prosthetic legs are exhibited at the Wellcome Trust’s new exhibition ‘Superhuman’ in London, England. The exhibit makes up part of the Wellcome Collection’s new summer exhibition, ‘Superhuman’, which focuses on the many ways mankind have sought to improve, adapt or enhance their body’s performance, and opens to the public from July 19 to October 16, 2012. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)