Jul 18, 2012

July 18 Photo Brief: Przewalski horses in Mongolia, South Africa celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday

Przewalski horses in Mongolia, South Africa celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday and more in today’s daily brief.

: Przewalski horses interact with each other in an acclimatization enclosure after arriving at Takhin Tal National Park in south-west Mongolia, July 18, 2012. The Prague Zoo transported four Przewalski horses to Mongolia as part of its efforts to reintroduce the endangered species into its native environment. (Petr Josek/Reuters)

: A volunteer paints a mural depicting the life of former President Nelson Mandela at a library in Cape Town’s Imizamo yethu township, July 18, 2012. Thousands of South Africans heeded the call to offer 67 minutes of their time to help build communities as part of celebrations of Mandela’s 94 birthday today. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)

: Inmates perform for school children in Qunu, July 18, 2012. South Africans celebrated former president Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday on Wednesday with special events and charity work in what has become known as “Mandela Day.” (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

: South African schoolchildren sing happy birthday to former South African President Nelson Mandela as he turned 94 on July 18, 2012 at Batsogile Primary School in Soweto. The nation’s 12 million schoolchildren began their day with a special birthday song, ringing with the line: “We love you father.” (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)

: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill July 18, 2012 in Washington, DC. This was Bernanke’s second time in as many days to appear before Congress to answer questions about ‘The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.’ (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

: A topless man smashes the windshield of a taxi in the middle of a street in Hefei, Anhui province July 17, 2012. The man ran onto a busy street on Tuesday morning wearing only a pair of shorts, climbing onto cars and smashing windows with his bare fists. He was taken away to the hospital by policeman and doctors after smashing nearly 20 vehicles in half an hour. Police said there was no identification with the man, and he would go through psychiatric examination to determine whether he was mentally ill, local media reported. (Stringer/Reuters)

: A collapsed road merges into the Kumanoue River in Ukiha, Fukuoka prefecture on July 18, 2012. A typhoon menacing already sodden southwestern Japan could dump weeks’ worth of rain on the area, forecasters warned, as communities struggle to recover from huge floods. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

: A visitor walks through a sculpture OUR BABAS 7+2 (cane images) by Ukrainian artist Zinayida Likhachova in the museum of Ukrainian traditional architecture in Pyrogovo in Kiev, July 18, 2012. (Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters)

: Nepalese human rights activists chant slogans from the back of a police vehicle after being arrested during a sit-in protest in front of Nepal’s prime minister’s residence in Kathmandu on July 18, 2012. Police arrested dozens of human rights activists who were protesting against the dissolution of constituent assembly. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man inspects a burnt area around his home in the Vilaflor municipality on the southern part of Spanish Canary Islands of Tenerife July 18, 2012. (Santiago Ferrero/Reuters)

: A man reacts during a wild fire near the city of Patras, some 200 kilometers southwest of Athens, on July 18, 2012. Greece’s new public order minister told reporters on July 12, 2012, that one of his main concerns was effectively fighting the forest fires that plague the Mediterranean country in the summer. (Giota Korbaki/AFP/Getty Images)

: Maasai tribesmen look at their cow, which was killed during an elephant attack, in the Kisaju area of Kitengela, on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi July 18, 2012. About five rogue elephants, which locals suspect to be from the Amboseli national park, 188 miles southeast of Nairobi. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

: People hold portraits of victims of the terrorist bombing attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) institute that killed 85 people and injured 300, during the commemoration of its 18th anniversary in Buenos Aires on July 18, 2012. (Alejandro Pagniale/AFP/Getty Images)

: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) speaks during a news conference with the Palestinian delegation after his meeting with Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi (unseen) at the presidential palace in Cairo July 18, 2012.(Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)

: Cambodian troops in armoured vehicles take part in a military withdrawal ceremony near the Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province July 18, 2012. Thai and Cambodian soldiers withdrew from the disputed area surrounding the Preah Vihear Temple along the border on Wednesday in compliance with a United Nations court ruling. The U.N.’s highest court ruled last July that both sides needed to withdraw troops in the 2.9 square mile area claimed by both Thailand and Cambodia. (Stringer/Reuters)

: Two Islamist policemen, among them Ivorian Ahmed El Guedir (L), patrol in the streets of Gao, northern Mali, on July 16, 2012. Mali, once one of west Africa’s most stable democracies, was plunged into turmoil on March 22, 2012 when a band of soldiers seized power in the capital Bamako, saying they were frustrated with how the president was handling a Tuareg rebellion in the north. The ensuing chaos created a power vacuum and enabled the Tuareg ethnic rebels and Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters to seize the northern half of the country. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ramadan decorations are hung outside a shop in the West Bank city of Hebron on July 18, 2012, to welcome the upcoming Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images)

: A police officer prepares to destory seized marijuana plants in Aceh Besar, Aceh province on July 18, 2012. According to Aceh police, 158 hectares worth of marijuana plants have so far been seized during 2012. (Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images)

: A crocodile sunbathes on a river bank in the Yala National Park in the southern district of Yala on July 18, 2012. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud from 1962, which has been adorned with countless Swarovski crystals, is displayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Munich on July 17, 2012. The Rolls Royce covered with about 1,000,000 Swarovski crystals is to be auctioned for the ‘Help in Motion’ charity foundation. (Tobia Hase/AFP/Getty Images)