July 19 Photo Brief: Full monty fireman, big cat moms and tennis goes orange
White lion and Siberian tiger cubs get a bath, an all orange tennis player plays in Beijing, Spanish firefighters protest against funding cuts and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Lion mother Princess licks one of her white lion babies on July 17, 2012 in Kempten, southern Germany. Lion mother Princess gave birth to six white lion cubs on July 11, 2012 at the Circus Krone. (Tobias Kleinschmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A helicopter drops water over a hill during a forest fire near the town of Keratea, south of Athens. A wildfire swept through forests near Athens on Thursday, forcing residents to use garden hoses and tree branches to keep the flames away from their homes. (John Kolesidis/Reuters)
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- A Chinese tennis player participates in a promotional event at a tennis court in Beijing on July 15, 2012. German sportswear giant Adidas said it was closing its only company-owned factory in China, although the country would continue to be its “main global production site” via subcontractors. A spokeswoman confirmed that the site in Suzhou, near Shanghai, which employs 160 people, would close at the end of October for “efficiency” reasons. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Paramilitary soldiers lift logs during a physical training in mud in Chuzhou, Anhui province, China on July 18, 2012. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- Models present creations by U.S. designer Marc Jacobs as part of his Fall/Winter 2012-2013 women’s Louis Vuitton fashion show in Shanghai, China. (Aly Song/Reuters)
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- A naked fan runs next to the leading man and stage winner, Spain’s Alejandro Valverde, riding in a breakaway in the 143,5 km and seventeenth stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Bagneres-de-Luchon and finishing in the ski resort of Peyragudes, southern France. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian firefighters try to control the blaze at the Hitachi air conditioner manufacturing facility at Karan Nagar near Kadi town, some 50 kms from Ahmedabad. The cause of the overnight fire, which gutted the plant that manufactures some 350,000 air conditioning units per year, is still unknown. Hundreds of contractual workers employed at the plant have been on strike since June 8, alleging exploitation and low wages. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Firefighters of the Mieres Fire Station in Asturias, northern Spain, pose naked with a sign reading “With so many funding cuts, we are left naked,” to protest against new austerity measures. Protests by a wide range of government workers have continued for days after conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced, on July 13, new measures to lower latest Spain’s deficit, a 65-billion-euro (80 billion USD) austerity package involving among other things an increase in the VAT (TVA) tax and cuts in unemployment benefits. (Cesar Manso/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Street artist James Cochran, also known as Jimmy C, works on his spray painted picture of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt in Sclater street car park in east London. Cochran said this was done as an homage to the London 2012 Olympic Games, which begin July 27. (Paul Hackett/Reuters)
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- Young men train at a public exercise area in the Ukranian capital Kiev. (Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters)
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- Amurskaya, a Siberian tiger, licks one of its cub at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Canada on July 18, 2012. The mother, Amurskaya, gave birth to her two cubs on May 24, 2012. The Siberian tiger is also called Amur tiger. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)
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- Silver from the SS Gairsoppa shipwreck lies approximately 4700 meters deep in the North Atlantic. Odyssey Marine Exploration pioneers in the field of deep-ocean exploration, announced it has successfully recovered approximately 48 tons of silver bullion from a depth of approximately three miles July 18, 2012. This initial recovery of bullion from the SS Gairsoppa, a 412-foot steel-hulled British cargo ship that sank in February 1941, totals 1,203 silver bars or approximately 1.4 million troy ounces of silver and has been transported to a secure facility in the United Kingdom. (Odyssey Marine Expedition/HO/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A boy uses a sandpaper to clean old tyre rims to be reused at a workshop in Lahore, Pakistan. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
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- Performers entertain the New Zealand Olympic Team at the welcome ceremony for New Zealand during previews ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Park in London, England. (Paul Gilham/Getty Images)
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