July 24 Photo Brief: Batman shooting memorial, summer Santas, the search for Mona Lisa
A makeshift memorial honors the 12 victims of Friday’s Colorado theater shooting, the annual World Santa Claus Congress visits a zoo in Denmark, intimate apparel from the mid-1400’s go to university and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Two men dressed as Santa Claus rest on a bench during a visit by the participants of the annual World Santa Claus Congress to the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark. (Torkil Adsersen/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A patient wearing traditional clothes prepares for a parade as part of Independence Day celebrations at the Larco Herrera psychiatric hospital in Lima. The hospital, founded in 1917 and the biggest of its kind in Peru, currently houses more than 450 patients. Peru will celebrate its Independence Day on July 28. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)
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- AIDS activist Aaron Laxton of St. Louis, Missouri, takes part in a rally in front of the White House in Washington. The international AIDS 2012 conference is currently being held in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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- A view of the third excavation of a grave inside the medieval Convent of Saint Ursula in Florence on July 17, 2012, during research focusing on the burial site of Lisa Gherardini, wife of the wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, the model who inspired Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Mona Lisa.” (Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The United Kingdom Synchronized Swimming team works on their routine during a practice session three days before the 2012 London Olympic Games at the Aquatics Center. (Rob Schumacher/USA TODAY Sports/US Presswire)
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- An Indian worker dries Seviiyan, thin vermicelli, which is used for the preparation of sheerkhorma, a traditional sweet dish prepared by the Muslim community during the month of Ramadan, at a food factory in Hyderabad. Like millions of Muslim around the world, Indian Muslims celebrated the month of Ramadan by abstaining from eating, drinking, and smoking as well as sexual activities from dawn to dusk. (Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A brassiere from the late Middle Ages is pictured at the University of Innsbruck, archaeology department. The textiles date back to the year 1440-1485 and were discovered in 2008 during renovations of the castle Lengberg in East Tyrol, according to the university. The decayed finds were pieced together recently. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)
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- A group of clowns pose for the camera during a parade in the historic centre of Guatemala City in the framework of the IV Latin American Clown Congress (Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Egyptian Goose eats a breadcrumb at the spa gardens in Bad Schwalbach, western Germany. Meteorologists forecast sunny weather for the upcoming days in Germany. (Fredrik von Erichsen/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Children flee renewed fighting between Congolese army and M23 rebels near the eastern Congolese city of Goma. Congolese rebels and government forces traded heavy weapons fire around two eastern villages on Friday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee towards the provincial capital days ahead of a regional summit due to tackle the rebellion. (James Akena/Reuters)
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- People continue to visit the makeshift memorial to the 12 movie theater shooting victims built across the street from the Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado. Twenty-four-year-old James Holmes is suspected of killing 12 and injuring 58 others July 20, during a shooting rampage at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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- People continue to visit the makeshift memorial to the 12 movie theater shooting victims built across the street from the Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado. Twenty-four-year-old James Holmes is suspected of killing 12 and injuring 58 others July 20, during a shooting rampage at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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- Michael Phelps of the United States looks on during a training session ahead of the London Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre in Olympic Park in London, England. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)
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- A supporter of jailed members of female punk band “Pussy Riot” looks on with his mouth sewed up as he protests outside the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, July 23, 2012. A court on Monday rejected a request to call President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to testify in the trial of three female punk rockers who derided Putin in a protest in the country’s main cathedral, their lawyer said. (Trend Photo Agency/Handout/Reuters)
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- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shows the pistols of independence hero Simon Bolivar during a ceremony to mark the his birthday in Caracas. Chavez unveiled a 3D image of South America’s 19th century independence hero Bolivar on Tuesday, based on bones he had exhumed two years ago to test a theory that Bolivar was murdered. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
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- AC Milan’s Mattia Valoti (R) is challenged by Schalke 04’s Alexander Baumjohann during their friendly soccer match in Gelsenkirchen. (Alex Domanski/Reuters)
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