August 10 Photo Brief with a human pyramid, Agent Orange and Olympics Day 14
Vietnam remembers the horrors of Agent Orange sprayed by U.S. troops in the 60’s, Indian Hindu devotees form a human pyramid during the Janmashtami celebrations, jets rehearse for the Russian Air Force’s 100th anniversary flight show and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Su-27, Su-25 and Mig-29 jet fighters perform during a rehearsal for a flight show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow two days before the 100th anniversary of the Air Force. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Actresses perform with an orange curtain at a ceremony to mark Agent Orange Day in Hanoi. Agent Orange is a dioxin-laced defoliant sprayed by U.S. troops in the Vietnam War to destroy crops and jungle cover shielding guerrillas. U.S. warplanes used it the first time on August 10, 1961, in Vietnam’s central Kontum province, dropping about 18 million gallons of the defoliant on southern Vietnam for most of the 1960s. (Kham/Reuters)
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- Agent Orange victim Nguyen Thi Van Long, 26, attends a ceremony to mark Agent Orange Day in Hanoi. Agent Orange is a dioxin-laced defoliant sprayed by U.S. troops in the Vietnam War to destroy crops and jungle cover shielding guerrillas. The defoliant released dioxins that have been blamed for health problems on people exposed with claims of dioxin poisoning by more than 3 million people in Vietnam. (Kham/Reuters)
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- Shi’ite Muslim men take part in self-flagellation during a religious procession in Lahore, Pakistan. About 5,000 Shi’ite Muslims gathered for the annual commemoration, which takes place on the 21st day of the holy month of Ramadan. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
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- North Korea’s Kyong Il Yang (in blue) fights with Namibia’s Naatele Sem Shilimela on the repechage of the Men’s 55Kg Freestyle wrestling at the ExCel venue during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
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- Certified prosthetist Robert Kuenzi holds a life-like sleeve for a prosthetic arm at the Center for the Intrepid (CFI), at Brooke Army Medical Center, on August 7, 2012 in San Antonio, Texas. Artists paint the rubber covers, complete with custom tatoos, which slide over prosthetic arms and legs made at the center for military amputees. The CFI is the largest rehabilitation center for wounded military service members suffering from amputations, burns and functional limb loss in the United States. Thousands of war wounded, most injured in Afghanistan and previously in Iraq, spend months, if not years, in outpatient care at the CFI. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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- Actors from ‘Oedipus The Hour’ perform in the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. (David Moir/Reuters)
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- Members of the China’s synchronized swimming team compete in the team free routine final during the synchronized swimming competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games in London. (Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Members of the Red Arrows aerobatic team from the United Kingdom shape a heart with smoke as they perform during the rehearsal of a flight show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Seal cubs explore their enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. They were born in june 2012 at the zoo in Hanover. (Julian Stratenschulte/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Bulgaria’s Silviya Miteva competes using the ribbon in her individual all-around gymnastics qualification match at the Wembley Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)
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- Indian Hindu devotees pray before forming a human pyramid to break a dahi-handi, curd-pot, suspended in the air during celebrations of Janmashtami, which marks the birth of Hindu God Lord Krishna, in Mumbai. Hindu men and boys receive prize money by constructing a human pyramid till it is tall enough to enable the topmost person to reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian Hindu devotees form a human pyramid to break the dahi-handi, curd-pot, suspended in the air during celebrations of Janmashtami, which marks the birth of Hindu God Lord Krishna, in Mumbai. Hindu men and boys receive prize money by constructing a human pyramid till it is tall enough to enable the topmost person to reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian Hindu devotees form a human pyramid to break the dahi-handi, curd-pot, suspended in the air during celebrations of Janmashtami, which marks the birth of Hindu God Lord Krishna, in Mumbai. Hindu men and boys receive prize money by constructing a human pyramid till it is tall enough to enable the topmost person to reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An actress from the Fat Git Theatre performs in the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. (David Moir/Reuters)
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- Flood victims stand get transported down a flooded city street in Manila, Philippines. The death toll has climbed to more than 100 people as metro Manila dealt with nearly 2 weeks of monsoon rains effecting more than 2 million people, the worst flooding in 3 years. Phillippine residents are starting to return to their homes and cleaning up the storm damage. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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