August 23 Photo Brief: Violence in Mexico, beating the heat in Macedonia and snuggling pandas
Mexican authorities shoot it out with criminals, a mother panda cuddles with her cub in Vienna, mourners gather for miners slain in South Africa and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Nur Nadir, the wife of Asil Nadir, leaves after addressing the media outside the Old Bailey following her husband’s sentencing for stealing 29 million GBP from his Polly Peck business 20 years ago. Mr Nadir has been given a jail term of 10 years on ten counts of theft from his company, a multi-billion pound company until it collapsed in 1990 following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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- Models pose backstage ahead of the Fashion Week Highlight Show as part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival Sydney 2012 at Sydney Town Hall in Sydney, Australia. (Don Arnold/Getty Images)
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- A “cosplay” fan poses for photos during the four-day 2012 Animation and Comics Fair at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing. Cosplay (costume play) has gained enourmous popularity in China despite the concerns of Chinese parents who complain that it is distracting children from their studies. (Mark Ralston/Getty Images)
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- Police arrest a group asylum seekers from Iraq who have exhausted all their rights to appeal at the Immigration and Naturalisation Service in Zwolle, the Netherlands. The Iraqis were calling for their asylum application to be re-examined. (Mischa Rapmund/Getty Images)
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- Members of the forensic service and Mexican federal police inspect the body of one of the victims following a shoot-out between municipal police and alleged organized crime members, in Magdalena, 80 km northeast of Guadalajara, Jalisco State. The clash left three policemen shot dead and four other injured, and four criminals dead after their car ran off the road during a pursuit. (Hector Guerrero/Getty Images)
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- A woman refreshes herself in a fountain in the centre of Skopje. Macedonia is hit by another heat wave as temperatures are over 40 degrees Celsius. (Robert Atanasovski/Getty Images)
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- Giant panda Yang Yang (L) and her cub Fu Hu (meaning lucky tiger) cuddle in their enclosure on Fu Hu’s second birthday at the zoo in Vienna, August 23, 2012. The cub of pandas Yang Yang and Long Hui was born in the zoo. Fu Hu’s parents were transferred from China to Schoenbrunn Zoo in 2003, and are on loan to Austria by China for a period of 10 years. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters photo)
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- Student protesters are hit by a jet of water as they clash with riot policemen during a demonstration against the government to demand changes in the public state education system in Santiago, August 23, 2012. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters photo)
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- A woman dressed in a Han-dynasty costume checks her mobile phone ahead of a performance to celebrate the Qixi festival at an entrance of a tea house at Houhai area, in central Beijing. The Qixi festival, also known as the Double Seven Festival, is the Chinese version of Valentine’s Day. (Jason Lee/Reuters photo)
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- The Berlin Cathedral is seen behind pins that mark landmarks on a giant map of the city of Berlin drawn on the concrete square in Berlin. The 50 by 50 metre (164 by 164 feet) map, at a scale of 1:775, will be opened to public on August 25 as part of celebrations marking Berlin’s 775th anniversary. (Thomas Peter/Reuters photo)
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- Female farmers participate in a protest rally opposing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between South Korea and China in central Seoul. They also demanded the withdrawal of the FTA between South Korea and the U.S. according to local media. Fans read,”Government purchase agricultural products!” (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters photo)
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- The shadow of a woman is cast on the wall of a monastery as she looks on toward the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Swayambhunath Stupa is a collection of shrines and temples. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters photo)
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- Mining community gathers at a hill dubbed the “Hill of Horror” during a memorial service for miners killed during clashes at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Johannesburg,. South Africans held a memorial service at a platinum mine where police shot dead 34 strikers. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters photo)
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- A relative is comforted ahead of memorial services for miners killed during clashes at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Johannesburg. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters photo)
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- A child carries an umbrella in pouring rain in the slum of Susan’s Bay in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. Sierra Leone’s government has described the current cholera outbreak in the West African state as a “national emergency.” At the height of the wet season, over-populated areas with poor water and sanitation are exacerbating the spread of the disease. (Simon Akam/Reuters photo) (
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- People walk across an intersection during heavy rain as Typhoon Tembin approaches Taiwan in Taipei. Taiwan issued a warning for torrential rain and strong winds and put its military on standby as typhoon Tembin headed for the island’s east coast with winds of around 145 km/hour after soaking parts of the Philippines. (Yi-ting Chung/Reuters photo)
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