Aug 24, 2012

August 24 Photo Brief: Fashionable mummies, Tampa prepares for the GOP, trouble in Syria and New York

An Indonesian community spiffs up their dead relatives, birds on a wire, young victims in the Middle East and more in today’s daily brief.

: A music fan soaks up the atmosphere as You Me At Six performs live on the Main Stage during Day One of Reading Festival 2012 at Richfield Avenue in Reading, England. (Simone Joyner/Getty Images)

: Frankie Dettori celebrates after riding Dubai Prince to a win The Sky Bet Strensall Stakes at York racecourse in York, England. (Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)

: Exhibits made of prosthetic limbs are displayed for the show ‘Spare Parts’ at The Rag Factory in London. The exhibition curated by Australian artist Priscilla Sutton comprises of over forty limbs – donated by owners no longer using them – and then transformed into pieces of art, and is being held to coincide with the London 2012 Paralympics. (Toby Melville/Reuters)

: Family members holds up a mummy before relatives give it new clothes in a ritual in the Toraja district of Indonesia’s South Sulawesi Province. The ritual, called Ma’nene, involves changing the clothes of mummified ancestors every three years to honor love for the deceased. Locals believe dead family members are still with them, even if they died hundreds of years ago, a family spokesman said. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)

: A family member cleans a mummy before giving it new clothes in a ritual in the Toraja district of Indonesia’s South Sulawesi Province. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)

: Residents affected by floods brought on by Typhoon Tembin move furniture into a street in Hengchun Township in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan. Typhoon Tembin swept across southern Taiwan on August 24, toppling trees and ripping off rooftops after thousands of people were evacuated to avoid a repeat of a deadly storm three years ago. (Getty Images)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter comforts a young wounded boy at a hospital in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, who was injured when a shell, released by regime forces, hit his house. Syrian forces blitzed areas in and around the Aleppo, activists said, as Western powers sought to tighten the screws on embattled President Bashar al-Assad. (Aris Messinis/GettyImages)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter climbs through a damaged wall during clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the Saif al-Dawla neighborhood of Syria’s northern city of Aleppo. Syrian forces blitzed areas in and around the Aleppo, activists said, as Western powers sought to tighten the screws on embattled President Bashar al-Assad. (James Lawler Duggan/GettyImages)

: An Israeli soldier holds a Palestinian girl back as she cries following the arrest of her mother during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh in protest against the confiscation of Palestinian land to expand the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish . The weekly demonstrations in Nabi Saleh began at the end of 2009, following a years-long legal battle with residents of Halamish settlement who in 2001 seized around 240 acres (100 hectares) of the villagers’ land. (Abbas Momani/GettyImages)

: A woman carries balloons to be dropped from the ceiling at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. The convention starts Monday August 27. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

: A dancer, who uses the stage name Makenzy at the Mons Venus Club, shows a t-shirt about the economy that was made for her in Tampa, Florida. Despite only having 30 strip clubs Tampa has earned the title of “Strip Club Capital of the World.” The Republican Party will hold its 2012 national convention in Tampa, August 27-30. (Brendan Smialowski/GettyImages)

: A model prepares backstage ahead of the Sportscraft show as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion festival Sydney 2012 at Sydney Town Hall. (Matt King/Getty Images)

: Birds sit on a telephone wire as one flies in Zurich. (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)

: Locals look at high waves caused by Tropical Storm Isaac in Bahoruco, southwest Dominican Republic. Isaac was packing maximum sustained winds of 80 kilometers (50 miles) per hour and moving towards the west at 24 kilometers (15 miles) per hour, the Miami-based US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. A hurricane watch was in effect for Haiti and a tropical storm watch was in effect for the Dominican Republic. (Erika Santelices/GettyImages)

: A pedestrian cycles with an umbrella as it rains in New Delhi. Nation-wide, the monsoon has been more than 20 percent below its average, sparking fears of drought among farmers who remember vividly the failure of 2009, when India suffered its worst drought in nearly four decades. (Prakash Singh/GettyImages)

: Moto GP rider Jorge Lorenzo of Spain rides his Yamaha during the free practice session at Czech Republic’s Grand Prix circuit in Moto GP in Brno ahead of the Grand prix on August 26. (Michal Cizek/GettyImages)

: Children plays basketball next to a graffiti depicting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, part of a spontaneous advertising movement “Chavez es otro Beta”, in Caracas. To support Chavez’s re-election, a group of young people called “Miranda ser otro Beta” launched a new campaign aimed at youngsters and which attempts to show a youthful Chavez, depicting him in different attitudes. (Leo Ramires/Getty Images)

: A hand sticks out from underneath a sheet covering a body on 33rd St after a shooting at the Empire State Building in New York. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

: The body of a driver is seen next to overturned trucks and a collapsed bridge in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. The ramp of a multimillion-dollar bridge in northeast China collapsed early Friday morning, sending four trucks falling 30 meters to the ground, killing three people and injuring five. (Reuters)