August 28 Photo Brief: South Koreans rescue Chinese fishermen, blood stains Syrian streets, Hitler sells clothing in India
A typhoon capsizes two Chinese fishing vessels near Seoul leaving five people dead and ten missing, a clothing store in Ahmedabad causes an uproar over its name, Syrians witness another devastating day of violence and more in today’s daily brief.
- Cabaret artist Lizzy Aumeier and new Oktoberfest director Dieter Reiter present the official 2012 Oktoberfest beer mugs in Munich, southern Germany. This year’s Oktoberfest will take place from September 22 to October 07, 2012. (Tobias Hase/AFP/Getty Images)
- Rescued young tawny owls perch on a branch as they wait to be released back into the wild at the RSPCA West Hatch Wildlife Centre in Taunton, England. Between January and the end of July, 33 of the baby birds were taken to the RSPCA centre in Somerset for care, a large increase on previous years. Although the exact reason for this rise is unclear, it is thought the topsy-turvy weather conditions and some extremely windy days through the spring and summer may have contributed. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
- Jaden Fabian, 1, cries in her car seat as her family evacuates their home as Tropical Storm Isaac heads towards the Louisiana coast line in Oakville, Louisiana. Tropical Storm Isaac was near hurricane force as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and was expected to make landfall in the New Orleans area seven years after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. (Sean Gardner/Reuters)
- A dog sits on a buffalo who is cooling off in the Ravi River in Lahore, Pakistan. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
- A woman looks out from a window as her dog sleeps at the entrance of her home in the premises of the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
- A Chinese fishing boat is seen near high waves off a port in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, south of Seoul in this August 27, 2012 picture. Typhoon Bolaven, with winds of up to 170 kmh (106 mph), buffeted South Korea’s west coast on Tuesday, leaving four dead and a dozen people missing after two Chinese fishing vessels capsized. (Kim Ho-Chon/Yonhap/Reuters)
- Policemen try to rescue crew members of a stranded Chinese fishing boat in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, south of Seoul. (Seogwipo Maritime Police/Handout/Reuters)
- A Chinese fisherman gets out of a stranded Chinese fishing boat by using a rope while South Korean policemen rescue him and other fishermen in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, south of Seoul. A typhoon with winds of up to 170 kmh (106 mph) buffeted South Korea’s west coast on Tuesday, killing five people at sea and leaving 10 missing when two Chinese fishing vessels capsized. (Gang Jae-Nam/Newsis/Reuters)
- South Korean maritime policemen rescue a Chinese fisherman (4th L) from a stranded Chinese fishing boat in Seogwipo on Jeju Island, south of Seoul. Typhoon Bolaven barreled up the coast before making landfall in already flood-ravaged North Korea as the impoverished country struggles to feed its 24 million people. (Gang Jae-Nam/Newsis/Reuters)
- A employee holds an Apple-1 personal computer, serial number 22, owned by the estate of former Apple employee Joe Copson ahead of its sale at Christie’s in London. The Apple-1, designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak, is expected to fetch between 50,000 and 80,000 pounds ($77,055 and $124,000 U.S.) at its auction in London on October 9, 2012. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
- A general view of the ‘Hitler’ clothing store in Ahmedabad. Members of the Jewish community in the western Indian state have urged the shop owners to change the name of the store, which was opened on August 19, 2012. Prior to this, a banner with the wording “Hitler opening shortly” was used to publicize the opening of the shop. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)
- Environmental activists from World Wildlife Fund (WWF), International Animal Rescue (IAR) and officials from Nature Resource’s Conservation Agency (BKSDA) attend to a wild orangutan after he was burnt in a fire in Pontianak on August 27, 2012. The activists accidentally burnt the wild orangutan as they attempted to bring the primate down from a tree. There are around 7,500 orangutan in West Kalimantan according to WWF in their recent report. (Mark San/AFP/Getty Images)
- Students cover their eyes with red ribbons as a symbolic gesture of refusing to be “hoodwinked” during a protest against a new Chinese national education course in Hong Kong. An expected 10,000 activists will head for the streets and march to the government headquarters on Saturday to demand the government scrap its plan to introduce the curriculum for students aged six years and older into schools on September 1, according to government radio. The furore focuses on a Hong Kong government-funded 34-page book, the basis of the curriculum, titled “The China Model” celebrating China’s single party Communist state as a unique political system under which its economy and society have flourished. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
- Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (2nd L) review an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Egypt’s president met his Chinese counterpart in Beijing seeking in his first state visit outside the Arab world to win badly needed investment and expand diplomatic ties. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
- China’s President Hu Jintao (R) adjusts his glasses next to his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Mursi during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
- An ambulance arrives with the body of a Free Syria Army fighter outside a hospital in Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city. (Aris Messinis/AFP/GettyI mages)
- A Syrian man walks past a blood stain at the site of a car bomb in the mainly Druze and Christian suburb of Jaramana on the southeastern outskirts of the Syrian capital. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian roadside dentist’s assistant files the dentures of a customer at a roadside clinic in Varanasi. Dentist Ramjee Sao said he provides a range of dental services from extractions, filling cavities and routine pain alleviation procedures to making and fitting a complete set of dentures. (STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)
- Paramilitary policemen jump up above their fellow policemen’s arms as they take part in a psychological training in Tongling, Anhui province. (China Daily/Reuters)
- Clowns perform during a scene from the media preview of the stage spectacle “Slava’s Snowshow” at the Sands Theatre at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. The show will premiere this evening and continues until September 9. (Tim Chong/Reuters)
- A young bongo antelope stands next to his mother at his enclosure at the zoo in Berlin, Germany. Several female bongos gave birth during the past months at the Berlin zoo. (Florian Schuh/AFP/Getty Images)
- Waitresses (L-R) Minami, Hitomi and Kiki, display their new uniforms at the maid cafe “@home cafe” in Tokyo’s Akihabra, a mecca for maid cafes. Japanese designer Keita Maruyama designed the new uniforms for the maid cafe, which is a popular icon of Japanese subculture. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images)