Aug 3, 2012

August 3 Photo Brief: War-torn people fight to survive, Olympics Day 7 and a horse drinking beer

Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief ballet, Baltimore, burlesque, cheerleaders, China, Coast Guard, horses, multi-exposure, Nepal, Olympics, refugees, sailing, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, weightlifting

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Syrian rebels and South Sudanese children continue to their struggle, the taste of Olympic glory, a shire horse chugs a pint and more in today’s daily brief.

: A technician in dive gear clears a camera window in the pool during the London 2012 Olympic Games at Aquatics Centre. (Andrew P. Scott/USA TODAY Sports)

: A Syrian rebel poses in front of a vandalized mural depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R), his late father and predecessor Hafez al-Assad (C) and his late brother Bassel al-Assad in the northern city of Aleppo on. Shells rained down on rebel positions in Aleppo ahead of a UN vote to deplore both the Syrian regime’s use of heavy arms and world powers for failing to agree on steps to end the conflict. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

: Egypt’s Khalil K Abir Abdelrahman falls after failed attempt on the women’s 75Kg group A weightlifting competition at the ExCel venue at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters)

: A Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City MH-65 Dolphin helicopter takes part in deck landing qualifications with the Coast Guard Cutter Diligence as a water spout forms behind of August 1, 2012 off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Nick Ameen/U.S. Coast Guard/Getty Images)

: A competitor is reflected in a hammer during Group A of the men’s hammer throw qualifications in the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

: Maria Bella was one of a dozen burlesque performers competing at the Ottobar for a spot at the 10th annual New York Burlesque festival. (Colby Ware/Baltimore Sun)

: Gold Medal winner Jinhyek Oh of South Korea poses after the Men’s Individual Archery Gold Medal Match on day 7 of the London 2012 Olympic Games in London. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)

: A boy, dressed up as the Hindu deity Hanuman, participates in a parade to mark the Gaijatra Festival, also known as the festival of cows, in Kathmandu. Hindus in Kathmandu celebrate the festival to ask for salvation and peace for their departed loved ones. Cows are regarded as holy animals in Nepal which help departed souls to reach heaven. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

: A Union flag, commonly known as a Union Jack, is seen through the heat haze of the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron at the Olympic Stadium in London August 2, 2012. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)

: A picture taken on August 1, 2012 shows a young Sudanese posing at a rubbish dump in the South Sudanese capital, Juba. The increase of prices in South Sudan makes life very difficult for South Sudanese people, some of them have no other choice but to pick up food or find and sell iron from rubbish dump areas. (Camille Lepage/AFP/Getty Images)

: Croatia’s Tina Mihelic falls from her dinghy in the Laser Radial sailing class at the London 2012 Olympic Games, in Weymouth. (William West/AFP/Getty Images)

: Monty, the Wadworth brewery shire horse is given a pint of beer outside the Raven Inn in Poulton as he starts his two-week annual holiday near Devizes, England. Hundreds of people gathered to watch as Monty, along with fellow dray horses Prince and Max – who are employed by Devizes brewery Wadworth to deliver beer 50 weeks a year to Wiltshire pubs – were each is given a pint of beer before being released into a field near Devizes. The brewery has been employing shire horses for more than 100 years to deliver beers to local inns and hostelries. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

: A cheerleader performs during the men’s beach volleyball round of 16 match between Seba Chevallier and Sascha Heyer from Switzerland against Poland’s Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel on The Centre Court Stadium in Horse Guards Parade for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Poland won 2-0. (Daniel Garcia/AFP/Getty Images)

: Chinese farmers try to salvage the collapsed tents of his farming greenhouse as a storm brought over by Typhoon Saola flooded his farm in Xiangshui, in east China’s Jiangsu province. Saola caused an estimated 11.73 million USD in agricultural damages as torrential rains submerged rice fields and orchards in the worst-hit Ilan and Hualien counties in Taiwan’s east coast. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

: Dancers from the English National Ballet perform “Swan Lake” ahead of the artistic gymnastics women’s individual all-around final event at the 02 North Greenwich Arena in London on August 2, 2012 during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Syrian refugee child cries at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. The Al Zaatri camp is one of many set up along the 86km (53 mile) border between Jordan and Syria under the management of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and with the help of local charity groups. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)

: A multi-exposure photograph shows Poland’s Michal Rapcewicz doing a “Pirouette” on Randon as he competes in the dressage preliminaries of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the equestrian venue in Greenwich Park, London, on August 2, 2012. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Somali internally displace person, wades through water at an IDP camp among the cloth and twig shelters, following heavy rain and flash floods in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images)