August 8 photo brief: Too much water in Manila, too little in Kansas, Olympics day 12 and a baby macaque
Typhoon Haikui hits China, flooding continues in the Philippines, Women’s Greco-Roman wrestling, Olympic springboard faces and more in today’s daily brief.
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- New Zealand’s Peter Burling and Blair Tuke celebrate as they cross the finish line to win silver in the 49er sailing class at the London 2012 Olympic Games in Weymouth and Portland, southern England. (Pascal Lauener/Reuters)
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- Flooding is seen around Bulacan, north of Manila. More than a million people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods on August 8, as more monsoon rain fell, with neck-deep waters trapping both slum dwellers and the wealthy on rooftops. (Getty Images)
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- A fishing sign in at one of the dry pools at the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Hudson, Kansas. Rain and cooler temperatures in the drought-stricken U.S. Midwest crop belt will provide relief for late-season soybeans, but the change in the weather is arriving too late to help the already severely damaged corn crop, an agricultural meteorologist said on Wednesday. (Jeff Tuttle/Reuters)
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- Pedestrians hold on to their umbrellas against strong winds and heavy rainfall on a street as Typhoon Haikui hits Shanghai. Typhoon Haikui struck China on Wednesday, packing winds of up to 110 km per hour (68 mph), prompting officials to evacuate nearly 2 million people and grounding hundreds of flights to and from Shanghai and other cities. (Reuters)
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- Laborers work to reconnect an electric circuit after pylons were turned over by Typhoon Haikui in Wenling, Zhejiang province. Typhoon Haikui struck China on Wednesday, packing winds of up to 110 km per hour (68 mph), prompting officials to evacuate nearly 2 million people and grounding hundreds of flights to and from (China Daily)
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- Olivier Guillon of France riding Lord de Theize performs during the equestrian individual jumping final at the London 2012 Olympic Games in Greenwich Park. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)
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- China’s Ruixue Jing (L) fights with North Korea’s Un Gyong Choe on the Women’s 63Kg Greco-Roman wrestling at the ExCel venue during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
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- China’s Ruixue Jing (in red) fights with Russia’s Lubov Volosova on the Women’s 63Kg Greco-Roman wrestling at the ExCel venue during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
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- A combination picture shows close-ups of divers’ faces during the London 2012 Olympic Games. Athletes shown are, top row (L to R) China’s Qin Kai, China’s Qin Kai, Mexico’s Yahel Castillo Huerta .Middle row (L to R) Ukraine’s Illya Kvasha, Mexico’s Yahel Castillo Huerta, China’s Qin Kai. Bottom row (L to R) Germany’s Patrick Hausding, Mexico’s Yahel Castillo Huerta, china’s He Chong. Pictures taken on various dates since the start of the Games. (Reuters)
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- Ireland’s Katie Taylor (R) fights Tajikistan’s Mavzuna Chorieva during their Women’s Light (60kg) semi-final boxing match at the London Olympic Games. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
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- Ashton Eaton of the U.S. wins in the men’s decathlon 100m heat next to Brazil’s Luiz Alberto de Araujo (L) and Ukraine’s Oleksiy Kasyanov (R) during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
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- School children dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna take part in a function held ahead of “Janamashtmi” celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Janamashtmi is the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna which will be celebrated on August 10. (Babu /Reuters)
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- Muslims offer prayers before having their Iftar (fast-breaking) meal during the holy month of Ramadan at a madrasa or religious school on the outskirts of Jammu. (Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)
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- Kashmiri women row a boat in the waters of Dal Lake during the evening in Srinagar. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)
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- A young Barbary macaque and its mother sit in their enclosure at the zoo in Erfurt, eastern Germany . The baby monkey was born on July 27, 2012 weighing 450 grams. (Martin Schutt/GettyImages)
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- Nat Young from the USA competes in a heat during the Relentless Boardmasters pro-surfing competition in Newquay, England. The 6 Star Event, part of a larger five-day surf, skate and music festival, has attracted professional surfers from across the globe to compete on the Cornish beach that is seen by many as the birthplace of modern British surfing. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is silhouetted by a stage light as she speaks at the University of the Western Cape about the U.S.-South Africa partnership, in Cape Town. South Africa’s next generation of leaders should honor the legacy of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela by promoting democratic values around the world, Clinton said on Wednesday. (Jacquelyn Martin/Reuters)
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- A long exposure picture shows commuters walking on a platform after leaving a train of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) at the main station in Lucerne. (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)
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- A soldier of the 1st platoon Comanche Company of the United States Army secures a position on the road as they detain a suspect of setting a roadside bomb in Buwri Tana District in Khost Province. Western politicians keen to get their troops out of an increasingly unpopular war regularly talk up the ability of the Afghan army and police to cope on their own, but there is widespread fear of a multi-factional civil war once they leave. (Jose Cabezas/GettyImages)
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