August 9 Photo Brief: Fancy Hindu dressing, Singapore’s birthday, Philippine flooding continues
A fancy dress competition by Hindu devotees, Singapore celebrates 47 years of independence, heavy flooding continues in Manila and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A member of the 1st Platoon Comanche Company of the US Army pets a dog at a checkpoint in the Combat Outpost Lakon in Buwri Tana District, Khost Province. (Jose Cabezas/Getty Images)
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- Rescuers evacuate residents along a flooded street in Marikina city, Metro Manila. Large parts of Manila were still swamped in floods after continuous rains pounded the capital overnight. (Tim Chong/Reuters photo)
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- A nine-year-old girl is silhouetted against the setting sun as she sells national flags ahead of Pakistan’s Independence Day, in Karachi. Pakistan commemorates its Independence Day on August 14. (Athar Hussain/Reuters photo)
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- South Africa’s Willem Coertzen competes in his men’s decathlon 110m hurdles heat at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium. (Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters photo)
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- A man works at an iron scrap yard at an industrial area in the southern Indian city of Chennai. India’s industrial output fell for the third time in four months in June, adding to pressure on new Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram to move quickly and pull Asia’s third-largest economy from its worst slowdown in almost a decade. (Babu/Reuters photo)
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- A Orangutan sits in the enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany. Orangutans are currently found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. (Patrik Stollarz/Getty Images)
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- Fireworks light up the skyline of Marina Bay to mark Singapore’s 47th birthday. Tens of thousands of people gathered at the downtown Marina Bay area to watch the display of National day celebrations. )(Fyrol Mohd/Getty Images)
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- Steampunk Lady performs on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Scott Campbell/Getty Images)
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- A newborn baby is washed at a temporary shelter in Marikina City, Metro Manila. Large parts of Manila were still swamped in floods after continuous rains pounded the capital overnight. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters photo)
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- People sit on a merry-go-round at the annual funfair “Cranger Kirmes” in Herne, western Germany. The fair is one of the largest in the Rhine-Ruhr region, drawing over 4 Million visitors. (Patrik Stollarz/Getty Images)
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- A model wears a dress by Danish fashion designer Stine Goya during the Copenhagen Fashion Week. (Tokil Adersen/Getty images)
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- A young Indian Hindu devotee dressed as ‘Radha’ the consort of Hindu God Lord Krishna looks on before a fancy dress competition held at the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Bangalore on the eve of ‘Krishna Janmashtami’. The Janmashtami falls on August 10 this year, marking the birth of the Hindu God Lord Krishna. (Manjunath Kiran/Getty Images)
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- A woman browses a shop selling headscarves ahead of the upcoming Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival in Kuala Lumpur. Muslims throughout the world will celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival after the holy month of Ramadan in which they refrain from sexual activities, eating and drinking from sunrise until sunset. (Mohd Rasfan/Getty images)
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- Egypt’s Yasmine Mohmed Rostom competes using the ball in her individual all-around gymnastics qualification match at the Wembley Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Mike Blake/Reuters photo)
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- Runners and walkers dressed in light emitting suits and holding light sticks make their way up Arthur’s Seat as part of a dress rehearsal of a mass participation public art piece called ‘Speed of Light’ in Edinburgh, Scotland. The piece which forms part of the annual Edinburgh Festival is set to illuminate the iconic natural monument as hundreds of people make their way up and around, creating streaks of light as they go. Each of the walkers glowing sticks is also set to provide a musical accompaniment as their movement triggers the sticks to create different sounds. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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