Sep 17, 2012

Sept. 17 Photo Brief: Occupy Wall Street anniversary, Formula One Singapore Grand Prix, Vladimir Putin Peak

Stokely Baksh 1 Comment The Baltimore Sun Afghanistan, ballet, cocaine, drugs, farming, Formula One, International Space Station, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Mecca, New York City, Norway, Occupy Wall Street, Pakistan, Shan Buddhist monks, Singapore Grand Prix, Swan Lake, Syria, Typhoon Sanba, Vladimir Putin

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Occupy Wall Street movement marks one year anniversary, racers get ready for Formula One Singapore Grand Prix, Vladimir Putin Peak and more in today’s daily brief.

: An overview shows the illuminated track for the upcoming Formula One Singapore Grand Prix night race in Singapore on September 17, 2012. Formula One’s Singapore Grand Prix will be held on September 21 to 23. (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman is arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protest September 17, 2012 on the one year anniversary of the movement in New York. Police in New York on Monday arrested at least a dozen demonstrators marking the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, witnesses said. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)

: Russian and Kyrgyz national flags fly from 14, 586 feet high on Vladimir Putin Peak in the Tian Shan mountains, some 62 miles south of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, September 17, 2012. The peak was named in 2011 in honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is due to visit Kyrgyzstan on Thursday. (Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters)

: Strong wind blows pieces of polystyrene over a coastal road as typhoon Sanba hits the country in the southern port city of Yeosu on September 17, 2012. Typhoon Sanba, packing winds of 97 miles per hour, slammed into South Korea bringing torrential rains across the country and shutting down flights and ferry services. (Yon Hap/AFP/Getty Images)

: Pakistani policemen arrest activists from Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, a student wing of the hardline Sunni party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), near the U.S. consulate during a protest against an anti-Islam movie in Karachi on September 17, 2012. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)

: Worker Yacouba Traore, 9, poses for a picture in between shoveling cotton seeds onto a conveyor belt in the ground at the Malian Animal Feed Company factory in Koutiala August 31, 2012. Nearly 10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Mali’s coup d’etat in late March, after which Islamist rebels took control of the country’s northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have come to Djenne, according to the local tourism board. Picture taken August 31, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)

: The Soyuz TMA-04M capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin descends near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan September 17, 2012. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

: Ethnic Shan Buddhist monks watch a movie at their monastery in Yangon September 17, 2012. Many Shan parents send their boys into the Buddhist monkhood where they receive a basic education better than the one in their remote and impoverished villages. Education is so poor in these villages that Shan children sometimes struggle to learn Burmese, the national language. The monkhood also gives them better protection from Myanmar’s military, which is notorious for dragooning ethnic minorities as porters. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

: A Kashmiri Haj pilgrim prays as he walks in between buses along with other pilgrims during their departure for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, in Srinagar September 17, 2012. The first batch of 270 Kashmiri Haj pilgrims set off on Monday for the annual pilgrimage to the holiest place for Muslims in Mecca. A total of 8,700 pilgrims from the Kashmir region are expected to perform this year’s ritual, authorities said. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)

: Civilians and Islamist fighters pray over the body of Tareq Naser, an Islamist fighter who died during clashes on Sunday, during his funeral near the village of Fafeen in Aleppo’s countryside September 17, 2012. (Zain Karam/Reuters)

: A narcotics police lines up bundles of cocaine, part of a two tons consignment, in Riohacha, Guajira department, September 16, 2012. Authorities seized in various parts of the country around five and a half tons of cocaine in the last three days (Fredy Builes/Reuters)

: Pakistani laborers take care of infected sheep at a farm in Bin Qaisim town, some 50 kilometres southwest of Karachi on September 17, 2012. Pakistan plans to cull thousands of Australian sheep after they were found to be infected with harmful bacteria, the city’s top administration official said. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)

: Musicians perform with alphorns during the annual Alphorn Festival in the western Austrian village of Baad, some 124 miles west of Innsbruck September 16, 2012. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters)

: In this photograph taken on June 25, 2012, Laila Haidari (L) sits alongside sleeping drug addicts at “Mother Camp” in Kabul. Haidari, 34, a Hazara woman founded the organization “Life is Beautiful” to help treat addicted and homeless youths in Kabul. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Norway Special Forces soldier attends the “Jackal Stone 12” military exercise in Udbina September 17, 2012. One of the largest international military training exercises for special forces in Europe, Jackal Stone 12 aims to expand cooperation between the armed forces of participating countries and strengthen regional security and stability, according to Croatia’s Ministry of Defense. (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)

: A worker of TMB (Metropolitan transports of Barcelona) wearing a mask of Andreu Cobo, a dismissed TMB worker, attends a demonstration in Barcelona, on September 17, 2012. Workers of the public transport system are one strike against cutbacks in services and the government’s plans to liberalize and privatize parts of Spain’s public transport system. (Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images)

: Members of the cavalry rehearse on the beach in Scheveningen on September 17, 2011. The rehearsal comes on the eve of a parade in The Hague before Dutch Queen Beatrix delivers her Speech from the Throne, outlining the main features of government policy for the coming parliamentary session. (Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images)

: Workers prepare a computer at the stand of Carl Zeiss on the press day of the world’s largest fair for imaging in Cologne September 17, 2012. More than 1,200 exhibitors from 45 countries will show their latest products at the Photokina 2012 from September 18-23. (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)

: Dancers from the Australian Ballet perform a new traditional production of “Swan Lake” by choreographer Stephen Baynes in Melbourne on September 17, 2012. The new production of Swan Lake, which was the first ever ballet performed by the Australian Ballet in 1962, will have its world premiere production on September 18 before heading to Sydney on November 30 as the company celebrate’s its 50th birthday. (Caroline Pankert/AFP/Getty Images)