Sept. 18 Photo Brief: William and Kate dance in Tuvalu, Chinese protest Japanese businesses, a sexy salute to the royal guard
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge dance while on a Diamond Jubilee tour in the South Pacific, Crazy Horse dancers salute on the River Thames, Chinese protest on the 81st anniversary of Japan’s invasion of China, a Golden Carriage carries royalty in the Netherlands and more in today’s daily brief.
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- The Chairman of Benetton Group, Alessandro Benetton, speaks during the launch of the company’s new advertising campaign in a store in London. Benetton is on a mission to find a cure for the ailing global economy and he’s asking 100 million or so jobless young people to chip in with ideas. The 48-year-old chairman of Benetton Group launched the family business’s latest “UNHATE” advertising campaign on Tuesday, highlighting the plight of unemployed people under 30 who are striving to find meaningful work every day. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
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- Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez (88) runs out before the game against the Denver Broncos at the Georgia Dome on September 17, 2012. The Falcons won 27-21. (Daniel Shirey/US Presswire)
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- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge dances with the ladies at the Vaiku Falekaupule for an entertainment programme in Tuvalu. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge are on a Diamond Jubilee tour representing the Queen taking in Singapore, Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. (Arthur Edwards/Pool/Getty Images)
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- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge dance with the ladies at the Vaiku Falekaupule for an entertainment programme in Tuvalu. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge are on a Diamond Jubilee tour representing the Queen taking in Singapore, Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. (Arthur Edwards/Pool/Getty Images)
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- Nine-day old male Indian rhinoceros Jari stands beside his 18-year old mother Quetta (L) in an outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Basel. Jari was born last Monday weighing around 60 kilos (132.3 pounds). (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)
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- Pigeons rest on electric wires in Srinagar. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)
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- A girl chases pigeons at Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu. The three-day festival, commemorating the union of the Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva, involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting. Hindu women pray for marital bliss, the well-being of their spouses and children, and the purification of their own bodies and souls during this period of religious fasting. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- Women sing and dance at the Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu. The three-day festival, commemorating the union of the Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva, involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting. Hindu women pray for marital bliss, the well-being of their spouses and children, and the purification of their own bodies and souls during this period of religious fasting. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- Picture shows an empty Oktoberfest beer tent four days before the opening of the beer festival in Munich. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will come to the Bavarian capital Munich for the world’s biggest and most famous beer festival, the Oktoberfest which starts on September 22, 2012. (Michael Dalder/Reuters)
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- Crazy Horse dancers from the stage production ‘Forever Crazy’ pose on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, England. The production of Forever Crazy opens this evening at a specially built venue on the South Bank. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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- Crazy Horse dancers from the stage production ‘Forever Crazy’ pose on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, England. The production of Forever Crazy opens this evening at a specially built venue on the South Bank. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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- A man kicks the door of a Japanese pub decorated with Chinese national flags during a protest on the 81st anniversary of Japan’s invasion of China, in Shenzhen Anti-Japan protests reignited across China on Tuesday, forcing Japanese firms in the country to suspend operations, as a crisis over a territorial dispute escalated on the day Chinese commemorated Japan’s 1931 occupation of its giant neighbor. (Keita Van/Reuters)
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- Paramilitary police in riot gear run to their positions to cease a protest on the 81st anniversary of Japan’s invasion of China, in Chengdu, Sichuan province. Hundreds of Japanese businesses and the country’s embassy suspended services in China on Tuesday, as anti-Japan protests threatened to reignite and drag a territorial dispute between Asia’s two biggest economies deeper into crisis. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
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- The Golden Carriage carrying Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima arrives at the Ridderzaal on the Binnenhof in The Hague on Prince’s Day (Prinsjesdag), the presentation of the coming financial year. (Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands looks on from the Golden Carriage as she leaves Noordeinde Palace for a ride to the Ridderzaal in The Hague on Prince’s Day (Prinsjesdag), the presentation of the coming financial year. (Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Myanmar Buddhist monk is pictured through a hole in a wall at a monastery where people gathered in the first ever rally to mark the “Saffron Revolution” in Yangon. Over a hundred people, among them dozens of monks, gathered at a Yangon monastery on September 18 to mark the “Saffron Revolution” which was brutally crushed by Myanmar’s junta five years ago. (Ye Aung ThuYe Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Afghan health worker (L) administers a polio vaccination to a child on the third day of a vaccination campaign in Herat. A new three-day nationwide immunization campaign against polio began on September 16 in all over the country. (Aref KarimiAref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
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- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) meets with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese pro-democracy opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Clinton’s office at the State Department in Washington, DC. Having spend most of the last two decades as a political prisoner under house arrest in her home nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, Suu Kyi was elected to Parliament in 2012 and her political party, the National League for Democracy, won a majority of seats. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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- Kashmiri Muslims burn an effigy representing the US during a protest and one day strike called by several religious and political organisations to protest an anti-Islam movie in Srinagar. Protestors rallied in Kashmir over an anti-Islam film, taking to the streets and burning US and Israeli flags and an effigy of US President Barack Obama. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Muslim demonstrators protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Bangkok. Demonstrators staged a peaceful protest against the anti-Islam film on Tuesday. Around 300 anti-American protesters holding Muslim flags and banners condemned America and chanted “Allahu Akbar,” which means God is great. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)
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