Sep 19, 2012

Sept. 19 Photo Brief: Yachts in Monaco, Back to school in Chicago and China upset with Japan

The Monaco Yacht Festival, Chicago teachers’ strike ends, fashion in Milan and more in today’s daily brief.

: A pigeon flies in front a fountain during a sunny day in central Donetsk September 19, 2012. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters photo)

: Residents try to salvage their belongings after a fire that razed some 200 houses during dawn, in Quezon City, Metro Manila. One person died and left at least 800 families homeless after the fire, local media reported. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters photo)

: Graffiti of two fighting cocks is pictured on a fence surrounding the construction site of the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt. The ECB will hold a topping out ceremony of the new building with ECB President Mario Draghi on Thursday September 20. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters photo)

: Police forensic officers check the drains on the street where two female police officers were killed in Hattersley near Manchester, northern England. One of Britain’s most wanted fugitives killed two unarmed policewomen on September 18 in a gun and grenade ambush, police said, killings which are likely to reignite a long-running debate over whether British officers should carry guns. (Darren Staples/Reuters photo)

: Women arrive to lay floral tributes close to where police constables Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were killed in Hattersley near Manchester, northern England. One of Britain’s most wanted fugitives killed two unarmed policewomen on Tuesday in a gun and grenade ambush, police said, killings which are likely to reignite a long-running debate over whether British officers should carry guns. (Darren Staples/Reuters photos)

: Perched atop a modified Boeing 747, space shuttle Endeavour departed Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:22 a.m. EDT Wednesday, September 19, 2012, en route to Houston, the first leg of a two-day trek to California. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel)

: A view in Monaco with yachts moored at Port Hercules during the 22th edition of the International Monaco Yacht Show. The Monaco Yacht Show is considered the most prestigious pleasure boat show in the world with the exhibition of 500 major companies in the luxury yachting and a hundred super and megayachts afloat. The event runs until September 22. (Valery Hache/Getty Images)

: Cadets listen to a speech by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Engineering Academy of Armored Forces in Beijing. Panetta sought to reassure Beijing over Washington’s strategic tilt to the Pacific, telling a military audience it was not an attempt to curb Chinese power. (Larry Downing/Getty Images)

: A Chinese national living in Malaysia shouts wears stickers of the Chinese national flag on his face as he shouts slogans during a protest against Japan’s “nationalizing” of disputed islands known as Diaoyu in Chinese and as Senkaku in Japan, in front of the Japanese embassy in Kuala Lumpur. The islands are controlled by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan, and the current row has roiled the political relationship between Beijing and Tokyo. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)

: Demonstrators disguised as pigs and holding banners stand during a protest for calling for radical farming reform outside the EU headquarters in Brussels . (John Thys/Getty Images)

: Animal keeper Rainer Kraut spray-washes elephant “Drumbo” on at the zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany. More than 2,000 animals of circa 300 species live at the zoo, that counts around 700,000 visitors yearly. (Arno Burgi/Getty Images)

: Taylor Phinney of the USA in action on his way to 2nd place in the Elite Men’s Time Trial on day four of the UCI Road World Championships in Valkenburg, Netherlands. (Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

: Students at Frazier International Magnet School wait outside before the start of school in Chicago, Illinois. Today was the first day back at school for about 350,000 Chicago public school children after more than 26,000 teachers and support staff walked off of their jobs on September 10 after the Chicago Teachers Union failed to reach an agreement with the city on compensation, benefits and job security. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

: A man views the works on display at the opening of an exhibition of Edward Lear’s artwork in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. The exhibition “Edward Lear: 200 Years of Nature and Nonsense” celebrates the bicentenary of Lear’s birth with a retrospective of over 100 artworks and books spanning his career. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

: A model walks the runway at the Mila Schon Spring/Summer 2013 fashion show as part of Milan Womenswear Fashion Week in Milan, Italy. (Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)