Sept. 24 Photo Brief: Demolition operation turns violent in Manila, bodybuilding championship in Asia and LEGO re-creates iconic Australian moments
Demolition operation turns violent in Manila, bodybuilding championship in Asia, 2012 European Beard and Moustache Championships, LEGO re-creates iconic Australian moments and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A resident arms himself with bottles after a demolition operation turned violent at an informal settlers area to give way for a local government project in Manila on September 24, 2012. More than two million people in Metro Manila — or roughly one fifth of the sprawling city’s population — live in shanty towns as so-called informal settlers. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An illegal settler grimaces after being arrested from supposedly throwing rocks at the police during a demolition in Manila’s Makati financial district September 24, 2012. Dozens of slum residents of an abandoned government compound clashed with the police on Monday in an attempt to block a demolition order issued by the local government. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
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- An illegal settler cries as she lies on the ground with her husband after they were arrested by members of the SWAT police team during a demolition in Manila’s Makati financial district September 24, 2012. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
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- Illegal settlers throw bottles and rocks at the approaching police and demolition team near Manila’s Makati financial district September 24, 2012. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
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- Residents throw stones and beer bottles at a demolition team and anti-riot police during an operation at an informal settlers area to give way for a local government project in Manila on September 24, 2012. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This picture taken on September 23, 2012, shows competitors posing during the 46th Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong province. Over 200 athletes from more than 20 Asian countries signed up for the games, and champions from other competitions also joined in to show off their muscles. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This picture taken on September 23, 2012, shows a competitor posing during the 46th Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong province. Over 200 athletes from more than 20 Asian countries signed up for the games, and champions from other competitions also joined in to show off their muscles. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Sunil, a young Afghan boxer strikes a pose as he shows off his suit in a street in downtown Kabul on September 24, 2012. Sunil who asked for his photo to be taken said he was wearing his best suit because he knew he would be seen by his friends who would congratulate him for winning an amateur fight the night before. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Afghan police cadets run drills during a training exercise at a police academy outside Herat on September 24, 2012. The cadets have to complete an 8 week course before graduating. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Pakistani demonstrator holds a burning effigy of Florida pastor Terry Jones during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Lahore on September 24, 2012. More than 50 people have died around the world in violence linked to the low-budget movie, which mocks Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, since the first demonstrations erupted on September 11. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Militant Islamists react during their verdict at a court in Ismailia city, about 75 miles outside of Cairo September 24, 2012. An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday 14 militant Islamists to death by hanging and four to life imprisonment over attacks on army and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula last year. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- A picture taken early on September 24, 2012 shows a fire blazing in a forest near the city of Domeno, near Valencia. (Jose Jordan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A woman hangs her clothes outside her partially submerged home during flooding in Pandu in the northeastern Indian state of Assam September 24, 2012. Floods and landslides caused by relentless rain in northeast India have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than a million over the past week, officials said on Monday. (Utpal/Reuters)
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- This picture taken through a hole on a damaged building shows a body laying on a street in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 23, 2012. Regime forces pounded rebels claiming to control most of Syria on Monday ahead of a UN Security Council briefing by peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on his talks with President Bashar al-Assad. (Zac Baillie/AFP/Getty Images)
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- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon addresses diplomats during the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the United Nations headquarters in New York September 24, 2012. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
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- Men pray on Madison Avenue just before the 27th annual Muslim Day Parade on September 23, 2012 in New York. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
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- University students majoring in Korean traditional dance wear traditional costumes as they dance during the grand Confucian ceremony of Seokjeon at a shrine at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul September 24, 2012. Seokjeon is a biannual ritual to consecrate Chinese philosopher Confucius and his disciples as supreme teachers. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)
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- Conservation staff at Westminster Abbey clean the Cosmati pavement surrounding the tomb of Edward the Confessor and asses it for conservation on September 24, 2012 in London, England. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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- A combination photo shows participants during the 2012 European Beard and Moustache Championships in Wittersdorf near Mulhouse, Eastern France, September 22, 2012. More than a hundred participants competed in the first European Beard and Moustache Championships organized in France. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
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- Participants have a beer as they take part in the 2012 European Beard and Moustache Championships in Wittersdorf near Mulhouse, Eastern France, September 22, 2012. More than a hundred participants competed in the first European Beard and Moustache Championships organized in France. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
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- A photo taken on September 19, 2012 and released on September 24 by the Virunga National Park shows baby gorilla Isangi, a rescued poached 9-month-old Grauer’s gorilla, that was moved to Virunga National Park headquarters at Rumangabo to be quarantined for a month. The baby will stay for quarantine and then move to GRACE for orphan Grauer’s gorillas. (LuAnne Cadd/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Larry, the Downing Street cat, waits to be allowed back into number 10 during a rainy day in London September 24, 2012. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
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- Birds sit in their cages during a bird-singing contest in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat on September 24, 2012. Hundreds of bird owners from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore take part in the contest. (Madaree Tohlala/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A LEGO recreation of the 1979 Australian film Mad Max, starring Mel Gibson, on August 9, 2012. LEGO Australia unveiled Sunday LEGO Minifigure recreations of the top ten Australian moments from the past 50 years. (Mike Stimpson/LEGO Australia via Getty Images)
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- A LEGO recreation of the 1973 official opening of the Sydney Opera House, on August 12, 2012. LEGO Australia unveiled Sunday LEGO Minifigure recreations of the top ten Australian moments from the past 50 years. (Mike Stimpson/LEGO Australia via Getty Images)
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- A LEGO recreation of Steve Irwin feeding a crocodile with one hand, while cradling his baby son Bob in the other in 2004, on August 9, 2012. LEGO Australia unveiled Sunday LEGO Minifigure recreations of the top ten Australian moments from the past 50 years. (Mike Stimpson/LEGO Australia via Getty Images)
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- A LEGO recreation of Cathy Freeman winning gold in the 400m at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, on August 26, 2012. LEGO Australia unveiled Sunday LEGO Minifigure recreations of the top ten Australian moments from the past 50 years. (Mike Stimpson/LEGO Australia via Getty Images)
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