Sept. 29 Photo Brief: Spanish protests, Hindu Ganesh festival and rallies in Pakistan
A rash of protests in Spain, a Hindu festival and unrest in Pakistan in today’s daily brief.
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- Pakistani activists gather as they take part in a protest rally against an anti-Islam film in Karachi. Thousands of people thronged the streets of Pakistan’s biggest city in the latest protest against the U.S.-made film, police and witnesses said. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Pakistani protesters step on a portrait of U.S. President Barack Obama as they participate in a protest rally against an anti-Islam film in Karachi. Thousands of people thronged the streets of Pakistan’s biggest city in the latest protest against the U.S.-made film, police and witnesses said. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Spanish civil guards with their mouths sealed with tape attend a demonstration of public service workers against government spending cuts on Sept. 29 in Seville. Spain’s government said it would freeze public sector pay, which has not risen since it was cut by five percent in 2010 and which suffered an effective seven-percent fall this year with the cutting of the end-of-year bonus. (Cristina Quicler/AFP Getty Images)
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- Children wave flags through smoke thrown by firemen and policemen during a demonstration of public service workers against government spending cuts in Seville, Spain. (Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Police vans block a street leading to the parliament building in Madrid during a demonstration organized by Spain’s “indignant” protesters, a popular movement against a political system that they say deprives ordinary Spaniards of a voice in the financial crisis. (Dani Pozo/AFP Getty Images)
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- A group of people monitor construction crews demolishing a portion of the Mulholland Drive bridge along the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles, Calif. The 405 Freeway is completely shut down for the weekend, with Los Angeles residents preparing for a gridlock-filled weekend nicknamed “Carmageddon 2.” (Jonathan Alcorn/Getty Images)
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- An idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh is immersed into the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad, India. Hindu devotees bring home and offer prayers in temporary temples built for idols of Lord Ganesha in order to invoke his blessings for wisdom and prosperity during the ten-day Ganesha Festival, culminating with the immersion of the idols in bodies of water, including the ocean. (Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh for immersion into the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)
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- Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh for immersion into the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)
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- Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh for immersion into the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
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- Indian Hindu devotees prepare to immerse an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha into the Yamuna river in New Delhi. During the ten-day Ganesh Festival, Hindu devotees bring home idols of Lord Ganesha and offer prayers in temporary temples in order to invoke his blessings for wisdom and prosperity, culminating with the immersion of the idols in bodies of water. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People attend a demonstration to demand justice for the victims of Franco’s regime and to publicly recognize the labor of Spain’s judge Baltasar Garzon in Madrid. Spain’s top court acquitted renowned judge Baltasar Garzon on February 27, 2012 of abuse of power by trying to investigate Franco-era atrocities, in a case that exposed deep wounds dating back to the civil war. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A young Nepalese girl revered as the living goddess “Kumari” is carried to the golden chariot on the main day of the Hindu Indra Jatra festival at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu. The week-long festival celebrates Indra, the king of gods and the god of rains, when the Kumari living goddess is carried in a palanquin during a religious procession through parts of the Nepalese capital. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Antonov aircraft loaded with French army vehicles prepares to take off from KAYA airport in Kabul. France is the fifth largest contributor to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is due to pull out the vast majority of its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Afghan children play on the remains of an old destroyed Soviet tank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. Former Soviet Union troops occupied Afghanistan in December of 1979 and after a decade of conflict in Afghanistan, they pulled out leaving in its wake a civil war that gripped the country for years. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP Getty Images)
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- Kevin Hewitt of England releases an underweight carp during the 14th Carpfishing World Championship in Corbu village, Romania. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters)
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- A 6.73 kg carp is held by Tony Darnand of France during the 14th Carpfishing World Championship in Corbu village, Romania. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters)
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- A South Sudanese farmer holds a plow he uses to work, in Renk, South Sudan. Renk is the northernmost city of South Sudan and one of the only ones with a wide farming business. Close to the South Sudan/Sudan border, both Arabic and African residents work on the lands of Dinka farmers and grow Sorghum, Simsi and Hisbiscus or keep cattle. (Camille Lepage/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Atlantic Giant pumpkins (Curcurbita maxima) wait to be weighed during the Bavarian pumpkin championship in Schwabenhausen, Germany. The award comes with a prize money of 600 euros. (Peter Kneffel/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Repsol Honda Team’s Dani Pedrosa rides during a Moto Grand Prix practice session at the Aragon Grand Prix in Alcaniz. (Jose Jordan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People walk in front of a cargo ship that ran aground at Saler beach near Valencia, Spain following a heavy storm. At least eight people have died in Spain as a result of floods brought on by downpours, regional officials said. Some 500 people remained evacuated from their homes in the area after the torrential rains caused rivers to break their banks and flooded roads and railways. (Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People clean the entrance of their flooded home in Bobadilla, near Malaga, Spain. At least eight people, including a young girl and an elderly woman, have died in Spain as a result of floods brought on by downpours, regional officials said. Some 500 people remained evacuated from their homes in the area. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The de Havilland Mosquito KA 114 performs a low pass during an airshow commemorating the completion of its rebuild on September 29 in Ardmore, New Zealand. The plane, restored by Warbird Restorations, is the only flying Mosquito in the world. (Simon Watts/Getty Images)
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