Oct 15, 2012

Oct. 15 Photo Brief: Sept. 11 pre-trial hearings, record-breaking sky dive and a cardboard bike you can ride

Sept. 11 pre-trial hearings begin, Felix Baumgartner makes a record-breaking sky dive, a cardboard bike you can ride and more in today’s daily brief.

: The Costa Concordia cruise ship lays near the harbor of Giglio Porto on October 14, 2012. An Italian court will begin hearings on October 15 to determine who should stand trial for a cruise ship disaster that left 32 people dead, amid accusations of safety breaches and fatal delays. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

: Hofstra University students Josh Ettinger (L) and Tevon Hyman (R) act as stand-ins for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and U.S. President Barack Obama during stage rehearsals for the second presidential debate October 15, 2012 in Hempstead, New York. The debate, a town hall format where the candidates will take questions posed by citizens, will be held Tuesday evening at Hofstra University. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

: This courtroom sketch by artist Janet Hamlin shows the alleged five men (above) accused of conspiracy in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, shown sitting at their Military Commissions hearing on October 15, 2012 at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Long-delayed efforts to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four Al-Qaeda co-defendants finally got under way on Monday with a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo. (Janet Hamlin via AFP/Getty Images)

: A flooded St Mark’s square is featured in this photo during the first “acqua alta” of the season on October 15, 2012 in Venice. The “acqua alta”, a convergence of high tides and a strong sirocco, reached 105 centimeters. (Andrea Pattaro/AFP/Getty Images)

: A crowd gathers to watch workers pull down the last bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ulan-Bator, the capital of Mongolia, after Mayor Bat-Uul Erdene denounced the communist leader as a “murderer.” For decades Vladimir Lenin was worshiped by Mongolian schoolchildren as Teacher Lenin. Picture taken on October 14, 2012. (Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir/AFP/Getty Images)

: Candles are lit in front of a portrait of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot on October 9 by the Taliban, during a candlelight vigil organized by Nepalese Youth in Kathmandu October 15, 2012. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

: Iqbal Mohamed, 10, flies a kite as crows fly above a dumping site at the bank of Bishnumati River in Kathmandu October 15, 2012. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

: A police officer talks to an inmate dressed as an Olympic team mascot during a sports event at the Lurigancho prison in Lima. Although Lurigancho prison is one of the most overcrowded, violent, and unruly jails in Latin America, its more than 8,500 prisoners live with so much freedom inside the walled perimeter that they have created their own city, which mimics the urban society on the outside. Picture taken September 10, 2012. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)

: Members of the French non-government organization (NGO) Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) take part in a protest, featuring mock crime scenes, denouncing malnutrition in the world, at the Place Saint Sulpice in Paris October 15, 2012. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)

: Felix Baumgartner jumps out of a capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on October 14, 2012. The Austrian daredevil became the first man to break the sound barrier in a record-shattering freefall jump from the edge of space, organizers said. (Jay Nemeth via redbullcontentpool.com via AFP/Getty Images)

: Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni poses with his bicycle made almost entirely of cardboard in Moshav Ahituv. Picture taken September 24, 2012. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

: A butcher sorts out his table filled with pork at a market in Qingdao, in eastern China’s Shandong province on October 15, 2012. China’s inflation rate slowed in September, government data showed on October 15, satisfying an official desire to control price gains, but highlighting overall weakness in the world’s second-largest economy. (AFP/Getty Images)

: Japanese Shrine Parishioners of Matsubara (front), Nakamura (center) and Kiga shrines, carry Yatai (portable shrines) during a parade as part of the Nada No Kenka Matsuri (Nada Fight Festival) at Matsubara on October 15, 2012 in Himeji, Japan. Each Yatai weighs approximately two tonnes. The parade is the highlight of the shrine’s Autumn Harvest Festival and attracts roughly 100,000 people. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

: A trader inspects boxes of apples stacked at a wholesale fruit market on the outskirts of Jammu October 15, 2012. India’s wholesale price index (WPI) rose a faster-than-expected 7.81 percent in September from a year earlier, mainly driven by higher fuel prices, government data showed on Monday. (Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)

: Delegates attend the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on October 15, 2012 at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome. (Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)

: President John Kennedy meets with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in the Cabinet Room of the White House on October 29, 1962. It has been 50 years since a stand off between the United States and Russia over missiles in Cuba pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war. (National Archives/MCT)

: Afghan women wait with their children to receive a polio vaccination on the second day of a vaccination campaign in Herat on October 15, 2012. A new three-day nationwide immunization campaign against polio began all over the country. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

: British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) volunteer Dave Williams releases a Songthrush after it is fitted with a ring at Spurn Point in Spurn Head, England. The BTO office at Spurn undertakes long-term monitoring of bird populations and their migration. Photo taken October 12, 2012. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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