Oct. 17 Photo Brief: Fall colors arrive in Britain, Cambodia mourns the death of a king, garbage collectors, JLo and a clown
Fall colors arrive in Britain, Cambodia mourns the death of a king, garbage collectors, a sniper, striking miner, clown protestor, tiger yawn and more in today’s daily brief.
- Changing autumn leaves are reflected in a pond in Sheffield Park Gardens near Haywards Heath in southern England. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
- A leaf from an Acer tree turns a warm autumnal red at The National Trust’s Tatton Park in Knutsford, England. As summer draws to a close the cooler temperatures bring on the Autumn foliage colors. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
- A deer buck displays his grass covered antlers at the National Trust’s Dunham Massey park. Bucks rub their antlers in long grass during the rutting season and is a sign of Autumn in Knutsford, England. As summer draws to a close the cooler temperatures bring on the Autumn foliage colors. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
- Three year-old Annie Wood rides her scooter in front of changing autumn leaves in Sheffield Park Gardens near Haywards Heath in southern England. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
- A man walks past changing autumn leaves in Sheffield Park Gardens near Haywards Heath in southern England. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
- A young deer hides amongst the autumnal bracken at the National Trust’s Dunham Massey park in Knutsford, England. As summer draws to a close the cooler temperatures bring on the Autumn foliage colors. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
- Circus workers protest in front of the Italian parliament in Rome’s Piazza Montecitorio while the parliament is holding a session to talk of the animals used in circus. (Filippo Monteforte/Getty Images)
- A flock of starlings flies over the vineyards in Tartegnin near Geneva. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
- A swan lands on a lake in Berlin. Meteorologists forecast warm and sunny weather for the following days in the German capital. (Johannes Eisele/Getty Images)
- An Indonesian man on a boat salvages scrap items in a river choked with trash in Surabaya city in East Java province. (Juni Kriswanto/Getty Images)
- A young Afghan garbage collector carries recyclable material from a landfill in the outskirts of Kabul. Over a third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their vested interests rather than the basic needs of the population, a UN report said. (Jawad Jalali/Getty Images)
- A dancer performs during a dress rehearsal for the “Show Me” revue at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin. The show has its premiere in the German capital tomorrow. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
- Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal for the “Show Me” revue at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin. The show has its premiere tomorrow in the German capital. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
- US actress and singer Jennifer Lopez, Aka JLo, performs on stage on at the Bercy (POPB) concert hall. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Getty Images)
- A potential Indian Army recruit has his chest measured during a physical fitness test at an Army recruitment rally at Kapurthala, around 20 km from Jalandhar. The Indian Army is a voluntary service and the world’s largest standing volunteer army, with over a million active personnel and just under a million in reserve. (Sahmmi Mehra/Getty Images)
- U.S. army soldier SGT Matthew Spiller of 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, stands guard in a corn field during a joint U.S.-Afghan military clearing operations in Nagahan district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
- Heather Wirkus, 13, from Albertlea, Minnesota, runs under the changing maple trees at the Maryland Agriculture Center on Shawan Road in Hunt Valley. She was taking photos of the colorful rows of trees while visiting family in Timonium. (Karen Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
- Mourners burn incense and offer prayers at the Royal Palace as the body of the late King Norodom Sihanouk returned in Phnom Penh. Tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of the Cambodian capital on October 17 to pay their last respects to revered former king Norodom Sihanouk on his final journey home from China. (Nicolas Asfouri/Getty Images)
- Thousands of mourners gather at the gates of the Royal Palace minutes after the coffin of former king Norodom Sihanouk arrived in Phnom Penh. Tens of thousands poured into Cambodia’s capital to witness the procession on Wednesday of the body of Sihanouk, a revered figure who ruled through the triumph of independence to the tragedy of its brutal civil war. Mourners dressed in white lined the 10-km (6-mile) route to welcome the return of Sihanouk, the flamboyant former monarch who died at 89 of heart failure on Monday in Beijing, his residence since abdicating eight years ago. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
- A striking miner of the global mining giant AngloGold Ashanti in Carletonville holds a stick as he stands on a hill with colleagues. Striking workers at global mining giant AngloGold Ashanti in South Africa stopped miners from returning to work today by pelting their buses with stones, the company and a union said. Four workers were injured while trying to report for duty at the Moab Khotsong mine southwest of Johannesburg, which is one of AngloGold’s six mines crippled by labour unrest. President Jacob Zuma waded into South Africa’s churning labour crisis today with a call for striking miners to return to work and for CEO’s to freeze their pay, amid months of industrial unrest and bloodshed that threaten to derail the nation’s economy. (Alexander Joe/Getty Images)
- Claudius, the Siberian tiger, yawns in his enclosure in Nuremberg, southern Germany. Its brother died yesterday. The cause is unknown. (Daniel Karmann/Getty Images)
- Nepalese youth play on a swing popularly known as “Dashain Ping” in Kathmandu the second day of the Hindu festival of Dashain. People of all ages play on a swing in towns and villages while celebrating the biggest Hindu festival Dashain, which is celebrated for fifteen days in honour of the Hindu goddess of power Durga. (Prakash Mathema/Getty Images)
- An Afghan day laborer unloads bananas from a truck at the vegetable market in Jalalabad. The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), gives focus to World Food Day observances and raises awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hunger. (Noorullah Shirzad/Getty Images)
- A sniper in a control tower checks surrounding areas for al Shabaab militants as the Ugandan contingent of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) prepares to advance towards Baidoa along with the Somali National Army, at the recently captured Baledogle airbase in sector one. Mogadishu, which until last year was engulfed in street battles between al Shabaab militants linked to al Qaeda and African Union soldiers, is now a bustling city where bullet-riddled houses are slowly being repaired and replaced. African Union troops also pushed al Shabaab out of the southern port city of Kismayu October 2, the militants’ last major bastion after a five-year revolt, but the Somali government still does not control swathes of the country and the security situation remains fragile. (Tobin Jones/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team)
- A girl, who municipal agents say is a suspected crack user, looks out from the window of a municipal van during an operation by Rio de Janeiro’s Social Action Secretariat to bring crack addicts to shelters for rehabilitation, near Parque Uniao slum. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)