Oct. 19 Photo Brief: Explosive violence, baby pandas, wonderland fashion and pierced vegetarian faces
A deadly car bomb kills at least two and wounds 15 in Lebanon, devotees pierce their cheeks during the annual vegetarian festival in China, imaginative fashion at the “Alice In Wonderland In Me” show in Japan and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A devotee of Ban Tha Rua Chinese shrine with knives pierced through his cheeks takes part in a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket. The festival celebrates the local Chinese community’s belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help them obtain good health and peace of mind. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
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- A devotee of Ban Tha Rua Chinese shrine with her cheeks pierced takes part in a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
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- A devotee of Ban Tha Rua Chinese shrine holds a line of exploding firecrackers during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
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- A devotee of Ban Tha Rua Chinese shrine with a gun pierced through his cheek takes a part in a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
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- A car burns at the site of an explosion in Ashrafieh, east Beirut, Lebanon. At least two people were killed and 15 wounded in a roadside bomb that exploded in central Beirut on Friday, a security source said. (Mahmoud Kheir/Reuters)
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- A wounded woman is carried at the site of an explosion in Ashrafieh, central Beirut, Lebanon. (Hasan Shaaban/Reuters)
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- A woman and a girl look at candles covered in traditional Japanese papers and bearing messages from residents in the Tohoku area, which was devastated by last year’s earthquake and tsunami, at the ‘Smile for Japan’ event in Tokyo. The event, which used about 3,500 candles, was organized to pray for the reconstruction of Tohoku. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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- A model displays a creation from designer Yasutaka Funakoshi’s Japanese fashion brand ‘Alice Auaa’ at the ‘Alice In Wonderland In Me’ Fashion Show in Tokyo. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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- A model displays a creation from designer Yasutaka Funakoshi’s Japanese fashion brand ‘Alice Auaa’ at the ‘Alice In Wonderland In Me’ Fashion Show in Tokyo. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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- Weapons are burnt to destroy them as part of a regional program to combat the illicit accumulation and trafficking of small arms and light weapons and their ammunition in Varazdin, north Croatia. A total number of 1566 weapons were destroyed as part of the EU’s ‘Strengthening Safety and Security (SEESAC) control activities in the Western Balkans’ program. (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)
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- A police officer looks at weapons being destroyed as part of a regional program to combat the illicit accumulation and trafficking of small arms and light weapons and their ammunition in Varazdin, north Croatia. (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)
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- Malala Yousufzai is seen recuperating at the The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in this handout photograph released October 19, 2012. Malala, a Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen is “not out of the woods” but is doing well and has been able to stand for the first time with some help, doctors at the British hospital treating her said on Friday. (Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham/Handout/Reuters)
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- San Diego Zoo veterinarians look on as the Zoo’s 11-week-old giant panda cub takes baby steps during a morning veterinary examination at the zoo, in this publicity photograph released October 18, 2012. (Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo/Copyright Zoological Society of San Diego/Handout/Reuters)
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- A 46-day-old baby giant panda sleeps on its bed at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province October 18, 2012. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- A firefighter works next to flames caused by the explosion of a gas pipeline in Zapotlanejo, 30 km from Guadalajara city, Jalisco State, Mexico. The explosion injured two people and forced the evacuation of 600 residents, according to local authorities. (Hector Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A wounded Syrian boy receives medical treatments at a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on October 18, 2012, following an attack by government forces. The Syrian army bombarded the rebel neighbourhoods of Shaar and Sukari as well as two neighbouring villages as rebel-held areas of Aleppo have been targeted daily by artillery, tanks and warplanes, for weeks. (Fabio Bucciarelli/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Italian artist Luca Del Baldo workds on a panting of former libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s corpse in his temporary workshop in Cantu, northern Italy. While Arab artists so far seem to have shied away from Kadhafi’s death as subject matter, according to the Arab World Institute in Paris, at least two European artists have tackled it. (Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images :
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- Berlin’s illuminated landmark, the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom), is seen on October 18, 2012. Dozens of landmarks and buildings in the German capital are festively illuminated during the ‘Festival of Lights’ running until October 20, 2012. (Rainer Jensen/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Picture taken with a long time exposure shows the lights of a car driving past Berlin’s illuminated landmark Brandenburg Gate on October 18, 2012. Dozens of landmarks and buildings in the German capital are festively illuminated during the ‘Festival of Lights’ running until October 20, 2012. (Rainer Jensen/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A red panda sleeps in a tree at the Opelzoo near Kronberg, western Germany. In the wild, the endangered species is endemic to the temperate forests of the Himalaya and southwestern China. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Two young red pandas born in June 2012 enjoy some bamboo at the Opelzoo near Kronberg, western Germany. In the wild, the endangered species is endemic to the temperate forests of the Himalaya and southwestern China. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian Formula One grid girls pose during a promotional event at the Agrasen ki Baoli in New Delhi. The 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix will be held on October 28. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Canada’s Brody Wells takes part during a Fly Board World Championship qualifier in Doha. (Fadi Al-Assaad/Reuters)
Pakistani girl shot by Taliban “doing well”
Reuters
10:12 a.m. EDT, October 19, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – A Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen is “not out of the woods” but is doing well and has been able to stand for the first time, doctors at the British hospital treating her said on Friday.
Malala Yousufzai, who was shot for vocally opposing the Taliban, was flown from Pakistan to Birmingham to receive treatment after the attack earlier this month, which drew widespread international condemnation.
She has become a symbol of resistance to the Islamist group’s effort to deny women education and other rights.
Dave Rosser, medical director of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, said she was now able to write and appeared to have memory recall despite her brain injuries.
“It’s clear that she’s not out of the woods yet,” Rosser told reporters, saying she had sustained a “very, very grave injury”. But he said she was “doing very well”.
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