Oct. 25 Photo Brief: A boat load of people, the Queen goes purple, Tiger trap and a new doggie bag
Overcrowded ferry boats in Bangladesh, the Queen’s wardrobe goes purple, Tiger woods finds a trap, a new type of doggie bag and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A dog sits in a womans handbag during the Westminster Dog of The Year competition in Victoria Tower Gardens in London, England. The annual competition was won by Charlie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover and Deal with his Norfolk Terrier Star, who was among the 24 dogs entered into the competition which is run by Dog’s Trust and the Kennel Club. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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- A model showcases designs on the catwalk during the NE(degrees) TIGER Collection of China Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
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- Volunteers make phone calls seeking support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at his Arlington Victory Center in Arlington, Virginia. Less than two weeks remain before the United States holds its election on November 6. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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- US golfer Tiger Woods hits out of the bunker on the ninth hole during the first round of the CIMB Classic golf tournament at the Mines Resort and Golf Club in Kuala Lumpur. (Mohd Rasfan/Getty Images)
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- A paramilitary guard stands before the bars of a main gate to the No.1 Detention Center during a government guided tour in Beijing. The rare visit to the facility, which has capacity for 1,000 inmates, was opened to the foreign media as Beijing prepares for the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China. (Ed Jones/Getty Images )
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- The Erickson family residence is decked out for Halloween with a mock cemetery, ghosts, goblins, carriages and dead gardeners. (Noah Scialom/Baltimore Sun Media Group)
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- Overcrowded passenger boats are seen on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Millions of residents in Dhaka are travelling home from the capital city to celebrate Eid al-Adha on Saturday. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters photo)
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- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth arrives at Jubilee Gardens in London. The Queen, with Prince Philip, opened the newly developed Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank, London, and visited the British Film Institute, at the South Bank Centre. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters photo)
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- A Ford car body burns after it was set on fire by workers during a protest at the Ford assembly plant in Genk, Belgium. Ford Motor Co announced to unions on Wednesday that it will close the factory employing 4,300 workers in the Belgian town of Genk, as it tries to stem losses in Europe and match capacity to tumbling demand. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters photo)
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- French SNCF train employees walk along a platform at the Gare de Lyon station in Paris during a strike. Four French labour unions have called for a strike to protest restructuring plans which will impact jobs. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)
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- Afghan refugee Maiwand smokes a cigarette as he sits under an umbrella in front of Brandenburg Gate during a hunger strike in Berlin. Some 20 refugees, mainly from Iran and Afghanistan, went on hunger strike on October 24 demanding an end to deportations, obligatory camp accommodation to be abolished and restrictions on their movements be lifted, the refugees said. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
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- A woman uses a ticket vending machine as South Korean soldiers take part in an anti-terror and security drill at a subway station in Seoul. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)
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- A security guard uses a broom to clean seats on the grandstand at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi, India. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)
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- A Muslim pilgrim sleeps while others climb Mount Mercy on the plains of Arafat in the early morning during the peak of the annual haj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Nearly 3 million Muslim pilgrims started the first phase of the annual haj travelling through packed streets from Mecca’s Grand Mosque to the enormous camp at Mina just outside the Saudi Arabian city. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh /Reuters)
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- Striking miners react as they make way for a security vehicle at the AngloGold Ashanti mine in Carletonville, northwest of Johannesburg. AngloGold Ashanti sacked 12,000 wildcat strikers who defied a deadline to return to work on Wednesday, the latest South African company to resort to mass firings after weeks of crippling labour unrest. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)
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