Oct. 26 Photo Brief: Baltimore Halloween Brew-ha-ha, Islam’s Feast of the Sacrifice, zombies in Berlin, Halloween at the zoo, pregnant pigs in a cage
Baltimore Bike Party, Graphic animal slaughter images from the first day of Islam’s Eid al-Adha celebration, or “Feast of the Sacrifice,” a polar bear and white lion play with pumpkins in a Russian zoo, European pigs will soon have more room in their cages, zombies from the Middle Ages emerge from the Berlin Dungeon and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Cyclists participate in Bike Party Halloween Brew-ha-ha starting in Mount Vernon and ending in Hampden Friday night. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
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- Cyclists participate in Bike Party Halloween Brew-ha-ha starting in Mount Vernon and ending in Hampden Friday night. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
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- Performers dressed in a medieval costumes and horror-like make-up gesture in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. The performance was organized as a publicity stunt by Berlin Dungeon, a new scary attraction. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Actors pretending to be zombies from the Middle Ages threaten to pull out the tongue of another actor pretending to be a passing tourist during a small event to promote the opening of Berlin Dungeon in front of the Brandeburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. The Berlin Dungeon, an attraction of different rooms with horror themes, will open in March, 2013. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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- A paramilitary police officer stands guard next to a crack addict child who sleeps on the sidewalk next to Parque Uniao slum, during a joint operation with municipal social workers to take addicts out of the streets, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Aurora, a two-year-old female polar bear, plays with a pumpkin inside her open air cage during the Zoo Halloween Weekend event at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Zoo employees held a competition for the best Halloween pumpkin, which were afterwards presented to the animals. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- Almaz, a three-year-old male white African lion, plays with a pumpkin inside his enclosure during the Zoo Halloween Weekend event at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Zoo employees held a competition for the best Halloween pumpkin, which were afterwards presented to the animals. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- Sculptures are displayed in the Centrale Montemartini museum in Rome. The museum shows hundreds of sculptures as a permanent collection, in the former Giovanni Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre, putting side by side two diametrically opposed worlds, those of classical art and industrial archaeology. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Pregnant pigs can be seen in their pens at a farm near Brussels October 16, 2012. Sow stalls, the metal cages used to hem in pregnant pigs and make them easier to control, are to be banned from January 1 across the 27-nation European Union, 11 years after the ban was first voted in by the bloc’s lawmakers. (Yves Herman/Reuters)
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- A pig with piglets is seen in a farm in Hotemaze. Europe’s pregnant pigs will be happier next year but pork eaters will pay more and some breeders will go out of business as new porcine welfare rules compound the spiraling cost of the cereals for animal feed. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)
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- Isabella Johnson of Laurel takes in the scene during her first Halloween celebration at the annual Trick or Treat on Main Street event on October 25. (Sarah Pastrana/Patuxent Publishing)
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- Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for campaigning for the right to an education, sits on her bed and holds hands with her brothers Khushal Khan (3rd R) and Apal Khan (R) and father Ziauddin Yousufzai, at the hospital in Birmingham on October 25, 2012. The response of Pakistan to the shooting of the Malala by the Taliban was a ‘turning point’ for the country, her father said at the British hospital where she is recovering. (Queen Elizabeth Hospital/University Hospitals Birmingham/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Hundreds of crosses are pictured in front of a pilgrimage chapel in Gschnaidt, near Altusried, southern Germany, on October 25, 2012. Pilgrims had begun to put up crosses with the names of friends and family next to the chapel to commemorate them. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Syrian refugee boy points a plastic toy pistol at a man in a Mickey Mouse costume on the first day of Eid al-Adha at a park in Beirut. (Jamal Saidi/Reuters)
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- Blood of cattle is smeared on the floor of At-Taqwa mosque as volunteers chop meat of a slaughtered animal amid prayer incantatiosn during a religious ritual in observance of Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in Jakarta. The meat from slaughtered cattle and goats are distributed equally to residents. Millions of Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha or “Feast of the Sacrifice”, which marks the end of the annual hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca and celebrates Abraham’s readiness to sacrifice his son to God. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Saudis slaughter a camel on the first day of Eid-al-Adha in Tabouk, 1,500 km (932 miles) from Riyadh. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid-al-Adha to mark the end of the Haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God’s command. (Mohamed Alhwaity/Reuters)
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- A girl covers her face as she waits for the start of Eid al-Adha prayers in Lagos. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid-al-Adha to mark the end of the Haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God’s command. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)
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- A man looks at the portraits of the Nord-Ost musical hostage drama victims at the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow during a commemoration ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. A total of 912 people, many of them children, were held hostage in the Dubrovka theatre for three days after coming to watch Nord Ost, a popular musical. A raid by Russian special forces to free the hostages led to the death of 130 people, including 17 actors and musicians, most of them from a powerful gas that police had pumped into the theater before the raid. (Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Damage on private property caused during riots at a La Parada market in Lima, on October 25, 2012. Two people were killed and 100 more wounded when clashes erupted Thursday as thousands of police moved in to relocate a crowded wholesale food market in Lima, officials said. The fighting began when the Lima municipality placed concrete blocks at the entrance to the La Parada market to prevent trucks from entering, leading traders to hurl stones in protest and police to respond with tear gas. (GAMARRA/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A freestyle skier flies through the air in front of Battersea Power Station during the Relentless Freeze winter sports freestyle skiing competition in London. (Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images)
Shot Pakistani girl recovering fast in UK: father
Stephen Eisenhammer | Reuters
9:46 a.m. EDT, October 26, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – The father of a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls’ education said on Friday she would “rise again” to pursue her dreams after hospital treatment.
Malala Yousufzai, 15, was flown from Pakistan to Britain for specialist treatment after the October 9 attack, which drew widespread international condemnation.
The father Ziauddin Yousufzai and other family members arrived in Britain on Thursday to help her recovery.
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