Nov. 13 Photo Brief: Sandy salvage, Diwali light festival, Chinese air show
Sifting through Sandy’s aftermath continues in New Jersey and New York, Hindus celebrate Diwali, the annual festival of lights, China’s People Liberation Army puts on an air show, Justin Bieber dons a pair of dj/rockstar angel wings and more in today’s daily brief.
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- An 80-foot tall Norway Spruce, selected to be the 2012 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, is raised by a crane above spectators after being cut down at the home of Joseph Balku, in Flanders, New Jersey. (Stuart Ramson/Rockefeller Center/Handout/Reuters)
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- An one month old baby Pudu deer grazes in an artificial environment at an University in Concepcion city, south of Santiago, November 12, 2012. The Pudu, the world’s smallest deer, was found orphaned in a forest close Concepcion city and inhabits exclusively in southern Chile and part of Argentina. The species is currently in danger of extinction. (Jose Luis Saavedra/Reuters)
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- A boy, who was identified by municipal agents as a suspected crack user, sleeps just minutes after he was brought to the screening center for minors accused of crimes and drug abuse, in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio de Janeiro’s Social Action Secretariat has approached people showing signs of crack abuse during operations to offer to send them to the shelters as part of the efforts by authorities to end crack use in Rio’s slums, including 9 areas known as Cracolandias or cracklands in the city. According to the agents, the boy was showing signs of drug abuse, and will need to sleep before receiving his first treatment. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)
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- A Palestinian youth is seen through the shrapnel riddled ceiling of a house that was damaged following an Israeli air strike in the Jabalia refugee camp. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak warned that a flare-up in violence with Gaza was ‘not over,’ after new rocket fire in the morning and Israeli strikes overnight. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Bahraini Shiite Muslim protestor holds a box of petrol bombs to be used against riot police during an anti-government demonstration on the third day after the funeral of 16-year-old Ali Abbas Radhi in the village of Samahij, east of the capital Manama. The Shiite teenager died on November 9, after he was knocked down by a car while being chased by Bahraini police during a crackdown on protesters, the opposition said. (Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A mask of Tony Blair is held up on a stick at an anti-war rally to protest against a speech given by Blair at University College London’s (UCL) new Institute for Security and Resilience Studies, in central London. (Olivia Harris/Reuters)
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- Kyle McClements, 4 years old from Dundee, joins soldiers from 19th Regiment Royal Artillery the Highland Gunners as they take part in a Homecoming Parade in Dundee, Scotland. The Regiment, who are based at Bhurtpore Barracks in Tidworth Camp in Wiltshire, are taking part in two Homecoming Parades in Dundee and Inverness to mark their recent return from operations in Afghanistan. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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- Officers of China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) watch planes performing during the 9th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai. China’s air show comes as the Communist Party holds a meeting to select the country’s new leaders — including the party’s Central Military Commission, which controls the armed forces. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- China’s J-10 fighter jets from the People’s Liberation Army Air Force August 1st Aerobatics Team perform during a flight demonstration at the Boeing booth on the first day of the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)
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- Paratroopers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force dressed as traditional Chinese mythic figures, perform on the first day of the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)
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- China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) parachutists perform during the 9th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai. China’s air show comes as the Communist Party holds a meeting to select the country’s new leaders — including the party’s Central Military Commission, which controls the armed forces. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Kathakali dancer waits for his performance to start during the annual temple festival at Tripunithura, in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kathakali is an elaborate classical dance-drama from the southern Indian state of Kerala that combines literature, music, painting, acting and dance. The dance depicts stories from Hindu mythology and is usually religious in nature. (Sivaram V/Reuters)
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- Minority Pakistani Hindu revellers light earthen lamps on the occasion of Diwali in Karachi. Diwali, the festival of lights, is celebrated with jubilation and enhusiasm as one of the biggest Hindu festivals. People decorate their homes with flowers and Diyas (earthen lamps), celebrate the homecoming of the God Ram after vanquishing the demon king Ravana and honour the Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier lights candles inside a bunker during Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, at the India-Bangladesh border on the outskirts of Agartala. Diwali, the festival of lights, is celebrated to mark the return of Hindu God Rama from exile. (STR/DEL/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Nepalese police dogs look on after being smeared with vermillion on their foreheads and marigold garlands placed around their necks on the occasion of the Tihar festival in Kathmandu. On Tihar, as the Hindu festival of Diwali is locally known, it is customary in Nepal for people offer blessings to dogs, which are according to Hindu tradition, the messengers of Yamaraj, the god of death. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The extensive damage to an amusement park roller coaster in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is seen in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Residents of New York and New Jersey were told to prepare for a long recovery from Superstorm Sandy, as thousands of people grappled with cleaning up their properties, the extended lack of electricity and gasoline shortages nine days after the storm. (Tom Mihalek/Reuters)
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- A book of baseball cards lays inside a broken window frame in the remains of a house swept of its foundation by Hurricane Sandy in the Great Kills neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
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- A resident looks through a house that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy is seen in Union Beach, New Jersey November 12, 2012. At least 121 people perished in the storm, which caused an estimated $50 billion in property damage and economic losses and ranks as one of the most destructive natural disasters to hit the U.S. Northeast. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)
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- An American flag is seen outside a home damaged by fires and Superstorm Sandy in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
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- Would-be immigrants row in an inflatable boat off the Spanish coast, six miles (9.65 kilometers) from Tarifa. Spanish emergency services and the Red Cross intercepted the boat carrying 10 sub-Saharan would-be immigrants off the Spanish coast, near Tarifa (southern Spain), as the country faces several weeks to an influx of illegal immigrants trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. (Marcos Moreno/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Shanty houses are pictured along the polluted Cipinang river in Jakarta on November. Many rivers in Indonesia, especially in many urban areas, are polluted by household and industrial waste. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Kyrgyz couples take part in a mass wedding ceremony in the capital Bishkek. Thirty-five couples took part in the mass wedding sponsored by a state company. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Girls dressed as Santarinas rest under the Full Metal Jacket Diary Redux photo exhibition by U.S.actor Matthew Modine at the Rome Film Festival in Rome. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
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- A polar fox lies in his enclosure in Berlin’s Zoo. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images )
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- Singer Justin Bieber performs at the Barclays Center on November 12, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York, New York. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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