Nov. 28 photo brief: Syrian rebels shoot down government plane, Dev Deepawali is celebrated, rioting in Tahrir Square, England has a new baby
Syrian rebels shoot down a Syrian government plane, Dev Deepawali is celebrated in India, rioting continues in Tahrir Square, Buddy Guy goes to Washington, England has a new baby, Kate has a new do and more in today’s daily brief.
- South Korean rapper Psy performs during a concert in Bangkok. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)
- Randy Micale enters his father’s home through a home-made ramp while cleaning up the property, which was damaged by Hurricane Sandy, in the Ortley Beach area of Toms River, New Jersey. The storm made landfall along the New Jersey coastline on October 29. (Andrew Burton/Reuters)
- A member of the Somali National Army walks across the runway at Kismayo International Airport. The southern Somali city of Kismayo was liberated from al-Shabab rebels nearly two months ago, when Kenyan and Somali government forces attacked the militants’ last bastion. (Tobin Jones//Reuters)
- Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. stands in the start hut before taking her training run for the Women’s World Cup Downhill in Lake Louise, Alberta. (Mike Blake/Reuters)
- Aksel Lund Svidal of Norway descends the course during men’s downhill training at the Audi FIS World Cup on the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek, Colorado. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
- Visitors walk past a stall selling illuminated Christmas stars at the annual Christmas market at Alexanderplatz two days after the market opened in Berlin, Germany. Christmas markets, with their stalls selling mulled wine (Gluehwein), Christmas tree decorations and other delights, are an integral part of German Christmas tradition, and many of them are opening across Germany this week. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
- Residents of Old Malton begin to deal with the aftermath of the recent floods in Old Malton, England. Fire crews continue to pump large amount of surface flood water away from overflowing drains that have been threatening many properties in the area. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
- A model presents a creation by Japanese designer Yumi Katsura during the Japan Couture 2012 Women Fashion Week in Singapore. (Roslan Rahman/Getty Images)
- Nice’s Alexy Bosetti (R) crashes to the ground after flying over Montpellier’s goalkeeper Laurent Pionnier (C) and teammate Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa (L) going for the ball during their French League Cup quarter-final match at the Mosson stadium in Montpellier. (Pascal Parrot/Reuters)
- A model presents a creation by Japanese designer Yumi Katsura during the Japan Couture 2012 Women Fashion Week in Singapore. (Roslan Rahman/Getty Images)
- Spacesuits are seen laid out for U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko before an exam on a simulator of the International Space Station at the Russian cosmonaut training centre at Star City outside Moscow. The three-man crew is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station in December. (Sergei Remezov/Reuters)
- An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays in front of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City. Jerusalem’s Old City is holy to the world’s three major monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. For Jews it incarnates ancient Israel, for Christians it is where Christ spent the last days of his life and for Muslims, it is where the Prophet Mohammad ascended to heaven. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
- Blues Artist Buddy Guy listens to performances at a 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Send Off Celebration held in his honor at the Pritzker Pavilion stage in Chicago, Illinois. Guy will be recognized with Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova, and Led Zeppelin at the 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors on December 2. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
- A man carries some of the remains of a warplane, belonging to forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in Daret Azzah. Free Syrian Army fighters shot down the war plane in northern Syria on Wednesday using an anti-aircraft missile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Abdalghne Karoof/Reuters)
- Syrian rebels celebrate on top of the remains of a Syrian government fighter jet which was shot down at Daret Ezza, on the border between the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo. Syrian rebels captured a pilot manning the fighter jet downed over Daret Ezza in the northern province of Aleppo, witnesses told an AFP reporter in the town. (Francisco Leong/Getty Images)
- Migratory birds fly above a man rowing a boat on the Yamuna river in the old quarters of Delhi. (Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters)
- Damaged cars pile up after a storm in Taranto. A violent storm hit a troubled ILVA steel plant in southern Italy on Wednesday, injuring around 20 workers, leaving one missing and adding to disruption at the huge site, which is already caught up in a widening pollution scandal. (Renato Ingenito/Reuters)
- Hindu devotees gather to offer prayers on the banks of river Ganges during the Karthik Purnima festival on the occasion of Dev Deepawali at Dasasumerghat in the northern Indian city of Varanasi. Dev Deepawali is celebrated on the fifteenth day of Diwali, on the full moon day in the month of Karthik (also known as Karthik Purnima) in a tribute to river Ganges by the Hindu devotees of Varanasi. (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)
- Trees decorated with Christmas lights are reflected in a puddle as people walk along the Unter den Linden promenade in Berlin. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
- Students play basketball beside a leaning tower at school playground in Xi’an,Shaanxi province. The Wanshousi tower, located at a middle school playground, was built during Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It has been tilting since the 1960s, and is now supported by steel frames, local media reported. (Reuters)
- The three day old baby male Asian Elephant stands beneath its mothers legs in their enclosure at Chester Zoo in Chester, northern England. (Phil Noble/Reuters)
- A scarf of a garment worker is seen in the burnt interior of garment factory Tazreen Fashions, after a devastating fire, in Savar. Three supervisors of a Bangladeshi garments factory were arrested on Wednesday as protests over a fire that killed more than 100 people raged on into a third day, with textile workers and police clashing in the streets of a Dhaka suburb. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
- Protesters hit a riot policeman (C) after surrounding him during clashes in front of the U.S Embassy near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Hundreds of demonstrators were in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for a sixth day on Wednesday to demand that President Mohamed Mursi rescind a decree they say gives him dictatorial powers, and two of Egypt’s top courts stopped work in protest. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
- Protesters flee during clashes with police near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Hundreds of demonstrators were in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for a sixth day on Wednesday, demanding that President Mohamed Mursi rescind a decree they say gives him dictatorial powers, while two of Egypt’s top courts stopped work in protest. (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)
- A protester throws back a tear gas canister during clashes with Egyptian riot Police on Tahrir Square in Cairo. Police fired tear gas into Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where several hundred protesters spent the night after a mass rally to denounce President Mohamed Morsi’s assumption of expanded powers. (Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images)
- Journalists interview a wounded FDLR rebel fighter at a military base in Muti village, 150 km (93 miles) west of the capital Kigali. Rwanda said on Tuesday its troops clashed with Rwandan FDLR rebels who attacked three villages on its border with Democratic Republic of Congo, but a spokesman for the FDLR denied its fighters had been involved. (James Akena/Reuters)
- Singer M.I.A. performs during the World Premiere of the Smart for jeremy Showcar by Jeremy Scott at Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood, California. (John Sciulli/Getty Images)
- The new hairstyle of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is blown by the wind during a visit with Prince William to Cambridge, central England. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)