Nov. 29 Photo Brief: The British press in the press, Miss Russia bears all and first seasonal snow in Austria, Cate Blanchett in a Hobbit hole
Lord Justice Leveson releases his offical report looking into the ethics of the British press, Miss Russia 2012 poses with a stuffed bear prior to a press conference, Austria is once again a winter wonderland and more in today’s Daily Brief.
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- Leanne Smith of US skis during the women’s downhill practice at the Alpine Skiing World Cup in Lake Louise, Alberta. (Joe Klamar/Getty Images)
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- Belarus’s Darya Domracheva competes during the women’s 15 km individual race of the Biathlon World Cup in Ostersund on November 29, 2012. Norway’s Tora Berger won the event ahead of Darya Domracheva of Belarus (2nd) and Russia’s Ekaterina Glazyrina (3rd). (Jonathan Nackstrand/Getty Images)
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- US Vice President Joe Biden talks on an employee’s cellphone during a visit to a Costco store on a shopping trip in Washington, DC. Biden made the visit to the first Costco store located in Washington, DC, during its grand opening. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)
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- A falcon participates during the first day of the Abu Dhabi Falconry 400m competitions in Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi. The competition, known as “Al Tilwah” requires the falcons to take off from a starting point and fly the distance of 400m to catch their prey, held by a participant guiding the falcon at the finish line by waving a rope with the prey, usually quail, at the end of it. (Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters)
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- A boy with a Mexican flag, stained with paint to resemble blood, lies down in a chalk outline representing the body of a crime victim during a protest in Mexico City. People gathered at the Estela de Luz monument to protest against the government of Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon who has been in power for six years. The turbulent presidency of Calderon comes to a close on December 1, six years after he ordered an offensive against drug cartels which led to a spike in violent crime and left at least 60,000 people dead and thousands more missing. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)
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- Buddhist monks, injured in a protest, rest in a hospital near the Monywa mine in the Sagaing region in Myanmar’s northwest. Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas on Thursday to break up a three-month protest against a vast copper mining project run by the powerful Myanmar military and its partner, a subsidiary of a Chinese arms manufacturer. Activists said at least 50 people had been injured and 23 were in hospital, some suffering burns after incendiary devices were hurled into their camps by police. (Reuters)
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- Priest Nicolae Ganga (C), a member of Romania’s Roma ethnic minority, baptizes a child during a very rare mass Orthodox baptism ceremony at a church in the Bora neighborhood in Slobozia, 130 km (81 miles) east of Bucharest. About 40 Roma ethnic people, aged between one and 57 years, were baptized into the Orthodox Christian faith with Romanians serving as godparents during a very rare mass ceremony in an attempt to strengthen their community ties with the Romanian majority. The Roma people make up the biggest ethnic minority in the European Union, most of them from countries like Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. There are an estimated 10 million across Europe and one in five lives in Romania. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)
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- Honor guards march at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall during a heavy snowfall in central Moscow. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
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- Cate Blanchett, who plays Galadriel, emerges from from a Hobbit house before delivering a speech at the “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” World Premiere at Embassy Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 146580912
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- Runners take the water jump in The Burges Salmon Novices’ Limited Handicap Steeple Chase at Newbury racecourse in Newbury, England. (Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)
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- Indian tourists walk past an archway at the historic Taj Mahal in Agra . A highway, that opened up in August 2012, connecting India’s Taj Mahal tourism town of Agra with the capital New Delhi has slashed driving time by more than half. The 165-kilometre (100-mile) Yamuna Expressway promises a two-hour drive through the crowded towns of Uttar Pradesh state to Agra, where the Taj Mahal draws almost three million domestic and foreign tourists a year. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images)
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- Members of the delegation accompanying the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (unseen), look around Westminster Abbey during a visit in London. The Emir of Kuwait is on day three of his state visit which is the first from Kuwait to Britain since 1995. (Will Oliver/Getty Images)
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- A woman walks her dog on November 29, 2012 at snow covered street in central Stockholm. (Jessica Gow/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian man walks from the Egyptian side of the border in a repaired bombed smuggling tunnel linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt, in Rafah. Israeli airforce jets bombed most of the smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip during its war against the Islamist movement Hamas, which rules the coastal Palestinian territory, between 14 to 21 of November 2012. (Patrick Baz/Getty Images)
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- U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner arrives at the Capitol for meeting with congressional leaders on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Geithner is on the Hill to meet with Congressional leaders to discuss solutions for the “fiscal cliff” issue. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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- A two-month-old sloth rests on the stomach of its mother Charlotte at the zoo in Halle, center Germany. The zoo which was founded 111 years ago, has had a record on breeding habits of sloths since 1996. (Waltraud Grubitzsch/Getty Images)
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- A man rides a bicycle on a snowy day in Munich, southern Germany. (Victoria Bonn-Meuser/Getty Images)
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- Miss Russia 2012, Elizaveta Golovanova, poses for a photo before her press conference in Moscow. Golovanova, 18, is from Smolensk and will represent Russia in the Miss Universe 2012 contest. (Natalia Koles/Getty Images)
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- An Indian Hindu holy man, Sadhu, looks on from the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna in Allahabad. Allahabad, located in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and where the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers meet, is a focal point for Hindu pilgrims during The Maha Kumbh Mela, where millions of devotees gather to bathe every twelve years in the holy waters of the three rivers. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)
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- A cross country skier skis on a track in the western Austrian village of Seefeld, some 30km (19 miles) west of Innsbruck, following the first snowfall of the season. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters photo)
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- Lord Justice Leveson (R) poses for photographs with his report into the culture, practice and ethics of the press in London. Prime Minister David Cameron faces a no-win dilemma on Thursday when a far-reaching inquiry into British newspapers delivers its verdict on how to curb the excesses of the country’s notoriously aggressive press. (Paul Hackett/Reuters)
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- Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks leaves Westminster Magistrates Court after appearing to face charges linked to alleged corrupt payments to public officials in London. (Neil Hall/Reuters photo)
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- Soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland carry the coffin of Captain Walter Barrie before his funeral service at Glencorse Kirk near Edinburgh, Scotland. Captain Barrie, of The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 Scots), was playing in a soccer match between British soldiers and members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) on Remembrance Day at their base in Helmand province in Afghanistan, when he was shot by a rogue member of the Afghan army, according to local media. (David Moir/Reuters photo)
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- A youth tries to stop an anti-Mursi protester from throwing a petrol bomb at riot police along a road which leads to the U.S. embassy, near Tahrir Square in Cairo. The body writing Egypt’s new constitution began a session to vote on a final draft on Thursday, a move President Mohamed Mursi’s allies in the Muslim Brotherhood hope will help end a crisis prompted by a decree expanding his powers. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters photo)
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- Lasha Pataraia pulls a truck, which weighs 8,250kg (8 tons), with his ear during an event to break the Guinness Book of World Records in Rustavi, outside Tbilisi. The 32-year-old broke a Guinness record after he managed to pull the truck with his ear for 21,50 metres (70.5 feet), according to organisers. (Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters photo)
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- Surfers brave the winter elements as they surf on a river at the English Garden in downtown Munich. The English Garden covers 3.73 square kilometres (2 miles), which makes it the largest city park in Europe and even larger than New York’s Central Park, which covers 3.4 square kilometres. (Michael Dalder/Reuters photo)
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- Villagers transport bamboo down river for sell on Ciberang river in Lebak regency, Indonesia’s Banten village. (Beawiharta/Reuters photo)
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- Japanese craftsman Sumikazu Nakata adds the final touches on a Daruma doll, which is believed to bring good luck at his studio “Daimonya” in Takasaki, northwest of Tokyo. Daruma dolls, representing the Indian priest Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism in China, is used to bring luck. It is also a favourite item of election candidates where they traditionally paint only one eye on the doll when they start their campaign and paint the other eye if they win in the election. The sales of Daruma has risen as candidates and campaign supporters purchased the lucky dolls ahead of the December 16 election, Nakata said. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters photo)
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- Palestinians take part in a rally in support of the efforts of President Mahmoud Abbas to secure a diplomatic upgrade at the United Nations, in Gaza City. The U.N. General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine on Thursday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding much-needed funds for the West Bank government. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters photo)
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- Dockers hold up flares during a protest in front of Portugal’s parliament in Lisbon. Hundreds of dockworkers from several European countries joined in a protest in Lisbon on Thursday against plans by the Portuguese government to change labour rules in the sector. Dockworkers from Spain, France, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium were among those from Portugal who marched from a town hall square to the parliament building, where lawmakers were expected to vote in favour of the bill. (Rafael Marchante/Reuters photo)
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- Blythe Finn takes pictures after returning to see her home in Breezy Point, a month after the neighborhood was left devastated by Hurricane Sandy in the New York borough of Queens. The storm killed 132, left thousands homeless and economic damages topping $50 billion. (Adrees Latif/Reuters photo)
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- A group of people walk on the beach past sections of boardwalk damaged by the storm surge of superstorm Sandy in Long Beach, New York. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters photo)
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