Dec. 10 Photo Brief: Ikea monkey, FedEx expects busiest day today, Nelson Mandela in the hospital
Ikea monkey caught, FedEx expects to move 19 million packages today, Nelson Mandela undergoes more tests in the hospital and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Darwin, the monkey is pictured in this handout photo taken by Toronto Animal Services, December 10, 2012. The stylishly dressed five-month old monkey that caused a frenzy as it wandered around the parking lot of a Toronto-area Ikea store will be transferred to a sanctuary, officials said on Monday. Police were called to the furniture store on Sunday afternoon in Canada’s most populous city after the monkey broke loose from its cage in a coat and began running around a parking area. (Toronto Animal Services Handout via Reuters)
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- A worker poses with Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture, “Maquette for Divided Sculpture”, at Christie’s auction house in London December 10, 2012. The piece is expected to sell for 250,000 GBP (U.S. $400,000), when it is auctioned on December 18. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
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- Honor guards carry coffins of military officers during a funeral procession in Sanaa December 10, 2012. Eleven military officers, including a senior army official, were killed on Saturday in an ambush by suspected al Qaeda members, state-run media reported. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
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- Activists of the Kashmiri separatist party, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), shout slogans while holding torches during a procession to mark the International Human Rights Day in Srinagar December 10, 2012. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)
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- Seized machine gun ammo belts are displayed on December 10, 2012, in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia. Colombia’s army found a cove that contained twelve 5.56mm caliber rifle, a 7.62mm machine gun, a grenade launcher, 66 kilograms of explosives, 40 grenades, and some 3000 cartridges, allegedly belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Nobel laureates and guests are seated in the Blue Hall to attend the Nobel Banquet at City Hall in Stockholm December 10, 2012. (Jessica Gow/Scanpix via Reuters)
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- A Thai mahout rides his elephant in the early morning fog at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on December 9, 2012 in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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- A bike is locked onto a front door in downtown Rome December 10, 2012. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
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- Tourists and locals walk past a Santa Claus statue placed on a beach for a film shoot in the southern Indian city of Kochi December 10, 2012. (Sivaram V/Reuters)
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- Painted heads of smoker Christmas figures are placed for drying on a tray at the “Erzgebirgische Volkskunst Richard Glaesser” manufactory in Seiffen. Since several decades the eastern German region of Erzgebirge produces its typical wooden folk art of smokers, nutcrackers and pyramids especially used as decoration during the Christmas season. Picture taken November 28, 2012. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
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- This U.S. Navy handout photo released December 10, 2012 shows the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator as it taxies on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Atlantic Ocean. Harry S. Truman is the first aircraft carrier to host test operations for an unmanned aircraft. Picture taken on December 9, 2012. (Kristina Young/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Some hours before the cremation of Dutch linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a man looks at the flowers at his memorial site by the clubhouse of Dutch soccer club SC Buitenboys in Almere, Netherlands, on December 10, 2012. The linesman of the club SC Buitenboys in Almere died on 3 December after he was allegedly beaten by teenage players of SV Nieuw Sloten following a match on December 2. (Robin Utrecht/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Soweto’s residents walk past portraits of former South Africa’s president Nelson Mandela painted on a wall, on December 10, 2012 in Soweto. Mandela is set to undergo more undefined medical tests on December 10, 2012, the South African government announced. (Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- U.S. President Barack Obama steps aboard Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, December 10, 2012. Obama is travelling to Michigan for an event on the economy. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
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- A man walks past the luxurious Peninsula Hotel, opened in 1928 and expanded in 1994, with Christmas decorations in Hong Kong December 5, 2012. Hong Kong is losing its appeal as a convention destination as crowded hotels triple room rates during big events. A shortage of hotels helped push up room rates nearly 12 percent in the first nine months of this year and some industry players expect Hong Kong will overtake Singapore as the world’s busiest hotel market in 2013. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)
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- Japanese macaque, commonly referred to as “snow monkeys” huddle next to an open-air hot spring bath at the Jigokudani Monkey Park in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano on December 10, 2012. Some 160 of the monkeys inhabit the area and are a popular tourist draw. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
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- George Tsouvalakis visits a local shop for milk and diapers in the suburb of Palia Kokkinia, near the port of Piraeus, on November 22, 2012. For the Tsouvalakis family, they face a daily struggle to put food on the table of their tiny, damp flat. Unemployment has skyrocketed in Greece ever since the debt crisis hit the country in 2009. Successive austerity measures have taken their toll on Greek families, many of which find it extremely difficult to cope. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A medical marijuana patient smokes inside of Frankie Sports Bar and Grill in Olympia, Washington December 9, 2012. The owner Frank Schnarr, who waged an ultimately successful battle with local and state officials over Washington’s 2006 smoking ban, appears to be the first restaurant or bar owner in the state to test the recently expanded limits on recreational marijuana use. (Nick Adams/Reuters)
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- A Tibetan child is pictured with a Free Tiet bandana as Tibetan activists in-exile take part in a protest in New Delhi on December 10, 2012 to mark World Human Rights Day. A 16-year-old Tibetan girl has died after setting herself on fire, Chinese state media said December 10, in an area that has become a flashpoint for protests against Beijing’s rule. (Manan Vatsyayanamanan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indonesian marine police move one of 33 rescued green turtles in Denpasar on Bali island on December 10, 2012. Indonesia, home to important migration routes at the crossroads of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, is home to six out of seven of the world’s turtle species. (Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images)
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- FedEx employees, Rene Carballo (L) and Alexis Barzags, sort through items being shipped through the Fedex World Service Center on December 10, 2012 in Doral, Florida. FedEx Corp. expects today to be the busiest shippping day of the year when 19 million packages are expected to move through their system. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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- A general view of the “E1” settlement area, situated between Jerusalem and the Israeli West Bank on December 9, 2012 in Maale Adumim, West Bank. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
Mandela faces more tests in hospital
John Mkhize | Reuters
10:29 a.m. EST, December 10, 2012
PRETORIA (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and revered anti-apartheid leader, is to undergo more tests in hospital on Monday after having a good rest on his second night in the facility, the government said.
A statement from the office of President Jacob Zuma, who visited the Nobel Peace laureate on Sunday, gave no details other than to say, “President Mandela had a good night’s rest” and was “in good hands”. It also thanked members of the public for their messages of support.
Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told reporters after paying Mandela a visit in Pretoria’s “1 Military” hospital that he was doing “very, very well”. The military is responsible for the health of sitting and former South African presidents.
Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and a global symbol of resistance to racism and injustice, spent 27 years in apartheid prisons, including 18 years on the windswept Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town.
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