Dec. 16 Photo Brief: Angel memorial for victims in Connecticut, Corinthians celebrate victory over UEFA Champion Chelsea, Tungurahua volcano awakens
Angel memorial for victims in Connecticut, Corinthians celebrate victory over UEFA Champion Chelsea, Tungurahua volcano awakens in Ecuador and more in today’s daily brief.
- Twenty-seven angel wood cut-outs are set up on hillside in memory to the victims of an elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, December 16, 2012. Twenty-six people were shot dead, including twenty children, after a gunman identified as Adam Lanza opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)
- Twenty-seven wooden angels are seen from the yard of Eric Mueller December 16, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty-six people were shot dead, including twenty children, after a gunman identified as Adam Lanza opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
- Eric Mueller places twenty-seven wooden angels he made in his yard down the street from the Sandy Hook School on December 16, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty-six people were shot dead, including twenty children, after a gunman identified as Adam Lanza opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
- Students read Koranic verses at a madrasa, or Koranic school, in Dhusamareeb, central Somalia, December 16, 2012. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)
- Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano spews large clouds of gas and ash near Banos, south of Quito, December 16, 2012. (Carlos Campana/Reuters)
- A man holds a dummy depicting a health worker amid other health workers during a demonstration against cuts on public health care and the privatization of medical centers and hospitals on December 16, 2012 in Madrid, Spain. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
- Brazil’s Corinthians supporters celebrate their team’s victory in the 2012 Club World Cup football tournament in Yokohama on December 16, 2012. Copa Libertadores Champion Corinthians beat UEFA Champion Chelsea FC 1-0. (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Cypriot worker stands among pigs in their enclosure at a farm in the UN-controlled buffer zone that slices through the island of Cyprus near the village of Mammari on December 8, 2012. The buffer zone, which partitions the island into the area controlled by the government of Cyprus in the south and the Turkish-occupied north, is not so deserted any more: it’s full of pigs and farmers and, thanks to de-mining and EU membership, a rebirth is under way. (Florian Choblet/AFP/Getty Images)
- Yuri Baikov, 64, feeds livestock on his farm in a forest near the village of Yukhovichi, some 187 miles, northeast of Minsk, December 15, 2012. Yuri and his wife Tamara settled in the forest about 20 years ago after the collapse of the Soviet Union to live in solitary and to start their own business in agriculture and cattle breeding. They started out in a temporary hut in hopes of building a house and a business in the remote Belarussian site, just hundreds of meters from the border with Russia. But 20 years later, they continue to live in the hut without basic amenities like electricity as their business has not thrived under unimproved economic conditions. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)
- Palestinians dressed up as Santa Claus take part in a parade ahead of Christmas near Jerusalem’s Old City December 16, 2012. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
- People gather around a rickshaw damaged during a rocket attack on Saturday night near a boundary wall of Peshawar’s airport December 16, 2012. Four people were killed when militants attacked the airport in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday and traded gunfire with soldiers for more than 30 minutes before being repulsed, military and health officials said. (Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)
- Germany’s Andreas Wellinger soars through the air to place second ex-aequo in the FIS World Cup competition on December 16, 2012 in Engelberg, central Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
- Runners take part in The Colour Run 5 Km event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 16, 2012. The Colour Run, much about fun than run, is held in many cities across the world. (Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images)
- A woman lies on an operating table during a brain surgery at the National Neurology Institute in Budapest December 15, 2012. The complex operation, called deep brain stimulation (DBS) and involves stimulation of certain areas of the human brain with high-frequency electricity, is carried out with the patient awake and communicating with the doctors during certain phases of the operation. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)
- A woman checks an electoral roll before casting her vote at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela during state elections on December 16, 2012. (Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images
- Three men dressed up as nuns kiss each other during a demonstration for the legalization of gay marriage and LGBT parenting, in Paris on December 16, 2012. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images)
- This photo taken on December 11, 2012 shows a family on a motorcycle riding past destroyed coconut trees in Cateel in Davao Oriental province after Typhoon Bopha hit the province on December 4. The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has topped 1,000 and could still rise sharply, the government said on December 16, 2012. (Ted Aljibet/AFP/Getty Images)