Dec. 18 Photo Brief: Schools reopen in Newtown, Queen Elizabeth joins the Cabinet, fisherman process a dead shark, a swordfish and a whale
Schools reconviene in Newtown, Connecticut as funerals continue for the victims of the December 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II attends a cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street to mark her Diamond Jubilee, Somali fisherman transport large fish on their backs through the streets of Mogadishu and much more in today’s daily brief.
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- Jimmy Fallon and Ewan McGregor perform a skit during a taping of ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ at Rockefeller Center on December 17, 2012 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
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- A priest enters the premises of a temple to offer daily prayers in Lalitpur, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- A girl looks out from the entrance door of a temple as her mother offers daily prayers inside the temple in Lalitpur, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- A fisherman carries a shark on his head and shoulders from the Indian Ocean waters to the market in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Ismail Taxta/Reuters)
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- A fisherman carries a swordfish on his back from the Indian Ocean waters to the market in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. (Ismail Taxta /Reuters)
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- Hindu holy men, also known as ‘Sadhus,’ take part in a procession to attend the ‘Kumbh Mela,’ or Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. During the festival, hundreds of thousands of Hindus take part in a religious gathering at the banks of the river Ganges. The festival is held every 12 years in different Indian cities. (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)
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- Miss Curacao 2012, Monifa Jansen, and Timomatic make their way on stage during rehearsals during rehearsals on Monday, December 17, 2012 at PH Live in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 89 Miss Universe contestants will compete for the Diamond Nexus Crown on the LIVE NBC Telecast of the 2012 Miss Universe Pageant set for 8:00 PM ET on December 19, 2012. (Miss Universe Organization /Matt Brown/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: Miss Univ
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- A chimpanzee reacts after receiving a Christmas basket at Rio de Janeiro’s zoo. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)
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- An orangutan eats salad leaves after receiving a Christmas basket at Rio de Janeiro’s zoo. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)
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- The carcass of a humpback whale is dissected and researched on the island of Texel, The Netherlands. The humpback whale became stranded on December 12 and efforts to save the whale, near the Wadden Sea island of Texel, failed. (Catrinus Van Der Veen/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Easton police officer J. Sollazzo talks to a child coming to school in Newtown, Connecticut. The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26 of their own, will again ring with the sounds of students and teachers on Tuesday as the bucolic Connecticut town struggles to return to normal. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)
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- A child looks out of a bus window as it passes by Saint Rose of Lima Church where the funeral of James Mattioli, 6 is taking place in Newtown, Connecticut. Lawmakers are under mounting pressure to address the issue of gun laws in the aftermath of last week’s school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Members of human rights group, Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), light candles with names of those killed during the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut during a prayer vigil in front of the US Embassy in Manila. Twenty children and six adults were reportedly killed by Adam Lanza, after he entered the school and opened fire. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost), the Russian Santa Claus, meets children to mark the upcoming New Year’s holiday, at Ded Moroz’ residence in Kuzminsky Park in the south-east of Moscow. New Year’s is the biggest holiday of the year in Russia. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth listens to Foreign Secretary William Hague announce that a 169,000-square mile (437,000-square kilometre) section of the British Antarctic Territory has been renamed Queen Elizabeth Land, to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. (Alastair Grant/Reuters)
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- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (C) sits flanked by British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg (R) as members of the Cabinet pose for a family picture at No 10 Downing Street in central London. Queen Elizabeth II attended a British Cabinet meeting on December 18, the first such visit in more than a century, to mark her diamond jubilee. Historically, monarchs used to chair Cabinet meetings but the last one to exercise their right to attend was queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth’s great-great grandmother, who died in 1901.(Pool/ Jeremy Selwyn/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Britain’s Queen Elizabeth walks with Foreign Secretary William Hague, as she leaves after attending a cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street in London. The Queen attended cabinet on Tuesday to mark her Diamond Jubilee, the first monarch to do so since Queen Victoria. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
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- A rescue worker checks blood-stained forms which belong to Nasima Bibi, a female worker of an anti-polio drive campaign who was shot by gunmen, after the papers were brought to the hospital morgue in Karachi. Gunmen shot five health workers on the anti-polio drive in a string of attacks in Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, raising fears for the safety of workers immunizing children against the crippling disease. (Athar Hussain/Reuters)
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- A Pakistani mother mourns beside the body of her daughter, who was killed while on the job as a polio vaccination worker, at a hospital following an attack by gunmen in Karachi. Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers on Tuesday, police said, highlighting resistance to the country’s immunisation campaign. Four were killed in three different incidents in the sprawling port city and the fifth in the northwestern city of Peshawar, on the second day of a nationwide three-day drive against the disease, which is endemic in Pakistan. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A homeless woman drinks free tea in a tent set by the Ukrainian Emergency Ministry during a winter day in the industrial city of Donetsk. Nineteen people died of exposure in Ukraine in the last 24 hours amid temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit), bringing the toll this month to 37, the health ministry said Tuesday. (Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images)
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