Dec. 4 Photo Brief: Jingle Ball stars,Typhoon Bopha, pet alligators and orphaned tiger cubs
Psy, Flo Rida, Ke$ha and Justin Bieber perform at KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball concert in LA, deadly Typhoon Bopha destroys homes in the Philippines, a Swiss Shepherd dog in a Russian zoo adopts three abandoned tiger cubs and more in today’s daily brief.
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- South Korean rapper Psy performs at KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball concert in Los Angeles, California December 3, 2012. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
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- Rapper Flo Rida performs onstage during KIIS FM’s 2012 Jingle Ball at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on December 3, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Clear Channel)
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- Kesha performs at KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball concert in Los Angeles, California December 3, 2012. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
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- Singer Justin Bieber performs onstage during KIIS FM’s 2012 Jingle Ball at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on December 3, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Clear Channel)
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- A Thai customs official shows ivory seized by the customs office through this year at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
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- A woman asks a protester if he feels the cold during a demonstration against social services cuts, in front of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Members of the Berri-Otxoak collective marched on Tuesday from the Lanbide job centre to the museum dressed in oversized underclothes carrying signs reading ‘Lanbide Robs Us, Abuses Us’ and ‘No to Social Cuts.’ (Vincent West/Reuters)
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- A dog, covered with hoarfrost and snow, looks on during a snowfall outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- Supporters wait in Nairobi for Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and Trade Minister Moses Wetangula after they announced a powerful alliance as running mates in presidential elections due in March 2013. The former rivals along with leaders of 10 other smaller parties, signed an agreement in front of thousands of supporters to form the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) party. Odinga is widely tipped to be the presidential candidate with Musyoka as his deputy, although no formal announcement was made. (Tony Karumbra/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A boy rides on a makeshift raft made from banana tree as he makes his way through their flooded home after heavy rans and strong winds brought about by Typhoon Bophal hit Pantukan town, Compostela Valley province in southern island of Mindanao. Typhoon Bopha smashed into the southern Philippines early December 4, as more than 40,000 people crammed into shelters to escape the onslaught of the strongest cyclone to hit the country this year. (STR/AFP/Getty Images
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- Banana trees destroyed by Typhoon Bopha are seen at a plantation in Compostela town, Compostela Valley province, in southern island of Mindanao. Typhoon Bopha killed 43 people in one hard-hit Philippine town December 4, local television station ABS-CBN reported from the scene. (Karlos Manlupig/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Residents walk amongst their destroyed houses after Typhoon Bopha hit Compostela town, Compostela Valley province, in southern Philippine island of Mindanao. (Karlos Manlupig/AFP/Getty Images
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- One of the three tiger cubs orphaned by Swiss Shepherd dog, Talli, rests near Talli’s own cubs in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Three little tigers, two male and one female cubs, were born last month in the Oktyabrsky Zoo in Sochi but abandoned by their birth mother, tigress Bagira. (Mikhail Mordasov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- One of the three tiger cubs orphaned by a Swiss Shepherd dog, rests at home of Natalia Stepanova, a veterinarian of the Oktyabrsky Zoo, in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. (Mikhail Mordasov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian girl looks at a soccer stadium, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike during an eight-day conflict, in Gaza City. Eight days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza and cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks ended in an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement last month, calling on Israel to ease restrictions on the territory. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
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- Palestinian children with special needs walk past buildings destroyed during the Gaza-Israeli conflict during a demonstration on the occasion of the UN International Day of People with Disability in Gaza City. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Farmers from the Brazilian northeast carry out a demonstration holding cattle skulls in front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia. The protesters demand the cancellation of their debts and help from the government to alleviate the effects of the drought that rages over the region this year. (Pedro Ladeira/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Afghan amputee waits for the doctor at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hospital for war victims and the disabled in Mazar-i Sharif. The ICRC Orthopaedic Project, which began in 1988 in Kabul, now has seven centres in various Afghan provinces. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Internally displaced Afghan children play inside a mud shelter at a makeshift camp as winter approaches in Kabul. The country has nearly half a million displaced people, many living in primitive camps where the cold weather will mean uncertainty for some. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Orazio Martino poses with his 23-year-old Mississippi alligator Blacky in his private a basin at his house in Dietzenbach, center Germany. With his private zoo and its exotic shows, the former pizza chef is known throughout Germany. (Frank Rumpenhorst/AFP/Getty Images
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- A visitor looks at artist Amy Cheung’s full size wooden ‘Toy Tank’ at the ‘Hong Kong Eye’ exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London, England. The Hong Kong Eye Presented by Prudential is the first major international showcase of contemporary art from the city anywhere in the world and runs from December 5, 2012 to January 12, 2013. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for the Saatchi Gallery)
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- A man wearing a Prince William, Duke of Cambridge mask is escorted away by a police officer from the King Edward VII Private Hospital in London, England. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge spent her first night in the hospital after yesterday’s announement of her pregnancy and the fact she was suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum or acute morning sickness. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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- Australian players warm up before the match between the Australia and Pakistan during day three of the Champions Trophy at State Netball Hockey Centre in Melbourne, Australia. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
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