Jan. 10 Photo Brief: Whales trapped under Canadian ice, dog sled races in Poland and orthodox snowman in Israel
Killer whales trapped under Canadian ice, Border Rush dog races along the Czech-Poland border, a Jewish boy makes an orthodox snowman next to the Western Wall in Jerusalem and and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Venus Williams of the U.S. serves during a practice session at Melbourne Park ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament which begins on Monday. (Toby Melville/Reuters photo)
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- A racer and his sleddogs take part in the Border Rush Race in The Giant Mountains National Park, in Jakuszyce. Border Rush is an international sleddog race run which starts in Jakuszyce in the Czech-Poland border region. (Pawel Sosnowski/Reuters photo)
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- Men play with snow after a heavy snowstorm in Amman citadel. Snowstorms and heavy rain have caused the closure of main streets in the capital Amman and other cities over the past two days. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters photo)
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- A child looks on at a temporary shelter beside Jakarta-Merak toll road as the flood hits her house at Undar-Andir village near Serang, in Indonesia’s Banten province. Floodwaters inundated at least 1,850 houses across 33 districts in Banten province since Tuesday, killing three residents, local media reported. (Beawiharta/Reuters photo)
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- Visitors cast their shadows on a painting by Spanish artist Javier Perez during the inauguration of the Panorama Tower at the Friche Belle de Mai culture centre in Marseille as part of the “Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture 2013” event which will start on January 12. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters photo)
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- Members of the Kurdish community shout slogans as they gather in front of the entrance of the Information Centre of Kurdistan in Paris, where three Kurdish women were found shot dead. Three female Kurdish activists including a founding member of the PKK rebel group were shot dead in Paris overnight in execution-style killings condemned by Turkish politicians trying to broker a peace deal. (Christian Hartmann?Reuters photo)
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- Three killer whales surface through a breathing hole in the ice of Hudson Bay near the community of Inukjuak, Quebec. The three whales are part of a pod of several that are trapped in the sea ice of the Hudson Bay. The whales are taking turns breathing through a hole in the ice about the size of a pickup truck. (Maggie Okituk/Reuters)
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- Passengers arrive at Canary Wharf underground station in London. Britain’s capital began year-long celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the world’s oldest underground passenger railway on Wednesday with reams of newsprint and plans for exhibitions, books, poetry and a commemorative steam train ride. (Olivia Harris/Reuters photo)
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- Mini’s driver Nani Joan Roma of Spain is stuck in the sand during the Stage 6 of the Dakar 2013 between Arica and Calama, Chile. The rally takes place in Peru, Argentina and Chile from January 5 to 20. A(Franck Fife/Getty Images)
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- A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gathers with others outside Miraflores presidential palace during an event in homage of Chavez, in Caracas. With Chavez ailing and absent, Venezuela’s leftist government launches a new presidential term with a display of popular support on the day he was to be inaugurated. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)
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- Members of the South African Police Services retreat from a group of rock-throwing striking farmworkers during violent clashes in de Doorns, a small farming town about 140Km North of Cape Town, South Africa. The farm workers have said that they they will not return to work on the fruit growing region’s farms until they receive a daily wage of at least R150($17) per day, which is about double what they currently earn. (Rodger Bosch/Getty Images)
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- Two lions are pictured at the zoo in Duisburg, western Germany. (Roland Weihrauch/Getty Images)
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- Sri Lanka Special Task Force (STF) soldiers stand guard during a lawyers’ protest against government moves to impeach the country’s Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake in the capital Colombo on (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/Getty Images)
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- An Indian woman uses a handpump to during a dense fog along the India-Pakistan border in Suchit-Garh, 36 kms southwest of Jammu. The beheading of an Indian soldier may have sparked a war of words between Delhi and Islamabad but the two nuclear rivals are both determined to prevent it from wrecking a fragile peace process. (Tauseef Mustafa/Getty Images)
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- View of the arrival of Argentina’s frigate Libertad in Mar del Plata, 400km south of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Libertad had been detained for two months in Ghana due to a debt the Argentine government holds with a financial fund since they defaulted during an economic crisis in 2001. (Leo La Valle/Getty Images)
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- An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy builds a snow man at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. Snow and strong winds have affected regions across the Middle East. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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