Jan 16, 2013

Jan. 16 Photo Brief: Grounded Dreamliner, sniper in Syria, tunnel vision in Amsterdam, Sheen in green, Sun City seniors

Grounded Dreamliners in Japan, a sniper in Syria, Tunnel vision in Amsterdam, Sheen in green, Sun City seniors and more in today’s daily brief.

: Snow covered containers create a pattern in the port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Most of Holland is covered by a thick white layer after one night of snow. (Robin Utrecht/Getty Images)

: The jacket of promoter Don King before he introduces Bernard HopkinsTwo-Division World Champion and Oldest Fighter In Boxing History To Win A World Championship and to officially announce his title bout against IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Tavoris Cloud during a press conference at the Barclays Center. Hopkins will attempt to break his own record as the oldest fighter in history to win a world championship when he faces the undefeated Cloud on March 9 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn live on HBO World Championship Boxing. (Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images)

: An Afghan truck driver is seen through the broken windshield of his vehicle at the site of a suicide attack near the Afghan intelligence agency headquarters in Kabul. A squad of suicide bombers attacked the national intelligence agency headquarters in heavily-fortified central Kabul on January 16, killing at least two guards and wounding dozens of civilians, officials said. (Shah Marai/Getty Images)

: A wounded Afghan boy is seen with blood on his face at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabu. A car bomb exploded in front of the gates of the Afghan intelligence agency on Wednesday, Reuters witnesses said, near heavily barricaded government buildings and Western embassies. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)

: Slovenia’s Tina Maze competes during first round of the women’s night slalom ski race as part of the 2013 FIS Ski World Cup, in Flachau. (Alexander Klein/Getty Images)

: Christof Innerhofer of Italy takes the start of the Men’s World Cup Downhill training in Wengen. (Olivier Morin/Getty Images)

: German Armin Kremer drives a Subaru Impresa in Col de la Fayolle, southeastern France, during the stage of the Monte-Carlo Rally between Le Moulinon and Antraigues. (Jean Pierre ClatotJ/Getty Images)

: Models display fashion of the label “Frida Weyer” during the Autumn/Winter 2013/2014 shows of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin. The fashion week is running from January 15 to 18, 2013. (Barbara Sax/Getty Images)

: A worker stands in the tunnel of the North-South subway line in Amsterdam. The new ‘Line 52’ was due for completion by 2012, but the project was reportedly delayed because of financial and structural reasons. Completion of Line 52 is now scheduled for 2017. The line will offer more direct journey possibilities as well as connections with Amsterdam Central Station. (Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/Getty Images)

: Fire is seen from a helicopter crash in central London. Two people were killed when a helicopter hit a crane at a building site in central London during morning rush hour and plunged to the ground, engulfing several cars in flames. (Victor Jimenez/Getty Images)

: A policewoman looks at a damaged crane that was hit by a helicopter following the crash in central London. Two people were killed after a helicopter hit a crane at a building site and plunged to the ground in a ball of flames, police said. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

: Passengers walk away from All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner plane which made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport, western Japan, as seen in this photo taken by a passenger and distributed by Japan’s Kyodo. A Boeing 787 operated by All Nippon Airways Co made an emergency landing in Takamatsu in western Japan after smoke appeared in the plane’s cockpit, but all 137 passengers and crew members were evacuated safely, the Osaka Airport said on Wednesday. (Kyodo)

: Villagers try to control a bull during a bull-taming festival on the outskirts of Madurai town, about 500 km (310 miles) from the southern Indian city of Chennai. The annual festival is part of south India’s harvest festival of Pongal. (Babu/Reuters)

: A member of the female punk band “Pussy Riot” Maria Alyokhina looks out from a defendants’ box during a court hearing in Berezniki in Perm region, near the Ural mountains. According to local media, the Berezniki City Court is expected to hear her motion to postpone carrying out the rest of her sentence because of her young child at home, local media reported. Alyokhina is serving a sentence for staging an anti-Kremlin protest on the altar of Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox church. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter fires a sniper rifle at Syrian Army check point in Haresta neighborhood of Damascus. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter runs for cover at a suburb of Damascus. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) high fives children who wrote him letters about guns and gun control before sitting down to sign executive orders on a series of proposals to counter gun violence during an event at the White House in Washington. Vice President Joe Biden delivered his recommendations to Obama after holding a series of meetings with representatives from the weapons and entertainment industries as requested by the president after the December 14 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and six adults were killed. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

: Retirees participate in a yoga class in Sun City, Arizona. Sun City was built in 1959 by entrepreneur Del Webb as America’s first active retirement community for the over-55’s. Del Webb predicted that retirees would flock to a community where they were given more than just a house with a rocking chair in which to sit and wait to die. Today’s residents keep their minds and bodies active by socializing at over 120 clubs with activities such as square dancing, ceramics, roller skating, computers, cheerleading, racquetball and yoga. There are 38,500 residents in the community with an average age 72.4 years. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)