Jan. 25 Photo Brief: Murray beats Federer, a hair from Prophet Mohammad’s beard, Egyptians violently mark revolution two years ago
Andy Murray defeats Roger Federer at the Australian Open tennis tournament, protesters mark the second anniversary of the January 25th revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Kashmiri Muslims celebrate Eid-e-Mila, or the Prophet Mohammad’s birthday, by observing a relic believed to be a hair from the Prophet’s beard and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A cyclist rides along Marginal Pinheiros during the World Bike Tour in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The event involves 8,000 people that will ride their bicycles for a better quality of life, according to the organizers. The words on the box reads ‘Yellow Man with his Yellow Bike.’ (Nacho Doce/Reuters)
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- A medical student takes part in carnival to mark Students Day in the southern Russian city of Stavropol. Russia’s students celebrated today their birthday (the 258th anniversary of the Moscow University’s foundation), known as Students Day or Tatiana’s Day, which is coincides with the Day of Saint Martyr Tatiana, the patroness of all Russian students. (Danil Semyonov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Anti-abortion protestor Sharon Turner from Sun Lakes, Arizona, prays before the March for Life in Washington, DC. The pro-life gathering is held each year around the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
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- Chinese painter Yang Fei Yun works on the painting, a copy of Velazquez’s paiting ‘Portrait of Felipe IV’ at the Prado Museum in Madrid. Chinese artists from the state academy and the China Academy of Art are due to make first-hand copies of some of the jewels of European oil painting and take them back to China to use for teaching. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Workers prepare to attempt to set a 950-tonne bucket excavator upright following an accident at an open-pit coal mine near Deutzen, Germany. The bucket excavator tipped ove last summer after the ground underneath gave way on one side and has been lying on its side ever since at the Vereinigtes Schleenhain mine, which is operated by Mibrag. Open-pit lignite coal mines are still common across eastern Germany and produce coal for local electricity production (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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- Protesters look out from a university branch gate at other protesters who have gathered near a main square to mark the second anniversary of the 25th January revolution in Alexandria, Egypt. (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)
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- Protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi cover themselves during clashes as they throw stones at riot police along Sheikh Rihan street near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Hundreds of youths fought Egyptian police in Cairo on Friday on the second anniversary of the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak and brought the election of an Islamist president who protesters accuse of riding roughshod over the new democracy. Opponents of Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood allies began massing in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to revive the demands of a revolution they say has been betrayed by Islamists. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
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- People look at a 18 meter long deceased whale which was discovered on the beach early this morning in Les Sables d’Olonne, western France. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters)
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- Ultra-Orthodox Jewish visitors look at a display of Nazi flags at Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance day which will be marked on January 27. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
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- Kashmiri Muslims raise their arms upon seeing a relic of Prophet Mohammad being displayed to devotees during the festival of Eid-e-Milad at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims on Friday thronged to the shrine of Hazratbal, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammad, to celebrate Eid-e-Milad or the Prophet’s birth anniversary. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)
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- A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays on a cold winter morning during the festival of Eid-e-Milad at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims on Friday thronged to the shrine of Hazratbal, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammad, to celebrate Eid-e-Milad or the Prophet’s birth anniversary. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)
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- A person walks past a giant figure of famous Lucha Libre wrestler El Santo in Mazatlan January 24, 2013. The municipality set up eight giant figures made by Mexican artist Jorge Gonzalez Neri for the upcoming carnival celebrations. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- Women share a kiss during a protest near the Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament, in Moscow. Russia’s parliament is due to hold its first reading on a “homosexual propaganda” law on Friday, which was earlier postponed. Russian lawmakers may adopt the bill that bans promotion of homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender practices among minors and imposes large administrative fines for spreading propaganda of this kind during concerts in particular, according to local media. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
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- An unexploded mortar shell fired by Syrian Army is seen in Mleha suburb of Damascus. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
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- A boy sits as he waits to visit his relatives from Syria, with his family outside Al-Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. The United Nations on Friday urged Syria’s neighbours to keep open their borders to civilians fleeing the intensifying conflict and said that the refugee exodus into Jordan was ‘absolutely dramatic.’ More than 30,000 Syrians have arrived in Jordan’s main Zaatri camp this year, including 4,400 on Thursday and another 2,000 overnight, it said. Most were fleeing fighting in the southern area of Deraa, food and fuel shortages and high prices. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)
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- Roger Federer of Switzerland hits a return to Andy Murray of Britain during their men’s singles semi-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. (David Gray/Reuters)
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- Andy Murray of Britain hits a return to Roger Federer of Switzerland during their men’s singles semi-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. (David Gray/Reuters)
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- Andy Murray of Britain plays a shot to Roger Federer of Switzerland during their men’s singles semi-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. (Mark Kolbe/Pool/Reuters)
Murray beats Federer to set up Djokovic final
Greg Stutchbury | Reuters
8:24 a.m. EST, January 25, 2013
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Andy Murray set up an enthralling Australian Open final against world number one Novak Djokovic after a high-quality victory against Roger Federer on Friday.
The 25-year-old Briton, who had never beaten Federer in a grand slam previously despite being one of the few players to hold a superior career record against the Swiss, advanced to the final with a 6-4 6-7 6-3 6-7 6-2 win in four hours.
Murray had looked the more likely to win the match from the outset with a superior service game and aggressive shotmaking, but the 17-times grand slam winner proved he was still a force to be reckoned with by forcing a fifth set.
The U.S. Open champion, however, got off to a storming start in the fifth, racing out to a 3-0 lead and after being two points from the match in the fourth set was not prepared to let the opportunity slip again.
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