Jan. 9 Photo Brief: Ferry crash in New York, Storms dump rain and snow on the Middle East, Black Nazarene, Carnival masks, Animals keeping cool in Rio
Fifty-seven injured in New York ferry crash, Lebanon gets snow while Gaza and Israel deal with flooding, the Black Nazarene is celebrated in Manila, Brazil prepares for Carnival, Animals keeping cool in Rio and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A Brown bear (Ursus arctos) eats watermelon whilst cooling itself down in a pool at the zoo in Rio de Janeiro. (Vanderlei Almeida/Getty Images)
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- A Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) cools itself down in a pool at the zoo in Rio de Janeiro. Temperatures hit 40C in the city. (Vanderlei Almeida/Getty Images)
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- A police officer stands on duty at Monkland Cemetery as forensic officers continue to exame a burial plot in Coatbridge, Scotland. Forensic specialists are exhuming remains at a gravesite in search of 11 year old school girl Moira Anderson, who went missing in 1957. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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- Dharamvati (C), wife of Indian soldier Hemraj Singh, weeps outside her house before Singh’s body was brought for cremation in the Mathura district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. India denounced Pakistan on Wednesday over a firefight in the disputed territory of Kashmir in which two Indian soldiers were killed, but the nuclear-armed rivals both appeared determined to prevent the clash escalating into a full diplomatic crisis. (Reuters)
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- Acrobatic aircrafts perform as Argentine navy vessel ARA Libertad arrives at the harbor of the seaside resort of Mar del Plata. The tall sailing ship used for training was detained in Ghana since October 2, 2012 at the request of a hedge fund seeking payment on defaulted government bonds. It was later released and left Ghana on December 19, 2012 for Mar del Plata following a ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea that Ghana should release the ship after Argentina argued that a U.N. Convention on the law gives warships immunity from civil claims when they dock at foreign ports. (Enrique Marcarian/Reuters)
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- People walk on a street during snowfall in Damascus in this handout photograph released by Syria’s national news agency. (SANA/Reuters)
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- Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he appears as a guest on the RAI television show Porta a Porta (Door to Door) in Rome. Berlusconi has little chance of destabilizing a centre-left government after Italy’s February election and outgoing premier Mario Monti is the most likely to become kingmaker, one of Italy’s top experts on voting trends said on Wednesday. (Remo Casilli/Reuters)
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- Classical dancers of the Latvian National Ballet perform during a dress rehearsal of ‘Giselle’ at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. (Christina Quicler/Getty Images)
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- A worker shows masks of Brazilian football star Neymar, the president of the Brazilian Supreme Court Joaquim Barbosa and the mascot of the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup, “Tatu Bola-Fuleco”, at the carnival masks factory Condal, in Sao Goncalo, about 35 km from downtown Rio de Janeiro. Rio’s world famous carnival takes place February 9-12. (Venderlei Almeida/Getty Images)
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- Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah competes during Stage 4 of the Dakar 2013 between Nazca and Arequipa, Peru. (Franck Fife/Getty Images)
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- Russia Nikolaev Eduard jumps with a truck during Stage 4 of the Dakar 2013 between Nazca and Arequipa, Peru. The rally will take place in Peru, Argentina and Chile from January 5 to 20. (Franck Fife/Getty Images)
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- Injured passengers are aided following an early morning ferry accident during rush hour in Lower Manhattan in New York City. About 50 people were injured in the accident, which left a large gash on the front side of the Seastreak ferry at Pier 11. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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- A victim of a commuter ferry crash is cared for by an FDNY EMT on the scene in New York. A commuter ferry crashed into a pier in lower Manhattan early Wednesday, injuring 57 people, one critically, the New York City Police Department said. Passengers lying on stretchers littered the pier near South Street Seaport, attended to by firefighters and rescue workers who rushed to the scene of the 8:43 a.m. (1343 GMT) hard landing. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
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- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg inspects the damage after the commuter ferry slammed into a pier in New York. About 50 people were injured when a rush-hour ferry packed with commuters smashed into a pier in New York City on Wednesday, firefighters said. The accident took place at 8:45 am (1345 GMT) on Pier 11 in the East River in lower Manhattan, not far from Wall Street, the New York Fire Department said. The ferry was arriving from New Jersey. “We are assessing 50 patients on the scene right now. We don’t know what kind of injuries they have,” an NYFD spokeswoman said. (Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images)
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- Buddhist monks release paper lanterns into the sky in Suphan Buri province. The lanterns were released during a traditional pilgrimage to pay homage to Lord Buddha and bless Thailand as it enters the new year. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
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- A Buddhist monk prays as he looks at paper lanterns released into the sky in Suphan Buri province. The lanterns were released during a traditional pilgrimage to pay homage to Lord Buddha and bless Thailand as it enters the new year. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
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- A group of men perform physical exercise training as sun set at Galle Face green in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
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- Syrian refugee children peer from a tent supplied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in al-Marj, in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley as stormy weather sparked widespread flooding, prompting chaos on the roads and a nationwide school closure. The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is already totaling 156,000, according to UN figures, and 200,000 according to the Lebanese government estimates. (Hassan Jarah/Getty Images)
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- Children play with snow in Aley area, eastern Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir /Reuters)
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- Israeli men look at the damaged cars in Beit Hefer near the Meditrranean coastal city of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv after heavy rains overnight. Israel and the Palestinian territories have been lashed by heavy rain and high winds since January 6, which has caused flooding across the region. (Jack Guez/Getty Images)
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- A man walks through rain water in the village of Qabatiya, in the Israeli occupied West Bank near the northern city of Jenin as rain storms and snow engulfs the Levant. (Saif Dahlah/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian man uses his donkey cart to transport people across a flooded street in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip. A storm has hit the eastern Mediterranean coast and heavy rains with flooding are forecast in Israel and the Palestinian territories for the next couple of days, with a good chance of snow falling in the higher elevations. (Said Khatib/Getty Images)
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- South Korean special warfare forces take part in a winter season drill in Pyeongchang, about 180 km east of Seoul. The Korean peninsula is the world’s last Cold War frontier as Stalinst North Korea and pro-Western South Korea have been technically at war since the 1950-53 conflict. (Dong-A Ilbo/Getty Images)
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- Afghan boys play on a frozen lake in Kabul. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)
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- A sea of Catholic devotees jostle for position as they try to touch the life-size statue of the Black Nazarene during the annual procession in honor of the centuries-old icon of Jesus Christ in Manila. Masses of Catholic devotees swept through the Philippine capital on January 9, in a spectacular outpouring of passion for a centuries-old icon of Jesus Christ that many believe can perform miracles. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)
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- Devotees carry the statue of the Black Nazarene during the start of an annual procession in Manila. The Black Nazarene, a life-size wooden statue of Jesus Christ carved in Mexico and brought to the Philippines in the 17th century, is believed to have healing powers in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. It is paraded through the narrow streets of Manila’s old city from dawn to midnight. Police said about 500,000 people joined the procession on Wednesday. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
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- A view of sale signs during the annual winter sales, in Nice, southeastern France. (Valery Hache/Getty Images)
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- Trees burn and smoke billows from a fire along the Princes Highway at Deans Gap in the Shoalhaven area in New South Wales. A drop in temperatures helped firefighters battling blazes across Australia on January 9 but up to 30 wildfires were still raging out of control, destroying a handful of homes and forcing people to flee. (NSW Rural Fire Service/Getty Images)
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- The Cameron Crazies taunt K.J. McDaniels #32 of the Clemson Tigers as he prepares to inbound the ball against the Duke Blue Devils during play at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. Duke won 68-40. (Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
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- Webb Simpson hits a tee shot on the second hole during the final round of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at the Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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- Tourists enjoy the view from the Auerberg mountain near Bernbeuren, southern Germany, as sun sets behind an Alps panorama. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/Getty Images)
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