Feb. 10 Photo Brief: Carnival parades, Lunar New Year, Kumbh Mela festival, satellite image of snow
Carnival parades, Lunar New Year, Kumbh Mela festival, satellite image of snow and more in today’s daily brief. | Warning: Photos may depict injury or death.
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- Dancers perform a fire dragon dance in the shower of molten iron spewing firework-like sparks during a folk art performance to celebrate traditional Chinese Spring Festival at an amusement park in Beijing February 10, 2013. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begun on February 10 and marked the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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- Hindu devotees cross the river Ganges on pontoon bridges after bathing in the waters at Sangam – the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers – after the second “Shahi Snan” (grand bath), during the ongoing “Kumbh Mela” or Pitcher Festival in the northern Indian city of Allahabad February 10, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims take a bracing plunge in India’s sacred Ganges river to wash away lifetimes of sins, in a an ever-growing religious gathering that is already the world’s largest. (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)
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- Devotees take a holy dip in the waters of Sangam or confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges and mythical Sarawati rivers on the auspicious day of ‘Mauni Amavasya’ during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad on February 10, 2013. Tens of millions of Hindus gathered Sunday for a holy bath in India’s sacred river Ganges on the most auspicious day of the world’s largest religious festival.Ash-smeared naked saints led the ritual bathing before dawn — which is said to cleanse pilgrims of their sins — with millions following them into the swirling river waters at the festival site in Allahabad in northern India. (Manan Vatsyana/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man denounces the police as the cause of the stampede that killed one of his relative at the main railway station serving India’s giant Kumbh Mela festival, in Allahabad on February 10, 2013. At least 10 people died in the stampede and dozens more were injured in the crush. Some local television channels put the death toll as high as 20. Local officials said that the railings on a bridge at Allahabad station had given way under the pressure of the mass of people, while eyewitnesses told local media that the police had baton-charged the crowd leading to panic. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Supporters of the Islah Party carry the Yemen national flag a day before celebrations to mark the second anniversary against the rule of Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the village Hamedan, outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa, February 10, 2013. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi?Reuters)
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- French soldiers explode land mines at the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up on February 10, 2013 in northern Gao on the road to Gourem. Fighting between Islamists rebels and Malian soldiers broke out in the center of Gao, the largest city in northern Mali, recently taken over by the French military and Malian armed Islamist groups, hit by two suicide bombings in two days. (Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This February 10, 2013 NASA Terra satellite image, shows snow covering the northeastern US. The US northeast slowly dug out early Sunday from a mammoth blizzard that choked air, road and rail travel, left some 650,000 homes and businesses without power and caused at least seven deaths. The storm, which hit New York and other areas still scarred by Superstorm Sandy back in October, dumped as much as three feet of snow across New England, with hurricane-strength gusts helping to create massive drifts. New York and Long Island can be seen in the lower half of the image. (NASA HO via AFP/Getty Images)
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- Devotees offer prayers while taking a holy bath at the Bagmati River at Pashupatinath Temple during the Swasthani Bratakatha festival in Kathmandu February 10, 2013. The month-long festival dedicated to Goddess Swasthani, involves the recitation of folk tales about miraculous feats performed by her in almost every Hindu household. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- Carnival revellers dressed as “Peliqueiros” run through a street in Spain’s northwestern village of Laza February 10, 2013. “Peliqueiros” or ancient tax collectors, pursued villagers through the streets ringing their cowbells and hitting villagers with their sticks. (Miguel Vidal/Reuters)
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- Members of a rival team collect oranges in the middle of the square during an annual carnival battle in the northern Italian town of Ivrea February 10, 2013. Dressed up as Middle Age kings’ guards, a group of men ride in a horse-drawn carriage and pelt ‘foot soldiers’ with oranges as thousands of people gather to re-enact a Middle Age battle when the townsfolk of Ivrea overthrew an evil king. In a strange twist, instead of swords and cross bows, these days the weapons of choice are oranges. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
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- Hungarians wear masks during the traditional Buso Carnival in Mohacs, southern Hungary February 10, 2013. At the Buso Carnival, which lasts for six days, locals bury the winter and party before the start of lent. According to legend the masks helped locals scare away the Turks in the 16th century. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
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- Burkina Faso’s national football team supporters play drums ahead of the kick off of the 2013 African Cup of Nations final football match between Burkina Faso and Nigeria on February 10, 2013 at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. (Francisco Leong/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A reveler of Mocidade Alegre samba school performs during the second night of Carnival parades at the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo on February 10, 2013. (Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Revelers participate in the traditional Bloco da Lama (Mud block) carnival in Parati, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, on February 9, 2013. The event, which was begun by two men in a playful manner in 1986, has now become a traditional carnival in which participants disguised as primitives with rags, lianas or skulls and bones, dive in the mud. (Victor Moriyamav/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A reveler participates in the traditional Bloco da Lama (Mud block) carnival in Parati, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, on February 9, 2013. The event, which was begun by two men in a playful manner in 1986, has now become a traditional carnival in which participants disguised as primitives with rags, lianas or skulls and bones, dive in the mud. (Victor Moriyamav/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Nigel Balcombe poses with his rear garden filled with gnomes and other ornaments in Ashford, south east England February 10, 2013. Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it will overturn a ban on garden gnomes, for one season only, at the 100th anniversary of its Chelsea Flower Show in the summer of 2013. The RHS is inviting celebrities to paint and decorate gnomes to be auctioned off to raise funds for its nationwide RHS Campaign for School Gardening. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
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- Participants compete during the Nordic Transjurassienne skiing race on February 10, 2013 in Lamoura, eastern France. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A young man lays in the snow as he takes part in the European Sauna Marathon in Otepaeae, southern Estonia, on February 10, 2013. Around 600 participants in 150 teams compete in the event to find out which team takes the shortest time to use 22 saunas and to jump into nine ice holes. (Raigo Pajula/AFP/Getty Images)
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