Feb. 6 Photo Brief: New Sadhus, painted faces, Super-G skiing, Qatar cycling, the Diamond Jubilee is over
A 41-gun salute marks the end of the Diamond Jubilee and the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s 61st year on the throne, green tomatoes, new Sadhus, painted faces, Super-G skiing, Qatar cycling and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Newly initiated ‘naga sadhus’ prepare to perform rituals on the banks of the Ganga River during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad. During every Kumbh Mela, the diksha – ritual of initiation by a guru – program for new members takes place. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)
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- A football fan’s face is painted with the flags of England and Brazil before the international friendly soccer match at Wembley stadium in London. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
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- A model sticks out her tongue while posing with a creation from the Degen Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)
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- A man, with his face painted as a mime, takes part in a block street parade against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, ahead of the annual Brazilian Carnival, in Sao Paulo. The annual Brazilian Carnival starts Friday. (Nacho Doce/Reuters)
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- The King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery fire a 41-gun salute in Green Park in London, England. The salute was to mark the 61st anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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- A student activist puts black scarves on the eyes of Shoparjito Shadhinota, a sculpture that represented all sections of people in Bangladesh’s liberation War in 1971, demanding capital punishment for Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami senior leader Abdul Quader Mollah, after a war crimes tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment, in the campus of University of Dhaka. The war crimes tribunal sentenced Quader Mollah, 64, to life in prison on Tuesday, the second verdict in trials that have reopened wounds about the country’s independence war and sparked riots. He was found guilty of charges including murder, rape, torture and arson during Bangladesh’s war to break away from Pakistan in 1971. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
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- US Ted Ligety competes during the men’s Super-G event of the 2013 Ski World Championships in Schladming, Austria. (Olivier Morin/Getty Images)
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- Kjetil Jansrud of Norway falls during the men’s Super G race at the World Alpine Skiing Championships in Schladming February 6, 2013. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters)
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- Gao Yinyu, 77, does his morning exercise before swimming in Songhua river in Jilin, Jilin province. Gao said he exercises everyday irrespective of the weather to keep himself fit since he retired as a teacher a few years ago. (Reuters)
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- The peloton makes its’ way through the Qatar desert on stage four of the Tour of Qatar from Camel Race Track to Al Khor Cornichenear Camel Race Track, Qatar. (Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)
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- Members of The Flying Bulls aerobatics team from the Czech Republic fly in formation in their Zlin Z-50 aircraft during Aero India 2013 at the Yelahanka Air Force station in Bangalore. India, the world’s leading importer of weaponry, opened one of Asia’s biggest aviation trade shows Wednesday with Western suppliers eyeing lucrative deals and a Chinese delegation attending for the first time. (Manjunath Kiran/Getty Images)
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- REI Chief Executive Officer Sally Jewell (C) is congratulated by outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar after she was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next Secretary of the Interior in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Jewell has been CEO of the huge outdoor retailer REI since 2005. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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- Newly recruited female marines take their lunch with fellow soldiers after undergoing drills inside the marine headquarters in the town of Ternate, Cavite city, south of Manila. There are an estimated 350 women combatants in the 10,000-member Philippine marines who go through the same rigid physical and mental training as their men counterparts. Since 2006, female marine officers of the Marine Corps have been performing in the field of assault armor, field artillery, airborne and other combat duties, a marine officer said. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
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- People reach out reach out for a bag of oranges during a free distribution of fruit and vegetables by Greek farmers outside the Agriculture Ministry in Athens part a farmers protest against high production costs, including petrol. Farmers distributed more than 50 tons of fruit and vegetables. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Getty Images)
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- People reach out to take fruits and vegetables freely distributed by farmers during a protest against high production costs outside the Agriculture Ministry in Athens. (John Kolesidis/Reuters)
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- Workers fill a trailer with tomatoes as they harvest them in the fields of DiMare Farms in Florida City, Florida. The United States government and Mexico reached a tentative agreement that would go into effect around March 4th, on cross-border trade in tomatoes, providing help for the Florida growers who said the Mexican tomato growers were dumping their product on the U.S. markets. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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- People sleep on their seats on the train from Guangzhou to Changchun to go back home for the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival. Passengers will log 220 million train rides during the 40-day travel season as they criss-cross the country to celebrate with their families, but just as making the trip home can be laborious — often lasting one or two days — so can simply acquiring a seat on the train, and every year complaints arise about the inefficiency or unfairness of the system, although an initiative allowing travelers to purchase tickets online aims to curb long queuing times. (Getty Images)
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- Indonesian people wade through a flooded main street in Jakarta. Heavy downpour caused floods on the streets even though Indonesian authorities used generators and cloud-seeding measures to defuse and push away rain-laden clouds. The rainy season is expected to last until March. (Adek Berry/Getty Images)
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- People walk past the Pakistan Monument at sunset in Islamabad. The monument, inaugurated in 2007, was built to represent the culture and civilization of the country and depicts the story of the Pakistan Movement, dedicated to those who sacrificed themselves for future generations. The four main petals of the monument represent the four provinces, while the three smaller petals represent the three territories. (Mian Khursheed/Reuters)
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- Spanish frigate crew members salute during the decommissioning ceremony of the aircraft carrier Principe Asturias, in Rota, southern Spain. The Spanish navy will decommission the Principe Asturias as modernizing the ship which has been in service since 1988 was considered too expensive. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)
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- A member of the Free Syrian Army points his weapon through a hole in a wall as he takes up a defense position in Daraya. (Fadi Al-Derani/Reuters)
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- A riot police officer faces off with protesters during a demonstration in Tunis. Tunisian police fired teargas to disperse protesters demonstrating in the capital outside the Interior Ministry against the killing of a prominent secular opposition politician on Wednesday, witnesses said. (Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters)
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