Feb. 8 Photo Brief: Snakes, white tigers, horse meat, freaks and ringtones from the rear
Asia prepares for the Chinese Lunar New Year beginning Feb. 10 with the Year of the Snake, European food manufacturer Findus confirmed that the company’s beef lasagne contained horse meat, a Sri Lankan prisoner gets caught with a mobile phone in his rectum, the Immortal Love Pop-up Experience – Freakshow & Immortalized unleashes in New York City and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Traditional Chinese dancers wait to perform ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Suphan Buri province, about 65.2 miles (105 km) north of Bangkok. The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, begins on February 10 and marks the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)
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- An actress performs with a snake to celebrate the coming lunar new year of China in Hetian, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region February 6, 2013. The lunar new year, or spring festival, falls on February 10. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Activists for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) with their bodies painted like snakeskin pose for a photo during a protest near China town in Manila ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Snake. The activists want tourists and shoppers to know that snakes killed for their skins are often decapitated, beaten to death or even skinned alive and therefore should be left in the jungle. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Chen Yuxiang, 22, lies on bed with a python on his body ahead of the Spring Festival in Wuhan, Hubei province, January 29, 2013. Chen is raising a Burmese python as a pet at his home. The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, begins on February 10 and marks the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac. (Darley Shen/Reuters)
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- Food manufacturer Findus confirmed on Thursday results of tests carried out by Britain’s Food Standards Agency that showed that the company’s beef lasagne contained horse meat. (David Moir/Reuters)
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- A female White tiger (Panthera tigris) named Shilang and her cubs are seen after a medical examination by veterinary surgeons at Bratislava Zoo. The three white tiger cubs, a male named Adzaj and two females Adisa and Asira were presented to the media for the first time on Friday. (Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters)
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- An eight-week-old white tiger (Panthera tigris) cub growls after a medical examination by veterinary surgeons at Bratislava Zoo. (Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters)
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- A staff member arranges skulls at Lombroso Museum in Turin January 28, 2013. Many of the body parts on display in the museum were taken from prisons without any permission from family members. Now hundreds of years later some distant relatives and local communities are saying it is time to get the body parts back. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
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- Skeletons are pictured at Lombroso Museum in Turin January 28, 2013. Many of the body parts on display in the museum were taken from prisons without any permission from family members. Now hundreds of years later some distant relatives and local communities are saying it is time to get the body parts back. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
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- Hindu devotees gather in the shore of the confluence of the Yomuna and the Ganges river at the Sangam in the late afternoon as they wait to be served a free meal organized by an ashram during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad on February 7, 2013. The Kumbh Mela in the town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Bangladeshi man mourns the loss of his relative after a ferry accident in Munshiganj. Scores of people were missing after a ferry carrying around 100 passengers sank following a collision on a river in Bangladesh Friday, the latest in a series of disasters blamed on lax safety standards. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Bangladeshi rescue workers carry the dead body of a drowned passenger after a ferry accident in Munshiganj. Scores of people were missing after a ferry carrying around 100 passengers sank following a collision on a river in Bangladesh Friday, the latest in a series of disasters blamed on lax safety standards. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An acrobat rehearses in a circus in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A mobile phone and a hands free kit are seen in the rectum on an X-ray of a 58 year old Sri Lankan prisoner. The prisoner, who tried to hide his mobile phone during a search of his cell, was caught when guards heard ring tones from his rear-end, a hospital official said. The 58-year-old convict had to be admitted to the national hospital in Colombo where doctors later retrieved the handset from his rectum. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- George Bell and ‘Amazing Ali’ Chapman attend Immortal Love Pop-up Experience – Freakshow & Immortalized on February 7, 2013 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for AMC)
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- Brianna Belladonna performs at Immortal Love Pop-up Experience – Freakshow & Immortalized on February 7, 2013 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for AMC)
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- Marcus ‘The Creature’ attends Immortal Love Pop-up Experience – Freakshow & Immortalized on February 7, 2013 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for AMC)
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