Apr 16, 2013

April 16 Photo Brief: Water splashing-festival, Lamborghini patrol car, Margaret Thatcher funeral, fleeing Syria, Nadal fans

Water splashing festival, Lamborghini patrol car, Margaret Thatcher funeral, fleeing Syria, Nadal fans and more in today’s daily brief.

: A supporter of Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles protests in front of riot police in Caracas. Venezuela’s acting President Nicolas Maduro was proclaimed the winner of an election to succeed late leader Hugo Chavez here Monday triggering protests as the opposition demanded a recount. (Leo Ramirez/Getty Images)

: Makuxi Indian children play in the patio of the ruins of a farmhouse built by non-Indian settlers before the demarcation of the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory, in Roraima . A congressional commission visited the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory, Which was demarcated four years ago as an Indian reservation with all non-native farmers and ranchers ordered evicted from the area by the Supreme Court. The commission’s stated purpose was to observe the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision on the productivity of the land and the lives of the Indians and the evicted farmers. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

: Emirati policemen patrol in an especially modified Lamborghini Aventador in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. The introduction of the sports car, which can reach speeds of up to 349 km/h (217 mph), aims to make justice quicker on Dubai’s dangerous highways. (Karim Sahib/Getty Images)

: Pallbearers carry the coffin of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as it arrives to be laid at the Crypt Chapel of St Mary Undercoft in the Houses of Parliament in London to allow lawmakers to pay their last respects to the iron lady on the eve of her ceremonial funeral. As Thatcher requested when she planned her own funeral, her body will remain overnight in a chapel at the Palace of Westminster in central London, where she served for more than half a century in both the lower and upper houses. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

: The coffin of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher rests in the Crypt Chapel of St Mary Undercroft beneath the Houses of Parliament in central London on the eve of her ceremonial funeral. As Thatcher requested when she planned her own funeral, her body will remain overnight in the chapel at the Palace of Westminster in central London, where she served for more than half a century in both the lower and upper houses. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

: Visitors participate in the annual water-splashing festival to mark the New Year of the Dai minority in Xishuang Banna, Yunnan province. Monday marked the beginning of the 1,375th New Year, according to the ethnic Dai minority calendar. (Xishuang Banna/Reuters)

: Visitors participate in the annual water-splashing festival to mark the New Year of the Dai minority in Xishuang Banna, Yunnan province. Monday marked the beginning of the 1,375th New Year, according to the ethnic Dai minority calendar. (Xishuang Banna/Reuters)

: A policeman picks up a water gun which was left on the ground during the annual water-splashing festival to mark the New Year of the Dai minority in Xishuang Banna, Yunnan province . (Xishuang Banna/Reuters)

: French matador Sebastian Castella is gored by a bull during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring in Sevilla. (Cristina Quicler/Getty Images)

: A man throws ducklings into a stove at a duck farm in Zhangzhou, south China’s Fujian province. The duck farm has had to kill more than 400 thousand new born little ducks every week after H7N9 bird flu affected the domestic poultry market. Chinese state media on April 15 urged people to keep eating chicken and help revive the poultry industry, which lost 1.6 billion USD (10 billion yuan) in the week after the H7N9 bird flu virus began infecting humans. (Getty Images)

: An Indian Sikh devotee takes a holy dip in the sarover (water tank) at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. (Narinder Nanu/Getty Images)

: A Syrian boy holds a satellite antenna as he travels on the back of a truck in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. In all, some 1.3 million people have so far fled Syria to neighboring countries since the beginning of the conflict, which has cost well over 70,000 lives. (Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty Images)

: France’s Richard Gasquet returns the ball to his compatriot Benoit Paire during a Monte-Carlo ATP Masters Series Tournament tennis match in Monaco. (Valery Hache/Getty Images)

: Security hold back fans who wait for an autograph by Spain’s Rafael Nadal following a training session during the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

: An employee looks at coils of steel treated by galvanization are stored in the world’s largest steel maker ArcelorMittal’s “cold factory” of the northeastern France plant of Florange. Usibor steel (weight savings and improved crashworthiness) are producted in the cold factory. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/Getty Images)

: A woman poses for a photograph in front of a 3D painting at an exhibition in Guiyang, Guizhou province. (Reuters photo)

: A North Korean soldier looks out of the window of a guard tower, on the banks of Yalu River, about 100 km (62 miles) from the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. North Korea issued new threats against South Korea on Tuesday, vowing “sledge-hammer blows” of retaliation if South Korea did not apologise for anti-North Korean protests the previous day when the North was celebrating the birth of its founding leader. (Jacky Chen/Reuters)