April 19 Photo Brief: Manhunt in Boston, Ramnavmi festival in India and gay rights in France
Much of Boston is on lockdown, gay marriage vote sparks violence in France, Hindus prepare for the festival commemorating the birth Rama and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Ruslan Tsami, second left, an uncle of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, spoke the news media from his home in Maryland. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)
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- Onlookers take pictures as they watch from windows while SWAT team members search for one remaining suspect at a neighboring apartment building in Watertown, Massachusetts. Earlier, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer was shot and killed at the school’s campus in Cambridge. (Mario Tama/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A woman wears a face mask as she walks past a billboard in Beijing. Experts from the UN’s health agency are examining whether the H7N9 bird flu virus is spreading among humans, after a cluster of cases among relatives, but downplayed fears of a pandemic. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Fundraising manager Lauren Vincent poses with four Gromit sculptures, out of around 70 which have been painted by celebrity artists, (L-R) Sir Paul Smith, Cath Kidston, Richard Williams and Simon Tofield, before they are placed around the city for public view as part of charity initiative arts trail in Bristol, England. After being displayed to the public from July 1, the sculptures will be eventually auctioned off to raise funds for the Bristol Children’s Hospital charity, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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- Ixil indigenous people, survivors of Guatemalan civil war, demonstrate outside the Supreme Court where Guatemalan judge Carol Patricia Flores (out frame) announced that she is dropping the genocide trial against former Guatemalan dictator (1982-1983), retired General Jose Efrain Rios Montt (out of frame), due to a pending appeal in Guatemala City on April 18, 2013. The development, blamed on procedural technicalities, will delay public deliberations over events that have divided the country for 30 years. The 86-year-old retired general, who insists he was not aware the army was committing massacres, is accused of ordering the execution of 1,771 members of the Ixil Maya people in the Quiche region during his 1982-1983 regime. (Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Bahraini young girl poses during clashes between protesters and riot police following a protest against the arrival of Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix on April 18, 2013 in the village of Diraz, west of Manama. Bahrain riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters who hurled petrol bombs during protests against the staging of the race. (Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A model presents an outfit by Salinas during the Rio Fashion week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 18, 2013. (Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A pro gay marriage militant holds a placard which reads “stop homophobia” on the sidelines of a demonstration by supporters of the anti-gay marriage movement “La Manif Pour Tous” (Demonstration for all!) on April 18, 2013 in Nantes, western France. The final vote on France’s landmark bill allowing gay marriage has been fast-tracked to next week. The bill has proved hugely controversial in a country that is officially secular but predominantly Catholic, mobilising hundreds of thousands of people for months in pro-and anti same-sex marriage protests nationwide, some violent. (Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The Eiffel Tower is seen in the distance as French riot police stand by during a demonstration by supporters of the anti-gay marriage movement “La Manif Pour Tous” (Demonstration for all!) in Paris on April 18, 2013. The final vote on France’s landmark bill allowing gay marriage has been fast-tracked to next week. The bill has proved hugely controversial in a country that is officially secular but predominantly Catholic, mobilising hundreds of thousands of people for months in pro-and anti same-sex marriage protests nationwide, some violent. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Members of the “Castellers de Villafranca” Human Tower team form a “castell” during a promotional event near to Tower Bridge in central London. The Castellers de Villafranca are in London to promote Catalan culture and will be constructing their human towers, a practice that is entered by UNESCO on the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, in various locations around the capitol. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A devotee dressed up as the Hindu deity Hanuman reacts as he gets ready to take part in a religious procession during Ramnavmi festival in New Delhi. The festival commemorates the birth of Hindu god Rama. (Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters)
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- An Indian devotee performs a fire breathing act as he participates in a procession on the occasion of the Ram Navami Festival in Amritsar. Hindu devotees celebrate the festival of Ram Navami, the birth anniversary of Lord Rama across India, which also marks the end of the nine-day long fasting and Navaratri festival in northern India. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Young Indian Hindu’s are worshipped as ‘Kumari,’ a young unmarried girl, at the Adyapeath Ashram on the outskirts of Kolkata. Kumari Puja, a tradition of worshipping young girls as manifestations of the divine female energy, is a part of the annual Hindu festival Ram Navami. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A devotee holds idols of Hindu god Rama’s brothers Laxman and Shatrughan before taking part in a religious procession during Ramnavmi festival in New Delhi. (Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters)
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- A pensioner shouts a slogan in central Athens during an anti-austerity demonstration. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
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- “Dimbi,” a blue-eyed black lemur cub (Eulemur flavifrons) is pictured at the zoo of Mulhouse, northeastern France. There’s currently less than 2,000 blue-eyed black lemurs into the wild. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man shouts as he helps an injured man during clashes between Muslim Brotherhood members and opponents in central Cairo. Egyptian Islamist protesters clashed with opponents in central Cairo, with both sides pelting each other with stones as the sounds of shots were heard, an AFP journalist said. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Firefighters work to put out a fire as white phosphorus exploded after a violent collision when a truck crashed into another vehicle on a highway in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province. One of the two truck drivers was killed in the accident while the other succeeded to get out of the truck before the explosion. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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