April 9 Photo Brief: Bee venom therapy, iced blossoms, a crushed Mercedes, swans a swimming, continued tension on the Korean peninsula
MBee venom therapy, iced blossoms, a crushed Mercedes, swans a swimming, tension on the Korean peninsula and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A model prepares backstage ahead of the Romance Was Born show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia Spring/Summer 2013/14 at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
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- Ice hangs on flowers in a garden in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. A sharp temperature decrease has hit this area following a strong cold air. (Getty Images)
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- A stroller walks on a field near Marktoberdorf, southern Germany. Meteorologists forecast unsettled weather with temperatures around 4 degrees for the coming days in Germany. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/Getty Images)
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- Helicopter Dynamic Pegassus perform an air show during a parade of the 67th anniversary commemoration of the Indonesian Air Force at an airbase in Jakarta. The Indonesian Air Force has more than 30,000 personnel equipped with more than 100 combat aircrafts, including Su-27 and Su-30. (Bay Ismoyo/Getty Images)
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- A swan takes off on the river Alster in Hamburg, northern Germany. Around 120 swans are brought to their summer residence after having spent the winter season at a smaller lake. (Sven Hoppe/Getty Images)
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- Swans swim on the river Alster in Hamburg, northern Germany. The swans are brought to their summer residence after having spent the winter season at a smaller lake. (Sven Hoppe/Getty Images)
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- A birch gnawed by beavers stands near Lengenwang, southern Germany. 120 beavers have been resettled in southern parts of Germany since 1979. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/Getty Images)
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- An employee lifts a foil that covers rows of asparagus on a field in Schaepe, eastern Germany. After lasting cold temperatures in Germany asparagus farmers hope for a mild spring. (Patrick Pleul/Getty Images)
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- An Indian man, dressed as a female, gets ready for the ‘Lavani’ performance in Mumbai. Lavani is a genre of music, a combination of traditional song and dance which is particularly performed to the beat of the Dholki, a percussion instrument. The dance, noted for its powerful rhythm and erotic sentiment, is performed by female performers wearing nine-yard long saris. (Punit Paranjpe/Getty Images)
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- Members of South Korea’s media surround a car filled with workers returning from the Kaesong Industrial Park with boxes loaded on top of their car at a gate of the inter-Korean transit office in the border city of Paju. North Korean workers failed to show on April 9 at the Kaesong joint industrial zone, a day after Pyongyang said it was withdrawing labour and suspending operations at the Seoul-funded complex. (Kim Jae-Hwan/Getty Images)
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- A Malian Special Force soldier sits during the Operation Gustav, a hunt for Islamist fighters in a valley in northern Mali and one of France’s largest military operations during its three-month intervention in its former colony, 105 km North of Gao. Operation Gustav comes with France preparing to withdraw three-quarters of the 4,000 troops it deployed in January to block a feared advance on the Malian capital Bamako by Al Qaeda-linked insurgents. (Joel Saget/Getty Images)
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- French soldiers from the 92nd Regiment Infantry burn items allegedly belonging to Mujao forces during a military operation some 105 kilometers North of Gao. A French force of 1,000 soldiers in a major offensive has swept a valley thought to be a logistics base for Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists near the Malian city of Gao. Operation Gustav, one of France’s largest actions since its intervention against insurgents in January, will involve dozens of tanks, helicopters, drones and airplanes, said General Bernard Barrera, commander of the French land forces in Mali. France is to start withdrawing its 4,000 troops from Mali at the end of April, and plans to leave a “support force” of 1,000 soldiers after elections promised for July. (Joel Saget/Getty Images)
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- Afghanistan security forces stand guard at the site of a roadside bomb blast in Saidabad district of Wardak province. A roadside bomb exploded under an Afghan bus southwest of Kabul on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 22 others in an attack blamed on Taliban militants, officials said. The bus bombing in the flashpoint province of Wardak came as Afghanistan endures a bloody few days at a time of year that often sees a surge in violence as the cold winter recedes and the so-called “fighting season” begins. (Rahmatullah Alizad/Getty Images)
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- A Bangladeshi youth dries raw pieces of leather outside a tannery during a nationwide strike called by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in protest against the detention of their leaders, in Dhaka. BNP called the general strike after the bail petition of its top leaders, including acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, was rejected and they were sent to jail for several violence-related cases. (Munir uz Zaman/Getty Images)
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- Turkish riot policemen and soldiers clash with protestors in a field during a demonstration at Dicle University, in Diyarbakir. Leftist Kurdish students protest after a clashing between left and right-wing groups inside Dicle University. (Mehmet Engin/Getty Images)
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- An airport security personnel takes a body temperature reading of a boy as he arrives at Hong Kong International Airport. A strain of bird flu that has been found in humans for the first time in eastern China is no cause for panic, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as the number of people infected rose to 24, with seven deaths. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
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- A bird makes a nest near Diani Beach on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, some 30 km (19 miles) south of Mombasa. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
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- Men carry sacks filled with shellfish on a beach at Diani Beach on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, some 30 km (19 miles) south of Mombasa. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
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- A Palestinian boy suffering from Paranasal sinus cries as he receives treatment at a bee venom therapy center in Gaza City. The treatment, using the venom of honeybees, is known to be effective for diseases like epilepsy, spinal disorders, hearing problems and nasal allergy, according to Ratib Samoor, an agricultural engineer and owner of the center. The center, which was founded in 2003, treats dozens of Palestinians on a daily basis. (Suahib Salem/Reuters)
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- People stand beside a destroyed Mercedes car placed by Alliance24 car insurance company to promote a competition in front of a railway station in Zurich. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)
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- Visitors get a closer look of the dolphins at the marine life park South East Asia world’s largest aquarium at Resort World Sentosa in Singapore. Resorts World Sentosa’s S.E.A. Aquarium is now the official record holder of two Guinness World Records , the largest aquarium and largest acrylic panel. (Roslan Rahman/Getty Images)
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- The wind blows a red flag onto the face of an honor guard before a welcome ceremony for Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. At the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will pay an official visit to China after the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2013. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
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- Demonstrators, including members of the European Parliament (MEP), dressed as zombies, dance to the music of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” while participating in a flash-mob in front of the EU Parliament in Brussels. The flash-mob was organized in protest against possible EU-India free trade agreements that could endanger access to medicines, organisers said. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
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