May 15 Photo Brief: Bears, big waves and a big shoe, Popocatepetl volcano, pilgrims and the Pope
Bears, big waves and a big shoe, Popocatepetl volcano, pilgrims and the Pope and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A surfer rides a wave at Teahupoo in Tahiti. Top surfers in the world gathered in Teahupoo since the beginning of the week to ride waves up to 8 meters high (26 feet). (Gregory Boissy/Getty Images)
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- A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from Cholula, in the Mexican central state of Puebla. The volcano spewed a new column of ash late Tuesday, with some of the material falling on three towns while glowing rocks landed on the towering mountain’s slope. Authorities have raised the alert level to “Yellow Phase Three,” the fifth of a seven-stage warning system, restricting access to an area of 12 km around the volcano while preparing evacuation routes and shelters. (Arturo Andrade/Getty Images)
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- A handler steadies his Teeswater sheep in the ring on the first day of the Balmoral Show in northern Ireland. The show which runs from May 15 to May 17 is Ireland’s biggest agricultural and food event, and is expected to attract over 80,000 visitors in the three days. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)
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- Visitors walk through a light and sound installation at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, eastern Germany, displaying the “Creators of Worlds” exhibition. Until September 16, 2013, the museum presents the show dedicated to German composer Richard Wagner, German sculptor Max Klinger and German writer Karl May, who all three were born in or near Leipzig. (Hendrik Schmidt/Getty Images)
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- A giant shoe is pictured outside a life-size “Barbie Dreamhouse” of Mattel’s Barbie dolls in Berlin. The life-sized house, covering about 1,400 square metres offers visitors to try on Barbie’s clothes in her walk-in closet, tour her living room and her kitchen. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
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- Baby elephant “Moyo” stands next to his mother “Sabie” during his first outing at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany. “Moyo” was born on May 13, 2013 at the zoo. (Marius Becker/Getty Images)
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- Polish player Jerzy Janowicz rips off his shirt as he celebrates after winning against French player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the end of their ATP Rome Open tennis tournament tennis match in Rome. Janowicz won 6-4, 7-6 (7/5). (Tiziana Fabi/Getty Images)
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- A tourist poses for a photo with Greenpeace activists dressed in a polar bear costume during a demonstration on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
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- Students on a tour pet Greenpeace activists dressed in a polar bear costume during a demonstration, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
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- A giant panda cub (L) and its mother play by a pond as they take a bath at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan provinc. (China Daily)
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- A 45-day old female black bear cub sits by the door at a Pakistani wildlife office in Mansehra, after the animal was found by children playing in the fringes of a town near the dense forest of Kaghan Valley in North West Pakistan and brought to the wildlife office. According to officials there the bear will be kept at a wildlife facililty until it is old enough to be released back into the wild. (Adnan Ali/Getty Images)
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- Pope Francis holds a dove before his Wednesday general audience at Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican.(Osservato Romano/ Reuters)
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- Priest Josep Maria Bullich attends a mass at the Cave of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Manresa, Spain. Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Company of Jesus, arrived in Manresa in March 25, 1522 after leaving his sword and knife at the altar of Our Lady of Montserrat. He stayed in a cave outside the town for 10 months. He spent hours each day praying and working in a hospice. It was in that cave where he wrote the Spiritual Exercises, a compilation of meditation, prayers and contemplative practices guiding to find God in all things that is one of the central characteristics of Jesuit spirituality. Pope Francis has been the first Jesuit elected as Pope. (David Ramos/Getty Images)
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- Pilgrims leave a boat during their way to the shrine of El Rocio in the Donana National Park, southern Spain. Every spring, hundreds of thousands of devotees converge at a shrine to pay homage to the Virgin del Rocio during an annual pilgrimage which combines religious fervour and festive colour. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)
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- A mounted Israeli policeman tries to disperse Palestinian protestors waving their national flag during clashes as demonstrators gathered outside Damascus gate in Jerusalem to mark the 65th Nakba or “catastrophe” of the Jewish state’s creation in 1948, during which 760,000 Palestinians fled their homes. Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to demonstrate on Nakba Day and assert their “right to return” to where their ancestors fled after the Israeli victory over Arab armies. (Jack Guez/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian protester stands during clashes with the Israeli army in Qalandia in the occupied West Bank as Palestinians held rallies marking Nakba Day. Nakba Day, catastrophe in Arabic, commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. (Marco Longari/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian sets fire to a tyre during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison after a march marking the 65th Nakba day or “Day of Catastrophe” in Betunia near the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Abbas Momani/Getty Images)
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- Worshippers light candles during a service by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill (not pictured), in the historic Russian Orthodox church in Shanghai, the first in this church for more than half a century. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church held a service in a historic Shanghai church, its first in more than half a century, as worshippers said they hoped the building would be returned to them. (Peter Parks/Getty Images)
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- Coney Island fire-breather Heather Holliday performs her part of the ‘LIMBO’ circus show in the temporary ‘London Wonderground’ festival area at the Southbank Centre in central London. LIMBO is a cabaret, circus and acrobatic act that headlines the London Wonderground festival from May 10, 2013 until September 29, 2013. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
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- A two-month-old Snow Fox cub lies inside a cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo on the surburbs of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- People reach for free fruits and vegetables distributed by farmers’ market vendors as part of their protest marking their 24-hour strike on May 15, 2013. Vendors at Greece’s open-air street markets are on strike protesting the government’s plans to facilitate entry into the profession. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Getty Images)
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- A deflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. The 16.5-meter-high inflatable sculpture, which made its first public appearance in the territory on May 2, will be shown at the Ocean Terminal for a month. The Rubber Duck was deflated after some of its parts broke. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
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- Benfica fans soak up the pre-match atmosphere in the city centre ahead of the UEFA Europa League Final between SL Benfica and Chelsea FC at Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Christof Koepsel/Getty Images)
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