May 16 Photo Brief: Cannes film festival gets underway, rocket attacks in Syria, Texas recovers from tornadoes, the Museum of Modern Art gets wet
Texas assesses the damage after being hit with tornadoes, the stars come out as the Cannes Film Festival gets underway, Free Syrian Army fighters fire rockets at president loyalist troops, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York opens the “Rain Room” and more in today’s daily brief.
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- German Chancellor and head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel drinks a beer after her speech in a beer tent in Munich. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters photo)
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- A horse grazes atop a hill filled with buttercups off Frederick Road at Oella Avenue. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun)
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- A damaged home and car remain after tornados swept through the town of Granbury, Texas. At least six people were killed and about 100 injured on Wednesday as three tornadoes ripped through a stretch of Texas near the Dallas-Fort Worth area, destroying a number of homes, authorities said. (Richard Rodriguez/Reuters photos)
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- A Japanese supporter attends the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Paris May 16, 2013. The 52nd edition of the World Table Tennis Championships gathers 829 athletes from 162 countries and runs from May 13 to May 20. (Charles Platiau/Reuters photo)
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- Sweden’s Matilda Ekholm eyes the ball before returning to Turkey’s Melek Hu during their women’s singles match at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Paris. The 52nd edition of the World Table Tennis Championships gathers 829 athletes from 162 countries and runs from May 13 to May 20. (Charles Platiau/Reuters photo)
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- Free Syrian Army fighters react during the firing of a rocket towards forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Deir al-Zor. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters photo)
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- Waves crash into people sitting by the shore of the Bay of Bengal before cyclone Mahasen approaches in Chittagong. Mahasen started crossing Bangladesh’s low-lying coast on Thursday, bearing down on the ports of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar, as tens of thousands of people huddled in shelters from a storm which the United Nations says threatens 4.1 million people. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters photo)
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- A pilgrim makes a stop after crossing the Quema river on her way to the shrine of El Rocio in the province of Seville, 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 fervor and festive color. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters photo)
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- Russian conscripts, wearing military uniforms, are seen inside a train carriage at a local railway station before their departure in Stavropol, in southern Russia. The conscripts will serve in Moscow in the Kremlin regiment, also known as Presidential regiment, which is part of the Federal Guard Service. (Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters photo)
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- Soldiers rappel down a wall during a military graduation parade for trainees from the Libyan Army “Thunderbolt” Special Forces unit, in Benghazi . The trainees form the first batch of graduates which enlisted after the 2011 Libyan revolution. (Esam Al-Fetori /Reuters photo)
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- A boy bathes in a stream at Dara on the outskirts of Srinagar. (Danish Ismail/Reuters photo)
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- Russia’s goalie Ilya Bryzgalov (30) reacts as he conceeds a Team USA goal during their 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship quarter-final match at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki. (Grigory Dukor/Reuters photo)
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- Visitors gather in the new ‘Rain Room’ installation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan in New York City. The 5,000 square-foot installation creates a field of falling water that stops in the area where people walk through, allowing them to remain dry. The piece, created by Random International, releases a 260-gallon per minute shower around visitors. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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- M23 rebel recruits stand at attention during a training session at the Rumangabo military camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (James Akena/Reuters photo)
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- A flag is seen covering the face of an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony for the visiting Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Jason Lee/Reuters photo)
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- Olympic pole-vaulter champion Renaud Lavillenie of France rests on the infield at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco. Lavillenie, three-time Diamond League winner, trains for the start of the 2013 season which begins in June. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters photo)
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- A US Marine holds an umbrella for US President Barack Obama during a brief rain shower as he hold a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)
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- A street artist performs in Covent Garden in central London, 2013. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
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- Borneo apes play in their enclosure at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany. (Patrik Stollarz/Getty Images)
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- US director and President of the Feature Film Jury Steven Spielberg waves on stage during the opening ceremony of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world’s top film festivals, opens on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. (Antonin Thuillier/Getty Images)
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- Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi poses as she arrives for the screening of the film “The Great Gatsby” ahead of the opening of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. (Loic Venance/Getty Images)
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- A Sri Lankan soldier looks on from his gun turret during a Victory Day parade rehearsal in Colombo. Sri Lanka celebrates War Heroes month with a military parade scheduled for May 18. The parade celebrates the fourth anniversary of the military defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009, ending a 37-year long separatist conflict. (Ishara S. Kokikara/Getty Images)
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- Rafael Nadal of Spain in action during his third round match against Ernests Gulbis of Latvia on day five of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia 2013 at the Foro Italico Tennis Centre in Rome, Italy. (Clive Mason/Getty Images)
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