May 2 Photo Brief: Bikini shopping in Stockholm, Drug gangs in Brazil and it’s a dog’s life in Germany
Bikini shopping in Stockholm, Brazilian special forces train to control drug gangs as violence soars, European lobster farming in Germany, a doggy gets a lift in a doggy bag and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A Brazilian drug gang member nicknamed Firecracker, 22, poses with a gun atop a hill overlooking a slum in Salvador, Bahia State. One of Brazil’s main tourist destinations and a 2014 World Cup host city, Salvador suffers from an unprecedented wave of violence with an increase of over 250% in the murder rate, according to the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies (CEBELA). (Lunae Parracho/Reuters photo)
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- A pigeon flies above an installation made of painted wooden eggs, attributes of the Orthodox Easter, in central Kiev, Ukraine. Orthodox believers will celebrate Easter on May 5. (Sergii Polezhaka/Reuters photo)
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- A pedestrian looks into a shop window with a bikini-clad mannequin in Sweden’s capital Stockholm. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters photo)
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- A rider performs before the “Kings of the Off-road” quad bike amateur regional race in a Siberian boggy district near the village of Kozhany, some 200 km (124 miles) southwest of Krasnoyarsk. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters photo)
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- A woman lights candles in front of the graves of her relatives at a cemetery in the village of Copaciu, 42 km (26 miles) southwest of Bucharest, early morning. Orthodox women went to church and cemeteries in the early morning on Maundy Thursday to light candles, burn incense and mourn their dead relatives as part of a southern Romania tradition. Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, is the day Christians commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus Christ. Romania’s Orthodox majority celebrates Easter on May 5. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters photo)
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- Members of the South Korean special forces take part in a military drill in Yeongcheon, southeast of Seoul in this picture provided by Yonhap. The two Koreas remain technically at war under a mere truce that ended hostilities in their 1950-53 conflict and North Korea, angry at U.N. sanctions and joint South Korean-U.S. military drills, has threatened both countries with nuclear attack in recent weeks. (Han Jong-chan/Yonhap via Reuters)
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- Ethiopian Orthodox worshippers attend the washing of the feet ceremony at the Ethiopian section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of Orthodox Easter. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters photo)
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- Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter (C) looks at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust, during a visit to the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. (Baz Ratner/Reuters photo)
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- Students of the Law department dress in costumes during a celebration at their graduation ceremony in Diyala, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, May 2, 2013. (Mohammed Adnan/Reuters photo)
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- Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats at Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, with the island skyline looms at the background. The 16.5-meter-high inflatable sculpture, which made its first public appearance in the territory, will be shown at the Ocean Terminal for a month. (Bobby Yip/Reuters photo)
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- A European lobster (Hommarus gammarus) is pictured in a breeding station at the Alfred-Wegener institute (AWI) on the German island of Heligoland, about 46 kilometres away from the German coastline. Biologists at the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research are breeding 3,000 lobsters to be released next year into the Borkum Riffgat offshore wind farm near the island 70 km off the German-Dutch coast. (Fabian Bimmer/Reuters photo)
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- Red Bull team in action during day one of the Extreme Sailing Series on May 2, 2013 in Qingdao, China. (Xaume Olleros/Getty Images)
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- Police special forces train to operate against drug gangs in Salvador, Bahia State. One of Brazil’s main tourist destinations and a 2014 World Cup host city, Salvador suffers from an unprecedented wave of violence with an increase of over 250% in the murder rate, according to the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies (CEBELA). (Lunae Parracho/Reuters photo)
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- A combination photo shows the remaining standing part of the collapsed Rana Plaza building collapsing during a rescue operation by the army in Savar. (Khurshed Rinku/Reuters photo)
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- Relatives mourn as they look for garment workers, missing after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, outside Dhaka. The mayor of the Bangladesh municipality where the factory building collapsed killing more than 400 people was suspended from office on Thursday, a government minister said, as rescuers pressed on with the task of recovering bodies from the wreckage. (Khurshed RinkuReuters photo)
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- People take a cruise on the Alpsee lake near Hohenschwangau, southern Germany. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/Getty Images)
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- People walk past three men in barrel costumes holding placards against government’s social cuts during a protest called by several social groups in front of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) headquarters in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao. AFP PHOTO/ (Rafa Rivas/Getty Images)
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- A woman walks at Schaalsee lake in Zarrentin, eastern Germany. Meteorologists forecast mild temperatures for the coming week in eastern Germany. (Ulrich Perrey/Getty Images)
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- A pug dog is being carried in a bag near Hohenschwangau, southern Germany. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/KGetty Images)
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- A burqa-clad Afghan protester takes part in a demonstration staged by a pro-democracy faction in Kabul. Some hundred supporters of a pro-democracy faction took to the streets to “condemn” the victory day of the former pro-communist regime of 1970s followed by the victory of former anti-Soviet Mujahedin that also marked the start of Afghanistan’s civil war between 1992 and 1996. (Shah Marai/Getty Images)
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- A person in Chinese lion costume dances by Tin Hau Temple, at the village of Shap Pat Heung as people celebrate and pay respects to Tin Hau on her Birthday in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Tin Hau is a gooddess of the sea and revered by fisherman and many Hong Kong people. (Jessica Hromas/Getty Images)
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- Kumbuka, a 15-year-old western lowland gorilla, explores his new enclosure in ZSL London Zoo in London, England. The silverback male, who weights 185 kg and stands seven foot tall, moved from Paignton Zoo two weeks ago. It is hoped that Kumbuka will mate with the zoo’s three female gorillas to increase numbers of the critically endangered species as part of the European breeding program. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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