May 29 Photo Brief: Fog in Sydney, an albino kangaroo, protesting prostitutes, Mt. Everest Marathon, swimming in sewage
Fog in Sydney, an albino kangaroo, protesting prostitutes, Mt. Everest Marathon, swimming in sewage and more in today’s daily brief.
- A boat navigates past the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which is covered in thick fog. Flights and ferry services were suspended and delayed on Wednesday morning after a blanket of fog covered the city for the second time in as many days, local media reported. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)
- Fog shrouds the skyline of New York as a woman walks through a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters)
- A female gang inmate poses for a picture before performing a dance during a celebration marking the first year of the truce between El Salvador’s two most powerful gangs, at the women’s prison facilities in San Salvador. A truce signed by the Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) cut the country’s murder rate by half in just four months since it took effect a year ago, local media reported. (Ulises Rodriguez/Reuters)
- An albino baby kangaroo peers out of the pouch of its mother at the zoo in Duisburg, western Germany. (Roland Weihrauch/Getty Images)
- Schoolchildren watch as “Inuka”, a male polar bear, swims in its pool enclosure at the Singapore Zoo. The 22-year-old polar bear, the first one born in the tropics, moved into his new frozen tundra home on May 29 in a 2,700 square metre exhibit featuring climate controlled resting areas and an expanded pool. (Roslan Rahman/Getty Images)
- A man swims in the polluted waters of river Yamuna on a hot day in New Delhi. Temperatures in New Delhi on Wednesday reached 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit), according to India’s meteorological department. (Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters)
- The Oracle AC72 America’s Cup catamaran sails on the San Francisco Bay under a blanket of fog as seen from Sausalito, California. The San Francisco Bay Area will see mostly cloudy skies with highs expected to be in the 50s to mid 60s. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
- The Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon, the world’s highest marathon, starts near the famous Khumbu Ice Fall at Qomolangma Base Camp (5,364 meters above sea level) and finishes at Namche Bazar (3,440 meters above sea level). Nepali athlete Ram Kumar Rajbhandari (31) clinched the title of the 11th Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon, completing the 42.19 km race in 3 hour 59 minute 45 second on Wednesday as Nepali athletes continued their dominance in the highest altitude marathon claiming all top ten positions. (HIMEX-Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon/Getty Images)
- Pope Francis waves at the crowd as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St Peter’s square at the Vatican. (Andreas Solaro/Getty Images)
- Workers sit on the ground as they wait for the start of a groundbreaking ceremony for the third Bosphorus bridge linking the European and Asian sides of Istanbul. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)
- Prostitutes wearing masks demonstrate in Lyon, to denounce their working conditions and police repression. (Jeff Pachoud/Getty Images)
- Prostitutes wearing masks demonstrate in Lyon, to denounce their working conditions and police repression. (Jeff Pachoud/Getty Images)
- Members of an ecological expedition disembark from a motorboat at the Kurgol base located on a bank of the Yenisei River in the Sayano-Shushensky nature reserve, some 700 km (435 miles) south of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The expedition was organized by the reserve to allow its employees to survey the area’s wildlife population and scout for possible ecotourism locations. The reserve is known as a habitat for a small population of snow leopards. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
- A nurse (L) looks at an abandoned newborn baby resting in an incubator after he was rescued from a sewage pipe at a hospital in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. Firefighters in eastern China rescued the abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe directly beneath a toilet commode, state television reported. According to local media, the baby is now in stable condition. (China Daily/Reuters)
- Beachgoers stroll along the Fort Kochi beach while holding umbrellas during a rain shower in the southern Indian city of Kochi. India’s weather office has forecast an average monsoon in the country in 2013. (Sivaram V/Reuters)
- Displaced residents immerse themselves in massive mud deposits from the mud volcano in Sidoarjo village, located on Indonesia’s eastern Java island to dramatize their sufferings during a protest marking the seventh year of the disaster. Experts believe the gas drilling company Lapindo Brantas, controlled by the family of powerful Indonesian tycoon Aburizal Bakrie, was responsible for the disaster that permanently buried 12 villages. Besides the 13,000 families directly affected and covered by the compensation scheme, many thousands of local residents are demanding payment for economic damage. (Juni Kriswanto/Getty Images)
- A man sits on the rubble of a Palestinian home after it was torn down by Israeli bulldozers in the Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. Palestinian homes built without a construction permit are often demolished by order of the Jerusalem municipality. (Ahmad Gharabli/Getty Images)
- Indian and foreign tourists visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Completed in 1643, the mausoleum was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who is buried there alongside Jahan. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
- An Indian girl poses for a photograph as tourists visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Completed in 1643, the mausoleum was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who is buried there alongside Jahan. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
- A Munduruku Indian child stands near police as Amazon Indians from different tribes occupy the main construction site of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Vitoria do Xingu, near Altamira in Para State, May 28, 2013. Indians from various tribes returned to force the suspension for the second time in a month, of the dam projected to become the world’s third largest in energy production, opposing it for its impact on the environment and their livelihoods. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)
- A security member loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad gestures to a photographer in Damascus. (Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)
- U.S. Marines Private First Class Sebastian Rodriguez, a machine gunner from Weapons Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force Darwin (MRF-D), fires a M240 machine gun during a night squad-attack exercise at Kangaroo Flats Training Area in Australia. (Sgt. Sarah Fiocco/via Reuters)
- Staff hold lion cubs during a media event at a zoo in Wuhan, Hubei province. The zoo said tourists could visit the four-month-old cubs starting from International Children’s Day on June 1, 2013. (Reuters)
- Author Charlie Campbell (R) prepares to hit the ball during a Victorian Cricket match to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack at Vincent Square in London. (Philip Brown/Reuters)