May 30 Photo Brief: Gay marriage in France, grandparents of slain British soldier visit site of murder and creepy crawlers
Gay marriages take place in France, a spider farm in Chile, the grandparents of slain British soldier, Lee Rigby, visit the site of the murder and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Britain’s Prince Charles (L) looks from his limo as he visits the residence of the Armenian Apostolic Church leader, Catholicos Garegin II, in Etchmiadzin, outside Yerevan. Prince Charles is on a private visit to Armenia, the Armenian media reported. (Karen Minasyan/Getty images)
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- Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S. is pictured as she hits a return to Li Na of China during their women’s singles match at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters photo)
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- Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook (C) lets out a scream while being mobbed by teammates after scoring an overtime goal to defeat the Detroit Red Wings and win Game 7 of their NHL Western Conference semi-final hockey playoff in Chicago, Illinois. (Jeff Haynes/Reuters photo)
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- A soldier walks among debris after a riot between Muslims and Buddhists in Lashio township. Security forces struggled to control Buddhist mobs who burned Muslim homes for a second day in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio in a dangerous widening of ultra-nationalist Buddhist violence. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters photo)
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- Indian police personnel carry their injured comrade during a clash with supporters of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a separatist party, in Srinagar. Dozens of JKLF supporters held a protest against the government’s decision not to allow JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik to visit the earthquake-affected areas of the Doda region to distribute aid to victims, local media reported. (Danish Ismail/Reuters photo)
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- A crane removes the carcass of a female elephant near a railway track at Banarhat village, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Two adult female elephants and one calf died on Thursday after they were hit by a passenger train while crossing a railway track, forest officials said. (stringer/Reuters photo)
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- Students pose for pictures with “big cigarette models” during a campaign ahead of the World No Tobacco Day, at a primary school in Handan, Hebei province, China. According to local media, students made the models with waste paper to advocate “No Smoking.” (China Daily/via Reuters)
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- An employee works inside a textile factory in Linhai, Zhejiang province. China’s slowing factory sector may have barely grown in May amid lackluster local and foreign demand, a Reuters poll showed, adding to fears that the world’s second-largest economy is losing steam. (William Hong/Reuters photo)
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- An uncle (L) and grandparents of Drummer Lee Rigby weep after laying a wreath and reading messages on floral tributes for the soldier near the scene of his killing outside the barracks of the British Army’s 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in Woolwich, southeast London. Michael Adebowale, 22, appeared in a London court on Thursday charged with the killing of a British soldier on a busy London street last week, which the prosecutor said would be tried as a terrorist act. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters photo)
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- A spider, one of the around 5,000 bred at a spider farm in Batuco, some 30 km north of Santiago, sucks a worm. Orellana’s farm breeds a species of spiders (Grammostola mollicoma) –which despite its big size are harmless for humans– and exports them with great success to Europe, Asia and The U.S.A. to be kept as pets. (Martin Bernett/Getty images)
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- U.S. Army’s M1A2 tank and soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team of 2nd infantry division and South Korean soldiers from 6th Engineer Brigade participate in a river crossing exercise in Yeoncheon-gun, South Korea. The joint exercise is for the first time in 10 years, eyeing possible attacks of North Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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- Purbrook Bowmen fire a volley of fire arrows from Southsea Castle into The Solent towards where the 16th century Tudor warship Mary Rose sank in 1545 in Portsmouth, southern England. Britain’s King Henry VIII watched the warship sink from the castle. The day-long event will mark the symbolic journey of the ship’s bell as the last artafact to be placed into the new Mary Rose Museum ahead of its public opening on May 30. (Adrian Dennis/Getty Images)
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- A Maori in traditional clothing performs during the inauguration of the garden “Te Putake” dedicated to Maori culture in Les Jardins Fruitiers (fruit gardens) in Laquenexy, eastern France. The garden is the first outside of New Zealand to be dedicated to the Maori culture. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/Getty images)
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- Able Seaman 1st Class Luke Checkley (2nd R) and crew members of HMS Duncan, the latest Type 45 destroyer, throws a wreath from the deck of WWII seaplane tender during a ceremony at the wreck site of the 16th century Tudor warship Mary Rose commemorating those who died when she sank in 1545 in The Solent near Portsmouth The relics from the Mary Rose, the flagship of England’s navy when it sank in 1545 as a heartbroken king Henry VIII watched from the shore, have finally been reunited with the famous wreck in a new museum offering a view of life in Tudor times. (Adrian Dennis/Getty Images)
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- A police van carrying Michael Adebowale, one of the chief suspects in the killing of British soldier Lee Rigby, leaves Westminster Magistrates court in central London. Adebowale appeared in court charged with murder and possession of a firearm. (Ben Stansall/Getty Images)
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- An employee walks on a tarpaulin covering the Suzanne Lenglen court as rain falls on the fifth day of the French tennis Open at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris . (Kenzo Tribouillard/Getty Images)
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- Vincent Autin (R) and Bruno Boileau kiss on a balcony in front of the crowd after their marriage, France’s first official gay marriage, in the city hall in Montpellier. France is the 14th country to legalize same-sex marriage, an issue that has also divided opinion in many other nations. (Gerad Julien/Gety Images)
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- Republic of Ireland striker Shane Long tries to climb over England defender Gary Cahill during the international friendly football match between England and Republic of Ireland at Wembley Stadium in north London. (Adrian Dennis/Getty images)
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- An Afghan security official is surrounded by the shadows of colleagues as he keeps watch at the scene of an attack in Jalalabad late. Militants launched a two-hour suicide and gun attack on a Red Cross office in Jalalabad city, eastern Afghanistan, killing one guard, officials said. It was the first time that offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross had been targeted since the organisation began work in Afghanistan in 1987.(Noorullah Shirzada/Getty Images)
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- A worker is seen at a scaffolding at a construction site in Manila. The Philippine economy posted a surprising 7.8 percent growth in the first quarter of 2013, the best performance since President Benigno Aquino took office in 2010, officials said. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)
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