June 10 Photo Brief: Cronuts, Turkey protests continue, George Zimmerman murder trial
Cronuts are all the rage, protests continue in Turkey, George Zimmerman murder trial begins and more in today’s daily brief. | Warning: Photos may depict death or injury.
- A tray of croissant-doughnut hybrids, known “cronuts”, are seen at Dominique Ansel Bakery on June 10, 2013 in New York City. The bakery makes 200-250 of the cronuts daily, which have been in hot demand since they were introduced in May. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
- A Turkish demonstrator with his face covered in a gas mask is pictured as protests resumed in Kizilay square in Ankara June 9, 2013 on the day Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Ankara. Erdogan warned that the patience of his Islamic-rooted government “has a limit” as mass protests against his decade-long rule raged for a 10th day. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
- A beaten and shocked demonstrator is helped by other protesters on June 9, 2013 after being confronted by riot police on Kizilay square in Ankara in Turkey. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
- Anti-government musicians sit together after the demonstration on June 9, 2013 on Gundogdu square in Izmir in Turkey. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)
- Smoke spreads after a 27-year old hotel building is demolished in Qingdao, in east China’s Shandong province in the early morning of June 10, 2013. China’s industrial output expanded at a slightly slower pace in May while big ticket investment growth eased, the government announced on June 9, in the latest signs of weakness in the world’s second-largest economy.(Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
- A woman walks through a flooded street in Meissen after the River Elbe causing massive flooding in the area on June 9, 2013. Parts of northern Germany continued to be threatened by the swollen River Elbe where a dyke was breached overnight in Saxony-Anhalt state, adding hundreds to the already thousands of German residents to have been evacuated. (Arno Burgi/AFP/Getty Images)
- A mother giraffe licks her 20-day old baby giraffe calf and stays close to him at the Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata on June 10, 2013. With the birth of this newborn, the number of African giraffes has increased to nine and the garden authorities are taking special care of the newborn and his mother. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
- A garment worker from textile company Envoy Group shouts, while participating in a protest during a strike, in front of the factory in Dhaka June 10, 2013. The workers demanded increase in pay, money paid for work done, and a larger lunch allowance, local media reported. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
- George Zimmerman walks into court after a recess in Seminole circuit court on the first day of his trial in Seminole circuit court June 10, 2013 in Sanford, Florida. Jury selection begins today as Zimmerman is charged with the second-degree murder of an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin. (Joe Burbank /Getty Images)
- Travelers wash their horses in the river Eden at Appleby in Westmorland, northern England June 9, 2013. The horses are washed as part of the annual horse fair which has taken place since the 1600’s. (Darren Staples/Reuters)
- Men grieve over a grave at the funerals for those killed in Saturday’s clashes at the Libya Shield brigade headquarters, in Benghazi June 9, 2013. (Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters)
- A World War II Dornier 17 aircraft is lifted from waters of the English Channel on June 10, 2013 near Ramsgate, England. The plane on the Goodwin Sands is believed to be aircraft call-sign 5K-AR, shot down on August 26, 1940 at the height of the battle by RAF Boulton-Paul Defiant fighters. Once recovered, the aircraft will be preserved and put on displayed for the public at the RAF Museum. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
- Female Palestinian militants from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) are pictured through a sheet of fabric as they take part in a training session in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip June 10, 2013. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
- A beautician peels a gel mask from a client’s face at a skin care clinic at a mall in Quezon City, Metro Manila May 22, 2013. Men’s beauty treatments are popular in the Philippines, part of a thriving market for male cosmetics in the Asia Pacific region. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)
- A miner uses a flashlight in an elevator as he descends to the copper mine in the Serbian town of Bor, some 148 miles southeast from Belgrade June 8, 2013. In Serbia, foreign companies are picking up a long tradition of prospecting for gold and copper and discovering deposits that could mark a revival of the country’s mining sector. Pressured by cautious investors, international mining companies are putting riskier exploration projects in places like Africa on ice and turning to developments where infrastructure and political risk are lower. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
- NASA picture inside the Cupola aboard the International Space Station shows NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, an Expedition 36 flight engineer, using a 400mm lens on a digital still camera to photograph a target of opportunity on Earth some 250 miles below him in this NASA image released on June 10, 2013. Cassidy has been aboard the orbital outpost since late March and will continue his stay into September. (NASA HO via Reuters)
- Senegalese wrestler Dieylani Pouye (R) holds an opponent during a fight at a qualification tournament in Romont May 26, 2013. Pouye will attempt to qualify for the wrestling event of this year’s Swiss Federal Alpine Festival, Switzerland’s oldest sport, to be held August 31 to September 1, 2013 in Burgdorf. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
George Zimmerman trial: Jury selection underway in Trayvon Martin shooting
By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel
2:43 p.m. EDT, June 10, 2013
SANFORD – Jury selection began this morning for the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
This morning, about 100 potential jurors filled out questionnaires. Based on their responses, some are being called into court individually for additional questioning.
The first juror called this afternoon, identified as juror B-12, said she saw television news reports about the case when it first began, but hasn’t followed it since and hasn’t formed an opinion.