Jun 12, 2013

A bicycle flies, a King and Queen visit provinces, a Prime Minister signs autographs, protests, floods and more in today’s daily brief.

: Indonesian students wear masks with angry expressions during a protest outside the presidential palace in Jakarta to denounce impending fuel price increases, as the government plans to reduce a fuel subsidy. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on April 30 that he hopes to lower fuel subsidies which are a risk to Southeast Asia’s top economy as concern mounts over the economic damage wrought by the scheme that gobbles up more than 16 percent of the state budget. (Romeo Gacad/Getty Images)

: Workers look out from windows as they occupy the headquarters of the Greek public broadcaster ERT in Athens in Athens, Greece. Journalists have refused to leave the premises following the Greek government’s announcement that the Hellanic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) was to be disbanded, terminating television and radio broadcasts and dismissing all 2,500 journalists employed by the corporation, claiming that it was a ‘haven of waste’. The station which began broadcasting in 1938 is continuing to air limited shortwave and internet broadcasts while the conservative led government has stated that it is planning to reopen as a smaller independent public broadcaster. (Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)

: People run away as Turkish riot policemen fire tear gas on Taksim square. Turkish police fired massive volleys of tear gas and jets of water to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul’s Taksim Square after earlier apparently retreating, an AFP reporter saw. The gas sent the crowd scrambling, raising tensions on a 12th day of violence after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned he had “no more tolerance” for the mass demonstrations. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)

: The Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander (Left) and Queen Maxima wave to onlookers during their visit to Maastricht, in the Limburg region of The Netherlands. The Royal couple visit all the 12 Dutch provinces to give people a chance to meet the new King and Queen. (Robin Utrecht /Getty Images)

: Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte is surrounded by children asking for autographs, after a press conference he gave to children on the Day of the Children’s Journal in Hilversum. (Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/Getty Images)

: A giant chrome brushed aluminium skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex) dinosaur (Right), made by French sculptor and painter Philippe Pasqua, stands at the pier of riverboat company Bateaux-Mouches in Paris, with the Eiffel tower in the background (Left). (Claire Lebertre/Getty Images)

: People take part in a yoga class across the Hudson River from New York’s Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in a park in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters photo)

: A man and his passenger ride a motorcycle near salt pans, believed to have been used for harvesting sea salt since Roman times, outside the village of Marsalforn, on the northern coast of the Maltese island of Gozo. (Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters photo)

: Swiss Jean-Louis Margelisch rides on the closed road of the Grand-Saint-Bernard pass connecting Switzerland and Italy. The road maintenance the canton of Valais is taking off the last snow on the 2473 meters high mountain pass after exceptional snowfalls in recent months. the Grand-Saint-Bernard pass is due to reopen for the summer season with two week delay on June 14, 2013 (Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images)

: Journalists attend a presentation of a flying bicycle, carrying a dummy, at Letnany’s fair hall in Prague. The flying bicycle, which was was created by Czech designers, is kept aloft by six electrically-powered propellers. (Petr Josek/Reuters photo)

: Two deer stand on a bridge in floodwaters of the Elbe river in Schoenhausen, Germany. Disastrous floods in Germany began to subside Wednesday after leaving at least 19 people dead in central Europe, as Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to make her fourth visit to the stricken region. (Christian Charisius/Getty Images)

: A boat of the German Life Saving Association (DLRG) evacuates people from the village of Fischbeck, in the federal state of Saxony Anhalt, after it was flood by the Elbe river. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags to hold back rising waters in the region’s worst floods in a decade. (Thomas Peter /Reuters photo)

: Australian swimmer Chloe McCardel dives from Marina Hemingway in Havana. McCardel will attempt to become the first to cross the Florida Straits swimming through the shark-infested sea without a protective cage. (Adalberto Roque/Getty Images)

: Competitors splash other boats competitors with water as it is the tradition, during Aberdeen Dragon Boat Races in Hong Kong. (Jessica Hromas/Getty Images)

: A worker takes radiation readings on the window of a bus at the screening point of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. (Toshifumi Kitamura//Reuters photo)

: Jiroemon Kimura holds his great-great-grandchild in Kyotango, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo April 19, 2012. The world’s oldest person, 116-year-old Japanese man Kimura, died on June 12, 2013, Japanese media said. Kimura, who lived in Kyotango near Kyoto in western Japan, had been hospitalised for pneumonia since last month. He became the world’s oldest person on December 17, 2012, after the former title holder, a 115-year-old woman from Iowa died, according to Guinness World Records. (Kyodo/Reuters photo)

: A boy sitting in a vehicle covers his ears as members of the military fire cannons for a traditional 21-gun salute during the 115th Independence Day celebration in Manila. Amid territorial disputes with its neighbors, including China, in the South China Sea, President Benigno Aquino vowed on Wednesday to stand up for the Philippines’ sovereign rights in a speech during the celebration of the country’s 115th Independence Day anniversary, local media reported. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters photo)

: A gust of wind blows Pope Francis’ mantle during the weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Tony Gentile/Reuters photo)

: Pedestrians gather behind police tape to watch New York Police Department officers work at what was originally thought, was a hostage situation in New York. According to local media, NYPD officers were engaged in a standoff for several hours while trying to serve a warrant to a suspect in a 2010 killing of a Pace University student, but upon entering the apartment found that he was not inside. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters photo)

: An illustration picture shows a projection of text on the face of a woman in Berlin. The European Union’s chief justice official has written to the U.S. attorney general demanding an explanation for the collection of foreign nationals’ data following disclosures about the “PRISM” spy program. (Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters photo)

: A North Korean soldier uses binoculars inside a guard tower as a woman works on a grassland on the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. Planned high-level talks between South and North Korean after a six-year hiatus and threats of war were scrapped on Tuesday, South Korean government officials said, over a seemingly minor disagreement over the diplomatic ranks of chief delegates. (Jacky Chen /Reuters photo)

June 12 Photo Brief: A bicycle flies, a King and Queen visit, protests and floods