Jun 26, 2013

June 26 Photo Brief: Torching drugs, kissing horses, praying for Mandela, seeing blue and red at Wimbledon

Torching drugs, kissing horses, praying for Mandela, seeing blue and red at Wimbledon and more in today’s daily brief.

: A shepherd boy is silhouetted, in Qunu a rural village where former South African President Nelson Mandela grew up. Mandela’s close family members gathered to hear a sombre prayer wishing the anti-apartheid icon a “peaceful, perfect, end” as he lay in hospital in critical condition with his life seemingly slipping away. (Carl De Souza/Getty Images)

: A shepherd boy is pictured after catching a stray lamb in Qunu, the rural where former South African President Nelson Mandela grew up. Mandela’s close family members gathered to hear a sombre prayer wishing the anti-apartheid icon a “peaceful, perfect, end” as he lay in hospital in critical condition with his life seemingly slipping away. (Carl De Souza/Getty Images)

: A student is hit by a jet of water sprayed by riot police during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education system, in Santiago. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system. (Carlos Vera/Reuters)

: Captain George Ashby of the Household Cavalry plays with his horse ‘Cornet’ on Motcomb Street as he helps launch the street’s annual party in London, England. Proceeds from the street party in Belgravia, featuring entertainment alongside food and drink stalls, is donated to the Household Cavalry fund and the Chelsea Community Hospital Schools. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

: Captain George Ashby of the Household Cavalry plays with his horse ‘Cornet’ on Motcomb Street as he helps launch the street’s annual party in London, England. Proceeds from the street party in Belgravia, featuring entertainment alongside food and drink stalls, is donated to the Household Cavalry fund and the Chelsea Community Hospital Schools. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

: Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall holds a cut-out bear mask in front of her face as she chats with school children from Broughshane Primary School during a visit to Broughshane library in Broughshane, Northern Ireland. (Peter Muhly/Getty Images)

: Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to lead the weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Giampiero Sposito/Reuters)

: A worker welds inside a factory in Chongqing municipality. Asian markets buckled badly on Thursday after the Federal Reserve heralded an eventual end to free money and China turned the screw on credit even as factory activity in the world’s second-largest economy hit a nine-month low. (Reuters)

: A student chants a prayer as his class visits Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital to pay respect where ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)

: People offer special prayers for the flood victims in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, inside a temple in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Floods and landslides unleashed by early monsoon rains last week killed at least 680 people in Uttarakhand and left thousands of people missing. (Amit Dave/Reuters)

: Astronauts (L-R) Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping salute after returning to earth in the re-entry capsule of China’s Shenzhou-10 spacecraft at its main landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, touching down in north China’s Inner Mongolia after a successful 15-day mission in which they docked with a manned space laboratory. (Reuters)

: A Soyuz-2 rocket carrying a Resurs-P satellite rises at a launch pad in the Russian leased Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome late. The Russian carrier rocket successfully placed on the target orbit the first Resurs-P Earth imaging satellite, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. (Getty Images)

: Pakistani Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) personnel prepare to burn a pile of seized drugs in Quetta. Officials burnt the contraband as part of International Anti-drug Day. (Banaras Khan/Getty Images)

: An Iranian man who was fixing explosives wires run away after setting ablaze 50 tons of drugs seized in recent months in eastern Tehran on June 26, 2013 to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. (Behrouz Mehri/Getty Images)

: Protesters gather on Taksim square during a demonstration against the government in Istanbul. Erdogan yesterday praised the police “heroism” in handling several weeks of unrest that threw up the biggest challenge yet to his government after more than a decade in power. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)

: French tire maker Michelin employees, mostly from the Joue-les-Tours plant, run away from tear gas spread by security member as they were trying to pull out the grid of the company headquarters where an extraordinary comittee is taking place in Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Michelin said on June 10 it would stop making truck tires at its Joue-les-Tours factory by 2015, slashing 700 jobs, due to plummeting demand in Europe. (Thierry Zoccolan/Getty Images)

: An Australian fan with a painted face poses for a picture as Germany’s Dustin Brown plays against Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt during their second round men’s singles match on day three of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 26, 2013. Brown won 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-2. (Adrian Dennis/Getty Images)

: Strawberries are prepared during day two of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

: Damaged houses are seen precariously above the flash flood-eroded Mandakini river in the town of Tilwara, around 30kms from Rudraprayag. Around 1,000 people have been killed in flash floods and landslides in northern India, as a top official warned June 24 that rebuilding of the devastated Himalayan region would take years. (Manan Vatsyayana/Getty Images)

: Brett Rumford of Australia hits a shot down Carton Avenue in Maynooth as a preview to The Irish Open at Carton House Golf Club in Maynooth, Ireland. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

: A general view of competitors warming up ahead of day 1 of the 2013 USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships and World Trials at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

: Australian indigenous dancer and choreographer Albert David performs in Colombo. The renowned dancer puts on a show in collaboration with a Sri Lankan performing arts foundation. (Ishara S. Kodikara/Getty Images)

: One month old lion cubs make their first public appearance at a zoo in the southern Russian city of Stavropol. (Danil Semyonov/Getty Images)

: Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C) is surrounded by journalists as he leaves after a French Senate commission inquiry on the role of banks in tax evasion in Paris. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)