July 18 Photo Brief: Nelson Mandela turns 95, Bruce Lee is honored in Hong Kong and being fashionable at the British Open
The world celebrates as Nelson Mandela turns 95 today, a exhibit to honor Bruce Lee opens in Hong Kong, British Open golfers don their fashion attire during the opening round of the tournament and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A bookmaker presents the latest odds on boys names outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in London where Prince William and his wife Catherine’s baby is expected to be born. (Leon Neal/Getty images)
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- Chinese honour guards prepare for the arrival of the Vice President of Venezuela Jorge Arreaza Montserrat and Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Wang Zhao/Getty images)
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- A diver trains at the Montjuic swimming pool two days before the start of the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona. (Francois Xavier Marit/Getty images)
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- Indian school children hold candles as they payi tribute to school children that died from food poisoning in Saran district of Bihar state, at a government school in Amritsar. Thousands of schoolchildren were refusing free meals in poverty-stricken eastern India after 22 children died from eating lunch apparently contaminated with insecticide, officials said. (Narinder Nanu/Getty images)
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- Thousands of people hold up signs reading, “Justice” as they gather to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters photo)
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- A member of the Ceremonial Guard is assisted after fainting during a ceremony marking the change of command of the Canadian Army on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Chris Wattie/Reuters photo)
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- Marylebone cricket club members read newspapers as they wait in a queue to enter the ground before the second Ashes cricket test match between England and Australia at Lord’s cricket ground, London. (Philip Brown/Reuters photo)
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- Ian Poulter of England, Billy Horschel of the U.S., and Keegan Bradley of the U.S. (L-R), wait on the second green during the first round of the British Open golf Championship at Muirfield in Scotland. (Toby Melville /Reuters photo)
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- German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble arrives at a Greek-German industry and trade chamber meeting in Athens. Greek police have banned protests and traffic in downtown Athens during a visit by Schaeuble, whom many accuse of forcing painful cuts on Greece in return for the multi-billion euro bailouts keeping it afloat. (ICON/Reuters photo)
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- Shannon Lee, daughter of the late Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee, poses beside a portrait of her father at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, before the start of a five-year exhibition on Lee. Late kung fu superstar Bruce Lee may be an international icon, but he is still not the complete local hero in Hong Kong. Fans are marking his death 40 years ago this weekend with art gallery shows, exhibitions and even street graffiti but some people are urging Hong Kong’s government to do more to honor the former British colony’s biggest star. (Bobby Yip/Reuters photo)
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- Snails crawl on the face of a woman during a demonstration of a new beauty treatment at Clinical-Salon Ci:z.Labo in central Tokyo. Clinical-Salon Ci:z.Labo, which began the unique facial earlier this week, offers the 10,500 yen ($110) five-minute session with the snails as an optional add-on for customers who apply for a “Celeb Escargot Course”, an hour-long treatment routine of massages and facials based on products made from snail slime that costs 24,150 yen. According to a beautician at the salon, the snail slime is believed to make one’s skin supple as well as remove dry and scaly patches. (Issei Kato/Reuters photo)
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- Children hold placards as they gather to wish to former President Nelson Mandela happy birthday at a township school in Atteridgeville near Pretoria. Anti-apartheid hero Mandela is “steadily improving”, South Africa’s government said on Thursday as the former president celebrated his 95th birthday in hospital amid tributes from around the country and the world. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters photo)
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- Palestinian children wait to receive food, donated by the Islamic endowment authority Islamic waqf, at a soup kitchen in the West Bank city of Hebron during the holy month of Ramadan. During Ramadan, there is an increase in demand for food, a manager at the soup kitchen said. (Ammar Awad/Reuters photo)
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- A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a shower while wearing his clothes, calling on other fellows to do the same to avoid being surprised by enemies in Deir al-Zor. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters photo)
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- Women shield themselves from the midday sun with umbrellas, in the Chinatown section of lower Manhattan in New York City. Temperatures in New York City, the nation’s biggest metropolitan area, soared into the upper 90s Fahrenheit for a fourth straight day. (Mike Segar/Reuters photo)
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