July 9 photo brief: Ramadan begins, Kiliki chase children in Pamplona, Amanda Bynes goes to court, frozen mammoth, Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano
Ramadan begins, Kiliki chase children in Pamplona, Amanda Bynes goes to court, frozen mammoth unveiled in Japan, Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano is smoking and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Canadian performer Matias Salmenaho, 26, stands still as axes are juggled past him as the three generation Quebecois circus company, Cirque Alfonse mark their UK debut show entitled ” Timber!” at Lthe Southbank Centre in London. (Andrew Cowie/Getty Images)
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- Indonesian Muslim women hold prayers on the first night of the holy month of Ramadan at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta. Islam’s holy month of Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims worldwide marked by fasting, abstaining from foods, sex and smoking from dawn to dusk for soul cleansing and strengthening the spiritual bond between them and the Almighty. (Adek Berry/Getty Images)
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- A child walks near members of the Muslim community attending midday prayers at Strasbourg Grand Mosque in Strasbourg on the first day of Ramadan. The Grand Mosque of Paris has fixed the first day of Ramadan as Wednesday, splitting with the French Council of Muslim Religion (Conseil Francais du Culte Musulman or CFCM), which determined it would begin on Tuesday. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
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- Germany’s Marcel Kittel reacts as he crosses the finish line at the end of the 197 km tenth stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Saint-Gildas-des-Bois and Saint-Malo, northwestern France. (Jeff Pachoud/Getty Images)
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- A “Kiliki” talks to a boy who tried to hide from him inside a store during the San Fermin festival’s “Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos” (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona. “Kilikis”, wearing outsized masks and playfully hitting bystanders with sponges on sticks, parade daily through the city accompanied by brass bands during the nine-day-long festival made popular by U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
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- “Kilikis” wait for children to come out of the building where they were hiding during San Fermin festival’s “Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos” (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona. “Kilikis”, wearing outsized masks and playfully hitting bystanders with sponges on sticks, parade daily through the city accompanied by brass bands during the nine-day-long festival made popular by U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
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- A runner is knocked down by Valdefresno fighting bulls at the entrance to the bullring during the third running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Two runners were treated in hospital for bruising following the run that lasted two minutes and twenty seven seconds, according to local media. (Joseba Extaburu/Reuters)
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- A polar bear shakes his head as he takes a bath in a pool of his enclosure at the zoo in Berlin. Temperatures in the German capital are forecast to reach up to 28 degrees Celsius. (Matthias Balk/Getty Images)
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- Actress Amanda Bynes arrives for a court hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. Bynes is charged with reckless endangerment and attempted tampering with physical evidence. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
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- A Bosnian boy walks by women holding a banner with picture of people killed in Srebenica as they await the arrival of the trucks transporting body caskets of Srebrenica 1995 victims, from the municipal morgue in the Central-Bosnian town of Visok, in preparation for a mass burial, at Potocari Memorial cemetery near the Eastern-Bosnian town of Srebrenica, on July 11. The Potocari Memorial cemetery is undergoing preparations for another mass burral on July 11, when 408 newly identified bodies will be put to final rest. Bodies are identified as those belonging to Bosnian Muslim victims of the offensive undertaken by Bosnian Serbs in July 1995 with aim to occupy the earlier declared UN safe heaven area of Srebrenica and the surrounding villages. During the offensive more than 8000 Bosnian non-Serbs went missing to be found buried in mass graves, years after the war ended. (Elvis Barukcic/Getty Images)
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- An Ustad leads a prayer with his students inside the IBN Khaldon Asian Integrated Institute in Maharlika village, Taguig city, south of Manila July 9, 2013. Philippines’ President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday called for unity and cooperation among Filipino Muslims as they prepare to start the observance of the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the most sacred month of the Islamic calendar. During this month, Muslims fast and offer prayers from dawn until sunset. The Philippines will be starting Ramadan on Wednesday, local media reported. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
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- A boy looks up from inside a basket used to carry vegetables as his mother sells vegetables along the streets of Kathmandu. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- Lebanese military police inspect the remains of a vehicle, at the site of an explosion in Beirut’s southern suburbs, July 9, 2013. A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a Beirut stronghold district of the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group that has been fighting in Syria’s civil war, wounding at least 38 people, a hospital official told Reuters. (Hasan Shaaban/Reuters)
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- Ash spews from Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from San Damian Texoloc in the Mexican central state of Tlaxcala. During the weekend authorities have raised the alert level to “Yellow Phase Three,” the fifth of a seven-stage warning system, restricting access to an area of 12 km around the volcano while preparing evacuation routes and shelters. (J.Guadalupe Perez/Getty Images)
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- A 39,000-year-old female Woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Siberia, Russia is seen upon its arrival at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. The mammoth will be on display from July 13, 2013 till September 16, 2013. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
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- People gather at the site of an explosion in Beirut’s southern suburbs. At least 18 people were wounded by a car bomb blast in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Tuesday, a stronghold of the Lebanese Shi’ite Hezbollah militant group that has been fighting in Syria’s civil war, security sources said. The sources were unable to confirm initial reports from medics at the scene that an unspecified number were killed in the massive blast. (Hasan Shaaban/Reuters)
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- Egyptian supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi hold a copy of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, and wave their national flag as they shout slogans during a rally in support of the former Islamist leader (portrait back-L) outside Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque. Egypt’s interim leader vowed fresh elections by early next year as Islamists staged fresh rallies after dozens of Morsi’s loyalists died in clashes at a Cairo military barracks (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)
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- Malaysian Islamist protesters hold posters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during a protest to oppose the military overthrow of the Islamist leader and subsequent killings in Egypt, outside the Egyptian embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Fifty-one people, mostly Mohamed Morsi loyalists, were killed in Egypt on July 8 while rallying in favour of the ousted president, as the new rulers announced fresh elections by early 2014 amid US calls for restraint. (Mohd Rasfan/Getty Images)
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- Civilians gather at the of an explosion in Beirut’s southern suburb neighborhood of Bir al-Abed. A car bomb rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs, stronghold of Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement, wounding 15 people, television reports and a military source said. (Getty Images)
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- Indian commuters make their way through a waterlogged street after heavy monsoon rains fell in Jalandhar. Authorities have raised to 5,500 the estimated number of people who perished in devastating floods that swept the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand last month. (Shammi Mehra/Getty Images)
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- Indian villagers gather near the body of an elephant in a field near the village of Keribakori, Nagaon District some 140kms east of Guwahati, one of two found in a field by the villagers. It is believed that the elephants were electrocuted by power lines as they walked through fields of growing rice at night in the northeastern state of Assam. (Getty Images)
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- Glen Doyle a member of the Wuriniri Dance Group poses during a public NAIDOC celebration at Hyde Park in Sydney, Australia. NAIDOC is a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and an opportunity to recognize the contributions of Indigenous Australians. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
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