Aug 16, 2013

Firefighters put out the Elk Complex wildfire in Idaho, a German museum shows its Bundesliga affiliation on a dinosaur statue, the Dutch royal family buries Prince Friso and more in today’s daily brief.

: A supporter of the Bulgarian Socialist party holds a portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin during a rally to support the government in downtown Sofia on August 16, 2013. Technocrat Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski faces a stern test when his revised 2013 budget goes before parliament again after it was vetoed by the president. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)

: The reflection of horses, their keepers, and an umbrella-toting pedestrian is seen in a puddle of water following heavy monsoon rains in the northern hill town of Shimla on August 16, 2013. The monsoon, which covers the subcontinent from June to September and usually brings flooding, accounts for about 80 percent of India’s annual rainfall. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Israeli soldier wags his finger at a Palestinian protester during the evacuation of Palestinian protesters who were trying to close the main road leading to the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on August 16, 2013. (Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images)

: A life-size Tyrannosaurus rex statue, dressed with a jersey of the Bundesliga soccer team Eintracht Frankfurt, is seen in front of the Senckenberg Natural Museum in Frankfurt, August 16, 2013. According to a press release from the museum, the jersey was placed on the statue in preparation for the August 17 match when Eintracht faces FC Bayern Munich in its first home game of the Bundesliga season. (Ralph Orlowski/Reuters)

: Zakaria Alakory (right), 19, and Assem Al khshmy, 16, practice parkour on the beach in Benghazi, Libya.(Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters)

: Firefighter Henry Munoz sprays down a hotspot at the Elk Complex wildfire outside Boise, Idaho. Together with the Elk, Pony, Beaver Creek and McCan wildfires over 300,000 acres have burned between Boise and Hailey, Idaho. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

: Members of a Ukrainian non-governmental organization (NGO) burn goods produced in Russia during a protest in front of the Russia Embassy in Kiev on August 16, 2013. Ukraine is experiencing difficulties with its exports to Russia, the prime minister Mykola Azarov acknowledged on Thursday, amid growing tensions with Moscow over a Kremlin-led Customs Union. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images)

: Men help a wounded boy rescued from under rubble after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr district, August 16, 2013. (Saad Abobrahim/Reuters)

: Jockey Jonathan Bartoletti, right, of the Lupa (Wolf) parish leads ahead of Jockey Giovanni Atzeni of the Onda (Wave) parish, Francesco Caria of the Oca (Goose) parish and Luigi Bruschelli of the Nicchio (Shell) parish during the Palio of Siena horse race in Siena August 16, 2013. Every year on July 2 and August 16, almost without fail since the mid-1600s, 10 riders compete bareback around Siena’s shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)

: Two young exhibitors prepare their miniature steam engine to shows at the Cornish Steam and Country Fair at the Stithians Showground on August 16, 2013 near Penryn, England. The annual show, now in 58th year, is one of Cornwall’s largest outdoor events and is one of the UK’s most popular and respected steam rallies. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

: Co-workers and relatives of 34 miners shot dead by South African police during a violent wage strike gather on August 16, 2013 in Marikana to mark the first anniversary of their deaths. Friday marks a year after police opened fire on thousands of strikers at platinum producer Lonmin’s mine, northwest of Johannesburg, which killed 34 and injured 78 people. The August shooting was described as the worst police brutality since the end of apartheid two decades ago. Three days ago, the firm has recognised radical labour group AMCU, which led the wage strike, in an attempt to ease simmering inter-union tensions on the platinum belt. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)

: U.S. President Barack Obama (left) rides with his daughter Malia through the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, August 16, 2013, during their family vacation to Martha’s Vineyard. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Lebanese gunman is seen during the funeral procession of Hamad al-Moqdad, one of the Lebanese victims of a car bomb attack that killed dozens in a Beirut stronghold of Shiite group Hezbollah, which backs Syria’s embattled president, in the capital on August 16, 2013. Lebanon was holding a day of mourning after the attack. (Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images)

: Dutch Princess Mabel Wisse-Smit (second left) walks with her daughters Luana and Zaria, Princess Beatrix, the royal family and guests to the Stulp Church in Lage Vuursche in Baarn, The Netherlands, on August 16, 2013 where the funeral service of Prince Friso will be held. The prince will be buried in the cemetery of the church in Lage Vuursche. The prince, who spent the last 18 months in a coma after being caught in an avalanche, died aged 44, royal officials announced 12 August. The younger brother of King Willem-Alexander suffered severe brain damage in February 2012 after the skiing accident in the Austrian ski resort of Lech. (Robin van Lonkhuijsen/AFP/Getty Images)

: Images of grieving Israeli soldiers adorn a wall as members of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement adjust their sashes during a gathering to listen to a speech by Hezbollah’s leader Hasan Nasrallah, delivered via video-link, in the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab, on the border with Israel on August 16, 2013. The speech commemorated the seventh anniversary of the 2006 July-August war between Lebanon and Israel. Nasrallah accused radical Islamists of responsibility for a car bomb that killed at least 22 people in a Beirut stronghold of his pro-Syria Shiite group. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Afghan security official drags the severed leg of a suicide attacker at the site of a suicide attack in Kandahar on August 16, 2013. Some fifteen people were injured in the attack on the highway near Kandahar Airport. General Abdul Hameed, Afghan army commander in southern Afghanistan told AFP: “We have six ISAF troops and six Afghan army soldiers and three children wounded in this attack. (Siddiqullah Alizai/AFP/Getty Images)

August 16 Photo Brief: Idaho wildfires, shelling in Syria, Dutch prince’s funeral

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