Aug 2, 2013

The world’s largest heavy metal festival is held in Germany, protestors in multiple countries observe an Iran-led day to oppose Israeli control of Jerusalem, and heavy rains beat down on western India in today’s daily brief.

: A vendor carries empty buckets at the Jambanja market in Seke, 58km south of Harare, Zimbabwe on August 2, 2013. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed Friday it was headed for victory in crunch elections branded a “sham” by his rivals as international observers prepared to hand down their verdict Friday. A leading opposition figure called for “passive resistance” over the outcome of Wednesday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, which the opposition and local monitors charge was riddled with flaws. (Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images)

: U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte competes in heats of the men’s 100-meter butterfly swimming event in the FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona on August 2, 2013. (Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images)

: Indian Muslims pray as they gather for Jummat-Ul-Vida prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan at the historic Jama Masjid in New Delhi on August 2, 2013, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival. The three-day festival, which begins after the sighting of the new moon, marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which devout Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. (Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images)

: A mourner holds up a portrait of her missing relative, presumed dead following the April 24 Rana Plaza garment building collapse, and a bone fragment believed to be from one of the many unidentified remains of killed garment workers, at the scene on the one hundredth-day anniversary of the disaster in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on August 2, 2013. Hundreds of garment workers staged demonstrations at the site of Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster, demanding compensation for the survivors and a full account of the missing laborers of the April 24, 2013 factory building collapse that killed 1,129 people. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

: Pakistani Shiite Muslims torch Israeli and U.S. flags during a rally to mark the Al-Quds Day on the last Friday in the holy month of Ramadan in Quetta on August 2, 2013. Shiite Muslim protesters rallied across the country against the United States and Israel and prayed for the liberation of Palestine. (Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images)

: Palestinian and foreign protestors attend a gathering marking “Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day” in Gaza City on August 2, 2013. An initiative started by Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Quds Day is held annually on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and calls for Jerusalem to be returned to the Palestinians. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

: Bathers paddle in the sea in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, on August 2, 2013, enjoying a warm summer day. The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute is predicting one of the hottest days of the year in the Netherlands. (Evert-Jan Daniels/AFP/Getty Images)

: A French farmer inspects the blades of his combine as he harvests wheat in a field in Raches, near Douai, northern France, which has reached maturity due to warm summer temperatures August 2, 2013. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters)

: A woman reacts to the arrival of Colonel Mamadou, commander of the 42nd battalion of the Congolese armed forces (FARDC), as he tries to disperse a demonstration in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on August 2, 2013. Several hundred angry civilians stoned UN vehicles and called for the UN to leave the country due to a feeling of inaction by UN forces. (Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Gujarat Industrial Security Force serviceman keeps vigil under an umbrella as water gushes out of the Wanakbori dam at Wanakbori village in India on August 2, 2013. A “White Signal” alert was sounded August 2 as the dam’s water level reached 236 feet (71.5 meters). Many parts of Gujarat state are experiencing heavy rains, with the water levels of many dams in the state rising to alert levels. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)

: People hold torches as they celebrate the ethnic Bai people’s traditional Torch Festival in Dali, Yunnan province, August 1, 2013. The annual Torch Festival typically starts at sunset on the 25th day of the sixth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, during which people worship, light, play and dance with torches to pray for good harvests and good luck in the future. (William Hong/Reuters Photo)

: A heavy metal fan, sitting on a plastic whale float, jumps into a swimming pool during the 24th Wacken Open Air Festival in Wacken, August 2, 2013. More than 75,000 heavy metal fans are expected to attend the largest heavy metal festival in the world, organizers said. (Fabian Bimmer/Reuters)

: A woman watches as Ali Isa Albasri’s funeral procession passes through a street in the village of Sitra, south of Manama in Bahrain, August 2, 2013. Mahmood Abbas Alaradi and Albasri died when the car they were travelling in hit a vehicle while they were being chased by police, according to opposition. Police issued a media statement saying that the police have nothing do to with the accident and stated that it was a fatal road accident. Both victims were buried in the village on Friday. (Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)

: Clerics supporting deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi attend a rally at the Raba El-Adwyia square where Mursi’s supporters are camping, in Cairo August 2, 2013. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)

: A Syrian refugee girl sits in front of hanging clothes as another girl looks on at a four-story mall housing refugees them in Deddeh village, northern Lebanon. Atop a mountain lined with olive and cypress trees overlooking Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city, a disused shopping center houses nearly 1,000 Syrian refugees who have fled the civil war in recent months. The unending flow of refugees into Lebanon since the conflict began in March 2011 has led to the emergence of more than 1,400 informal settlements like this one across Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)

: Gabriella Chapman attempts to run Christa the goat through the 4-H obstacle course during the Cattaraugus County Fair in Little Valley, New York. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

: Pilgrims enter at Our Lady of the Angels Basilica in Cartago, 22 km east of San Jose, Costa Rica, to pay tribute and thanks for favors granted by the “Virgen de los Angeles” (Virgin of the Angels), Costa Rica’s patron saint, also known as “La Negrita.” August 2 is the Virgen de los Angeles Day. (Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Israeli wears a mask under a giant flag during the annual gay pride parade on August 1, 2013 in Jerusalem. 2,500 people took part in the gay pride parade calling for equal rights, as 150 Ultra Orthodox Jews demonstrated to denounce the “abomination” of homosexuality. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

August 2 Photo Brief: Europe heats up, Iran leads protest day against Israel

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