Aug 21, 2013

August 21 Photo Brief: Children wingwalkers, flying horses, weigh-in at the zoo, China flooding, Syrian crisis worsens

Jerry Jackson 0 Comment Daily Brief China, England, India, London, Syria

Children wingwalkers, flying horses, weigh-in at the zoo, China flooding, Syrian crisis worsens with chemical weapon claims and more in today’s daily brief.

WARNING: Graphic photos may depict injury and/or death.

: Nine-year-old cousins Rose Brewer and Flame Brewer wingwalk over Rendcomb airfield in Gloucestershire, to become the world’s youngest formation wingwalkers in Cirencester, England. The two girls who flew on vintage Boeing Stearman biplanes, were inspired to do so by the plight of Eli Crossley who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His parents have set up the Duchenne Children’s Trust to raise money to research a treatment or cure in time to save Eli’s life. (Tim Ireland/Getty Images)

: Nine-year-old cousins Rose Brewer and Flame Brewer wingwalk over Rendcomb airfield in Gloucestershire, to become the world’s youngest formation wingwalkers in Cirencester, England. The two girls who flew on vintage Boeing Stearman biplanes, were inspired to do so by the plight of Eli Crossley who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His parents have set up the Duchenne Children’s Trust to raise money to research a treatment or cure in time to save Eli’s life. (Tim Ireland/Getty Images)

: Nine-year-old cousins Rose Brewer (L) and Flame Brewer (R) hug each other after they completed their wingwalk over Rendcomb airfield in Gloucestershire, to become the world’s youngest formation wingwalkers in Cirencester, England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

: An African Bullfrog is placed on a weighing scale during the London Zoo’s annual weigh-in in London. The task involves weighing and measuring the population of the zoo, before the information is shared with zoos across the world, allowing them to compare data on thousands of endangered species. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

: A waxy monkey tree frog is weighed in a measuring device during a photocall to publicize the annual measuring of all the animals at the London Zoo, in central London. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)

: Ireland’s Shane Breen makes a jump on the horse Balloon during the FEI Horse Jumping European Championships in Herning, Denmark. Britain took the lead at the European Show Jumping Championships, with 8.18 pts, at the expense of France, who moved to 3rd place (11.14 pts) behind Switzerland ( 8.45 pts) after 1st round of the Cup of Nations. (Henning Bagger/Getty Images)

: The figures of Soviet soldiers at the base of the Soviet Army monument are seen painted by an unknown artist in cheeky pink facelift to decry the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 20-21, 1968. The massive bronze relief sculpture depicting nine Soviet army soldiers was flamboyantly painted pink overnight and adorned with captions “Prague ’68” and “Bulgaria apologizes.” As part of the so-called Warsaw Pact, Bulgarian troops took part in the 1968 Soviet invasion of the former Czechoslovakia that crushed the Prague Spring reformist uprising in the country. (Dimitar Kilkoff/Getty Images)

: A demonstrator wears a t-shirt with a picture of a rouged Vladimir Putin as he takes part in a protest against the new Russian law on homosexuality in Copenhagen, Denmark. The protest march went from Christiansborg Castel to the Russian Embassy in Copenhagen. (Bax Lindhardt/Getty Images)

: 800 high-grade steel ball by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama are on display at the group exhibition “The Appearance – Shine, Glamour, Illusion”at the Kestnergesellschaft art forum in Hanover, western Germany. The show runs from August 23 – November 3, 2013 and is dedicated to the significance of brilliance, light and precious materials in contemporary art. The group exhibition features internationally renowned artist. (Holger Hollemann/Getty Images)

: A Bangladeshi youth sorts through polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles for recycling in poor working conditions in Dhaka. PET bottle flakes are an exportable raw material from Bangladesh. The recycled material is used to produce PSF (Polyester staple fiber) which are then made into PSY (polyester spun yarn) or used as stuffing materials. (Munir uz Zaman/Getty Images)

: A young Hindu priest arranges sacred thread during the Janai Purnima, or Sacred Thread, Festival at the premises of Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. Hindus take holy baths and change their sacred thread, also known as Janai, for protection and purification during the festival. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

: An Indian worker works on eco-friendly figures of Hindu God Lord Ganesh of mud and bamboo at a workshop on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Almost 2,000 five foot three inch eco-friendly clay Ganesh idols are being made with mud and bamboo at the workshop for the upcoming Hindu Ganesh festival, which will reduce pollution during the Ganesh immersion. (Noah Seelam/Getty Images)

: This aerial view shows a residential area submerged by floodwaters in Shantou, in southern China’s Guangdong province. The death toll from devastating floods at opposite ends of China following torrential rains and the aftermath of a typhoon has risen to more than 130, the government and media said on August 20. (Getty Images)

: People stand on ruins after downpours ravaged Nankouqian township in Fushun, Liaoning province. The floods which began August 15 have killed 54 people and leaving 97 missing in Fushun so far, according to local reports. (China Daily/Reuters)

: A rescue worker throws a box containing water out of a helicopter above a flooded area in Shantou, Guangdong province. Flooding triggered by rainstorms has ravaged the city for the last few days, affecting 772,000 people across 11 townships, according to local media. (China Daily/Reuters)

: Pelicans are being fed in their enclosure at the bird park in Marlow, north-eastern Germany. (Bernd Wustneck/Getty Images)

: Compagnie Retouramont performs “Vertical Extraction” during a media preview of the Singapore Night Festival. The sixth Singapore Night Festival, which consists of aerial performances, art and light installations, will take place over the last two weekends of August. (Edgar Su/Reuters)

: U.S. soldier Bradley Manning is escorted into court to receive his sentence at Fort Meade in Maryland August 21, 2013. Manning, who was convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation’s history, will be told on Wednesday how much of his life will be spent in a military prison. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

: A survivor from what activists say is a gas attack rests inside a mosque in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus. Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of launching a gas attack that killed more than 200 people on Wednesday, in what would, if confirmed, be by far the worst reported use of chemical arms in the two-year-old civil war. Syrian state television denied government forces had used poison gas and said the accusations were intended to distract a team of United Nations chemical weapons experts which arrived three days ago. (Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)

: A man holds the body of a dead child among bodies of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus. Syrian activists said at least 213 people, including women and children, were killed on Wednesday in a nerve gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on rebel-held districts of the Ghouta region east of Damascus. (Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)

August 21 Photo Brief: Children wingwalkers, flying horses, weigh-in at the zoo, China flooding, Syrian crisis worsens

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