August 28 Photo Brief: World’s largest tomato fight, T-rex commute, the many colors of Merkel, Israel prepares for trouble

Revellers take part in the annual “Tomatina” festivities in Bunol, near Valencia, on August 28, 2013. Twenty thousands revellers hurled 130 tonnes of squashed tomatoes at each other, drenching the streets in red in a gigantic Spanish food fight known as the Tomatina. (Gabriel Gallo/Getty Images)

Revellers take part in the annual “Tomatina” festivities in Bunol, near Valencia. Twenty thousands revellers hurled 130 tons of squashed tomatoes at each other, drenching the streets in red in a gigantic Spanish food fight known as the Tomatina. (Gabriel Gallo/Getty Images)

Revelers battle with tomatoes during the annual “Tomatina” (tomato fight) in the Mediterranean village of Bunol, near Valencia. The origin of the tomato fight is disputed – everyone in Bunol seems to have a favourite story – but most agree it started around 1940, in the early years of General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. (Heino Kalis/Reuters)

Revellers celebrate covered by tomato pulp while participating the annual Tomatina festival on August 28, 2013 in Bunol, Spain. An estimated 20,000 people threw 130 tons of ripe tomatoes in the world’s biggest tomato fight held annually in this Spanish Mediterranean town. (David Ramos/Getty Images)

A Tyrannosaurus rex takes a morning stroll with commuters in Hyde Park in Sydney, Australia. In a world first, the Australian Museum presents “Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family”, an innovative, multimedia experience showcasing the newly-revised tyrannosaur family tree. With over 10 life-sized dinosaur specimens on display, including one of the oldest tyrannosaurs, Guanlong wucaii, the exhibition runs from 23 November 2013 to 27 July 2014. Showcasing a dramatic array of fossils and casts of tyrannosaur specimens, including never before-seen specimens from China, “Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family” is designed to provide a snapshot of dinosaur life and show how this group became the world’s top predators with their massive skulls, powerful jaws and bone-crunching teeth. (James Morgan/Destination New South Wales via Getty Images)

A performer dressed in a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur costume walks amongst pedestrians during a publicity event in central Sydney. The performance was a promotion for an upcoming exhibition at the Australian Museum titled “Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family” which showcases ancestors of the Tyrannosaurus rex, with more than 10 life-size dinosaur specimens on display. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)

A make-up artist works on a model during Universal Studios’ ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ media make-up kick-off at The Globe Theatre in Universal City, California. (Joe Klamar/Getty Images)

Colombia’s dancers Juan David Bedoya Marin and Karla Rotavinsky Cadavid dance tango during the Stage Tango competition of the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires. Daniel Garcia/Getty Images)

A professional lumberjack cuts a tree branch by branch before felling it in Hanau, 30km south of Frankfurt, Germany. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

A Syrian-Kurdish refugee man carries a mattress at sunset at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Iraq’s Kurdish region in less than two weeks, an official said on August 26, 2013, as authorities rush to house them in more permanent camps. (Safin Hamed/Getty Images)

Palestinian children sit on a donkey in a poverty-stricken district of the town of Khan Younis where they live with their families in tents in the southern Gaza Strip. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

A Free Syrian Army fighter passes by the convoy of U.N. vehicles carrying a team of United Nations chemical weapons experts at one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus’ suburbs of Zamalka. A team of United Nations inspectors reached rebel-held territory outside Damascus on Wednesday, opposition activists said, and would soon begin a second day of investigating the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people. (Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)

A U.N. chemical weapons expert is pictured during his visit to one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus’ suburb of Zamalka. U.N. chemical weapons experts investigating an apparent gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in rebel-held suburbs of Damascus made a second trip across the front line to take samples. (Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)

An Israeli soldier walks next to Merkava tanks stationed in a deployment training area in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria. Israel will strike back “fiercely” if Syria attacks the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as the US mulled military action against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. (Menahem Kahana/Getty Images)

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks out with his children after collecting gas mask kits at a distribution point in Jerusalem. Thousands of Israelis on Wednesday continued to queue up for gas masks or ordered them by phone, spurred on by fears that any Western military response to last week’s alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria could ensnare their own country in war. Israel also deploying all of its missile defenses as a precaution against possible Syrian retaliatory attacks should Western powers carry out threatened strikes on Syria, Israeli Army Radio said on Wednesday. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

A combination picture shows German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel, wearing jackets of differing colors while attending various public events. Merkel is seeking a third term in a parliamentary election on September 22, 2013. Polls suggest the conservative leader will beat centre-left challenger Peer Steinbrueck of the Social Democratic party (SPD). But it remains an open question whether she can carry on with her alliance with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) or will have to seek a new partner. Pictures taken from 1995 to the present day. (Reuters)

US actor George Clooney shakes hands with fans as he arrives at Venice Lido on the first day of the 70th Venice Film Festival. The Venice film festival kicks off today with the arrival of movie stars on water taxis for a dark line-up flush with fiendish tales of abuse, betrayal and survival. The world’s oldest film festival opens with “Gravity”, a 3-D sci-fi thriller starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts who are flung into deep space when a debris shower destroys their shuttle. (Gabriel Bouys/Getty Images)

A devotee swings a lamp in front of the Krishna Temple during the Krishna Janmasthami festival in Lalitpur. Krishna Janmashtami, a festival marking the birth of Hindu god Krishna, is celebrated by Hindus throughout the world. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

Visually impaired students react as water splashes on them during celebrations for the Hindu festival of “Janmashtami” in Mumbai. The festival, which marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, will be celebrated across India on Wednesday. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

Widows dressed as the Hindu god Krishna’s consort, Radha, dance during celebrations to mark Janmashtami festival at the Meera Sahavagini ashram in Vrindavan, located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Most of the widows who live in this ashram have been abandoned by their families. The festival, which marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, is celebrated across India Wednesday. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

Indian rescue personnel administer oxygen to an injured man (C) trapped in the debris of a collapsed residential building near Vadodara, some 110 kms from Ahmedabad. Eleven residents were killed and another four injured and when the three-story residential building collapsed during pre-dawn hours. (Getty Images)

A panda cub opens her eyes at the Taipei City Zoo. The cub, the first panda born in Taiwan, was delivered on July 7 following a series of artificial insemination sessions after her parents — Yuan Yuan and her partner Tuan Tuan — failed to conceive naturally. (Taipei City Zoo/Getty Images)

August 28 Photo Brief: World’s largest tomato fight, T-rex commute, the many colors of Merkel, Israel prepares for trouble

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