Sep 12, 2013

Sept. 12 Photo Brief: Rocket frog, Fashion Week in NYC, Yom Kippur, Colorado flooding, shortest living woman

Rocket frog, Fashion Week in NYC, Yom Kippur, Colorado flooding, shortest living woman and more in today’s daily brief.

: A frog is captured during a lift off of NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, September 6, 2013. (Chris Perry/NASA)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are silhouetted as they pray during the Tashlich ritual near the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the southern city of Ashdod ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown Friday. Tashlich is a ritual of casting away sins of the past year into the water. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

: Jyoti Amge,19, from Nagpur, India, is measured by a Guinness World Record official on top of the Empire State Building in New York. Standing 24.7 inches tall, Amge has held the title of the “Shortest Living Woman” since her 18th birthday on December 16, 2011. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

: A South Korean man eats a live octopus during an event to promote a local food festival in Seoul. (Jung Yeon-Je/Getty Images)

: France’s President Francois Hollande holds an humanoid robot “Nao” from Aldebaran Robotics company as he visits an exhibition on French industrial design and technology at the Elysee Palace in Paris, . At R, French Minister for Industrial Recovery Arnaud Montebourg. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)

: Medical staff inspect newly born conjoined twin boys at Urumqi Children’s Hospital in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, August 30, 2013. The twins are currently sharing one heart and one kidney and are undergoing consultation from Shanghai experts on September 12, 2013, according to local media. (Reuters)

: Okkes Sahin (16) walks on hot peppers laid out on a road to dry under the sun in Kilis province. Farmers sell their peppers to factories producing pepper products after drying them under the sun for a week. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

: Emergency personnel work to rescue a man trapped in his vehicle during a flooding of Rock Creek in Lafayette, Colorado. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for central Boulder County that will remain in effect through at least 10 a.m. local time. (CBS4 Denver/Reuters)

: A home and car are stranded after a flash flood in Coal Creek destroyed the bridge near Golden, Colorado. Flooding in Colorado left two people dead, prompted hundreds to be evacuated, caused building collapses and stranded cars, officials said. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

: Government soldiers take cover during a firefight with Muslim rebels from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines. Fighting between security forces and rogue Muslim rebels seeking to declare an independent state escalated in a southern Philippine city on Thursday and spread to a second island, officials said. U.S.-trained commandos exchanged gunfire with a breakaway faction of the MNLF holding dozens of hostages in Zamboanga City, on the southernmost island of Mindanao, army spokesman Domingo Tutaan said. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)

: A man runs to fetch water to douse burning houses in a residential district, caused by a firefight between government soldiers and Muslim rebels from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines. Fighting between security forces and rogue Muslim rebels seeking to declare an independent state escalated in a southern Philippine city on Thursday and spread to a second island, officials said. U.S.-trained commandos exchanged gunfire with a breakaway faction of the MNLF holding dozens of hostages in Zamboanga City, on the southernmost island of Mindanao, army spokesman Domingo Tutaan said. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)

: Demonstrators set barricades on fire as they clash with riot police during a protest in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district late September 11, 2013. Turkish police used teargas to disperse crowds who were rallying against the death of Ahmet Atakan, 22, who lost his life in the early hours of Tuesday at a demonstration against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s handling of nationwide protests this summer. (Cevahir Bugu/Reuters)

: Chilean police arrest a demonstrator taking part in a protest along Alameda avenue in Santiago during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet that deposed him. (Claudio Santana/Getty Images)

: An opposition fighter runs in front of a sniper curtain across a street in the industrial area of Syria’s eastern town of Deir Ezzor during clashes with regime forces. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have averted a US strike by agreeing to hand over his chemical arsenal but the move could backfire against his weakened regime, analysts say. (Abo Shuja/Getty Images)

: A rope of three climbers walk at 3400m near the Giant’s tooth, in the Mont Blanc massif in France and Italy. (Jean Pierre ClatotJ/Getty Images)

: Sergei Bobkov, 56, arranges sculptures of Asian marmots he made from Siberian cedar wood shavings in the village of Kozhany, 207 km (129 miles) southwest of Krasnoyarsk. Bobkov spent one and a half years and used about 210,000 pieces of Siberian cedar to create three marmots sculptures. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: A model prepares backstage at The Blonds during MADE Fashion Week Spring 2014 at Milk Studios in New York City. (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)

: Models present fashion by designer Betsey Johnson during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2014 collectionin New York. (Mehdi Taamallah/Getty Images)

: The Tribute in Light illuminates the sky in New York on September 11, 2013 on the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The tribute, an art installation of the Municipal Art Society, consists of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center creating two vertical columns of light in remembrance of the 2001 attacks. (Timothy Clary/Getty Images)