Sep 16, 2013

Back to school in Syria, Buddhist monks protest, London fashionistas, and more in today’s brief.

: A Greenpeace activist spoon feeds an activist chained up to a rail track of a German division of Swedish energy giant Vattenfall in Welzow, eastern Germany, on September 16, 2013 to stage a protest against the company’s planned brown coal mining. (Patrick Pleul/AFP)

: Buddhist monks who are supporters of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), react during a protest as party leader Sam Rainsy announces the result of a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh September 16, 2013. Hun Sen met opposition leader Sam Rainsy for talks and officials said they had agreed to look at how future general elections are held but the long-serving premier refused to give in to demands for an independent inquiry into the July 28 poll. The protest was staged a day after police used force to scatter protesters challenging a disputed election win by Hun Sen, sparking clashes in which one man was shot dead. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

: Iraqi children inspect a burnt-out car at the site of a car bomb attack that exploded the previous day in a commercial street of Baghdad’s eastern neighbourhood of Mashtal on September 16, 2013. A wave of attacks across Iraq, the deadliest of which struck south of the capital, killed 26 people and left dozens more wounded, security and medical officials said. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

: Models present creations by Burberry Prorsum during the 2014 Spring/Summer London Fashion Week in London on September 16, 2013. (Ben Stansall/AFP) Models present creations by Burberry Prorsum during the 2014 Spring/Summer London Fashion Week in London on September 16, 2013. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

: Horsemen ride their horses through colored smoke during a practice session at the beach of Scheveningen on September 16, 2013 in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Some eighty members of the Dutch cavalry practiced for any possible emergency during tomorrow’s Prinsjesdag ceremony which marks the opening of the Dutch parliament. (Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)

: Members of the Dutch Royal Guard of Honour guide their horses during a rehearsal ahead of the Dutch 2014 budget presentation, at the beach of Scheveningen September 16, 2013. (Toussaint Kluiters/Reuters)

: Picture taken on September 10, 2013 in Paris shows French-Spanish artist Antonio Garcia Leon posing in a flat he decorated in a building set for demolition in 2014, where artists from all over the world occupy the 36 flats to create “street Art works”. Gallerist Mehdi ben Cheikh is behind this “ephemeral” event and the exibition “Tour Paris 13” will be opened to the public from October 1, to 31 2013. (Joel Sagot/AFP)

: A Loggerhead turtle hatchling races for the Mediterranean Sea after it came of of it’s nest at a protected hatchery on September 15, 2013 in Mikhmoret north of Netanya, Israel. From transplanting turtle nests during the nesting season to protected beaches, through the rescue and treatment of wounded turtles brought in by fishermen or washed up on Israel’s shores, to the development of a long-range breeding program for the threatened Green turtles, the volunteers and staff of the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority are doing their best to protect the creatures. The numbers have dwindled in the Mediterranean to an estimated 450 nesting female Green turtles and about 2500 nesting female Loggerheads. Far removed from man-made obstacles and protected from their natural predators such as crabs, foxes and birds, the hatchlings make their race to the sea with the hope that more than 20 years later they will return to the same beach to ensure the species survival. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

: A pupil yawns as he sits in a classroom at the start of the new school year in the city of Aleppo September 16, 2013. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

: People walk inside the dome of the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, September 16, 2013. German voters will take to the polls in a general election on September 22. (Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters)

Sept. 16 Photo Brief: Back to school in Syria, Buddhist monks protest and London fashionistas