Sept. 18 Photo Brief: London Fashion Week, Camping Festival in China, Acapulco flooding, Baby rhino
London Fashion Week, Camping Festival in China, Acapulco flooding, Baby rhino and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Melk Abbey is pictured through mist in the morning sun in Melk, about 80 km (50 miles) west of Vienna. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)
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- Designer Stella McCartney attends the adidas by Stella McCartney presentation at London Fashion Week SS14 in London, England. (Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)
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- A model wears a dress made out of 300 cupcakes at the Food Network Cupcake Showcase in London, England. (Nicky Johnston/Food Network UK via Getty Images)
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- A model walks the runway displaying Ryan Lo at the Fashion East show during London Fashion Week SS14 at TopShop Show Space in London, England. (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)
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- King, an Eastern black rhinoceros born August 26, makes his public debut at the Lincoln Park Zoo with his mother Kapuki in Chicago, Illinois. King’s father Maku, 27, is on breeding loan from Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas and his mother, 8, is on loan from Brookfield Zoo in suburban Chicago. Eastern black rhinos are critically endangered in their native Africa due largely to poaching. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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- Jonathan Villar #6 of the Houston Astros is tagged out by Brandon Phillips #4 of the Cincinnati Reds attempting to stretch a single in to a double in the first inning at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. (Bob Levey/Getty Images)
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- An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man inspects a Lulav (Palm branch), one of four species used during the celebration of Sukkot, the feast of the Tabernacles, in an Ultra Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Sukkot feast begins on September 19 and commemorates the exodus of Jews from Egypt some 3200 years ago. (Menahem Kahana/Getty Images)
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- A man sits atop a car while trying to cross a flooded street in Chilpancingo, state of Guerrero, Mexico. Mexican authorities scrambled Tuesday to launch an air lift to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists stranded amid floods in the resort of Acapulco following a pair of deadly storms. The official death toll rose to 47 after the tropical storms, Ingrid and Manuel, swarmed large swaths of the country during a three-day holiday weekend, sparking landslides and causing rivers to overflow in several states. (Edurado Guerrero/Getty Images)
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- Residents and tourists wade through a flooded street in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico as heavy rains hit the country. Mexican authorities scrambled Tuesday to launch an air lift to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists stranded amid floods in the resort of Acapulco following a pair of deadly storms. The official death toll rose to 47 after the tropical storms, Ingrid and Manuel, swarmed large swaths of the country during a three-day holiday weekend, sparking landslides and causing rivers to overflow in several states. (Pedro Pardo/Getty Images)
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- Aerial view of a fallen bridge over the Papagayo River in Acapulco, state of Guerrero, Mexico, on September 17, 2013 as heavy rains hit the country. Mexican authorities scrambled Tuesday to launch an air lift to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists stranded amid floods in the resort of Acapulco following a pair of deadly storms. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Getty Images)
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- Residents wait for help in Acapulco, state of Guerrero, Mexico as heavy rains hit the country. Mexican authorities scrambled Tuesday to launch an air lift to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists stranded amid floods in the resort of Acapulco following a pair of deadly storms. The official death toll rose to 47 after the tropical storms, Ingrid and Manuel, swarmed large swaths of the country during a three-day holiday weekend, sparking landslides and causing rivers to overflow in several states. (Getty Images)
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- Numerous tents are seen during the 2013 International I Camping Festival in Mount Wugongshan of Pingxiang, Jiangxi province. The event which opened on September 14 attracted more than 15,000 campers from all over the world, according to Xinhua News Agency. (Reuters)
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- Campers pack up a tent during the 2013 International I Camping Festival in Mount Wugongshan of Pingxiang, Jiangxi province. The event which opened on September 14 attracted more than 15,000 campers from all over the world, according to Xinhua News Agency. (Reuters)
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- A boy feeds pigeons at a park outside the Royal Palace in central Phnom Penh. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
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- Indian Hindu devotees dance as they take part in a procession for the immersion of a huge idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha into the Arabian Sea, on the streets of Mumbai. During the ten-day Ganesh Festival Hindu devotees bring home idols of Lord Ganesha and offer prayers in temporary temples in order to invoke his blessings for wisdom and prosperity, culminating with the immersion of the idols in bodies of water, including the ocean on the tenth day. (Punit Paranjpe/Getty Images)
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- A devotee immerses an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, in the Sabarmati river on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. During this festival, idols of Ganesh are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea, symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of Ganesh’s journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Amit Dave/Reuters)
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- Devotees carry an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, during a procession through the streets before immersing it in the waters of the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. (Reuters)
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- A paramedic cleans the eye of a villager as Mount Sinabung spews ash and hot lava, at Simpang Empat village in Karo district, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. Mount Sinabung threw more volcanic ash into air, covering the surrounding areas, as around 13,000 people were moved to temporary shelters, local media reported on Wednesday. (YT Haryono/Reuters)
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- A boy carries drinking water in containers towards makeshift shelters for families displaced during fighting between government soldiers and Muslim rebels of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines September 18, 2013. Police said about 80 percent of the city was retaken from MNLF rebels and they are contained in two villages, while death toll in fighting reached 106 people and displaced around 109,000. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
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- Contestants of the Muslimah World pageant take part in a rehearsal for the grand final of the contest in Jakarta. The finale of a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women will take place in the Indonesian capital on September 18, in a riposte to the Miss World contest in Bali that has drawn fierce opposition from Islamic radicals. (Adek Berry/Getty Images)
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- Former Tamil Tiger (LTTE) female rebel fighters and brides Nadarasa Sukirtha (L) and Premarathnam Sugandhini (C) look on as Jayarasa Merry Babila, an ethnic Tamil, gets ready before the start of a mass wedding in Kilinochchi, about 334 km (208 miles) northeast of Colombo. Three ex-rebel couples who have been rehabilitated by the Sri Lankan Civil Defence Force were married in a mass wedding ceremony as part of the government’s rehabilitation program. Sri Lanka’s government troops defeated the LTTE after a 25-year civil struggle. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
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- Members of the US salvage company Titan and Italian firm Micoperi inspect the wreck of Italy’s Costa Concordia cruise ship after emerging from water, near the harbor of Giglio Porto. Salvage operators in Italy lifted the Costa Concordia cruise ship upright from its watery grave off the island of Giglio in the biggest ever project of its kind. The ship was upright for the first time since the January 13, 2012 tragedy, and led to applause and cheers in the port, in a dramatic climax to the massive salvage operation. Local residents and survivors spoke of an eerie feeling as the ship rose, saying the sight reminded them of the tragedy that claimed 32 lives. (Vincenzo Pinto/Getty Images)
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