Sep 23, 2013

Man versus nature, 3-year-old snooker prodigy, WWII war reenactors and more in today’s daily brief.

: This photo taken on September 22, 2013 shows a man running away from a huge wave pushed up by Typhoon Usagi on a wharf in Shantou, south China’s Guangdong province. Typhoon Usagi killed at least 25 people after crashing ashore in southern China, throwing the region’s transport systems into chaos and leaving tens of thousands of airline passengers stranded in Hong Kong on September 23. (AFP)

: Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo reacts during the Spanish league football match Real Madrid CF vs Getafe CF at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on September 22, 2013. (Dani Pozo/AFP)

: Three-year-old Wang Wuka practises before playing snooker with seven-time World Championship winner Stephen Hendry of Britain in Beijing September 22, 2013. Wuka’s father Wang Yin, a snooker fan, has been teaching his son the sport for more than two years. The boy, who vows to be a top snooker player, undergoes five hours of training daily to shoot the balls with precision. Picture taken September 22, 2013. (Reuters)

: A resident (R) wades through chest-deep floodwaters along a street while his neighbours (L) paddle an improvised life raft in Manila on September 23, 2013, after torrential rains pounded Luzon island worsened by Typhoon Usagi. Monsoon rains worsened by Typhoon Usagi pounded the Philippines for the third day on September 23, causing floods and landslides that left six people dead and others stranded on rooftops, officials said. (Ted Aljibe/AFP)

: Russian Soyuz-FG rocket with Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft aboard is transported to a launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on September 23, 2013. Soyuz TMA-10M is a planned transport the Expedition 37 crew, including Michael Hopkins of the US together with Russia’s Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky, to the International Space Station (ISS) on September 26. (AFP)

: From left, Cain Kerehoma, Wayne Te Kanawa and Wesley Paul, with the Maori Kapa Haka group Te Tini A Maui, perform at the opening of the New Zealand Forest at the Washington Park Arboretum on September 15, 2013, in Seattle, Washington. The $2 million project is the first of five eco-geographic forests to be completed in the Pacific Connections Garden. (Erika Schultz/Seattle Times/MCT)

: Captains of the rugby union teams qualified to play the HCup and Amlin Challenges European championships (fromL) Toulon’s Sebastien Tillous-Borde, Toulouse’s Thierry Dusautoir, ASM Clermont’s Aurelien Rougerie, Perpignan’s James Hook, Racing Metro’s Henry Chavancy, Castres’ Yannick Caballero, Oyonnax’ Joe El Abd and Stade Francais’ Pierre Rabadan pose for photographers European Rugby Cup (ERC) schedule presentation, in Paris on September 23, 2013. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP)

: An opposition fighter runs in a street in Damascus’ northern neighbourhood of Ashrafiyeh on September 22, 2013 during clashes with Syria’s government forces. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused foreign nations of giving orders to “terrorists” battling his government’s forces in an interview with China’s state CCTV broadcast on September 23. (Ward Al-Keswani/AFP)

: A severely wounded man is rescued by Kenyan troops at the Westgate Mall on September 21, 2013 in Nairobi. Kenyan troops were locked in a fierce firefight with Somali militants inside an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall on September 22 in a final push to end a siege that has left at least 59 dead and some 200 wounded with an unknown number of hostages still being held. Somalia’s Al Qaeda-inspired Al-Shebab rebels said the carnage at the part Israeli-owned complex mall was in retaliation for Kenya’s military intervention in Somalia, where African Union troops are battling the Islamists. (James Quest/AFP)

: Sikh children attend on September 22, 2013 a language class at the largest gurdwara or Sikh temple in France, located in the Paris suburb of Bobigny. France’s Sikh community is ramping up a campaign for the turban to be allowed in state-funded schools amid moves to reinforce a 2004 law banning pupils from sporting religious symbols. The contentious issue pits the cherished French principle of secularity in public life and institutions against the essence of the Sikh religion, which requires followers to keep long hair as a mark of their faith and piety and a turban to cover the tresses, worn as a bun on the top of the head. (Miguel Medina/AFP)

: Reconstruction of the battle at the begining of WWII on September 19,1939 in the outskirts of Warsaw between Polish and German armies with last cavalry charge on September 22, 2013 in Lomianki. (Janek Skarzyski/AFP)

: A salesman on a motorcycle unloads packing material for goods outside a market in Shanghai on September 23, 2013. China’s manufacturing activity expanded in September to a six-month high, HSBC said on September 23, a further sign that a rebound in the world’s second-largest economy is gaining momentum on improving demand. (Peter Parks/AFP)

: A woman (C) walks through partly demolished buildings in an old neighborhood in downtown Shanghai on September 23, 2013. China is likely to achieve its growth target of 7.5 percent this year despite planned structural reforms to rebalance the world’s second largest economy, the World Bank president Jim Yong Kim said on a visit here earlier this month. (Peter Parks/AFP)

Sept. 23 Photo Brief: Man versus nature, 3-year-old snooker prodigy and WWII war reenactors