Sept. 24 Photo Brief: Beaujolais grape harvest begins, landslides in Philippines, UN General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly continues in New York, monsoon rains cause landslides in the Philippines, refugees protest in Hong Kong and more in today’s daily brief.
- A man training in martial arts rests on a bench along a business street in Beijing on September 24, 2013. The seven-day holiday built around China’s National Day on October 1 sees millions of members of China’s newly wealthy and mobile middle-class travel locally and abroad. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)
- Workers install a giant vase containing fruit and flowers as part of China’s upcoming National Day celebrations at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on September 24, 2013. The seven-day holiday sees millions of members of China’s newly wealthy and mobile middle-class travel locally and abroad. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
- U.S. President Barack Obama listens to President Michel Sleiman of Lebanon speaking to the media before a bilateral meeting on the sideline of the 68th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. in New York on September 24, 2013. Obama demanded that the world take action on Syria, saying that the regime must face consequences after the use of chemical weapons. Speaking before the U.N. General Assembly, Obama defended his threat of force against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and denounced critics who accuse the United States of inconsistency. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
- Workers and rescue teams clear a landslide area of debris after three days of monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides on September 24, 2013 in Castillejos town, Zambales, Philippines. Rural towns north of Manila experienced the worst flooding in recent years, leaving at least 32 dead and hundreds stranded on rooftops, and making roads impassable. (Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images)
- The hand of a landslide victim protrudes among debris during a retrieval operation on a mountain side at Barangay Balaybay, Olongapo City, Zambales, north of Manila on September 24, 2013. Monsoon rains worsened by Typhoon Usagi pounded the Philippines for the third day on September 23, causing floods and landslides that left 18 people dead and others stranded on rooftops, officials said. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Free Syrian Army member walks along a temporary bridge, made from wire mesh, pipe and ropes, in Homs September 24, 2013. (Yazen Homsy/Reuters)
- A Palestinian girl holds the national flag during a protest organised by the ruling Islamic Hamas movement in Gaza city on September 24, 2013, amid recent tensions among Palestinians regarding Israel’s admittance of visitors to a holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City which houses the al-Aqsa mosque and which Jews revere as the vestige of their ancient temples. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian artisan works on clay idols of Hindu deities at a roadside workshop in Kumartoli, the idol makers’ village of Kolkata, on September 24, 2013. The economic slowdown and rising inflation add to the difficulties of the artisans ahead of this five-day Durga Puja festival to be celebrated in October. The event commemorates the slaying of a demon king Mahishasur by goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
- An Evangelical Christian pilgrim from the U.S. takes part in a parade both in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Tabernacles) and to express solidarity with Israel, in downtown Jerusalem, on September 24, 2013. Thousands of Israelis and Christian Evangelical supporters of the Jewish state marched today during their annual parade marking the Jewish holiday of Sukkot or the Feast of the Tabernacles. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
- A child of refugee parents from Africa looks on during a protest to demand changes to a food distribution that they say fails to meet refugee needs in Hong Kong. Hong Kong may be one of Asia’s wealthiest banking and luxury hubs, but the picture is very different for hundreds of asylum seekers forced into slum-like conditions as they scrape a living in the city, say campaigners. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
- A picker working overnight cuts grapes at dawn on the first day of the Beaujolais’ harvest on September 24, 2013 in the “Moulin a Vent” vineyard, near Chenas, Beaujolais, eastern France. Harvest in Beaujolais region will run until October 20. (Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images)
- Samples are put into a furnace at the competence center of Austrian fireproof materials maker RHI in Leoben. Austrian fireproof materials maker RHI aims to keep its 2013 dividend stable in the face of ongoing problems in the steel industry, its main target market, its chief executive said. To match. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)
- Competitors take part in a training session on the eve of the 49th monohull Sailing World Championships in Marseille, France. (Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images)
- Early morning commuters walk past Tower Bridge shrouded in fog in London on September 24, 2013. (Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images)
- Puppeteer Fran Brill poses with her character, Prairie Dawn, after Cheryl Henson (daughter of Muppets founder Jim Henson) donated 20 puppets famous from the Sesame Street and Muppets television series to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, September 24, 2013. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
- A model poses for a photographer beside a lake in a popular tourist area of Beijing on September 24, 2013. China’s manufacturing activity expanded in September to a six-month high, a further sign that a rebound in the world’s second-largest economy is gaining momentum on improving demand. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)