Sept. 3 Photo Brief: U.S. debates action in Syria, Rodman visits North Korea again, underwater with the fish
U.S. leaders debate action in Syria, Dennis Rodman makes a second visit to North Korea, underwater at Galapagos Marine Reserve and more in today’s daily brief.
- U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on Syria during a meeting with members of Congress at the White House in Washington, DC, September 3, 2013. Seen L-R: House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-MD; Assistant Majority Leader Senator Dick Durbin, D-IL; National Security Advisor Susan Rice; Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-OH; US President Barack Obama; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA; Senate Minority LEader Mitch McConnell, R-KY; House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-VA; Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Dianne Feinstein, D-CA; House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel, D-NY. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
- A cyclist rides past a giant election billboard featuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hands in a trademark pose in Berlin September 3, 2013, ahead of general elections on September 22. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Chinese woman dressed in an imperial Chinese costume tours the Manchu Imperial Palace in Shenyang, Liaoning Province on September 3, 2013. The palace built in 1625 was the home to the first three Qing (Manchu) Dynasty emperors and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
- A young protester wearing a Syrian flag bearing the picture of President Bashar al-Assad stands in front of Lebanese security forces during a demonstration organized by the Baath party outside the French embassy in Beirut on September 3, 2013, against French military intervention in Syria. French President Francois Hollande called on Europe to unite in response to the Syria crisis, ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the weekend. (Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian man clears debris from the banks of the Ganga river as the flood level recedes in Allahabad on September 3, 2013. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)
- Police are reflected in the window of a shop displaying traditional nesting dolls with images of Russian President Vladimir Putin (R), Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (C) and French President Francois Hollande at the sea port in St. Petersburg September 3, 2013. Russia’s second city will host the G20 summit this week. (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters)
- Laborers work at a coal dump site outside Kabul September 3, 2013. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)
- University freshmen point at each other with toy guns during a break in their military training at a campus in Hefei, Anhui province, September 3, 2013. (Stringer/Reuters)
- A woman gestures in support of demonstrators during a protest against signs in Serb Cyrillic script placed in the city of Vukovar September 3, 2013. Several hundred Croat protesters tore down the signs that were put up on Monday in the Croatian city devastated during the independence war with Serb-dominated Yugoslavia, state radio said. (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)
- A tuna swims among a school of fish as a scuba diver looks on at Galapagos Marine Reserve August 19, 2013.(Jorge Silva/Reuters)
- A scuba diver swims next to a Leather Bass close to Wolf Island at Galapagos Marine Reserve August 19, 2013. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)
- Former basketball star Dennis Rodman (C) arrives at Pyongyang airport, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 3, 2013. Flamboyant former basketball star Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a five-day visit to North Korea, his second this year, but said he had no plans to negotiate the release of a jailed American missionary. Mandatory Credit. (Kyodo via Reuters)
- Conjoined twins Maria Guadalupe (L) and Elsa Guadalupe Sanchez hold teddy bears during their fourth birthday celebrations in Santa Catarina, on the outskirts of Monterrey September 2, 2013. The party was organized by Mexico’s National System for Integral Family Development (DIF) and the local municipality in support of the twins’ family, according to local media. (Daniel Becerril/Reuters)
- Christian volunteers take part in a grape harvest in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Har Bracha, near Nablus September 3, 2013. Coming from various countries, the volunteers, who belong to a Christian organiation that supports farmers in West Bank Jewish settlements, take part in harvests every year. (Nir Elias/Reuters)
- A Palestinian boy rides a bicycle with his brother on a street in the northern Gaza Strip September 3, 2013. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
- A Somali policeman runs from the scene of an accidental explosion at a petrol storage facility within the former United States residential housing in capital Mogadishu, September 3, 2013. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)
- A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his weapon as he takes a defensive position in the old city of Aleppo, September 3, 2013. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)
- Vehicles drive on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge in San Francisco, California September 2, 2013. The largest self-anchored suspension bridge in the world opened six years behind schedule and five times over budget. Picture taken with a long exposure. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)