Sep 4, 2013

Sept. 4 Photo Brief: Record gator in Mississippi, young pilot, Rosh Hashanah at the western wall, Constantine Palace hosts the G20

Record gator in Mississippi, young pilot, Rosh Hashanah at the western wall, Constantine Palace hosts the G20e and more in today’s daily brief.

: A bumblebee flies next to a sunflower in Godewaersvelde, France. (Philippe Huguen/Getty Images)

: Looking east; cool weather, the rising sun and early morning construction is seen on the West Baltimore MARC expansion and future “Red Line station” project on the “highway to nowhere” at Route 40 east just before the Monroe Street overpass. (Jeffrey F. Bill/Baltimore Sun)

: A hunter releases his falcon in a desert area near the Saudi city of Dheba. Falconry is part of Bedouin life in Saudi Arabia where these birds are used for hunting rabbits and other desert animals. It is also one of the pastime sports of the rich in this oil-rich kingdom. (Mohamed Al Hwaity/Reuters)

: Dustin Bockman is pictured with his record setting alligator, weighing 727 pounds (330 kg) and measuring 13 feet (3.96 m), captured in Vicksburg, Mississippi on September 1, 2013. Dustin Bockman, a 27-year-old UPS driver, and his crew spotted the mammoth creature in the Mississippi River and trailed it for two hours before getting close enough to spear it. It took another two hours to hook it with a second line and noose its neck. (Ryan Bockman/Handout via Reuters)

: Dustin Bockman is pictured with his record setting alligator, weighing 727 pounds (330 kg) and measuring 13 feet (3.96 m), captured in Vicksburg, Mississippi on September 1, 2013. Dustin Bockman, a 27-year-old UPS driver, and his crew spotted the mammoth creature in the Mississippi River and trailed it for two hours before getting close enough to spear it. It took another two hours to hook it with a second line and noose its neck. (Ryan Bockman/Handout via Reuters)

: He Yide sits in a glider before flying a plane in Guan county, Hebei province. He, 5, piloted a plane, accompanied by his coach last Saturday. The flight from Guan county to Beijing Wildlife Park at 150 m (492 feet) high took around 35 minutes and landed successfully. (Reuters)

: Heavy rain falls on policemen taking positions as rubber farmers protest near the airport in Surat Thani. Tens of thousands of Thai rubber farmers protesting against a sharp drop in prices escalated protests across southern Thailand on Wednesday, cutting off access to large swathes of the region by blocking roads leading to tourist and commercial hubs. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

: Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which starts at sundown on Wednesday. Leading up to Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, which follows Rosh Hashanah, Jews offer prayers of repentance and ask God to forgive their sins in a daily prayer service called Slichot. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

: Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which starts at sundown on Wednesday. Leading up to Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, which follows Rosh Hashanah, Jews offer prayers of repentance and ask God to forgive their sins in a daily prayer service called Slichot. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

: An Israeli policeman (L) shouts at Palestinian demonstrators near Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, as minor clashes take place at a nearby compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount. An Israeli police spokesperson said five people were detained on Wednesday for throwing stones at police who had entered the compound after stones were thrown at visitors at the holy site ahead of the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashanah, which begins today at sundown. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

: A Palestinian man carries on his shoulders a child holding a fake gun outside the Dome of Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third most holy site after disturbances that caused the temporary closure to the access of the Mosque. The entrance to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s old city was temporary closed after the arrest of a firebrand Arab-Israeli Islamist preacher the day before. (Ahmad Gharabli/Getty Images)

: U.S. President Barack Obama places a stone in memory of Swedish diplomat Raould Wallenberg at the Stockholm Synagogue. Wallenberg issued thousands of protective passports to jews in nazi-occupied Hungary in 1944-45. Obama is on a two-day official visit to Sweden. (Claudio Bresciani/Scanpix)

: A researcher gets out of Armadillo-T, a foldable electric vehicle, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, south of Seoul. With a click on a smartphone, the experimental “Armadillo-T” electric car made in South Korea will park itself and fold nearly in half, freeing up space in crowded cities. The quirky two-seater, named after the animal whose shell it resembles, may never see production but it is part of a trend of developing environmentally friendly vehicles for urban spaces. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

: Workers make final preparations on a wall made of TV screens at the booth of Vestel at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin. The IFA consumer electronics and home appliances fair will open its doors to the public from September 6 till 11 in the German capital. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

: An Indian artist gives the finishing touches to an idol of Hindu elephant headed deity, Ganesh at a workshed in Bangalore. Hindus all over the country celebrate Ganesh Chathruthi, the birthday (rebirth) of Lord Ganesh, the son of Shiva and Parvati, on September 9 with the festival lasting for 10 days, ending on Anant Chaturdashi. (Manjunath Kiran//Getty Images)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter points his weapon through a hole from inside a house in the old city of Aleppo. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter points his weapon as he tries to locate forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Ramouseh area in Aleppo. (Molhem Barakat/Reuters)

: Afghan children climb onto a fence while playing as they sell tea in Kabul. A tea vendor earns $1 on average a day. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)

: Olympic gold medalist Sun Yang of Zhejiang province (C) prepares to compete before winning gold in the Men’s 400m Freestyle event during the 12th National China Games in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. The games, which are Chinas domestic equivalent of the Olympics, sees participants from 38 different provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions plus Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions. (Mark Ralston/Getty Images)

: A Sri Lankan man plays with a kite at the Galle Face promenade in the capital of Colombo. After crushing Tamil rebels four years ago Sri Lanka expected to become South Asia’s tiger economy, but exuberance has given way to mediocre growth and fears of more trouble ahead. (Ishara S. Kodikara/Getty Images)

: Pope Francis kisses a boy as he arrives for his weekly open-air general audience in St.Peters square at the Vatican. (Vincenzo Pinto/Getty Images)

: Constantine Palace will host the G20 heads of state and government, heads of invited states and international organization as part of the G20 Summit in Saint Petersburg. Russia hosts the G20 summit hoping to push forward an agenda to stimulate growth but with world leaders distracted by divisions on the prospect of US-led military action in Syria. (Getty Images)