Sept. 5 Photo Brief: G20 summit, born without limbs, sunset over US Open
World leaders meet in Russia for the G20 summit, motivational speaker Nick Vujicic was born without limbs and swims with sharks, a sunset over the US Open and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Clouds reflect light from the setting sun over Arthur Ashe Stadium as Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (L) plays Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia (R) during their 2013 US Open women’s singles quarterfinal match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center September 4, 2013 in New York. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Residents of Male, the capital of Maldives, use mopeds to drive past a popular night spot of the city on September 4, 2013. The island city is home to about 120,000 and mopeds are the most popular mode of transportation in the streets of this very small, crowded city. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Palestinian youths backflip on the beach in Gaza City on September 4, 2013. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Afghan farmer works on his farm on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif on September 5, 2013. Only about 15 percent of Afghanistan’s land, mostly in scattered valleys, is suitable for farming with about 6 percent of the land actually cultivated with wheat being the most important crop. (Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A resident looks at the carcass of the 300 kilograms (660 pounds) juvenile whale shark (L) washed ashore along a fishing village in Tanza town, Cavite province, west of Manila on September 5, 2013. A dead young whale shark has washed ashore in Manila Bay near the Philippine capital, far from the endangered giant fish’s traditional feeding grounds, fishermen and a wildlife official said on September 5. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Egyptian medics stand around a bag that contains severed limbs of people wounded in a bomb that targeted the convoy of Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim in Cairo on September 5, 2013. Ibrahim said that he survived an assassination attempt when the car bomb struck the his convoy around 10:30 am near his home in the Nasr City area, in the first such attack in Cairo in years. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Flames blaze during a wildfire near the village of Barbudo, some 40 km from Vigo, northwestern Spain, in the early hours of September 5, 2013. (Miguel Riopa/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Piglets race at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California September 4, 2013. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
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- A worker sprays paint on the beak of the “Rubber Duck” inflatable floating sculpture by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman at a factory in New Taipei City September 5, 2013. The giant “Rubber Duck”, measuring 18 meters in height and weighing 1000 kilograms when completed, will be displayed in Kaohsiung port, southern Taiwan, from September 19 to October 20. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters)
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- Qian Hongyan, 18, waits for her new prosthesis which are being fitted with silk stockings at China Rehabilitation Centre in Beijing, September 5, 2013. Qian, who has been moving by using a basketball after she lost her legs in a car accident at age four, got her new free prosthesis fitted for her adult body. She first received artificial limbs in 2005 and later joined a swimming club for the handicapped and became an athlete. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
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- Nick Vujicic, an Australian motivational speaker who was born without limbs, swims with sharks at the Marine Life Park in Singapore September 5, 2013. Vujicic dived with sharks in a customized acrylic enclosure that takes in a 360-degree view of the shark habitat at the aquarium. Vujicic is in Singapore to give a motivational talk to a 5,000 strong audience on Saturday. (Edgar Su/Reuters)
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- Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) arrives at a Senate Select Intelligence Committee closed briefing on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee is meeting behind closed doors to be briefed on intelligence matters regarding military action against the Syrian government for using chemical weapons against its own people last month. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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- Russias President Vladimir Putin (L) welcomes US President Barack Obama at the start of the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 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. (Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Journalists walk past a screen in the media center showing Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 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. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his opening speech during the first working session at the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 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. (Sergei Karpukhin/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Germanys Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and with British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) wait before a working meeting of the G20 summit of heads of state and government, heads of invited states and international organizations in Saint Petersburg on September 5, 2013. 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. (Vladimir Astapkovich/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A dinner place setting for the attendees of the G20 Summit is pictured in Constantine Palace in Strelna near St. Petersburg, September 5, 2013. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
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