Mirrors provide Norwegian village with sunshine, world’s largest ball pit, thinking pink in Yemen, zombies in the Philippines
Mirrors provide Norwegian village with sunshine, world’s largest ball pit, thinking pink in Yemen, zombies in the Philippines and more in today’s daily brief.
- A model parades a creation from the Sheguang Hu Hu Sheguang Haute Couture Collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing. China Fashion Week runs from October 25 to November 1. (Getty Images)
- A man jumps in a swimming pool filled with pink and green plastic balls during a Guinness World Records attempt of the Largest Ball Pit as part of the “Pink October” campaign at Kerry Hotel in Pudong, (Aly Song/Reuters)
- Participants throw balls into the air in a swimming pool filled with pink and green plastic balls during a Guinness World Records attempt of the Largest Ball Pit as part of the “Pink October” campaign at Kerry Hotel in Pudong, Shanghai. The event, aimed at raising awareness of breast cancer prevention, set the world record with one million balls in the 25-metre-long (82 ft.) and 12.6-metre-wide (41 ft.) swimming pool, according to local media. (Aly Song/Reuters)
- Students dressed as zombies participate in an annual Halloween Costume Parade in Manila. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)
- Students dressed as zombies participate in an annual Halloween Costume Parade in Manila. The activity aims to celebrate Halloween in a creative and fun way through the showcase of scary costumes. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)
- Students dressed as zombies participate in an annual Halloween Costume Parade in Manila. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)
- Lenovo project manager Yvonne Nagel poses for a photo while getting ready at Movie Park Germany in Bottrop. Nagel, 38, will perform this year as the character ‘Amanda Young’ from the ‘Saw’ horror film series for the “Halloween Horror Party 2013” at Movie Park Germany. Her costume, which takes two hours to perfect, includes a 4.5 kilogramme (9.15 pounds) self-built metal ‘reverse bear trap’ which she wears on her head. The event is held to generate publicity for activities in the Movie Park Germany during the Halloween season from October 3 to November 2. (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)
- Project manager Yvonne Nagel and fellow actors perform at Movie Park Germany in Bottrop. (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)
- To mark Halloween, 150 teens descended upon a swimming pool in Essex to help mobile network giffgaff recreate the famous Tomatina tomato fight… only this time, with blood and guts. (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for giffgaff)
- To mark Halloween, 150 teens descended upon a swimming pool in Essex to help mobile network giffgaff recreate the famous Tomatina tomato fight… only this time, with blood and guts. (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for giffgaff)
- An Indian snake charmer poses with his cobras as he waits for alms from devotees outside a temple in Amritsarahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali. Diwali, celebrated this year on November 3, marks the victory of good over evil and commemorates the time when Hindu God Lord Rama achieved victory over Ravana and returned to his Kingdom Ayodhya after 14 years of exile. (Narinder Nanu/Getty Images)
- A Palestinian boy poses inside the frame of a broken television outside his house in al-Shatee refugee camp in Gaza City. (Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)
- Balloons fly over the Yemeni capital Sanaa on the occasion of the annual campaign “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” to increase awareness and promote treatment of breast cancer. (Mohammed Huwais/Getty Images)
- A man prepares a bunch of balloons the Yemeni capital Sanaa on the occasion of the annual campaign “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” to increase awareness and promote treatment of breast cancer. (Mohammed Huwais/Getty Images)
- People gather during the official opening of giant sun mirrors (top) erected on the mountainside, in the town of Rjukan. The town, surrounded by mountains high enough to deprive its inhabitants of direct sunlight during winter, would be able to receive sunlight in the central square from deflected sun rays from the mirrors. (Terje Bendiksby/NTB Scanpix)
- The huge sun mirrors (“Solspeilet”) that is set up on the hillside above Rjukan, to reflect sunlight down on the town square, is seen during its officially opening in Rjukan, 100 years after the idea was first released. Sun-starved residents of a remote Norwegian village unveiled an ingenious mirror system Wednesday to bring natural light to their mountain valley home, enveloped in darkness for half of the year. (Krister Soerboe/Getty Images)
- People cheer during an inauguration of the huge sun mirrors (“Solspeilet”) set up on the hillside above Rjukan, to reflect sunlight down on the town square,100 years after the idea was first released. Sun-starved residents of a remote Norwegian village unveiled an ingenious mirror system Wednesday to bring natural light to their mountain valley home, enveloped in darkness for half of the year. (Krister Soerboe/Getty Images)
- Ko Min, 26 manually extracts oil from one of three 300 feet deep wells he works on in the Minhla township of the Magwe district October 27, 2013. Everyday Ko Min makes around $30 extracting crude oil from three small wells after he bought rights to use them for close to $1000 from a farmer who owns the land. In Myanmar, an impoverished country rich with natural resources, people from poor communities find ways to supplement their income by exploiting such resources often using primitive and dangerous methods. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
- Two men row a boat past a partially dried-up riverbed on a section of the Yangtze River in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. (Reuters)
- A seagull sits on a buoy on Lake Leman on an autumn morning in Preverenges, western Switzerland. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
- Mohammad (R), a 13 year-old fighter from the Free Syrian Army, aims his weapon as he runs from snipers loyal to the Syrian regime in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Basha district. Mohammad joined the Free Syrian Army after his father died during clashes with the Syrian regime. The gun he is using was his father’s. (Molhem Barakat/Reuters)
- Mourners gather after a train rammed into a public service bus in Nairobi. The accident happened at a crossing point killing at least 12 passengers in the bus. The train crashed into the side of the bus as it crossed the railway line during the peak hours of morning rush hour, local police commander Benjamin Nyamae said. (John Muchucha/Getty Images)