Oct. 3 Photo Brief: Muscle Mania in Korea, newborn elephants in Tel Aviv and skyscraper climbing in Paris
The Muscle Mania Fitness Korea competition takes place in Seoul, the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo in Tel Aviv, Israel announced a new born female Asian elephant calf, French climber Alain Robert, known as Spiderman, scales a skyscraper in Paris and more in today’s daily brief.
- Young Chinese tourists eat lollipops during their visit to Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Chinese tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or steal airplane life jackets, China’s image-conscious authorities have warned in a handbook in their latest effort to counter unruly behavour. (Mark Ralston/Getty images)
- Serena Williams of the U.S. reacts after winning a point during her women’s singles match against Maria Kirilenko of Russia at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing. (Petar Kujundzic/Reuters photo)
- A couple stand in front of Spanish riot police after they were evicted from an unoccupied building of flats in Malaga, southern Spain. A total of 13 families, included 12 children, had occupied the building since February. Members from various support platforms failed to stop the eviction and three activists were arrested when they refused to leave the roof of building, according to local media. (Jon Nazca/Reuters photo)
- Rescue workers stand near the tail of a plane at the site of a plane crash near the Lagos international airport. Fifteen people were killed when an Embraer passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off just outside Lagos airport’s domestic terminal Nigerian authorities said. (Akitnunde Akinleye/Reuters photo)
- A Bahraini woman stands in front of a graffiti depicting a man face during an anti-regime rally in solidarity with jailed political activists in the village of al-Malkiya, south of Manama, on October 3, 2013. A Bahraini court on September 30, 2013 jailed 37 Shiites for up to 15 years for carrying out “terrorist crimes” in the kingdom, home to a two-year-old uprising, a judicial source said. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKHMOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT:
- A newly born female Asian elephant calf (L) lies next to two-months-old female calf Latangi in their enclosure at the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo, near Tel Aviv. A statement from the zoo said the yet unnamed calf was born early morning on Wednesday and weighs about 90 kg (some 200 pounds). (Nir Elias/Reuters photo)
- A man walks out from a destroyed mosque that was burnt down in recent violence at Thapyuchai village, outside of Thandwe, in the Rakhine state. Security forces raced to contain deadly violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Tuesday, police said, after mobs torched Muslim homes and Buddhist villagers were attacked in a region plagued by intractable sectarian tensions. According to the police, at least five Muslims have died in the violence. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters photo)
- Extreme-right Golden Dawn party senior lawmaker Christos Pappas is escorted by anti-terrorism police officers to a courthouse in Athens. The leader of the party was sent to jail pending trial on criminal charges on Thursday in a boost to a government campaign to wipe out what it calls “a neo-Nazi criminal gang”. (Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters photo)
- French climber Alain Robert, also known as “Spiderman”, scales the 185 metre GDF Suez Tower at La Defense business district outside Paris. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters photo)
- A tourist climbs up to reach the top of the rock named “The Fourth Stolb” (the Fourth Pillar) at the Stolby national nature reserve in the Siberian Taiga area outside the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. Picturesque rocky blocks rising above the Taiga draw attention of tourists from all over Russia and abroad.(Ilya Naymushin/Reuters photo)
- Soldiers of Chinese People’s Liberation Army “bowl” during China’s seven-day National Day holiday in Jinan, Shandong province. (China Daily/via Reuters)
- Israeli soldiers of the 33rd Caracal Battalion take part in a graduation march in the northern part of the southern Israeli Negev desert. The Caracal unit is an infantry combat battalion of the army, composed of both male and female soldiers mostly serving along the Israeli southern desert borders. (Menahem Kahana/Getty images)
- Women body builders prepare before going on stage during the Muscle Mania Fitness Korea Competition in Seoul. Chosen bodybuilders from the competition will be able to participate in the Fitness Universe Competition in the next year. (Truth Leem/Getty imaes)
- Body builder Robert Timms warms up before going on stage during the Muscle Mania Fitness Korea Competition in Seoul. Chosen bodybuilders from the competition will be able to participate in the Fitness Universe Competition in the next year. (Truth Leema/Getty images)
- A man pushes his handcart in a street market in Hong Kong. It’s a simple contraption — an iron frame, foldout handle and four rubber wheels — but in Hong Kong the old-fashioned handcart is what keeps the city rolling. (Philippe Lopez/Getty Images)
- Members of the Jund al-Rahman Brigade (The soldiers of the Merciful) load a home made canon on the front lines of Syria’s northeastern city of Deir Ezzor. Syria’s bloody conflict, in which nearly 115,000 people have died, began as a peaceful uprising in March 2011 before Assad’s security forces launched a deadly crackdown. (Ahmad Aboud/Getty images)
- Students clash with police along Reforma Avenue in Mexico City. Mexican students marched to conmemorate the anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre of university students. (Yuri Cortez/Getty images)
- Indigenous Brazilians march along Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil on, at the beginning of the National Indigenous Mobilization Week. Indigenous people from several ethnic groups take part in a protest to demand more support from the federal government. (Nelson Almeida/Getty images)
- People walk by a television series advertisement featuring actress Toni Colette gagged by a US flag in New York on. Government institutions and national parks around the US were closed and thousands of employees were furloughed after Congress was unable to agree on a federal budget and shut down the govermment for the first time in 17 years. (/Emmanuel Dunand/Getty images)
- US Capitol Police keep people at a distance as they listen as House Democrats speak about the government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The US government is in a forced shutdown after lawmakers failed to pass a spending bill. (Brendan Smialowski /Getty images)