Oct. 11 Photo Brief: Hajj to Mecca, dengue prevention in India, Ukrainian Fashion Week
Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, India goes through dengue fever prevention, Ukrainian Fashion Week begins and more in today’s daily brief.
- Lee Hoon-heui of South Korea hits a shot during the first round of the Nanshan China Masters at the Montgomerie Course, Nanshan International Golf Club, in Shandong Province, China. (OneAsia / Paul Lakatos /AFP/Getty Images)
- Weapons are seen lying on the ground as members of the Saudi special police unit perform during a parade in Mecca. (FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP/Getty Images)
- Leftist protestors clash with riot policemen in front of Istanbul courthouse as they try to attend their student friends’ trial who have been in jail for months. (BULENT KILIC / AFP/Getty Images)
- People prepare to cross by boat the Oubangui River to reach Congolese city Zongo in Bangui. (ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP/Getty Images)
- Opposition fighters open fire, taking cover from behind a car during fighting in the Salaheddin district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (KARAM AL-MASRI / AFP/Getty Images)
- Muslim pilgrims gather under the shade as they arrive to perform the afternoon prayer in Mecca’s Grand Mosque as more than 2 million Muslims arrived in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage to the shrine city. (FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP/Getty Images)
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testifies before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee about the debt limit. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP/Getty Images)
- Muslim pilgrims gather under the shade as they arrive to perform the afternoon prayer in Mecca’s Grand Mosque. (FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP/Getty Images)
- A schoolgirl looks at a specimen during a preview visit of the butterfly conservatory at the American Natural History Musem in New York. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP/Getty Images)
- A model displays a creation by Ukrainian fashion designer Zalevskiy during the Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev. (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP/Getty Images)
- A general view shows traffic during rush-hour in Tianjin. The eastern Chinese city is hosting the East Asian Games. (Ed Jones / AFP/Getty Images)
- Fans in costume arrive for the opening session of the 2013 New York Comic Con at the Jacob Javits Center. (TIMOTHY CLARY / AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian pedestrian protects his face while engulfed in a cloud of pesticide during a dengue prevention spraying in the Old Quarters in New Delhi. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP/Getty Images)
- Two young women walk through floodwaters in Kabin Buri, east of Bangkok. The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported that 27 provinces in Thailand are still flooded and 31 people have died due to floods that have drenched swathes of Southeast Asia in recent weeks. (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP/Getty Images)
- Cambodian land protesters gesture with military police officials during the 28th World Habitat day in Phnom Penh. Cambodian land protesters and land rights activists celebrate the 28th World Habitat day. (TANG CHHIN SOTHY / AFP/Getty Images)