Oct. 15 Photo Brief: Muslim holy festival of Eid al-Adha, Columbus Day Parade, typhoon in Vietnam
Preparing for the Muslim holy festival of Eid al-Adha, a Columbus Day Parade, a typhoon in Vietnam and more in today’s daily brief.
- A Bedouin boy rides his donkey near a sheep enclosure in their village of Wadi Naam, currently unrecognized by Israeli authorities, near the southern city of Beersheva in the Israeli Negev desert. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP/Getty Images)
- British actress Kate Winslet poses for pictured at the gala premiere of the film ‘Labour Day’ in London’s Leicester Square. (CARL COURT / AFP/Getty Images)
- Pakistani women work in an agricultural field in Lahore on Oct. 14, 2013, the International Day of Rural Women. (Arif Ali / AFP/Getty Images)
- Indian fishermen fix their houses damaged during cyclon Phailin at Nalianuagaon in Ganjam district of Odisha. While the biggest evacuation in Indian history was hailed for minimizing loss of life, already poor fishermen and farmers have returned to their villages this week to discover the few possessions they had have been destroyed. (MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP/Getty Images)
- Palestinian Muslim worshippers sit on a wall in front of the golden dome inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest shrine, in Jerusalem’s old city following morning prayers on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha or “The Feast of Sacrifice.” (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP/Getty Images)
- Blind and visually impaired people are assisted as they participate in a walk to mark White Cane Day in Yangon. (Aung Thu / AFP/Getty Images)
- A truck transporting coffins arrives at the Piano Gatta’s cemetery before the funeral of immigrants in Agrigento in Sicily. Dozens of burials in anonymous vaults began yesterday in a small cemetery of Piano Gatta, even though Prime Minister Enrico Letta had promised to hold a state funeral for the victims. (MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO / AFP/Getty Images)
- Afghan women go to the main mosque to offer Eid-al-Adha prayers in the main mosque in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province. (FARSHAD USYAN / AFP/Getty Images)
- Somali children play with toy guns during celebrations for Eid al-Adha in Mogadishu. (Mohamed Abdiwahab / AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian woman carries a wooden ladder to fix her house damaged during cyclon Phailin at Nalianuagaon in Ganjam district of Odisha. (MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP/Getty Images)
- Maria and Jacqueline Nunziata are pictured during the 69th Annual Columbus Day Parade. (TIMOTHY CLARY / AFP/Getty Images)
- Spain’s coach Vicente del Bosque heads the ball during a training session at the Carlos del Monte stadium in Albacete on the eve of their World Cup 2014 qualifying football match vs. Georgia. (JOSE JORDAN / AFP/Getty Images)
- People walk along the Han river as Typhoon Nari hit the central coastal city of Da Nang. (AFP/Getty Images)
- Russian Muslims pray outside Moscow’s central mosque during celebrations of Eid al-Adha. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP/Getty Images)
- A flock of birds takes flight on the National Mall in front of the US Capitol building. (MLADEN ANTONOV / AFP/Getty Images)