Oct 18, 2013

Muslims across the world celebrate the annual festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice; audio-visual installations enliven historic buildings in Prague; Japanese authorities respond to landslides after a typhoon south of Tokyo; and more in today’s daily brief.

: Pakistani Muslim women offer Eid al-Adha prayers at the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore on Wednesday. Muslims across the world are celebrating the annual festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and in commemoration of Prophet Abraham’s readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to God. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

: Smoke and ash from wildfires burning across the state of New South Wales blankets the Sydney city skyline on Thursday. Seven major blazes were burning across the state, fanned by high, erratic winds in unseasonably warm 34 Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) weather, with infernos at Springwood and Lithgow in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney sending thick plumes of smoke and ash across the city. (Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images)

: This picture taken on Oct. 1 shows Hmong hill tribe women harvesting rice on terrace rice fields in Mu Cang Chai district, in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai. The residents, mostly from the Hmong hill tribe, grow rice in the picturesque terrace fields whose age is estimated to be hundreds of years. Due to difficult farming conditions, locals produce only one rice crop per year. In recent years a growing numbers of tourists have been attracted by the beautiful landscapes created by the region’s rice terrace fields. (HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images)

: A customer looks at shoes displayed in a mirror showcase at the newly-opened Galeries Lafayette Beijing store, in Beijing on Friday. France’s Galeries Lafayette has unveiled a department store in Beijing housing brands it says will lure fashionistas, foregoing names like Cartier that have found themselves associated with China’s crackdown on graft. (Jason Lee/REUTERS)

: Pokey Heny, owner of the American Dream drive-in theater in Powell, Wyoming, is photographed inside the projection room on Sept. 14. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

: Brazil’s Santos Junior Neymar (C) fights for the ball with Zambia’s Mtonga Ondwani (L) and Lungu Chisamba on Tuesday during a friendly football match at the Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest, in Beijing as part of the World Cup host’s Asian mini-tour. (WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images)

: Students from President Corazon Aquino Elementary School use their notebooks to cover their heads as they participate in an earthquake drill in Manila on Friday after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit the central Philippine island of Bohol on Tuesday. Road access to the worst-hit towns on the central island of Bohol remained cut, two days after the quake destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that engulfed homes and highways, regional civil defence chief Minda Morante said. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

: The Dancing House is illuminated by Czech artists Jaroslav Smetana and Filip Mueller during the “Signal Festival” on Thursday in Prague, Czech Republic. The first light festival in Prague brings the city’s historical buildings to life through the audio-visual installations through Sunday. International and local artists will be revealing major trends of new technologies and lighting design in the streets of Prague featuring video mapping projections, audio-visual installations including light sculptures and other light installations, concerts and performances.(MICHAL CIZEKMICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images)

: The silhouette of an armed fighter of the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People is seen as runs to take position along the front line on Wednesday 2013 in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, close to the Turkish border. At least 41 fighters have been killed in violent clashes pitting Kurds against jihadists and Islamist rebels in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group said. (AFP/Getty Images)

: An aerial view shows vineyards near Baden-Baden, southern Germany, on Sunday. (ULI DECK/AFP/Getty Images)

: Luca Gruenwald flies off his Kalex KTM during the first practice for the Australian Moto3 Grand Prix at Phillip Island on Friday. (PAUL CROCK/AFP/Getty Images)

: A military aide holds a Medal of Honor for President Barack Obama to present to William Swenson, a former Army captain during a ceremony Tuesday in the East Room of the White House. Swenson, 34, repeatedly entered the “kill zone” as he helped rescue wounded soldiers and retrieve the bodies of Americans killed during a 7-hour battle in Afghanistan on Sept. 8, 2009, under heavy enemy fire. He is the first Army officer to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

: Policemen search for missing people after a landslide on Oshima island, 120 km south of Tokyo on Friday. Japanese coast guard personnel were scouring waters off the coast of a Japanese island where landslides buried houses after a huge typhoon rolled through, as the death toll reached 24. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)

: U.S. servicemen perform their daily routines on the runway at the U.S. transit center in Manas, 30 km outside Bishkek, on Friday. International coalition forces are to exit Afghanistan by the end of next year, leaving local forces to take on fighting the Taliban alone. (VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images)

: A young visitor looks at two-year-old polar bear “Luka” swimming in a pool at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany, on Friday. Luka came to Wuppertal from the Ouwehands Dierenpark animal park in the Netherlands. (ROLAND WEIHRAUCH/AFP/Getty Images)

Oct. 18 Photo Brief: Festival of Sacrifice, Signal Festival, Japan landslides

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