Oct 2, 2013

Oct. 2 Photo Brief: DC shutdown, Paris fashion, World Gymnastics Championships, protests in Ukraine, Vietnam and Brazil

DC shutdown, Paris fashion, World Gymnastics Championships, protests in Ukraine, Vietnam and Brazil and more in today’s daily brief.

: A US Capitol Police Officer walks past a statue of Gerald Ford, who was US president during the 1976 shutdown of the federal government, in the Rotunda while the building was closed to tours on Capitol Hill October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. The group of healthcare reform supporters and politicians gathered to celebrate the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s online insurance markets which opened today. (Brendan Smialoski/Getty Images)

: A Bangladeshi idol-maker puts the finishing touches to a clay statue of the Hindu goddess Durga in a Temple in Dhaka. The annual five-day Hindu festival worships the goddess Durga, who symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology. (Munir uz ZamanGetty Images)

: A Buddhist monk pushes a small plastic boat as he shows his flooded temple to reporters at Bang Ban district in Ayutthaya province. More than 2 million people have been affected by flooding in Thailand, officials said on Monday, while authorities warned that more heavy rains could inundate the country’s northeast but offered assurances that there would be no repeat of 2011 when floodwaters reached central industrial areas and near Bangkok. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)

: A four-day-old Chilean flamingo chick feed by its father named Migi Aka as covered his wing at the Himeji Central Park in Himeji, Japan. The baby flamingo was born on September 29 and will take up to two or three years to fully develop the pink feathers of mature adults. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

: China’s Yao Jinnan competes on uneven bars at the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp. (John Thys/Getty Images)

: China’s gymnast Chunsong Shang competes in the balance beam qualifications at the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp. (Martin Bureau/Getty Images)

: Ninety-six-year-old World War II veteran Eugene Morgan (L) of West Memphis, Arkansas, listens to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (D-MN) (2nd R) as Rep. John Carter (R-TX) (R) looks on during Morgans visit to the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. Congressional members opened up the barricades of the memorial again and welcomed veteran groups to visit, most of them came on Honor Flights from around the country, on the second day of the government shutdown. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

: Ukrainian opposition activists grabs the helmet of a riot policeman as they try to enter the building of Kiev’s city council to prevent a session in Kiev. Several hundred of people rallied at the Kiev city administration trying to break the city council session and demand to hold council elections. The credentials of the city’s deputies ended on July 2, 2013, and the opposition insists that their session is illegal. (Yury Kirnichny/Getty Images)

: Activists of Ukrainian opposition parties clash with riot police as they attempt to get into the mayoral office during a rally against the Kiev mayoral election, which was earlier postponed until 2015, in Kiev. Ukrainian police used tear gas in the centre of capital Kiev on Wednesday to prevent incursion into the building of the city council of thousands of protesters who believe the current council meeting is illegitimate. (Maks Levin/Reuters)

: A street performer is seen during a teacher protest against corruption in the office of Rio Governor Sergio Cabral, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazil has seen large street protests since last June, directed towards the country’s ruling elite in demand of better public services and an end to political corruption. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/Getty Images)

: Vietnamese plainclothes policemen form a human chain to prevent hundreds of protestors from approaching the People’s Court where Vietnamese activist lawyer Le Quoc Quan faces charges of tax evasion at his trial held amid heavy security in Hanoi. Police shut roads and used human chains to stop hundreds of protestors from attending the trial of Vietnamese Catholic lawyer Le Quoc Quan, who has been in detention since December 2012 when he blogged on a range of sensitive topics prior to his arrest including civil rights, political pluralism and religious freedom. (Cat Barton/Getty Images)

: British model Edie Campbell presents a creation for Louis Vuitton during the 2014 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on October 2, 2013 at the Cour Carre du Louvre in Paris. (Joel Saget/Getty Images)

: Models listen instructions of French photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino (2ndL) before the start of the Iris Van Herpen 2014 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on October 1, 2013 in Paris. (Miguel Medina/Getty Images)

: Former Prime Minister and leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi gestures at the Senate in Rome before today’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s confidence vote at the Parliament. Enrico Letta warned lawmakers ahead of a crucial vote of confidence today that the country ran a “fatal” risk as Silvio Berlusconi tries to topple his government. “Italy runs a risk that could be a fatal risk. Seizing this moment or not depends on us, on a yes or a no,” Letta said in his address. (Filippo Monteforte/Getty Images)

: Italian center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi (L) talks with senators at the Senate after Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s asking for a possible call for a confidence vote immediately in Rome. Letta said on Wednesday that the government’s survival must be separated from the legal troubles of centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi and that its collapse could be “fatal” for the country. (Tony Gentile/Reuters)

: Cho Mar, an 11-year-old who hid in the jungle with her mother during an attack by Buddhist gangs, inspects the Thanaka she had just put on her face 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)

: US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (C) enters the Ministry of National Defense during an honor guard ceremony in Seoul. After meetings in South Korea on October 2, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will head to Tokyo for two-plus-two security talks with Japan. (Jacquelyn Martin/Getty Images)

: An Israeli soldier from the home front command wearing protective gear kneels next to a dummy during a drill simulating a chemical attack in the town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

: Israeli soldiers are silhouetted next to their tanks during a military exercise near the northern border with Syria in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. The Golan has been tense since the 2011 start of the conflict in Syria, but so far there have only been minor flare-ups as Syrian small arms fire or mortar rounds hit the Israeli side, prompting an occasional response by Israel, which seized 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles) of the strategic plateau during the 1967 Six Day War. (Jack Guez/Getty Images)