Oct. 22 Photo Brief: Drilling rights protest, Miss T Brasil pageant, attack in Egypt
Activists protest in front of the hotel where Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency, contestants of Miss T Brasil 2013 take part in a rehearsal, aftermath of a shooting in Cairo’s working class neighborhood of Al-Warrak, and more in today’s daily brief.
- Activists protest in front of the hotel where Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency auctions drilling rights to one of the world’s largest offshore oil discoveries in Barra de Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP/Getty Images)
- Independent National Electoral Commission for Transition members set up a polling station in Antananarivo on Oct. 21, 2013 ahead of the elections on Oct. 25, 2013. Absent from Friday’s presidential election in Madagascar, the current country’s strongman Andry Rajoelina and former President Marc Ravalomanana closely monitor the polls, which are also followed by mysterious but generous donors, anxious to defend their local economic positions. (RIJA SOLO / AFP/Getty Images)
- A man walks through fallen leaves in a foggy forest on the Feldberg mountain in the Taunus region of western Germany. (ARNE DEDERT / AFP/Getty Images)
- A woman wearing a wedding dress and holding heart-shaped balloons is lifted by a man on a street in Beijing. China’s gross domestic product expanded 7.8 percent year-on-year in July-September, data showed, snapping two quarters of slowing growth in world’s second-largest economy. (Ed Jones / AFP/Getty Images)
- An Egyptian Coptic man reacts during the funeral service of four victims, gunned down as they attended a wedding the previous evening at the Virgin Mary Coptic Christian church in Cairo’s working class neighborhood of Al-Warrak. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP/Getty Images)
- An Afghan mason builds a wall on a temporary house on the outskirts of Kabul. (Noorullah Shirzada / AFP/Getty Images)
- A chair with a hole and blood stains is seen at the entrance of the Virgin Mary Coptic Christian Church in Cairo after gunmen on a motorbike killed several people, including an eight-year-old girl, the previous night in a shooting attack on a group standing outside the church. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP/Getty Images)
- An Egyptian relative of one of the victims of a shooting spree targeting a wedding at a Cairo Coptic Church is comforted as she mourns at a morgue in the capital. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP/Getty Images)
- Roger Federer arrives for his match against Adrian Mannarino at the Swiss Indoors ATP tennis tournament in Basel. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP/Getty Images)
- A Hindu sadhu – holy man – dressed as Hanuman, the monkey god, walks at The Pashupatinath Temple area in Kathmandu. (PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP/Getty Images)
- Autumn Watson carries a pumpkin through the patch at Councell Farms in Cordova, Md. (JIM WATSON / AFP/Getty Images)
- Local residents watch the containment fires from the balcony on his house at Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains. Firefighters on October 22 deliberately merged two major blazes in southeastern Australia in a desperate battle to manage the advancing infernos as weather conditions worsen. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP/Getty Images)
- A candidate prepares in the dressing room during the Miss T Brasil 2013 transgender beauty pageant in Rio de Janeiro. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP/Getty Images)
- Afghan internally displaced children look on at their temporary house on the outskirts of Kabul. (Noorullah Shirzada / AFP/Getty Images)
- An orthodox Jewish man walks at a street covered with election campaign leaflets in Jerusalem on the eve of Israel’s municipal elections. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP/Getty Images)
- Contestants of Miss T Brasil 2013 take part in a rehearsal before the start of the beauty pageant for transgender people in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP/Getty Images)
- Mahindra Racing rider Miguel Oliveira of Portugal crashes out during the Moto3 race at the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island. (RUSSELL COLVIN / AFP/Getty Images)