Oct. 25 Photo Brief: ‘Stars of Hope’ on Superstorm Sandy anniversary, solar eruption ‘canyon of fire,’ Banksy tempts Bloomberg
“Stars of Hope” on Staten Island offer hope in the now yearlong recovery from Superstorm Sandy, a newly released NASA image of a solar eruption resembles a canyon of fire, British graffiti artist Banksy continues to incur the wrath of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and more in today’s Daily Brief.
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- A child swims at Mamzar beach in DubaiFriday. (Ahmed Jadallah/REUTERS)
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- A combination image shows some of thousands of “Stars of Hope” that have been attached to utility poles in the Staten Island borough of New York. The stars are made of wood and have been painted with inspirational messages by community organizations to bring hope to the locals after Superstorm Sandy. A year after the disaster wreaked havoc across the eastern United States, only a fraction of the aid money earmarked for recovery has been used, in what some claim is a painfully slow and opaque process. Picture taken Sept. 20, 2013. (Carlo Allegri/REUTERS)
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- An Indian child plays in a dry river bed after flood waters receded in Allahabad on Friday. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty)
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- Emporio Armani Milan’s forward Nicolo Mello tries to score in front of Kaunas’ guard Arturas Milaknis during their group B Euroleague basketball match on Thursday at the Mediolanum stadium in Assago. (OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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- NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which constantly observes the sun in a variety of wavelengths, captured this image showing magnetic filament of solar material eruption as a 200,000-mile-long filament ripped through the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon of fire during its eruption Sept. 29-30, shown in this image released on Friday. The glowing canyon traces the channel where magnetic fields held the filament aloft before the explosion. In reality, the sun is not made of fire, but of something called plasma: particles so hot that their electrons have boiled off, creating a charged gas that is interwoven with magnetic fields. (NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory/Handout via Reuters)
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- A worker makes an “Aalghemria” at his workshop in Sanaa Friday. The structure, made from gypsum, or plaster material, is a component of a traditional Yemeni house, providing lighting and aesthetics. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi/REUTERS)
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- A bumblebee sits on a blooming aster on Friday in Nochten, eastern Germany. (MATTHIAS HIEKEL/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A dancer poses Thursday with a new installation of art by British graffiti artist Banksy painted on the front door of the Hustler Club in New York. Known for his anti-authoritarian black-and-white stenciled images, which have sold at auction for upwards of $2 million, the British street artist is treating New Yorkers to a daily dose of spray-painted art – while eluding the police and incurring the wrath of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (Eric Thayer/REUTERS)
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- A man rows his boat on Phewa Lake in Pokhara valley, west of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu on Friday. Phewa or Fewa Lake, located in the Pokhara Valley, is the second largest lake in Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar/REUTERS)
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- A tourist poses next to a two-meter-high blood red sculpture of a head blowing bubble gum by Qian Sihua, which is part of the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition which runs on the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk in Sydney, on Friday. The world’s largest annual free-to-the-public outdoor sculpture exhibition runs through Nov. 10 and features over 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and around the world. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)
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- John Cincar, 62, raises his right hand while repeating the oath of allegiance to the United States during a “homebound” naturalization ceremony on Friday in the Queens borough of New York City. Cincar, who was born in Yugoslavia and moved to the United States in 1965, has been a quadripelegic since falling at home in 2011 and now lives in the Midway Nursing Home. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services performs such on site naturalization ceremonies for immigrants with health issues and disabilities who have limited mobility. With his new American citizenship, Cincar says he plans to apply for a U.S. passport and, after further physical rehabilitation, hopes to travel back to his village near Belgrade, Serbia to visit family members he has not seen since his youth. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972 as a supply clerk in Germany. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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- An F/A-18E Super Hornet takes off from the flight deck of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday. The U.S. aircraft carrier, which had been on standby in case of a flare up in Syria, has left the Red Sea for a brief stint in the Mediterranean Sea. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Rebel fighters hold a position on the front line in the Syrian northeastern city of Deir Ezzor, on Thursday. Syria is set to hand over a detailed plan for destroying its chemical arsenal, part of a UN-backed disarmament bid that averted U.S. military strikes after the Aug. 21 sarin gas attack, which killed hundreds of people. (AHMAD ABOUD/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Soap bubbles from a street artist float in front the U.S. embassy in Berlin Friday. An outraged Germany summoned the U.S. ambassador for the first time in living memory on Thursday, over suspicions Washington bugged Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone, in the worst spat between the close allies in a decade. The issue dominated discussions at a European summit on Thursday, prompting Merkel to demand that the U.S. strike a “no-spying” agreement with Berlin and Paris by the end of the year. The White House did not deny the bugging, saying only it would not happen in future. (Tobias Schwarz/REUTERS)
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- Madagascans wait to mark votes on the board at a polling station in Antananarivo on Friday. Madagascar voted in presidential elections to restore democracy following a 2009 coup as international observers hailed a calm and transparent poll despite isolated incidents of violence that left one dead. (AFP/Getty Images)
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