Oct 7, 2013

Oct. 7 Photo Brief: Gymnasts compete in World Championship, extreme weather around the world and models hit the runway in Sri Lanka

Gymnasts compete in World Championship, extreme weather around the world, models hit the runway in Sri Lanka and more in today’s daily brief.

: Russia’s gymnast Aliya Mustafina competes in the uneven bars event of the Apparatus Final at the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp on October 5, 2013. (Martin Bureau/AFP)

: Kyli Ross of the US performs on the floor during women’s final at the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp on October 6, 2013. (John Thys/AFP)

: Actress Ino Menegaki, playing a high priestess lights a torch from a cauldron on October 5, 2013,during the handover ceremony of the Olympic Flame for the XXII Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014 at the Panathenaic stadium in Athens. (Louis Gouliamaki/AFP)

: People stand next to Coffins of victims in a hangar of the Lampedusa airport on October 5, 2013 after a boat with migrants sank, killing more than hundred people. Italy mourned today the 300 African asylum-seekers feared dead in the worst ever Mediterranean refugee disaster, as the government appealed for Europe to stem the influx of migrants. Italian emergency services hoped to resume the search for bodies despite rough seas after the accident, in which 111 African asylum-seekers are confirmed dead and around 200 more are still missing. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)

: Orthodox believers form a cross holding candles during a ceremony in downtown Nis, central Serbia, on October 5, 2013. Serbian Patriarch Irinej has invited all believers and people of good will to join in the final part of the marking of the 17 centuries of the Edict of Milan on October 6, when heads of Orthodox Churches from other countries will hold a liturgy. (Sasa Djordjevic/AFP)

: A boy jumps over the roofs of ancient Sulphur Bathhouses in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on October 5, 2013. (Vano Shlamov/AFP)

: Members of the Kuwait Environment Protection Society ready to release a green sea turtle at the Jumairah Beach Hotel and Spa in Kuwait City on October 6, 2013. The turtle, aged 45 years old and weighing 150 kilograms, was rescued from a fishing trap near the Failaka Island and released after undergoing medical attention. A tracking device was fixed on the turtle’s back in order to help the KEPS study the animal’s movement in territorial waters. (Yasser A;-Zayyaty/AFP)

: A huge wave hits the dike as Typhoon Fitow moves to make its landfall in Wenling, east China’s Zhejiang province on October 6, 2013. China was on its highest alert for Typhoon Fitow on October 6, with tens of thousands evacuated as the storm was set to slam into the east coast. (AFP)

: Indian children play on a swing strung up on the back of a truck in New Delhi on October 6, 2013. Play is essential to optimal child development and has been recognized by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as a right of every child. (Sajjad Hussain/ AFP)

: Gil Florini (R), priest of Saint-Pierre-d’Arene’s church, blesses a dog on October 6, 2013 during a mass for animals in the southeastern French city of Nice. (Valery Hache/AFP)

: Pedestrians cross a street between commercial buildings in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district on October 7, 2013. The World Bank on October 7 lowered its 2013 growth forecast for East Asian developing countries to 7.1 percent and warned that a prolonged US fiscal crisis could be damaging to the region. (Anthony Wallace/AFP)

: A model displays a creation by fashion designer Sonali at the annual HSBC Resort fashion week in Galle on October 6, 2013. Designers from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were among the dozens of fashion designers who displayed their work at the 2-day event that began on October 5. (Oshara S. Kodikar/AFP)

: A model displays a creation by fashion designer Sonali at the annual HSBC Resort fashion week in Galle on October 6, 2013. Designers from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were among the dozens of fashion designers who displayed their work at the 2-day event that began on October 5. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP)

: Flashes of lightning strike above the “Baie des Anges”, on October 4, 2013, in Nice, southeastern France. (Valery Hache/AFP)

: A picture shows spare bicycle parts on sale at the small market of L’Eroica, a retro cycling event on October 6, 2013 in Gaiole in Chianti near Siena. More than 5000 competitors from all over the world, wearing vintage cycling jerseys, took part in L’Eroica through the ‘Strade Bianche’, the gravel roads of the Chianti area of Tuscany. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)