Oct 8, 2013

A typhoon wallops South Korea, the world’s largest book fair is set to begin in Germany, Diana Nyad attempts to swim for 48 consecutive hours and more in today’s daily brief.

: An immigrant sits on the rocks overlooking the port of Lampedusa on October 8, 2013. Divers in Italy resumed the grim search for bodies today after a shipwreck on October 3 in which over 300 African refugees are feared to have died, as a government minister called for an easing of immigration rules. Hundreds of rescuers and army personnel have been deployed to the island of Lampedusa whose seas were described as a “giant cemetery”, with 211 bodies now pulled from the water. (Roberto Salomone/AFP/Getty Images)

: An Afghan child looks on as she plays in a canal on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif on October 8, 2013. Some nine million Afghans or 36 percent of the population are living in “absolute poverty” while another 37 percent live barely above the poverty line, according to a UN report. (Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

: Palestinians sit in a coach as they wait to cross into Egypt at the Rafah crossing terminal in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt on October 8, 2013. Hundreds of patients, students and foreign residents from the Palestinian side have rushed to the Rafah crossing after the Egyptian announcement of re-opening it for 5 days. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)

: A political prisoner walks out of a prison after his release in Kalay, in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing division on October 8, 2013. Myanmar on October 8 began freeing dozens of its remaining detained activists, officials said, after the country vowed to release all prisoners of conscience by the end of the year. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

: Sikh devotees gather to pay their respects at the Sikh Shrine The Golden Temple in Amritsar, India on October 8, 2013, on the eve of the birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdass. Ramdass was born in Lahore in 1574 and is Chauthi Patshahi or the fourth Guru as well as the Guru who established the city of Amritsar. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman sorts books at a booth during preparations for the upcoming book fair in Frankfurt, October 8, 2013. The world’s largest book fair runs from October 9 to October 13 and features the literature of Brazil as its guest of honour. (Ralph Orlowski/Reuters)

: U.S. long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad takes a breath during her 48-hour continuous swim at Herald Square in New York, October 8, 2013. According to a media release, Nyad is holding the 48 hour continuous swim to support Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts.(Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

: A Syrian refugee woman carries water on her head that she collected from a nearby village as she returns to where she is residing in the ancient Byzantine-Christian city of Serjilla, in the Jabal al-Zawiya region of Syria on October 8, 2013. The woman pictured she fled her home due to the ongoing conflict between government and opposition forces. Serjilla, which has been deserted for over 1500 years, is situated in an elevated area of limestone known as Belus Massif and is known as being one of Syria’s “Dead Cities” or “Forgotten Cities”, a group of 700 abandoned settlement in the northwest area between Aleppo and Hama, which date back to fifth century. (Mezar Matar/AFP/Getty Images)

: U.S. soldier Randell Atkinson poses in the starting position with a “Raven” drone during its official presentation by the German and U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) at the U.S. military base in Vilseck-Grafenwoehr October 8, 2013. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)

: Residents brave strong winds and heavy rain brought about by Typhoon Danas in Busan, South Korea, on October 8, 2013. Packing winds of up to 112 miles per hour near its center, Danas was churning northwest towards the southern Okinawa island chain and was expected to reach a point off the western coast of Kyushu island by early on October 9. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

: Boston police officers stand in a school bus yard where drivers walked off the job in the morning in Boston, October 8, 2013. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino vowed to punish school bus drivers who walked off the job on Tuesday in a labor action the city contended was illegal, and which even the drivers’ union organization condemned. Some 33,000 public and private school students were left to find alternative routes to school on Tuesday after a union representing some 700 drivers and also represented by the United Steelworkers of America Local 8751 did not show up for work. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

: Cornell Woolridge holds a sign as he rallies against money in politics at the Supreme Court in Washington, on October 8, 2013. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Committee, a first amendment case about how much money an individual can contribute directly to political campaigns. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

: Supporters of Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez wait next to posters with her image outside the hospital where she had surgery in Buenos Aires, October 8, 2013. Fernandez had surgery on Tuesday to remove blood from the surface of her brain, sidelining her three weeks ahead of a key mid-term election and at the apex of a rancorous court battle with the nation’s “holdout” creditors. (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)

: Afghan National Army (ANA) female officers take part in a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) in Kabul, October 8, 2013. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)

: Somali refugees organise their collected ration of food during a distribution exercise outside a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) center in Dagahale, one of the several refugee settlements in Dadaab, Garissa County, northeastern Kenya. (Siegfried Modola/Reuters)

: A model presents a creation by designer Cengiz Abazoglu during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Istanbul, October 8, 2013. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)

: Protesters react as tear gas is fired by the police to disperse protesters calling for better public education and services on October 7, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While the majority of protesters were peaceful, a small group fired incendiary devices and the police eventually dispersed the crowd with tear gas. The last few weeks have seen a citywide strike by union education workers in Rio and police used tear gas to disperse a group of around 100 protesting teachers last week. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

: Masked demonstrators burn trash outside the City Hall in Rio de Janeiro, following a peaceful teachers’ protest demanding better working conditions and against police beating, on October 7, 2013. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

Oct. 8 Photo Brief: World’s largest book fair, Typhoon Danas, protests in Rio

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