Nov. 5 Photo Brief: An upside-down house, volcano in Sumatra, torchbearers in Sochi
An upside-down house in Germany, a volcano erupts in Sumatra, torchbearers in Sochi and more in today’s daily brief.
- An Afghan resident shakes fabric to clean it from dust as she stands on the roof of her home in Kabul. (MASSOUD HOSSAINI / AFP/Getty Images)
- A boy looks at a municipal council worker dispensing insecticide using a fogging machine among residential houses in Gombak, on the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur. A Malaysian health official warned citizens to take steps to eliminate mosquito breeding spots as dengue fever cases have spiked. (MOHD RASFAN / AFP/Getty Images)
- Tiger Woods hits a ball as he poses during an event to promote the upcoming Turkish Airlines Open golf tournament, on the Bosphorus Bridge that links the city’s European and Asian sides, in Istanbul. (BULENT KILIC / AFP/Getty Images)
- A giant plume of steam and ash rises from the crater of Mount Sinabung volcano during an eruption as seen from Karo district on Indonesia’s Sumatra island. (KARISHMA TARIGAN / AFP/Getty Images)
- CGT trade unionists demonstrate in Roanne to protest against the trial at Roanne’s court of five CGT members who refused a DNA sampling last May, after being convicted for deterioration. The five unionists, four men and a woman, were convicted last November 2012 for writing tags on a wall, especially “Casse toi pauvre con” (Get lost bloody idiot), — in reference to an invective said by French former president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008. (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP/Getty Images)
- David Ferrer serves against Rafael Nadal during their group A singles match in the round robin stage on the second day of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament in London. (BEN STANSALL / AFP/Getty Images)
- A Palestinian man sits on a beach in Gaza City. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP/Getty Images)
- A handout picture taken during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay and released by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee shows torchbearers, Maria Iovleva, a Russian biathlete and cross-country skier representing Russia at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, and Ivan Volzhanin ‘kissing’ with their torches to pass the Olympic flame in Syktyvkar. (AFP/Getty Images)
- A man wears a face mask as another visitor covers her mouth during a visit to Tiananmen Square in Beijing. China’s top negotiator at international climate talks said on November 5 that air pollution in his own country — the world’s biggest carbon emitter — is harming its citizens. (WANG ZHAO / AFP/Getty Images)
- Visitors enter a house standing upside down in Trassenheide on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom, northeastern Germany. The house was already constructed in 2008 by two Polish initiators, who also designed the house’s interior upside down. (JENS BUETTNER / AFP/Getty Images)
- School children look at a Superman logo made out of food cans during the 21st annual “Canstruction” exhibition and food drive in New York. The exhibition features sculptures made entirely of unopened canned food that will be donated to City Harvest and distributed to some 400 soup kitchens and food pantries throughout the city. (MANUEL DUNAND / AFP/Getty Images)
- This picture taken with a fisheye lens shows a chair created by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei placed in the center of a movie theater in Stockholm. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP/Getty Images)
- The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 39 aboard (partly seen right) is transported to a launch pad in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP/Getty Images)
- A Pakistan Air Force Dassault Mirage aircraft banks while dropping flares during the Azm-e-Nau-4″ (New Resolve) military exercise in Khairpure Tamay Wali in Bahawalpur district. (AAMIR QURESHI / AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian police constable adjusts the cap of an Indian Police Service (IPS) probationer at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. Mukherjee addressed the 65th passing-out parade at the Sardar Vallabhbhai National Police Academy where 148 IPS probationers passed out of the academy. (NOAH SEELAM / AFP/Getty Images)