Nov. 28 Daily Brief: Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, protests in Ukraine, replica Eiffel Tower
The Kew Royal Botanical Gardens are lit up in green, protests take place in Ukraine, a replica Eiffel Tower is built in Greece and more in today’s daily brief.
- A Pakistani walks through a field of mustard flowers on the outskirts of Lahore on November 28, 2013. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
- Students take part in a pro-European rally in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on November 28, 2013. (YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP/Getty Images)
- A 26 meters-high replica of the Eiffel tower made by Greek doctor and sculptor Harris Fournarakis stands at a square of the entrance of Filiatra village, some 280 kilometers south west of of Athens on November 27, 2013. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
- Motorists carry pigs tied on a motorcycle in Palo, Leyte province on November 28, 2013. The Philippines’ economy expanded 7.0 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, but a series of storms curbed growth and a devastating typhoon this month will slow momentum further, the government said November 28. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
- Children use a makeshift boat made from a damaged refrigerator in a river in Basay, Samar province on November 28, 2013. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
- A man rebuilds his damaged house in Basay, Samar province on November 28, 2013. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
- Anti-government protesters shout slogans in front the national police headquarters during a demonstration in Bangkok on November 28, 2013. (NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Palestinian boy works at his father’s cabbage field near the northern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Jabalia, on November 28, 2013. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Syrian man reacts after an air strike by pro-government forces on the city of Aleppo on November 28, 2013. (MOHAMMED AL-KHATIEB/AFP/Getty Images)
- Pro-European protesters wave Ukrainian flags during a rally in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on November 28, 2013. (YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP/Getty Images)
- An EU flag waves on Independence Square in Kiev during a mass rally in Kiev on November 28, 2013. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
- Paris’ department store Galeries Lafayette’s Christmas tree is pictured on November 27, 2013. (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images)
- The Palm House at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens is lit green during a preview for the Christmas at Kew event at Kew Gardens in south west London on November 27, 2013. (CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images)
- People warm themselves around a bonfire during a rally of the pro-European movement in central Kiev, on November 27, 2013, on the fourth day of protests over the government’s decision to scrap a key pact with the EU. (GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images)
- A woman holds a portrait of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a rally of the pro-European movement in central Kiev, on November 27, 2013, on the fourth day of protests over the government’s decision to scrap a key pact with the EU. (GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images)
- This photo taken on November 27, 2013 shows typhoon survivors (in background) participating in a “cash for work” program, cleaning debris from destroyed houses in Tacloban, Leyte province. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)