Nov. 13 Photo Brief: XII Games of the Indigenous People in Brazil, empty canals in Venice, Festival of Ashura, Canadian woman rows across the Atlantic

A visitor takes a phone photograph of a large back lit image of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the Science Museum’s ‘Collider’ exhibition in London, England. At the exhibition, which opens to the public on November 13, 2013 visitors will see a theatre, video and sound art installation and artifacts from the LHC, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It touches on the discovery of the Higgs boson, or God particle, the realization of scientist Peter Higgs theory. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Egrets fly during the second One Day International (ODI) cricket match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at the Suriyawewa Mahinda Rajapakse International Cricket Stadium in the southern district of Hambantota. New Zealand defeated Sri Lanka by four wickets in a rain-hit but thrilling one-day international in Hambantota on Tuesday. (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi /Getty Images)

Turkish Shi’ite girls watch a re-enactment of the battle of Kerbala on a huge screen during an Ashura procession in Istanbul. During Ashura, Shi’ite Muslims commemorate the slaying of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein in Kerbala in 680 AD. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

Shia Muslims beat their chests during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura in Amroha, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, . Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the 7th century battle of Kerbala. (Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)

An Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim man gashes his forehead with a sword before the religious festival of Ashura in Najaf, 160km (100 miles) south of Baghdad. Iraqi forces tightened security in and around the holy Shi’ite city of Kerbala on Tuesday ahead of Ashura on Thursday. Kerbala expects around a million pilgrims to converge on the city, south of Baghdad, for the culmination of Ashura on Thursday, when Shiite Muslims commemorate the slaying of the prophet Mohammad’s grandson Hussein in Kerbala in 680 AD. Ashura, the most important day in the Shi’ite calendar, has become a show of strength for a majority whose public worship was repressed by Saddam Hussein. (Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)

Solo woman rower Mylene Paquette of Canada celebrates as she arrives at Lorient harbour. Paquette reaches Brittany after more than 140 days at sea, to become the first North American woman to row solo accross the Atlantic. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters)

Gondoliers row in an empty Grand Canal in Venice. Drivers of taxi boats and shipping boats declared a strike against a new law regulating traffic on the Grand Canal, according to local media. (Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)

The sun begins to set at Huntingdon racecourse in Huntingdon, England. (Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)

An Iranian Muslim Shiite girl is dressed as an angel to take part in the annual religious performance of “Taazieh” in the Iranian town of Noosh Abad near the central city of Kashan on November 12, 2013, marking the mourning period of Ashura which commemorates the killing of Prophet Mohammed’s grandson Imam Hussein. Ashura, which climaxes on November 14, mourns the death of Imam Hussein who was killed by armies of the caliph Yazid near Karbala in 680 AD. (Behrouz MehriGetty Images)

Indigenous men of various tribes wait to take part in the bow and arrow competition during the XII International Games of Indigenous Peoples in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state, Brazil on November 12, 2013. 1500 natives from 49 Brazilian ethnic groups and from another 17 countries are gathering in Cuiaba until November 16 to compete in some 30 athletic disciplines, many of their own. (Christophe Simon/Getty Images)

An indigenous man records participants of the bow and arrow competition with his mobile phone during the XII International Games of Indigenous Peoples in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state, Brazil on November 12, 2013. 1500 natives from 49 Brazilian ethnic groups and from another 17 countries are gathering in Cuiaba until November 16 to compete in some 30 athletic disciplines, many of their own. (Christophe Simon/Getty Images)

A member of the Brazilian indigenous ethnic group Bororo aims his arrow during the bow-and-arrow competition at the XII Games of the Indigenous People, in Cuiaba November 12, 2013. Forty eight Brazilian Indigenous tribes will present their cultural rituals and compete in traditional sports such as archery, running with logs and canoeing during the XII Games of Indigenous People which will run until November 16. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)

Members of the Brazilian Assurini indigenous ethnic group compete in a tug-of-war competition during the XII Games of the Indigenous People, in Cuiaba November 12, 2013. Forty eight Brazilian Indigenous tribes will present their cultural rituals and compete in traditional sports such as archery, running with logs and canoeing during the XII Games of Indigenous People which will run until November 16. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)

A Brazilian indigenous man of the Rikbaktsa tribe watches the bow and arrow competition during the XII International Games of Indigenous Peoples in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. 1500 natives from 49 Brazilian ethnic groups and from another 17 countries are gathering in Cuiaba until November 16 to compete in some 30 athletic disciplines, many of their own. (Christophe Simon/Getty Images)

Brazilian indigenous people use computers inside a tent during the XII Games of the Indigenous People in Cuiaba November 13, 2013. Forty-eight Brazilian Indigenous tribes will present their cultural rituals and compete in traditional sports such as archery, running with logs and canoeing during the XII Games of Indigenous People which will run until November 16. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)

A man pushes his boat through the debris on the morning after Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Halong City, Vietnam. Typhoon Haiyan, which has left thousands dead after it swept through the Philippines, has made landfall in Vietnam. 600,000 people were evacuated in preparation, as winds of up to 120 km/h battered the coast line. (Tim Barker/Getty Images)

View of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

An Indian Hindu widow performs a ritual ahead of the festival of Kartik Purnima at a resthouse for pilgrims in the eastern city of Bhubaneswar. Karthik, the eighth lunar month of the Hindu calendar, is considered to be one of the holiest months and thousands of Hindu devotees pray and take dips in holy rivers at various places on the occasion of the Kartik Purnima festival – full moon day – which falls on November 17 this year. (Asit Kumar/Getty Images)

Indian policewomen patrol a street during restrictions for the eighth day of Muharram in Srinagar. Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, to thwart planned Muharram processions as police detained more than a dozen protesters and fired teargas to disperse participants. (Tauseef Mustafa/Getty Images)

Bangladeshi commuters travel along a street during a nationwide strike called by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Dhaka. Led by the BNP, the 18-Party alliance is trying to enforce a 84-hour general strike across Bangladesh to back their demand for a non-party neutral caretaker to conduct the upcoming parliament polls and to protest the arrest of its senior leaders. (Munir uz Zaman/Getty Images)

Activists wear masks featuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and the leader of the social democratic SPD party Sigmar Gabriel as they demonstrate for the introduction of nationwide referendums in front of the venue where members of the social democratic SPD party and members of the conservative CDU/CSU union met for coalition talks on November 13, 2013 in Berlin. (Johannes Eisele/Getty Images)

Members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement parade with guns in the streets of Gaza City during an anti-Israel march as part of the celebrations marking the first anniversary of Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defence. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

Bulgarian students shout anti-government slogans during a protest in front of the parliament in central Sofia. Five protesters were detained following scuffles with riot police in front of the Bulgarian parliament on Tuesday, in the latest escalation of street demonstrations against the Socialist-led government. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon towards forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad as fellow fighters watch in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)

An Indian devotee dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna participates in a procession in Amritsar on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Bhagwan Namdev. Namdev was a poet-saint who is significant to the Varkari sect of Hinduism. He is also venerated in Sikhism. He is traditionally believed to have been born in 1270 AD in the village of Narsi Bahmani, in Hingoli district of Maharashtra, India.Most of the spiritual messages of Namdev emphasized the importance of living the life of a householder and that through marriage and having a family, one could attain Moksha – the liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth. (Narinder Nanu/Getty Images)

Nov. 13 Photo Brief: XII Games of the Indigenous People in Brazil, empty canals in Venice, Festival of Ashura, Canadian woman rows across the Atlantic

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