Nov. 21 Photo Brief: Rebuilding Philippines, Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival, fire in Mumbai
Rebuilding the Philippines after the typhoon, the opening ceremony of the Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival, a fire in Mumbai and more in today’s daily brief.
- Luis Fabiano of Sao Paulo vies for the ball with Artur of Ponte Preta, during their 2013 Copa Sudamericana semifinal soccer match at Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP/Getty Images)
- A man uses an umbrella to shelter from the wind as he tries to light a fire amid the rubble of destroyed homes in Tacloban, Philippines. (ODD ANDERSEN / AFP/Getty Images)
- People wash themselves using water from an open pipe among the rubble of destroyed homes in Tacloban, Philippines. (ODD ANDERSEN / AFP/Getty Images)
- In Taunggyi, Myanmar’s northeastern Shan State, participants celebrate after releasing a hot-air balloon during the Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival. Every year in November as the full moon approaches, tens of thousands of people from all over the country gather in Taunggyi for the colorful hot-air balloons festival. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP/Getty Images)
- This illustration shows an imitation paper cut-out of a street mural originally created by Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic, which shows a Lego woman with a Chanel bag and a Lego robber armed with a knife, displayed at a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. (MOHD RASFAN / AFP/Getty Images)
- Supporters of Brazilian Sao Paulo cheer their team during the 2013 Copa Sudamericana football match against Brazil’s Ponte Preta at Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP/Getty Images)
- Commuters travel on the Star Ferry in Victoria Harbour from Kowloon to Hong Kong island. (ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian resident uses a bucket to throw water onto a fire in the Ambedkar Nagar slum in Mumbai. (INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP/Getty Images)
- The Indian Ambedkar Nagar slum is seen on fire in Mumbai. Several huts were gutted in a fire that broke out in the settlement adjacent to the World Trade Centre building. (INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP/Getty Images)
- A typhoon victim constructs his new home in Palo, Philippines. (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP/Getty Images)
- A young typhoon survivor holds broken toys found amidst the rubble in Palo, Philippines. (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP/Getty Images)
- Waiters from different restaurants participate in the “Carrera de Charolas” race in Antigua, Guatemala. (JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian street artist from the state of Uttar Pradesh is photographed while performing during the ‘Theatre March’, held as part of the 44th national multilingual short play, folk dance and theatre seminar in Allahabad. (Sanjay Kanojia / AFP/Getty Images)
- The shadow of a woman dancing Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art with elements of dance and acrobatics, is pictured during the Black Awareness Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP/Getty Images)
- A mother awaits for her child at the “Jose Angel Ulloa” school in Tegucigalpa. The school, which will be a voting station in Sundays’ general election, is the base since three weeks ago of 100 men of the newly created Military Police who patrol the streets to fight delinquency. (ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP/Getty Images)
- In Taunggyi, Myanmar’s northeastern Shan State, participants celebrate after releasing a hot-air balloon during the Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival. Every year in November as the full moon approaches, tens of thousands of people from all over the country gather in Taunggyi for the colorful hot-air balloons festival. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP/Getty Images)