Jan. 11 Daily Brief: Releasing pigeons, remembering Costa Concordia 2 years later, Denver mini bull riding competition
A villager rides his motorcycle through mud and ash spewed from Mount Sinabung, an 8-year-old practices holding on before competing in the mini bull riding competition at the 108th National Western Stock Show in Denver, polar vortex and more in today’s daily brief.
- Marcel Hirscher of Austria clears a gate during the second run of the men’s World Cup Giant Slalom ski race in Adelboden January 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Ruben Sprich)
- Family members of Mark Duggan, including the mother Pamela (L), release doves during a vigil for him outside Tottenham Police Station in Tottenham, north London January 11, 2014. The vigil followed an inquest that found on Wednesday that police acted lawfully when they shot and killed Mark Duggan whose death sparked a wave of rioting in 2011 in the worst civil unrest in the country in decades. (REUTERS/Neil Hall)
- A woman is reflected in a puddle from rain and melted ice as she walks her dog during winter in Toronto, January 11, 2014. The frigid air and “polar vortex” that affected about 240 million people in the U.S. and southern Canada will depart during the second half of the week, and a far-reaching January thaw will begin, according to weather forecasts. The picture was taken by placing the camera upside down in the puddle. (REUTERS/Mark Blinch)
- Caydee Denney and John Coughlin (L) react after finishing their program in the pairs free skate competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Boston, Massachusetts January 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
- An eagle named Fletcher, the Geneve Servette HC mascot, flies above spectators before the Winter Classic Swiss Championship Ice Hockey match between Geneve Servette and Lausanne HC at the Stade de Geneve in Geneva January 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)
- Hindu pilgrims wait in line for an eye check up at a camp organised by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) before heading for an annual trip to Sagar Island for the one-day festival of “Makar Sankranti”, in Kolkata January 11, 2014. Hindu monks and pilgrims are making the annual trip to Sagar Island for a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal on January 14 (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri)
- The window of a house is partially covered in ash spewed out of Mount Sinabung after it erupted at Bekerah village in Karo district, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, January 11, 2014. More than 22,000 villagers have been evacuated since authorities raised the alert status for the volcano to the highest level in November 2013, local media reported on Friday. (REUTERS/Beawiharta)
- A villager rides his motorcycle through mud and ash spewed from Mount Sinabung as he evacuates to safety at Bekerah village in Karo district, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, January 11, 2014. More than 22,000 villagers have been evacuated since authorities raised the alert status for the volcano to the highest level in November 2013, local media reported on Friday. 9REUTERS/Beawiharta)
- The cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen during the “parbuckling” operation outside Giglio harbour January 11, 2014. Thirty massive tanks filled with air will lift the hulk of the Costa Concordia off the seabed in June so it can be towed away from the Italian island of Giglio where it capsized two years ago, officials said on Friday. The 114,500-tonne vessel hit rocks on Jan. 13, 2012, killing 32 people. It was hauled upright in a complex “parbuckling” operation in September but still rests where it capsized, just outside the holiday island’s small port. Refloating the Concordia will be one more phase in the largest maritime salvage in history. Where the ship will be dismantled – the final step – has yet to be decided. (REUTERS/Max Rossi)
- People attend the opening ceremony of a mausoleum (rear) built in memory of Republicans killed during and after the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War at the cemetery of San Rafael in Malaga, southern Spain, January 11, 2014. The eight-metre tall monument is made of marble slabs engraved with the names of over 4,400 war victims. It contains 2,840 boxes of humans remains, which have been recovered from open mass graves in the cemetery of San Rafael. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)
- A woman releases a pigeon during the opening ceremony of a mausoleum (rear) built in memory of Republicans killed during and after the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War at the cemetery of San Rafael in Malaga, southern Spain, January 11, 2014. The eight-metre tall monument is made of marble slabs engraved with the names of over 4,400 war victims. It contains 2,840 boxes of humans remains, which have been recovered from open mass graves in the cemetery of San Rafael. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)
- A staff wipes the condensation on the plexiglass before the Winter Classic Swiss Championship Ice Hockey match between Geneve Servette HC and Lausanne HC at the Stade de Geneve in Geneva January 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)
- Avery Speck, 8, practices holding on before competing in the mini bull riding competition at the 108th National Western Stock Show in Denver January 11, 2014. The show, which features more than 15,000 head of livestock, opened on Saturday and runs through January 26. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking)
- Firefighters work on a five-alarm blaze on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York January 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)
- Terry McAuliffe waves to guests as he arrives in rainy weather with wife Dorothy and family for his swearing-in ceremony as Virginia’s governor in Richmond, Virginia, January 11, 2014. McAuliffe, 56, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a major party fundraiser, narrowly defeated Republican Ken Cuccinelli, the outgoing attorney general. The ceremony marks the first time in a quarter-century that Democrats will hold all three of the state’s top elective posts: governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. (REUTERS/Mike Theiler)