Jan. 16 Daily Brief: Manure dumped at the French National Assembly, a penguin at the NYSE and Darth Vader
A man driving a lorry with a protest banner dumped several tonnes of manure in front of the National Assembly in central Paris before police stopped his protest, a villager tries to control a bull during a bull-taming festival on the outskirts of Madurai, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- French police an municipal workers walk near a large pile of manure sits in front of the National Assembly in Paris, January 16, 2014. A man driving a lorry with a protest banner dumped several tonnes of manure in front of the National Assembly in central Paris before police stopped his protest action that targeted current President Francois Hollande, politicians in general, and the Fifth Republic. (REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen)
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- A woman rides a bicycle past French police as a large pile of manure is removed in front of the National Assembly in Paris, January 16, 2014. A man driving a lorry with a protest banner dumped several tonnes of manure in front of the National Assembly in central Paris before police stopped his protest action that targeted current President Francois Hollande, politicians in general, and the Fifth Republic. (REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen)
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- French police stand guard near a lorry (L) that displays a banner reading, “Out with Hollande and all politicians. Long Live the VIth Republic” and a large pile of manure (R) in front of the National Assembly in Paris, January 16, 2014. A man driving a lorry with the protest banner dumped several tonnes of manure in front of the National Assembly in central Paris before police stopped his protest action that targets current President Francois Hollande, politicians in general, and the Fifth Republic. (REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen)
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- A villager is pinned down by a bull during a bull-taming festival on the outskirts of Madurai town, about 500 km (310 miles) from the southern Indian city of Chennai January 16, 2014. The annual festival is part of south India’s harvest festival of Pongal. (REUTERS/Babu)
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- A villager tries to control a bull during a bull-taming festival on the outskirts of Madurai town, about 500 km (310 miles) from the southern Indian city of Chennai January 16, 2014. The annual festival is part of south India’s harvest festival of Pongal. (REUTERS/Babu)
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- A staff member dressed as the Darth Vader (C) character from George Lucas’ Star Wars films arrives for photographers at the opening of Disney’s Lucasfilms’ new animation production facility, the Sandcrawler in Singapore on January 16, 2014. The award-winning Sandcrawler building was officially opened on January 16, as its regional headquarters for Lucasfilm Singapore. (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Nepalese Hindu devotees gather to bathe in the Shali River on the outskirts of Kathmandu on January 16, 2014. Hundreds of married and unmarried women in the Himalayan nation have started a month-long fast in the hope of a prosperous life and conjugal happiness. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The crew of a tunnel boring machine emerges after it broke through the wall at a major interchange on the Crossrail East to West underground railway link in Stepney, east London, November 6, 2013. Crossrail, the largest infrastructure project in Europe which will provide a new link across London, has reached the half-way stage. The 15 billion pound ($25 billion) project, due to open in 2018, will connect London’s Heathrow airport west of London to the county of Essex in the east in a bid to speed up connections and relieve pressure on London’s crowded underground rail network. Work began in 2009 and digging the new tunnels has uncovered a range of archaeological finds including 20 Roman skulls and a graveyard which could hold the remains of some 50,000 people killed by the plague more than 650 years ago.(REUTERS/Andrew Winning)
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- Fishermen cast their nets in the river Oubangui in the capital of the Central African Republic Bangui January 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Siegfried Modola)
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- Students pour water on each other as they take a holy bath on the occasion of Magh Purnima in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad January 16, 2014. The ceremony was organised to resemble the annual month-long religious festival held during the Hindu month of Magh, when thousands of Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the waters of the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Magh Purnima is the full moon day in the Hindu month of Magh. (REUTERS/Amit Dave)
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- “Pete the Penguin” of SeaWorld Entertainment is carried by a handler on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange January 15, 2014. Sea World celebrated it’s 50th anniversary by ringing the closing bell at the NYSE. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
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- Members of the Thai army take part in a rehearsal ahead of Thailand’s National Armed Forces Day at a military camp in Bangkok January 16, 2014. Around 5,000 military personnel took part in the rehearsal for Thailand’s National Armed Forces Day, which is observed on Saturday. (REUTERS/Kerek Wongsa)
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- An anti-government protester uses a pair of binoculars during a rally in central Bangkok January 16, 2014. Protesters in Thailand trying to paralyse ministries to force the government to resign said they would target revenue offices on Thursday, but their numbers appeared to be dwindling and ministers say the movement could be running out of steam. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)
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- Hindu devotees offer food as they pray in front of Lord Muruga’s silver chariot during the Thaipusam Hindu festival in Penang, northern Malaysia, outside Kuala Lumpur on January 16, 2014. The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, which commemorates the day when Goddess Pavarthi gave her son Lord Muruga an invincible lance with which he destroyed evil demons, is celebrated by some two million ethnic Indians in Malaysia and Singapore. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Mini’s driver Stephane Peterhansel of France and co-driver Jean Paul Cottret compete during the 2014 Rally Dakar Stage 10 between Iquique and Antofagasta, Chile, on January 15, 2014. (Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A group of men ride on the roof of a bus while it travels from Titanyen to Port-au-Prince on January 15, 2015. (Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Polling station officials count ballots in the Egyptian capital Cairo on January 15, 2014 at the end of the second day of voting in a referendum on a new constitution. Voting proceeded smoothly in a referendum on a new Egyptian constitution after clashes killed nine people on day one, with turnout seen as key to a likely presidential bid by the army chief. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Girls skip a rope at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) at the base of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Juba on January 15, 2014. South Sudan’s military battled rebels in the streets of the key northern oil town of Malakal, the army said, as violence in the world’s newest nation entered its second month. (Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian boy stands near a destroyed car following overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on January 16, 2014. Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip against training camps used by the armed wing of the territory’s Hamas rulers left four children and a woman wounded, Palestinian medical sources said. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Palestinian youths check a destroyed building following overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on January 16, 2014. Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip against training camps used by the armed wing of the territory’s Hamas rulers left four children and a woman wounded, Palestinian medical sources said. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
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