Jan. 9 Daily Brief: Ferry’s float through ice, Gov. Chris Christie holds news conference about bridge scandal, People’s Choice Awards
The barred spiral galaxy M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel, is seen in a NASA Hubble Space Telescope mosaic, a security officer yells for help at the site of a bomb attack in Karachi, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gives a news conference in Trenton and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A boy stands next to a woman at a food stall where they work, in La Paz, January 7, 2014. Bolivia’s national legislature is currently debating a new law which would make it illegal for children to start working before the age of 14, though an exception would be incorporated, allowing 12 and 13-year-olds to work with special permission. On Wednesday, representatives from Bolivia’s Union of Child and Adolescent Workers (UNATsBO) entered this debate, opposing any legally imposed age limits. According to a 2008 study on child labour, conducted by the Bolivian National Institute of Statistics, 28 percent of the country’s population between 5 and 17 years old is involved in “labour activities”. Picture taken January 7. (REUTERS/David Mercado)
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- Tauana, 18, holds her three-month-old baby Kemilly Yasmin, as they pose at the window of their home, at the “New Palestine” camp, which houses an estimated 8,000 families of Brazil’s Roofless Workers Movement, who last year occupied a 100 hectare (246 acres) plot to demand for affordable low-income housing from the government, in Sao Paulo January 9, 2014. Sao Paulo state has a deficit of 1.11 million homes, according to the Institute of Applied Economic Research. (REUTERS/Nacho Doce)
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- A boy takes a shower at a demolished area in Metro slum, near Maracana stadium, in Rio de Janeiro January 9, 2014. Residents of Metro slum are protesting against their eviction from their homes which will be demolished for the construction of a leisure and automotive trade area. The removal of the community, which is near the Maracana stadium is part of the renovation works of the area for the world cup 2014, local media said. (REUTERS/ Ricardo Moraes)
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- A woman carries her children as she walks past debris of a demolished area in Metro slum, near Maracana stadium, in Rio de Janeiro January 9, 2014. Residents of Metro slum are protesting against their eviction of their homes which will be demolished for the construction of a leisure and automotive trade area. The removal of the community, which is near the Maracana stadium is part of the renovation works of the area for the world cup 2014, local media said. (REUTERS/ Ricardo Moraes)
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- A body is carried away from the scene of a helicopter crash on the coast near the village of Cley next the Sea in Norfolk, eastern England January 9, 2014. British police said on Wednesday they would be working with the U.S. Air Force and others to find out why a U.S. military helicopter crashed on the coast of eastern England, killing all four crew on board. The helicopter, a Pave Hawk assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath air base, was performing a low-level training mission along the Norfolk coast when it went down in marshland on Tuesday evening. The helicopter pictured is not the crashed helicopter but a second helicopter, which had been taking part in the same training exercise as the one that crashed. (REUTERS/Luke MacGregor)
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- The barred spiral galaxy M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel, is seen in a NASA Hubble Space Telescope mosaic released January 9, 2014. The Hubble photograph captures thousands of star clusters, hundreds of thousands of individual stars, and “ghosts” of dead stars called supernova remnants. (REUTERS/NASA)
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- A security officer yells for help at the site of a bomb attack in Karachi January 9, 2014. A senior Pakistani police officer, known for arresting and killing several Taliban militants in the southern port city of Karachi, was killed along with three associates in the huge bomb blast on Thursday. Having survived several attacks, including a big blast that razed his house in 2011, Crime Investigation Department (CID) chief Chaudhry Aslam was targeted in his armoured vehicle, as he drove in a convoy along a quiet road. The blast was so huge it was heard across Karachi, residents from several localities said. (REUTERS/Athar Hussain)
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- A pro-Kurdish demonstrator scuffles with riot police during the first anniversary of the killing of three Kurdish activists in Istanbul January 9, 2014. Three female Kurdish activists, including a founding member of the PKK rebel group, were found shot dead in Paris in 2013. (REUTERS/Osman Orsal)
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- David Wildstein, former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Director of Interstate Capital Projects and an ally of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, appears at a hearing to testify in front of state lawmakers at the New Jersey State Capitol in Trenton, New Jersey, January 9, 2014. Wildstein declined to answer questions at the State Assembly hearing on Thursday, repeatedly invoking the constitutional protection not to say anything that might incriminate him. Wildstein has admitted ordering lane closures on the George Washington Bridge amid a growing controversy over the closures that Democrats are calling political payback. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)
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- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gives a news conference in Trenton January 9, 2014. Christie on Thursday fired a top aide at the center of a brewing scandal that public officials orchestrated a massive traffic snarl on the busy George Washington Bridge to settle a political score. Christie told a news conference he was stunned and heartbroken by revelations that his staff was behind the traffic jam designed to punish a local mayor who declined to endorse Christie’s re-election bid. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)
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- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reacts during a news conference in Trenton January 9, 2014. Christie on Thursday fired a top aide at the center of a brewing scandal that public officials orchestrated a massive traffic snarl on the busy George Washington Bridge to settle a political score. Christie told a news conference he was stunned and heartbroken by revelations that his staff was behind the traffic jam designed to punish a local mayor who declined to endorse Christie’s re-election bid. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)
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- A commuter ferry navigates through the ice flow in the Hudson River between New Jersey and lower Manhattan in New York January 9, 2014. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
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- Ellen DeGeneres accepts the award for favorite daytime tv host for her show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” at the 2014 People’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California January 8, 2014. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
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