Apr 4, 2014

Protests in Belgium, an imploding Scottish apartment building and a remembrance of Rwandan genocide are among the contents of Friday’s daily photo brief.

: India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C24), carrying the second navigation satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS-1B, lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100 km (62 miles) north of the southern Indian city of Chennai April 4, 2014.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: BABU – REUTERS

: A Lemur catta, also known as ring-tailed lemur, with its three-week-old cub clinging to its back sits on a tree at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna April 4, 2014.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: HEINZ-PETER BADER – REUTERS

: A demonstrator throws garbage towards riot police officers during a European trade unions protest against austerity measures, in central Brussels April 4, 2014.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: FRANCOIS LENOIR – REUTERS

: AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus laughs as she attends a swimming event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, August 21, 2004. Niedringhaus, a veteran Associated Press photographer who had covered wars around the world was shot dead and another reporter was wounded on April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan, the news agency said. Picture taken August 21, 2004.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: STAFF – REUTERS

: Gaurav Sharma, an independent candidate also known as the Indian Spider-Man, poses as he arrives to file his nomination for the upcoming general election in Mumbai April 4, 2014. India, the world’s largest democracy, will hold its general election in nine stages staggered between April 7 and May 12.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: DANISH SIDDIQUI – REUTERS

: A bodybuilder stands in a toilet stall as he has toner applied backstage before an amateur competition in the Israeli city of Dimona, April 3.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: FINBARR O’REILLY – REUTERS

: Palestinians attend Friday prayers in front of Israeli troops during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, near an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Israel has called off a planned release of Palestinian prisoners meant to advance the U.S.-sponsored peace process and called for a review of how the troubled negotiations can make progress, an official briefed on the talks said on Thursday.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: AMMAR AWAD – REUTERS

: A protester runs away from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, near an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank town of Bethlehem April 4. Israel has called off a planned release of Palestinian prisoners meant to advance the U.S.-sponsored peace process and called for a review of how the troubled negotiations can make progress, an official briefed on the talks said on Thursday.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: AMMAR AWAD – REUTERS

: Tsar pink catfish is displayed during the agro-industrial exhibition “Agrorus” in St. Petersburg. The exhibition, which opened on Friday, exhibits produce from more than 30 Russian regions, including baked goods, meat products, beekeeping, fish, alcoholic drinks, canned vegetables and other products, according to organizers.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ALEXANDER DEMIANCHUK – REUTERS

: A general view of the iconic Red Road flats on April 4 in Glasgow, Scotland. Five of the six tower blocks are to be demolished, which will apparently take just 15 seconds, during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games being held in the city on July 23, 2014. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

: Lotus Formula One driver Romain Grosjean of France drives during the first practice session of the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir, south of Manama April 4.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: THAIER AL-SUDANI – REUTERS

: Twelve-year-old certified yoga instructor Jaysea DeVoe (R) does the mermaid pose with her friend Miely as they float on their paddle boards after the sun sets in Encinitas, California March 19. DeVoe is just 12 years old and recently became a certified yoga instructor after completing 200 hours of teacher training. She is believed to be the youngest certified female yoga instructor in the United States. In addition to teaching pint-sized students aged 4 to 6, DeVoe instructs teens and fellow tweens in her California beach town of Encinitas and is about to start a family yoga class. Picture taken March 19, 2014.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: MIKE BLAKE – REUTERS

: Flood waters run past damaged homes in the Solomon Islands’ capital Honiara on April 4. Flash flooding killed at least three people and left 10,000 homeless in Honiara on April 4, with another 30 missing and the death toll expected to rise, aid workers said.
|| CREDIT: CARLOS ARUAFUCARLOS ARUAFU/ – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Public school teachers scuffle with police during a protest against reforms which will affect their sector, outside the Education ministry in Athens April 4.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: YORGOS KARAHALIS – REUTERS

: A sumo wrestler walks under cherry trees in full bloom at a ceremonial sumo exhibition at Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on April 4. Sumo wrestlers took part in a “honozumo”, a ceremonial one-day exhibition for hundreds of spectators held within the shrine’s precincts.
|| CREDIT: KAZUHIRO NOGIKAZUHIRO NOGI/ – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: A Pakistani balloon vendor pushes his bicycle along the Ravi river during sunset in Lahore on April 4. Pakistan’s economists had set a growth target for the current financial year of 4.4 percent, and the central bank in earlier reports had forecast growth of four percent.
|| CREDIT: ARIF ALI – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Human skulls preserved are exhibited on April at the Genocide memorial in Nyamata, inside a Catholic church where thousands were slaughtered during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Twenty years after the genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, the massacres of Hutu civilians who fled across the border into the DR Congo remain a taboo subject in Kigali.
|| CREDIT: SIMON MAINASIMON MAINA/ – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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