Trash into art, continued search for Flight MH370 and Gaza Strip destruction | April 7
One man’s trash is another man’s art in new exhibition, the search continues for lost Malaysia Airlines flight and Palestinians deal with aftermath of destruction of Gaza Strip.
- Australian artist Nike Savvas inspects her artwork titled ‘Rally’ that hangs from the roof of the New South Wales Art Gallery April 7, 2014. Savvas says her hanging installation, which is made up of more than 60,000 colored ribbons being blown by fans, was inspired by her recent visit to Brazil and represents ‘fields of color in motion that swirls and regathers like an unpredictable crowd’. (David Gray/Reuters)
- A general view of the ‘Trash People’ exhibition by German conceptual artist HA Schult in the Ariel Sharon Park, a former waste site, on April 6, 2014 outside Tel Aviv, Israel. The ‘Trash People’ exhib features life-size figures made from 20 tons of recycled iron, glass, computer parts, cans and industrial waste. The exhibition has been traveling for 18 years around the world, with stops in Paris La Defense, Moscow Red Square, the Great Wall of China, Egypt’s Pyramids in Giza, Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Antarctica and now Israel, where it will be on display until April 26, 2014. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)
- A picture shows the transport container of the giraffe of Paris’ Vincennes zoo, displayed on the Trocadero Esplanade near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on April 7, 2014, to announce the re-opening of the zoo on April 12 after several years of renovation. (Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images)
- Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston (ret’d) holds a map outlining the current search areas of naval ships Ocean Shield and Haixun 01 during a press conference for the continuing search of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at Dumas House on April 7, 2014 in Perth, Australia. Angus Houston confirmed today that the Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield has twice detected signals in the past 24 hours consitent with aircraft black boxes. The airliner disappeared on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew on board and is suspected to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. (Paul Kane/Getty Images)
- A family member cries as she and other relatives pray during a candlelight vigil for passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the early morning, at Lido Hotel, in Beijing April 8, 2014, after a month of searching for the missing aircraft. An Australian ship searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has picked up signals consistent with the beacons from aircraft black box recorders, in what search officials said on Monday was the most promising lead yet in the month-long hunt. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
- Leading Seaman Boatswains Mate Luke Pertovt prepares to launch the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) from the Australian Navy ship HMAS Success to search for possible debris as part of the continuing search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in this picture released by the Australian Defence Force April 7, 2014. An Australian ship searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has picked up signals consistent with the beacons from aircraft black box recorders, in what search officials said on Monday was the most promising lead yet in the month-long hunt. The U.S. Navy “towed pinger locator” connected to the Australian ship Ocean Shield picked up the signals in an area some 1,680 km (1,040 miles) northwest of Perth, which analysis of sporadic satellite data has determined as the most likely place Boeing 777 went down. (Reuters/Australian Defence Force Handout)
- A Palestinian man walks atop a destroyed building during sunset in the northern Gaza Strip April 7, 2014. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
- Palestinians gather around a fire at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City April 7, 2014. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
- Palestinian schoolgirls stand in front of a mural during an awareness training session on dangers of unexploded ordnance on April 7, 2014 at a school in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)
- Women cry at the Amahoro stadium in Kigali, on April 7,2014, as they attend a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Rwanda’s genocide. Rwandan President Paul Kagame took a thinly-veiled swipe at France on April 7, saying it was impossible to “change the facts” about the genocide 20 years ago. The anniversary has been marked by reminders of festering anger with a major diplomatic row breaking out over renewed allegations of French complicity in the genocide. Paris had cancelled a ministerial visit in response to renewed accusations by Kagame, and on April 7 the French ambassador was in turn barred from attending commemoration ceremonies. (Simon Maina//AFP/Getty Images)
- Women cry at the Amahoro stadium in Kigali, on April 7,2014, as they attend a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Rwanda’s genocide. Rwandan President Paul Kagame took a thinly-veiled swipe at France on April 7, saying it was impossible to “change the facts” about the genocide 20 years ago. The anniversary has been marked by reminders of festering anger with a major diplomatic row breaking out over renewed allegations of French complicity in the genocide. Paris had cancelled a ministerial visit in response to renewed accusations by Kagame, and on April 7 the French ambassador was in turn barred from attending commemoration ceremonies. (Simon Maina//AFP/Getty Images)
- A Nepalese Hindu priest sweeps around the “Sweat Bhairab”, the god of destruction, during the Seto (White) Machindranath chariot festival in Kathmandu on April 7, 2014. Hindu and Buddist devotees from the ethnic Newar community of Kathmandu valley celebrate the Seto Machindranath festival by pulling wooden chariots across the city. (Prakash MathemaAFP/Getty Images)