Rescued animals, a new dinosaur on display, apology from South Korean president | May 19
A rescued orang utan in Indonesia prepares for release into the wild while a pig and dog are saved in the Balkan floods, the original fossilized femur of a previously undiscovered giant dinosaur species is on display in Trelew, Argentina, South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye takes responsibility for the mishandling of last month’s Sewol ferry disaster, and more in today’s daily brief.
- Rizki, 10 months orphaned Bornean orang utan starts learning to bite and eating leaves at Surabaya Zoo as he prepares to be released into the wild on May 19, 2014 in Surabaya, Indonesia. The two baby orangutans, brothers, were found in Kutai National Park in a critical condition having been abandoned by their mother on May 14, 2014. The Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) have since been nursing the animals back to health, treating them for malnourishment and 16 wounds predominantly to the feet and hands. (Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)
- Novak Djokovic of Serbia sprays champagne to celebrate after winning the men’s singles final match against Rafael Nadal of Spain at the Rome Masters tennis tournament May 18, 2014. (Giampiero Sposito/Reuters)
- A man reacts near a house tilted by floods in the village of Krupanj, west from Belgrade, May 19, 2014. Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising flood waters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
- A man climbs on the roof of a house to feed pigs they rescued during heavy floods in the village of Vojskova, May 19, 2014. Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising flood waters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)
- A man rescues a dog during heavy floods in Vojskova May 19, 2014. More than a quarter of Bosnia’s four million people have been affected by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in more than a century, the government said on Monday, warning of “terrifying” destruction comparable to the country’s 1992-95 war. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)
- Leon’s coach Guatavo Matosas (in suit) and his players celebrate after winning their Mexican league championship final soccer match against Pachuca at the Hidalgo stadium in Pachuca May 18, 2014. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)
- Marlene lies over the original fossilised femur of a dinosaur displayed on exhibition at the Egidio Feruglio Museum in the Argentina’s Patagonian city of Trelew, May 18, 2014. According to the palaeontologists Jose Luis Carballido and Ruben Cuneo, the fossils are that of a sauropod and preliminary tests dates the fossils at some 90 million years old. The scientists said the dinosaur could be 130 feet long and 65 feet tall, and weigh at 85 tons, and it is a previously undiscovered species of titanosaur, an herbivore, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period. (Maxi Jonas/Reuters)
- A patch of sunflowers are displayed at the Chelsea Flower Show in west London, on May 19, 2014. The Chelsea flower show, held annually in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, will run this year from May 20-24. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
- South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye weeps as she makes a televised address to the nation from the presidential Blue House in Seoul on May 19, 2014. Park took tearful responsibility for the mishandling of last month’s Sewol ferry disaster, admitting that many lives were lost through incompetence and a lack of preparedness. Yonhap/AFP/Getty Images)
- Brett Stewart of the Sea Eagles is tackled by Jarrod Mullen of the Knights during the round 10 NRL match between the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the Newcastle Knights at Brookvale Oval on May 19, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. (PMatt King/Getty Images)
- Britain’s Prince Harry visits the Cassino’s Commonwealth War Cemetery at the end of a ceremony on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the WWII’s Monte Cassino battle, on May 19, 2014. (Alessandra Tarantino/AFP/Getty Images)
- Raja Club Atletic’s supporters watch the game in a green smoke during the match against Moghreb Athletic of Tetouan on May 19, 2014 in Casablanca. Raja Club Atletic won the match 5-0. (Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images)
- A man walks through a field of maize, planted under a film of biodegradable plastic which raises the soil temperature at the start of the season, near the city of Londonderry May 19, 2014. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)
- New York City Police Department officer Rosa Rodriguez is cheered by dozens of fellow officers as she is wheeled out of Weill Cornell Medical Center following severe injuries received in a Coney Island fire last month on May 19, 2014 in New York City. Officer Rodriguez, who was critically injured in the fire, lost her partner Officer Dennis Guerra in the incident. Police have said that 16-year-old Marcell Dockery has admitted to lighting a mattress on fire in the hallway of the building because he was bored. Thirty six year-old Rodriguez is a mother of four has been in the hospital since the April. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
- Israeli soldiers of the Ultra-Orthodox battalion “Netzah Yehuda” take part in their annual unit training in the Israeli annexed Golan Heights, near the Syrian border on May 19, 2014. The Netzah Yehuda Battalion is a battalion in the Kfir Brigade of the Israel military which was created to allow religious Israelis to serve in the army in an atmosphere respecting their religious convictions. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images/Reuters)