Israeli Memorial Day, laughing senior citizens, cheese rolling competition | May 5
Israel commemorates its fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, a group of Indians attempt to break a world record of the largest gathering of laughing senior citizens, teams of four in England race by rolling wooden “cheese,” and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A swimmer splashes his face in between laps at a pool as the waves of the Pacific Ocean roll in during twilight at Sydney’s South Cronulla Beach, May 5, 2014. Despite the sun setting earlier with a southern hemisphere winter approaching, Sydneysiders continue to take advantage of mild sea temperatures into May. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
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- Members of a laughter club participate in a laughing exercise in Mumbai May 5, 2014. Hundreds of people, who believe that laughter is the best medicine for a happy and healthy life, took part in an attempt to break a world record of the largest gathering of senior citizens at a laughing exercise on Monday. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
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- A paramilitary policeman crawls under fire obstacles during a drill at a military base in Chaohu, Anhui province May 5, 2014. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- Israeli scouts are reflected in the pool of a monument as they sit next to torches during a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem May 4, 2014. Israel commemorates its fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, which begins on Sunday night. (Nir Elias/Reuters)
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- Israeli scouts observe a two minute silence as a siren is heard across the country at the start of Remembrance Day on May 4 2014, in Jerusalem to commemorate 23169 fallen Israeli soldiers killed since 1860 including civilians killed in hostile actions since 1948. Remembrance Day is followed immediately by the 66th anniversary of the creation of Israel in 1948 according to the Jewish calendar. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Israel’s President Shimon Peres lays a wreath during a ceremony marking the Fallen Soldiers Memorial Day held on Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, May 5, 2014. Israel on Monday marks Memorial Day to commemorate its fallen soldiers. (Jim Hollander/Pool/Reuters)
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- A team roll a wooden ‘cheese’ during the Stilton Village Festival cheese rolling competition on May 5, 2014 in Stilton, England. The Stilton annual cheese rolling competition, which is held annually on every May Day Bank Holiday involves teams of four competing against each other by rolling cheese down the High Street to be crowned the ‘Stilton Cheese Rolling Champions’. (Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images)
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- Mourners grieve at the coffin of Vyacheslav Markin, a regional parliament deputy who died in a fire at the trade union building on Friday, at his funeral in Odessa May 5, 2014. Pro-Russian militants stormed a Ukrainian police station in Odessa on Sunday and freed nearly 70 fellow activists as the country’s leaders lamented a police force they said was widely undermined by graft or collaboration with separatists. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
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- Debris rises in what Free Syrian Army fighters and Islamic rebels said was an operation to strike Al-Sahaba checkpoint, which is considered a gateway to Al-Dayf valley, and remove forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad in Maarat Al-Nouman, Idlib province May 5, 2014. (Rasem Ghareeb/Reuters)
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- A participant on a lilo slides down a giant water slide that has been installed down Park Street on May 4, 2014 in Bristol, England. The 90m (295ft) slide was made from plastic sheets, hay bales, water and washing-up liquid and was the brainchild of artist Luke Jerram. The three hundred ticket holders who were picked from nearly 100,000 applicants took turns to hurtle down the slide watched by hundreds of spectators lining the street that was closed to traffic. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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- A North Korean soldier sits inside a sentry post as he guards on the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 4, 2014. Picture taken May 4, 2014. (Jacky Chen/Reuters)
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- Participants cross a cold water pool during the Strong Race competition near Tukums May 4, 2014. About 6500 people competed in this extreme running race, which includes cross-country running, elements of agility and power discipline. (Ints Kalnins/Reuters)
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- A young Afghan villager eats bread in the Argo district of Badakhshan on May 4, 2014. Aid groups rushed to help survivors of a landslide in northern Afghanistan that entombed the village of Aab Bareek, killing hundreds of people and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. Tents, emergency food supplies, health services and support for children who lost parents were being organised after many survivors spent another night in the open. (Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Afghan survivors mourn for their relatives at the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province May 5, 2014. Grief-stricken and desititute Afghan villagers vented anger with their government as they scrambled for emergency aid, three days after deadly landslides engulfed their homes. Some 300 homes in Aab Bareek, a village in the Argo district of Badakhshan, a remote and mountainous northeastern province, were buried under up to 50 metres of earth and debris. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)
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- Indian Muslim devotees watch as Mastan Hasanali Rafai performs with a sword during a procession in memory of Sufi saint Hazrat Pir Mehmood Shah Bukhari in Ahmedabad on May 5, 2014. The procession will reach Bhadiyad town, some 120 kms from Ahmedabad on May 9, marking the first day of the annual Urs of the saint. The Shrine of the Sufi saint Hazrat Pir Mehmood Shah Bukhari is situated at Bhadiyad and both Muslims and Hindu devotees pay their respects. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)
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