May 12, 2014

“Pelada” soccer matches in Brazil, rock climbers help make art, Indians cast their votes and more in today’s daily brief.

: Vincent Kompany of Manchester City lifts the Barclays Premier League trophy aloft outside Manchester Town Hall at the start of the Manchester City victory parade around the streets of Manchester on May 12, 2014 in Manchester, England. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

: A World Heritage site, the Mahabodhi Temple is illuminated with lights on the occassion of the 2558th Buddha Jayanti celebrations at Bodhgaya on May 12, 2014. Buddha Jayanti, the most sacred Buddhist festival, celebrates the birthday of Lord Buddha and commemorates his enlightenment and death. It is held on a full moon in May each year and in 2014, Buddha Jayanti falls on May 14. (AFP/Getty Images)

: A child looks on as Indian Muslim women wait in line to cast their votes at a polling station in Azamgarh, about 275 kms from Lucknow in northern Uttar Pradesh state on May 12, 2014. Voters headed to the polls in the final stage of India’s bitterly fought mammoth election that is expected to catapult Hindu nationalist hardliner Narendra Modi to power. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)

: Steven Avilla wears a Washington monument costume as he greets visitors to the monument, May 12, 2014 on the ground of the monument in Washington, DC. The Washington Monument was reopened after it has been closed for a restoration due to damage caused by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the Washington, DC area on August 23, 2011 (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

: Discarded soccer boots hang from an electric wire where they were thrown by their owners over several months after Sunday “pelada” soccer matches in the Morro do Papagaio favela in Belo Horizonte, a World Cup host city, May 4, 2014. Sunday soccer is a decades-old tradition when Brazilians of all walks of life play on the beaches, in the slums, and on the streets matches that are known as “peladas” or “naked”. Pelada can refer to a street match where everyone plays barefoot with “naked” feet, or a match on a grassless “naked” field, or a match with a ball so worn that it is “naked”. With the 2014 World Cup just one month away, people of all walks of life in the host cities are spending their Sundays practicing the sport for which their country is about to become the global stage. The tournament will take place in Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Natal, Fortaleza, Salvador, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Cuiaba, Manaus, and Recife. Picture taken May 4, 2014. (Washington Alves/Reuters)

: A player takes a corner kick during a Sunday “pelada” soccer match in the Morro do Papagaio favela in Belo Horizonte, a World Cup host city, May 4, 2014. Sunday soccer is a decades-old tradition when Brazilians of all walks of life play on the beaches, in the slums, and on the streets matches that are known as “peladas” or “naked”. Pelada can refer to a street match where everyone plays barefoot with “naked” feet, or a match on a grassless “naked” field, or a match with a ball so worn that it is “naked”. With the 2014 World Cup just one month away, people of all walks of life in the host cities are spending their Sundays practicing the sport for which their country is about to become the global stage. The tournament will take place in Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Natal, Fortaleza, Salvador, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Cuiaba, Manaus, and Recife. Picture taken May 4, 2014. (Washington Alves/Reuters)

: Goaltender Jakub Kovar of the Czech Republic (R) reacts after a goal of Canada during their men’s ice hockey World Championship group A game against Canada at Chizhovka Arena in Minsk May 12, 2014. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

: A worker melts iron to make automobile parts inside a factory on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad May 12, 2014. India’s ailing economy showed little sign of improvement on Monday, trapped in a spell of weak growth and high inflation when the country is on the cusp of political change that is widely expected to script an economic revival. (Amit Dave/Reuters)

: Professional rock climbers work on the art installation “Big Bambu: 5,000 Arms to Hold You” at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem May 12, 2014. The installation by artists Doug and Mike Starn, which upon completion will be made of 10,000 bamboo stalks and cover an area of more than 700 sq. meters,will open to the public June 10, 2014, a museum spokesperson said on Monday. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)

: An activist from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), wearing a biohazard suit with a gas mask, holds a sign during a rally as part of the “Go Vegetarian” campaign outside a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur May 12, 2014. The rally aims to highlight the benefits of a vegetarian diet and to stop the killing of animals. (Samsul Said/Reuters)

: Students join a protest demanding the release of the abducted secondary school girls in the remote village of Chibok, along a road in Lagos May 12, 2014. The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has said he will release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for prisoners, according to a video seen by Agence France-Presse on Monday. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)

: A Pakistani labourer carries a sack of wheat to build a pyramid of wheat sacks used to store wheat supplies near Multan in South Punjab province May 12, 2014. Every year hundreds of labourers help build the huge pyramids where the government stores wheat sometimes for months on end following the year’s harvest, labourers said. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

: A devotee prays before a “three steps one bow” ceremony at Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery on the eve of Vesak Day in Singapore May 12, 2014. Vesak Day, which is celebrated on Tuesday in Singapore, commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. Devotees circumambulate the perimeter of the temple bowing once every three steps during the ceremony. Every prostration symbolises the paying of respect to Buddha. (Edgar Su/Reuters)

: Kurdish female fighters of the Women Protection Unit (YPJ) attend military training near Qamishli city May 11, 2014. Picture taken May 11, 2014. (Massoud Mohammed/Retuers)

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