Clinton book signing, Iraq call to arms, Vespa World Days, rugby | June 14
Hillary Clinton signs her book in Arlington, Va., Iraqis flee violence while others take up arms, scooters rule during Vespa World Days, rugby from around the world and more in today’s daily brief.
- Edmonton Eskimos receiver Nicholas Edwards bobbles a catch after being hit by British Columbia Lions Ronnie Yell during their CFL game at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Lions defeated the Eskimos 14-11. (Derek Leung/Getty Images)
- A cow walks through water in front of the partially-submerged church of Saint Nicholas in Mavrovo Lake, some 100 km west from Skopje. The church of St Nicholas was intentionally flooded in 1957 during the creation of an artificial lake designed to supply water to a local power plant. (Robert AtanasovskiAFP-Getty Images)
- A Vespa club member arrives in Mantova during Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- Vespa riders on a road oin Mantova during Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- French Vespa riders parade in front of San Giorgio Castle in Mantova during Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- A Vespa is parked in front of the Sordello Square in Mantova durin Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- Vespas parked on Sordello Square in Mantova during Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- Vespas parked on Sordello Square in Mantova during Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- A Vespa and some wine parked on Sordello Square in Mantova during Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- Vespa club members ride in front of San Giorgio Castle in Mantova during Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- A Vespa club blows kisses in Mantova during Vespa World Days. Vespa lovers from all over Europe and further afield gather together for the largest and best-known rally of its kind worldwide. (Alberto Lingria/AFP-Getty Images)
- Australian actress Nicole Kidman shakes hands with fans as she arrives on the red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival. Kidman, who is promoting “Grace of Monaco” at the festival, received an award for outstanding contribution to film. Shanghai kicked off its annual film festival, a nine-day event with a heavy emphasis on Chinese cinema and a sprinkling of Hollywood stars promoting their latest works. (AFP-Getty Images)
- Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Tuffy Gosewisch tags out bater Yasiel Puig during the eighth inning of their game at Dodger Stadium. Despite the easy out, the Dodgers won 4-3. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea/USA Today Sports)
- An Iraqi man holds up a portrait of Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during a demonstration in the central Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf. They gathered to show support for his call to arms to defend the country against the offensive spearheaded by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL.) The call came as President Barack Obama said he was exploring all options to save Iraq’s security forces from collapse. (Haider Hamdani/AFP-Getty Images)
- England’s Mike Brown and New Zealand All Blacks’ Beauden Barrett jump for the ball during the second rugby union test match in Dunedin. New Zealand won 28-27. (Marty Melville/AFP-Getty Images)
- England’s players face the “haka” by the New Zealand All Blacks before their second rugby union test match at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin . (Anthony Phelps/Reuters)
- Australia Wallabies’ Nic White is run over by France’s Damien Chouly during their second rugby union test match in Melbourne. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
- Australia Wallabies’ Matt Toomua runs over France’s defence during their second rugby union test match in Melbourne. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
- South Africa’s Duane Vermeulen carries the ball into Wales’ Ken Owens (L) and Dan Biggar during their rugby test match in Durban, South Africa. (Rogan Ward/Reuters)
- Wales and South African players scrum for the ball during the Rugby test match between South Africa and Wales at Kings Stadium in Durban, South Africa. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP-Getty Images)
- French supporters cheer during the second rugby union test match between Australia and France at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne. Australia won 6-0. (Mal Fairclough/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT:
- Los Angeles Kings Alec Martinez celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal in double overtime against goaltender Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers to give the Kings the 3-2 victory in Game Five of the 2014 Stanley Cup Final at the Staples Center. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
- Fans celebrate with an imitation Stanley Cup after the Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup in Los Angeles, Calif. It is the second time in three years that the Kings have won the Stanley Cup. (David McNew/Getty Images)
- Colombian soccer team fans react after their team scores a goal against Greece as they watch the game on the giant screen at the FIFA World Cup Fan Fest on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The match was played on the third day of the World Cup tournament. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
- Argetinians cheer for their fooball team as they visit the statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Juan Mabrowata/AFP-Getty Images)
- Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah holds up his finger after casting his vote at a polling station in Kabul. Afghans went to the polls for a second round of voting to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
- Pro-Russian separatists walk search the crash site of a Ukrainian Il-76 transport plane shot down at an airport in Luhansk. Pro-Russian launched an anti-aircraft missileat the army transport as it came in for a landing, killing all 49 military personnel on board. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)
- A MI-2 helicopter performs during the “Vertoslet” helicopter festival, show and competition at an airdrome outside Moscow. (Maxim Zmeyev/reuters)
- Guardsmen of the Scots Guards parade during the Trooping the Colour ceremony at Horse Guards Parade in London. Trooping the Colour is a ceremony to honor the Queen Elizabeth’s official birthday. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
- A boy talks with his sitter as they outside a house in Bambari. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)OT01
- Shamier Little of Texas A&M celebrates after winning the womens 400m hurdles in 55.07 in the 2014 NCAA Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugen, Or. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
- Terrence Raphael sings at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago. The Checkerboard Lounge, on Chicago’s South Side, as hosted the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Muddy Waters, but is singing the business blues. It has been hurt by a move to a swankier site and the decline of the influence of urban blues music. In the city that calls itself the “Home of the Blues,” the Checkerboard is among the most storied of the bars that have provided a place for young artists to shine in Chicago, which launched its 31st annual Blues Festival on Friday. (Jim Young/Reuters)
- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives to sign her new book “Hard Choices” in Arlington, Va. Clinton is widely thought to be mulling a run for the 2016 presidential election (Nicholas Kamm/AFP-Getty Images)
- A man reads from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s new book “Hard Choices” while in line outside an Arlington, Va., Costco. Clinton is widely thought to be mulling a run for the 2016 presidential election. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP-Getty Images)
- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs copies of her new book “Hard Choices” at a Costco in Arlington, Va. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
- A man takes a picture of himself and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she signs copies of her book “Hard Choices” at a Costco Arlington, Va. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
- Afghan women prepare to cast their votes at a polling station in Kabul. Afghans headed back to the polls for a second round of voting to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai, a decisive test of Afghanistan’s ambitions to transfer power democratically for the first time in its tumultuous history. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
- Afghan women wait in line to cast their votes at a polling station in Kabul. Afghans headed back to the polls on Saturday for a second round of voting to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
- Pro-Ukrainian protestors overturn a car during a rally in front of the Russian embassy in Kiev. The rally was held to demand Russian authorities and President Vladimir Putin to stop supporting groups of separatists in eastern Ukraine, according to the protesters. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
- Men show their fingers after the ink-stained part of their fingers were cut off by the Taliban after voting the presidential election. Millions of Afghans turned out for a second time on Saturday to elect a new president to replace Hamid Karzai. (Mohammad Shoib/Reuters)
- Palestinians carry the body of seven-year-old Ali Al-Awor during his funeral in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. The boy died the previous day from a wound he suffered in an Israeli air strike earlier in the week, Palestinian medics said. The army said it had targeted militants in the Gaza Strip planning attacks on Israel. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
- A man walks through a Kurdish checkpoint at sunset near a temporary displacement camp in Kalak, Iraq. Thousands of people have fled Iraq’s second city of Mosul after it was overrun by ISAS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants. Many have been temporarily housed at various displaced persons camps around the region including the area close to Erbil, as they hope to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
- Lines of those waiting at a Kurdish checkpoint stretch into the distance in Kalak, Iraq. Thousands of people have fled Iraq’s second city of Mosul after it was overrun by ISAS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants. Many have been temporarily housed at various IDP (internally displaced persons) camps around the region including the area close to Erbil, as they hope to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
- Peshmerga military direct traffic at a Kurdish Check point in Kalak, Iraq. Thousands of people have fled Iraq Mosul after it was overrun by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants. Many have been temporarily housed at various IDP (internally displaced persons) camps around the region including the area close to Erbil, as they hope to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
- A girl stands outside her tent at a temporary displacement camp near a Kurdish checkpoint in Kalak, Iraq. Thousands of people have fled Iraq’s second city of Mosul after it was overrun by ISAS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants. Many have been temporarily housed at various IDP (internally displaced persons) camps around the region including the area close to Erbil, as they hope to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 497173675
- A women and a girl wash at a tap at a temporary displacement camp near a Kurdish checkpoint in Kalak, Iraq. Thousands of people have fled Iraq’s second city of Mosul after it was overrun by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants. Many have been temporarily housed at various IDP (internally displaced persons) camps around the region including the area close to Erbil, as they hope to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX *** ORG XMIT: 497173675
- Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters train at a camp in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Iraqi security forces retook a town north of Baghdad from jihadist militants as they readied a fightback after the premier Nuri al-Maliki announced that the cabinet granted him “unlimited powers” as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. (Safin Hamed/AFP-Getty Images)
- An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter trains at a camp in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Iraqi security forces retook a town north of Baghdad from jihadist militants as they readied a fightback after the premier Nuri al-Maliki announced that the cabinet granted him “unlimited powers” as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. (Safin Hamed/AFP-Getty Images)
- Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga parade at their camp camp in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Iraqi security forces retook a town north of Baghdad from jihadist militants as they readied a fightback after the premier Nuri al-Maliki announced that the cabinet granted him “unlimited powers” as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. (Safin Hamed/AFP-Getty Images)
- Iraqi Shiite men shout slogans in support of the call to arms in Baghdad. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged followers to take up arms against a full-blown Sunni militant insurgency to topple Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, escalating a conflict that threatens civil war and a possible break-up of the country. (Ahmed Saad/Reuters)