South Sudanese await aid, haute couture fashions | July 7
The day in pictures around the world.
- Young players of Planaltina football club practise in Planaltina July 3, 2014. In a project called “On The Sidelines”, Reuters photographers share pictures showing their own quirky and creative view of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Picture taken July 3. (Damir Sagolj /Reuters)
- Thousands of people wait in the hot sun near the air drop zone in Leer, South Sudan, on July 5, 2014. Over 40 tons of emergency food supplies and seed – enough for 1,100 families – were airdropped into Leer by the International Red Cross. These are the first air drops by the ICRC for nearly two decades, in an effort to reach hundreds of thousands of starving and malnourished people in South Sudan. (Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images)
- Children race into the drop zone to gather any food or seeds that were spilled during the air drop in Leer, South Sudan, on July 5, 2014. Over 40 tons of emergency food supplies and seed – enough for 1,100 families – were airdropped into Leer by the International Red Cross. These are the first air drops by the ICRC for nearly two decades, in an effort to reach hundreds of thousands of starving and malnourished people in South Sudan. (Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images)
- Martha Nyarueni (R) and her family return to their home outside of the town of Leer, South Sudan, after receiving aid package, on July 5, 2014. In January Martha fled with her husband and five children into the bush, where they lived for months before returning home in May to find their home burned and food stores looted. Over 40 tons of emergency food supplies and seed – enough for 1,100 families – were airdropped into Leer by the International Red Cross. These are the first air drops by the ICRC for nearly two decades, in an effort to reach hundreds of thousands of starving and malnourished people in South Sudan. (Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images)
- Models present creations for Christian Dior during the 2014/2015 Haute Couture Fall-Winter collection fashion show on July 7, 2014 in Paris. (Francois Guillo/AFP/Getty Images)
- A model presents a creation for Christian Dior during the 2014/2015 Haute Couture Fall-Winter collection fashion show on July 7, 2014 in Paris.(Francois Guillo/AFP/Getty Images)
- A model presents a creation for Schiaparelli during the 2014/2015 Haute Couture Fall-Winter collection fashion show on July 7, 2014 in Paris. (Francois Guillo/AFP/Getty Images)
- A model presents a creation from Candy Tang’s collection titled ‘Space Fantasia’ as part of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s 2014 graduation fashion show during Hong Kong Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2014 in Hong Kong July 7, 2014. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
- A model presents a creation by Bulgarian designers Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samouilov as part of their Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014-2015 fashion show for fashion house On Aura Tout Vu in Paris July 7, 2014. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)
- A boy visits China’s Anti-Japanese War museum at the Marco Polo bridge, or Lugouqiao, in west Beijing on July 7, 2014, on the the 77th anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge incident, a skirmish between Chinese and Japanese troops that served as a pretext for Tokyo’s forces to seize Beijing and trigger the Sino-Japanese war. Chinese President Xi Jinping on July 7 commemorated the 77th anniversary of the official start of war with Japan, condemning those who “ignore the iron facts of history” in an oblique jab at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.(Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)
- Residential units are seen clustered tightly together in an apartment complex in the Quarry Bay area of Hong Kong on July 7, 2014. Housing prices in the southern Chinese city have roughly doubled since 2009, with prices being pushed up by buyers from mainland China, in a trend towards even higher population density that now sees, according to government estimates, around 170,000 people living in tiny subdivided apartments in and around already cramped residential units. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)
- A worker prepares graves ahead of a ceremony at a memorial centre for the victims of the Srebrenica massacre in Potocari July 7, 2014. Family members, foreign dignitaries and guests are expected to attend a ceremony in Srebrenica on July 11 marking the 19th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The remains of 175 identified victims will be buried at a memorial cemetery during the ceremony, their bodies found in some 60 mass graves around the town. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
- People fish along the bank of the Yellow River as the Sammenxia Dam discharges flood waters downstream in Pinglu, Shanxi province July 6, 2014. People risked sitting on the bank of the flooded river to catch the surge of fish forced to the river surface by the rushing water. Picture taken July 6, 2014. (China Daily/Reuters)