Salvadorean national amputee soccer team, crude oil in Israel, NASA launch scrubbed | Dec. 4
The day in pictures around the world.
- Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani speaks to delegates and ministers during the Conference on Afghanistan in London December 4, 2014. The United States and Britain pledged on Thursday to support Afghanistan’s new unity government even as foreign combat troops withdraw from the country after a 13-year war that ousted the Islamist Taliban. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said President Ghani’s new government had already made moves to combat money laundering and corruption since taking office in September in the first democratic transfer of power in Afghan history. REUTERS/Dan Kitwood/Pool
- A Brazilian flag is seen on the cracked ground of Atibainha dam, part of the Cantareira reservoir, during a drought in Nazare Paulista, Sao Paulo state December 2, 2014. Brazil’s worst drought in 80 years has left the Cantareira system, that provides greater Sao Paulo with most of its water, with the lowest water level on record, with daily rationing becoming common in the region’s smaller cities, according to the state authorities and the two main reservoirs serving metropolitan Sao Paulo, South America’s largest city, could dry out by February if relief does not arrive in the upcoming rainy season. Pictures taken December 2, 2014. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
- A woman photographs a Norwegian spruce Christmas tree from Oslo after it was lit at Trafalgar Square in central London, December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Toby Melville
- A student supporter is detained by a riot police officer during a demonstration by teachers in Santiago December 4, 2014. Members of the Chilean teachers union marched through Santiago on Thursday to demand for “La dignidad docente” (The teacher dignity), or respect for their work, according to organizers. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
- Folk artist Han Xiaoming demonstrates painting with his tongue in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province December 4, 2014. Han dips his tongue in ink to paint on paper, and uses his fingers to fill in final adjustments. The artist also uses a paintbrush held with his mouth and utilizes fish and vegetables as paint tools, local media reported. REUTERS/Aly Song
- Members of the Salvadorean national amputee soccer team take part in training session at La Estrella soccer field in San Salvador November 21, 2014. The El Salvador Amputee National Football team was founded in 1987 by veterans who lost their limbs during the civil war in the Central American nation. Many members of the team joined as part of their rehabilitation process and the team have won the world championship three times, from 1987 to 1989. Picture taken November 21, 2014. REUTERS/ Jose Cabezas
- Francisco Ascencio, a member of the Salvadorean national amputee soccer team, is massaged before a training session at Jorge “Magico” Gonzalez National Stadium in San Salvador November November 19, 2014. The El Salvador Amputee National Football team was founded in 1987 by veterans who lost their limbs during the civil war in the Central American nation. Many members of the team joined as part of their rehabilitation process and the team have won the world championship three times, from 1987 to 1989. Picture taken November 19, 2014. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
- A shovel is placed over coal briquettes during a protest in front of the chancellery in Berlin December 3, 2014. Germany’s cabinet will agree plans to cut CO2 emissions by up to 78 million tonnes by 2020, pushing operators to shut some coal-fired plants, to help Europe’s biggest economy meet ambitious targets to fight climate change. The package, which also includes an energy efficiency program, is essential if Chancellor Angel Merkel is to avoid the embarrassment of missing her government’s goal of a 40 percent reduction in emissions by 2020, compared to 1990 levels. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
- An elderly woman demonstrates against the prospect of Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) becoming Thuringia state premier and leading a state coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens, during a protest rally in Erfurt December 4, 2014. The Cold War has flared up again in Germany ahead of a tight and unpredictable state assembly vote on Friday in the eastern state of Thuringia, where the reform communist Left party is yearning to take control of a regional government for the first time. The SPD and Greens have been accused of betraying victims of East Germany’s communist dictatorship by cooperating with the Left, which is popular in the east and traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany that built the Berlin Wall. Placards reads ’40 years of dictatorship was enough’ REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
- People demonstrate against the prospect of Bodo Ramelow of the Left party (Die Linke) becoming Thuringia state premier and leading a state coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens, during a protest rally in Erfurt December 4, 2014. The Cold War has flared up again in Germany ahead of a tight and unpredictable state assembly vote on Friday in the eastern state of Thuringia, where the reform communist Left party is yearning to take control of a regional government for the first time. The SPD and Greens have been accused of betraying victims of East Germany’s communist dictatorship by cooperating with the Left, which is popular in the east and traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany that built the Berlin Wall. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
- Thousands of people march at Chain Bridge as they protest against what they say is corruption within the country’s tax authority as well as a lack of wider democratic freedoms, in front of the Hungarian parliament in Budapest December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
- Taramuni Ray, 62, cries as she sits on the debris from her burnt hut after a fire occurred at a slum in Kolkata December 4, 2014. Several huts were gutted in the fire but no casualties were reported and the cause of the fire was unknown, local media reported on Thursday. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
- Indian Navy soldiers demonstrate their skills as they play drums during Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai December 4, 2014. The Indian Navy celebrates Navy Day to commemorate its offensive operation at Karachi Harbour during the India-Pakistan war in 1971. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
- Indian Navy soldiers demonstrate their skills as they play drums during Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai December 4, 2014. The Indian Navy celebrates Navy Day to commemorate its offensive operation at Karachi Harbour during the India-Pakistan war in 1971. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
- Crude oil streams through the desert in south Israel, near the village of Beer Ora, north of Eilat December 4, 2014. Millions of liters of crude oil have gushed out of a pipeline to flood 200 acres of a desert nature reserve in southern Israel, officials said on Thursday. REUTERS/Yehuda Ben Itach
- Lazar and his sister Andjelka sit by a candle in their home in the eastern Serbian town of Majdanpek, December 4, 2014. Electricity workers in Serbia struggled through snow, ice and treacherous terrain on Thursday to restore electricity to an eastern town left shivering without power, heating or running water for a fourth day. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
- Rice is thrown as Lebanese army soldiers carry the coffin of Lebanese army adjutant Mahmoud Nurredin, who was killed while dismantling an explosive device outside the town of Arsal on the border with Syria on Wednesday, during his funeral in the town of Kafarman, southern Lebanon December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
- Girls talk to each other in their one-room shack while their grandmother sits outside, in a Christian slum in Islamabad December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
- Workers collect salt from salt ponds at the Maras mines in Cuzco December 3, 2014. Salt has been obtained in Maras since pre-Incan times by evaporating highly salty local subterranean stream water. The water is intricately channelled through constructions, flowing gradually down onto several hundred ancient terraced ponds. From each pond, a local member of the mine cooperative can produce 150 to 200 kilos per month which can be sold in the markets at $0.34 per kilogram, according to miners. Picture taken December 3, 2014. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil
- Workers erect a Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican December 4, 2014. The 70-year-old Christmas tree was donated by the southern Italian region of Calabria. REUTERS/Max Rossi
- The burnt exterior of the Press House, a local media agency, is seen in the Chechen capital Grozny, December 4, 2014. At least six gunmen and three policemen were killed in gun battles in which a building was stormed in the Chechen capital Grozny on Thursday, the leader of the turbulent southern Russian region said. REUTERS/Stringer
- The Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft sits on the launch pad awaiting liftoff in the sunrise at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida December 4, 2014. REUTERS/Scott Audette
- An Andalusian horseman leaves after competing in a morphological contest for stallions of four years during the Sicab International Pre Horse Fair in the Andalusian capital of Seville, December 4, 2014. The show runs till December 7 and is dedicated in full and exclusively to the purebred Spanish horse, to offer visitors a wide range of examples of breed versatility for their enjoyment. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo
- Andalusian horsemen wait before taking part in a morphological contest for colts of three years during the Sicab International Pre Horse Fair in the Andalusian capital of Seville December 3, 2014. The show runs till December 7 and is dedicated in full and exclusively to the purebred Spanish horse, to offer visitors a wide range of examples of breed versatility for their enjoyment. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo
- A woman, demanding justice for the death of Eric Garner, shouts at police officers from behind a barricade separating protesters from the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York December 3, 2014. A police union official on Thursday defended a white officer’s role in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in New York even as protesters planned a new round of demonstrations a day after a grand jury voted not to bring charges. New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told reporters on Thursday that Officer Daniel Pantaleo had acted properly in restraining Eric Garner during an arrest attempt in the borough of Staten Island in July. Picture taken December 3, 2014. REUTERS/Elizabeth Shafiroff
- Protesters, demanding justice for the death of Eric Garner, disrupt traffic while raising their hands during a “sit-in” at an intersection in Times Square, Manhattan, New York December 3, 2014. A police union official on Thursday defended a white officer’s role in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in New York even as protesters planned a new round of demonstrations a day after a grand jury voted not to bring charges. New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told reporters on Thursday that Officer Daniel Pantaleo had acted properly in restraining Eric Garner during an arrest attempt in the borough of Staten Island in July. Picture taken December 3, 2014. REUTERS/Elizabeth Shafiroff
- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a news conference at the New York Police Academy in the Queens borough of New York December 4, 2014. The mayor discussed newly implemented training procedures in the wake of the chokehold death of Eric Garner. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
- Gwen Carr, mother of the late Eric Garner, listens as civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton (not pictured) speaks at the National Action Network in Harlem, New York December 3, 2014. Sharpton on Wednesday called for a protest march in Washington following a New York grand jury decision not to indict a white policeman in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
- A worker (L) reaches for supplies while working atop the scaffolded dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 4, 2014. The Capitol Dome is undergoing a multi-year restoration to stop the current level of deterioration in the Dome’s cast iron as well as ensuring the protection of the interior of the Dome and Rotunda. The restoration project includes removal of old paint, repairs to the cast iron and stone, and repainting. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
- The 82nd Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is seen shortly after being lit at the annual ceremony at Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan in New York City, December 3, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar
- A general view of the eastern Serbian town of Majdanpek, December 4, 2014. Electricity workers in Serbia struggled through snow, ice and treacherous terrain on Thursday to restore electricity to the eastern town left shivering without power, heating or running water for a fourth day. REUTERS/Marko Djurica