Photos of the Week: 12/06-12/12
Caroline Thanh Hương
This week we have an oil spill in Bangladesh, protests about new
pornography laws in London, the Afghan Bruce Lee, the breakup of the
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, the Grand Canyon filled with clouds, a
big wave surfer in Nazare, and much more. [35 photos]
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People react as a man burns after he was set alight with the help of a
fellow protester during a protest in Tuxtla Gutierrez, in the Mexican
state of Chiapas on December 5, 2014. The man, a farmer, allowed a
fellow demonstrator to set him on fire during a protest to demand the
release of a colleague who was detained in May on suspicion of cattle
rustling, local media reported. People helped put out the flames before
the man was taken to hospital suffering from severe burns. (Reuters/Rene Arauxo) # 
This photo provided by the National Park Service shows dense clouds at
the south rim of the Grand Canyon on December 11, 2014 in Arizona. A
rare weather phenomenon on Thursday had visitors looking out to a sea of
thick clouds. The total cloud inversion is expected to hang over the
Grand Canyon just below the rim throughout the day. (AP Photo/National Park Service, Maci MacPherson) #
An undated handout photo released by Santa Catarina State Police on
December 6, 2014 shows a swastika at the bottom of a swimming pool in
Vale do Itajai in Santa Catarina state, Brazil. According to local media
reports, police officers in a helicopter taking part in an
anti-kidnapping operation spotted the Nazi symbol by chance. A
subsequent police investigation revealed that the swastika had been
there for 13 years. No charges have been filed against the homeowner,
who told police he was not promoting Nazism, as the pool was situated on
private land. (Reuters/Santa Catarina State Police/Reuters) #
A man runs with a "toro encuetado," a structure resembling a bull and
covered with exploding fireworks, as part of the celebrations in honor
of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception on her feast day in Managua,
Nicaragua, on December 8, 2014. The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
is Nicaragua's patron saint. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) #
Abbas Alizada, who calls himself the Afghan Bruce Lee, poses during a
media event in Kabul December 9, 2014. From the ruins of an iconic
bombed-out palace above Kabul, the young Afghan man bearing a striking
resemblance to kung fu legend Bruce Lee is high-kicking his way to
Internet fame, aiming to show another side to his war-weary nation. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail) #
A nano Bible is displayed at TowerJazz Semiconductor in Migdal Haemek
in northern Israel on October 29, 2014. The nano sized New Testament
developed by an Israeli company has been nominated for the Guinness Book
of Records as the World's Smallest Bible, the company said on Tuesday.
Jerusalem nano Bible company said it developed a chip smaller than five
by five millimeters, which contains the original Greek version of the
New Testament (Reuters/Amir Cohen) #
A worker walks past a digger in the partially completed Crossrail rail
tunnel that will become Bond Street station on December 8, 2014 in
London, England. Crossrail is Europe's biggest infrastructure project. A
total of 26 miles of train tunnels are being built beneath the streets
of the capital by eight tunneling machines. When complete in 2018, ten
new stations in central and southeast London will increase the capitals
rail capacity by 10 per cent and bring an extra 1.5 million people to
within 45 minutes of central London. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) #
Homa Rashid, a lawyer and volunteer at the Vafa Animal Shelter, rests
with a dog, in the city of Hashtgerd 43 miles (73 kilometers) west of
the capital Tehran, Iran, on December 5, 2014. More than 500 dogs find
care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter, which was established
through an endowment in 2004 and is the Iran's only licensed animal
refuge. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) #
A demonstrator is taken away by policemen, at an area previously
blocked by pro-democracy supporters, outside the government headquarters
in Hong Kong, on December 11, 2014. Hong Kong authorities started on
Thursday clearing the main pro-democracy protest site that has choked
roads into the city's most economically and politically important
district for more than two months as part of a campaign to demand free
elections. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha) #
Police officers stand in a line as they prepare to clear tents outside
Hong Kong's Government complex on December 11, 2014 in Hong Kong. After
more than two months and drawing crowds of over 100,000 the main
Admiralty pro-democracy protest site is cleared away by bailiffs and
police after a court injunction paved the way for officials to clear
three parts of the site. (Brent Lewin/Getty Images) #
A plain-clothes California Highway Patrol detective, who had been
marching with anti-police demonstrators, aims his gun at protesters
after some in the crowd identified him and his partner during an arrest
in Oakland, California, December 10, 2014. Chief Avery Browne, commander
of the California Highway Patrol's Golden Gate Division, said two
plainclothes CHP detectives were surrounded by up to 50 demonstrators
who ignored orders to back off, despite one of the officers first taking
out his baton and identifying himself as police. (Reuters/Noah Berger) #
Firefighters stand on lanes of the 110 freeway near smoldering hot
spots of a large fire that consumed an apartment building that was under
construction in Los Angeles, California, on December 8, 2014. The blaze
in downtown Los Angeles early on Monday shut down two major freeways,
the Los Angeles Fire Department and California Highway Patrol said. The
fire was extinguished, but firefighters were still on the scene
monitoring hot spots. There were no reports of injuries or fatalities in
the fire. (Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn) #
Carabiniers of Monaco's Prince Albert II fire canons to announce the
birth of twins of Prince Albert II of Monoco and Charlene, in front of
the Monaco Palace on December 10, 2014. Princess Charlene of Monaco gave
birth on Wednesday to a boy and a girl, the royal couple's first
children, an aide to the royals said. According to Monaco's Constitution
the boy, named Jacques, will be first-in-line to the throne, and not
his twin sister, Gabriella. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard) #
Navy divers attach a towing bridle to the Orion Crew Module during the
first Exploration Flight Test of the NASA Orion Program following its
launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex on
December 5, 2014 in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles southwest of San Diego.
The Orion spacecraft orbited Earth twice, reaching an altitude of
approximately 3,600 miles above Earth before landing. (U.S. Navy via Getty Images) #
A man falls from the top of a residential building in Liuzhou, Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on December 8, 2014. According to local
media, witnesses said that the man, who did not survive, slipped off
from the edge of the building as he was shouting and stepping back from
people trying to persuade him to leave the roof top. (Reuters/Stringer) #
An oil slick lines the banks of the Shela River after an oil tanker
sank in one of the world's largest mangrove forests, threatening
wildlife in the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Sundarbans in
Bangladesh, on December 12, 2014. The oil tanker carrying more than
350,000 liters (92,500 gallons) of bunker oil sank Tuesday on the major
river flowing through the Sundarbans after being hit by a cargo vessel.
The slick had spread over up to 70 kilometers (45 miles) of the Shela
river, threatening several types of animals including rare Irrawaddy
dolphins, a senior official of the Bangladesh Forest Department said. (AP Photo/Khairul Alam) #
Volunteers treat a severely injured motorbike accident victim on the
side of the road on December 6, 2014 in Vientiane, Laos. Vientiane
Rescue is an all-volunteer rescue squad established in 2007 primarily to
provide ambulance services to the staggering number of road accident
victims in the nation's capital. The severely underfunded group receives
no government monetary support and operates on donations from the local
and international communities. (Taylor Weidman/Getty Images) #
A man holds a girl as she tries to escape after realizing she was to to
be married, about 80 km (50 mi) from the town of Marigat in Baringo
County, Kenya, on December 7, 2014. As Pokot tradition dictates, the
future husband arrived at her family home with a group of men to collect
the girl. The men arrived with the last settled dowry of livestock for
the girl's family. In this case it was 20 goats, three camels and 10
cows, given during a period of several weeks. The remaining 10 cows were
to be given the morning the girl was taken to her new home by her
husband and the rest of the men. The girl was unaware of the marriage
arrangements that her father had made. The family said that if they had
told her in advance she might have run away from home. In the Pokot
tradition, parents give their daughters as wives usually at the
beginning of their adolescence. (Reuters/Siegfried Modola) #
Forest guard Rashila Ben holds a lion cub inside an animal hospital
located in the Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary in Sasan, in the
western Indian state of Gujarat. The sanctuary, which is home to
India's Asiatic lions, occupies an area of 1,412 square km and employed
female guards, for the first time in the country, back in 2007.
According to one of the female guards, they earn a monthly salary of
around $148 for working almost 12 hours a day, six days a week. Picture
taken December 1, 2014. (Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee) #
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