wpostServer: http://css.washingtonpost.com/wpost
Day in photos Snow monkeys, protests in Egypt, exoskeleton device, Sydney swimwear parade and more.
Dec. 7, 2012
Japanese macaques, commonly referred to as snow monkeys, take an open-air hot-spring bath, or “onsen,” at the Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) Monkey Park in the town of Yamanouchi, Japan. About 160 snow monkeys inhabit the area, where they are a popular tourist draw.
Kazuhiro Nogi
/
AFP/Getty Images
Related Content
Dec. 6, 2012
People watch as kites fly along the Wasserkuppe, in Hessen, Germany. Meteorologists forecast temperatures around freezing for the coming days in Germany.
Uwe Zucchi
/
AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
Pelicans stand next to a fish market on Chorrillos Beach in Lima, Peru.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
/
Reuters
Dec. 7, 2012
A protester opposing President Mohamed Morsi attends Friday prayers at Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets after midday prayers in rival rallies and marches across Cairo, as the standoff deepened over what opponents call a power grab by the Islamist president, raising the specter of more violence.
Nasser Nasser
/
AP
Dec. 6, 2012
Protesters who were injured during overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi are detained, with their hands-bound, in front of the presidential palace in Cairo.
Mohamed Abd El Ghany
/
Reuters
Dec. 7, 2012
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, left, kisses Hamas chief Khaled Meshal upon Meshal's arrival at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. Meshal arrived Friday, ending 45 years of exile from Palestinian land with a visit that underscored the Islamist group's growing confidence after its recent conflict with Israel.
Ahmed Jadallah
/
Reuters
Dec. 7, 2012
Young Indian students form a line as they walk to classes after morning assembly at the Central Baptist Church School in New Delhi. Built in 1814, the church is one of the city's oldest and stands on the historic Chandni Chowk Road.
Kevin Frayer
/
AP
Dec. 6, 2012
A woman wears a traditional attire of Bahia at the entrance of a shop in the historical center of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Salvador's historical center — called Pelourinho — has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.
Christophe Simon
/
AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
Maasai people line up to register to vote in the village of Ewaso Kedong in Kenya. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has taken biometric computer equipment to populations in remote tribal areas to ensure that the chance of voting fraud is decreased for the country's elections in March.
Carl de Souza
/
AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
Robert Woo, a 43-year-old paraplegic man, walks with an exoskeleton device made by Ekso Bionics as Manuel Maldonado, left, watches at the opening of the Rehabilitation Bionics Program at Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center in New York. Woo is an architect who was paralyzed from the hips down during a construction accident and thought he would never walk again. The new strap-on exoskeleton uses motors and sensors to physically move the legs.
Mario Tama
/
Getty Images
Rather than chasing cars, dogs in New Zealand are being taught to drive them — steering, pedals and all — in a heartwarming project aimed at increasing pet adoptions from animal shelters. This undated photograph from Auckland-based advertising agency DraftFCB, received Friday, shows Ginny training in a driver's seat. Animal trainer Mark Vette has spent two months training three cross-breed rescue dogs from the Auckland SPCA to drive a modified Mini as a way of proving that even unwanted canines can be taught to perform complex tasks.
/
DraftFCB via AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
An elephant lies in a mud pool and battles for its life after being attacked by poachers who cut off its two tusks and tail, according to local reports, at the foothills of the Pancharatna hills in lower Assam, India.
/
AP
Dec. 5, 2012
Hassan Mekki, a 32-year-old Sudanese immigrant, shows scars on his back in Athens. Mekki, who fled conflict in his country in hopes of a better life in Europe, said he was walking in Athens with a friend from Mauritania in August, about five months after he illegally entered Greece, when black-shirted men on motorcycles, who were holding Greek flags and shouting “Go home, black” and other racists insults, came up and knocked him out with a blow to the head. Mekki said they left deep wounds on his back, throat and neck. He was covered in blood when he regained consciousness and only later realized that his attackers, who he says were probably tied to the far-right Golden Dawn party, had left large gashes resembling an “X” across his back. “I don't have the right papers, so I can't go anywhere to ask for help,” Mekki said. “I can't sleep. I'm scared. Maybe they will follow me, and my life is in danger now.”
Yannis Behrakis
/
Reuters
Dec. 7, 2012
A sales assistant, left, holds an iPad Mini next to a customer holding an iPad during the Chinese launch of the iPad mini, in Wuhan, China.
Darley Shen
/
Reuters
Dec. 6, 2012
Riley Lucier-McCool of North Eugene High School dumps canned goods into a basket at Grocery Outlet during a one-minute dash for food in Eugene, Ore. The high school runs a food and money drive every year called Project Give and teamed up with Grocery Outlet, which donated everything Lucier-McCool could grab in one minute.
Brian Davies
/
Eugene, Ore., Register-Guard via AP
Dec. 6, 2012
Dennis Cox holds up his marijuana purchase outside of Arizona Organix in Glendale, Ariz. Several dozen people waited outside for the store to open; the first legal medical marijuana dispensary to open in Arizona, it was chosen among 96 applicants through a lottery system for 126 geographic areas across the state.
Ross D. Franklin
/
AP
Dec. 6, 2012
Protestors sit in shanties constructed of cardboard in the Federal Building Plaza in Chicago. The shantytown, which they dubbed Durbinville after Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), was built to persuade Durbin to push for an increase of taxes on the wealthy and oppose cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Scott Olson
/
Getty Images
Dec. 5, 2012
Retirees Barbara and Joe Napier participate in a tea party rally in Nashville to oppose Tennessee’s creation of a state-run insurance exchange under the federal health-care law. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has said he wants to have a more complete understanding of the costs of a state-run marketplace compared with one run by the federal government.
Erik Schelzig
/
AP
Dec. 6, 2012
President Obama, third from right, sings with, from left, Marian Robinson, first lady Michelle Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia, and actors Neil Patrick Harris and Rico Rodriguez during the National Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington. The annual event, hosted by Harris, featured performances by Jason Mraz, Ledisi, James Taylor, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Colbie Caillat and American Idol Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips.
Saul Loeb
/
AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
Peter Lovis, proprietor of the Concord Cheese Shop, rolls a 400-pound wheel of Crucolo cheese down a red carpet on the street to his shop in Concord, Mass. Scores of people turned out to watch the arrival of the cheese, which Lovis helped make in Italy in May.
Brian Snyder
/
Reuters
Dec. 6, 2012
Lazio's Ederson Honorato Campos throws his jersey and pants to fans after winning their Europa League Group J soccer match against NK Maribor in Maribor, Slovenia.
Srdjan Zivulovic
/
Reuters
Dec. 7, 2012
Participants in the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience’s Strut the Streets event attempt to break the Guinness record for the world's largest swimwear parade, in Sydney. The event was organized to raise funds and awareness for the nonprofit charity AIME.
Lisa Maree Williams
/
Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
People wade through a flooded street after a rainstorm in Buenos Aires. Thunderstorms in Argentina damaged property and vehicles, cut power and caused delays on flights in Buenos Aires and its suburbs, as well as several provinces across the country.
Enrique Marcarian
/
Reuters
Dec. 6, 2012
A view of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, Brazil. Niemeyer, a towering patriarch of modern architecture who shaped the look of modern Brazil and whose inventive, curved designs left their mark on cities worldwide, died Dec. 5. He was 104. Niemeyer had been battling kidney and stomach ailments in a Rio de Janeiro hospital since early November. His death was the result of a lung infection, the hospital said.
Rodolfo Buhrer
/
Reuters
Dec. 6, 2012
A hood ornament with a skull is pictured on a rat rod custom car at a motor show in Essen, Germany.
Martin Meissner
/
AP
Dec. 6, 2012
A classic Delahaye vintage car waits for customers at the motor show in Essen, Germany.
Martin Meissner
/
AP
Dec. 6, 2012
Trees covered with snow stand beside a house in the mountains of Schruns, Austria.
Alexander Klein
/
AFP/Getty Images
???initialComments:true! pubdate:12/07/2012 11:49 EST! commentPeriod:14! commentEndDate:12/21/12 11:49 EST! currentDate:5/22/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:false! displayComments:true!
Section:/conversations
Loading...
Comments