Sep 7, 2012

Sept. 7 Photo Brief: Monsoon rains, Fashion Week and the campaign trail

Michael Gold 0 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Brazil, cycling, Fashion Week, Germany, Hong Kong, India, monsoon, paralympics, protest, Spain

20 photos

Heavy monsoon rains cause an evacuation in western India, Fashion Week celebrations continue, U.S. President Barack Obama returns to the campaign trail and more in today’s daily brief.

: Emirati boys sit next to their Saluki dogs during the Arabian Saluki beauty contest at the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian exhibtion. (Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images)

: Writing is viewed on a beam on the 72nd floor at Four World Trade Center in New York City. As the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks approaches, work proceeds at the former site of the World Trade Center Towers. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

: U.S. President Barack Obama laughs after speaking during a campaign event at Strawbery Banke Field in Portsmouth, N.H., on Sept. 7, 2012. A day after the end of the Democratic National Convention, Obama said that a new report showing the US economy created just 96,000 jobs last month was “not good enough.” (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

: Orlando Duque takes part in the Red Bull Cliff Diving Competition at the Blue Lagoon at Abereiddy near St. David’s in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Competitors will dive from a platform 27 meters above the sea and enter the water at 85-90kph during the two-day competition. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

: UFO labor union chairman Nicoley Baublies gestures as he attends a demonstration with striking Lufthansa crew members at the Frankfurt airport. The German airline cancelled around half of its scheduled flights today as a 24-hour strike by cabin crew got under way. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

: Model Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn attend the Project Runway Spring 2013 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center in New York City. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week)

: A supporter of the Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, attends a red umbrella protest rally demanding better service from local council candidates outside the New South Wales parliament. (Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images)

: Britain’s Prince Harry is shown the Apache flight-line by a member of his squadron at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, where he will be operating from during his tour of duty as a co-pilot gunner. Prince Harry is back in Afghanistan to serve as a military helicopter pilot four years after his previous deployment there had to be cut short. (John Stillwell/AFP/Getty Images)

: Demonstrators paint their faces with national colors during a demonstration against corruption during Brazil’s Independence Day celebration in Brasilia. (Pedro Ladeira/AFP/Getty Images)

: Indian people stand on a submerged bridge on the river Mahisagar at Galteswar village. Thousands of people have been evacuated from many parts of Gujarat owing to heavy delayed monsoon rains. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)

: Villagers stand in neck-deep water in protest against the state government’s move to increase water levels of regional dams causing flooding of their farmland, at Khandwa village of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The demonstrators claim that over 1,000 acres of land are already submerged with another 60 villages threatened to be submerged if the water level in the Omkareshwar dam is increased further. (AFP/Getty Images)

: A student with black dots on his face gestures to say “no” outside the government’s headquarters in Hong Kong during a protest against plans to introduce Chinese patriotism classes. Hong Kong goes to the polls on September 9 to elect a new legislature that will lay the ground rules for full suffrage, amid growing disquiet over mainland China’s hold over the former British colony. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/GettyImages)

: NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo (KFOR) stand at attention during a KFOR change of command ceremony in Pristina. German General Volker Halbauer took command of the force. (Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images)

: “April” gets up close and personal. (Phil Grout/Patuxent Publishing)

: The peloton rides during the 19th stage of the Tour of Spain “La Vuelta” cycling race between Penafiel and La Lastrilla. (Miguel Vidal/Reuters)

: The work “Dance of the Missionary” hangs in the United Colors of Benetton store as part of the Lana Sutra show by artist Erik Ravelo during “Fashion’s Night Out” in New York. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

: A Canada fan watches in the wheelchair rugby preliminary match against Sweden during the London 2012 Paralympic Games at Basketball Arena. (Leo Mason/US Presswire)

: Britain’s David Anthony reacts after scoring a goal during a Wheelchair Rugby match against Japan during the London 2012 Paralympic Games. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)

: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft took this image showing the Sun being partially blocked by Earth. Twice a year, SDO moves into its eclipse season — a time when Earth blocks its view of the sun for a period of time each day. (NASA/SDO Handout/Reuters)