Friday, June 26, 2020

Dakar, Senegal




A high school student at the Lycee Blaise Diagne gets her feet disinfected as she arrives for her first day back since early March due to the coronavirus outbreak.   Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images

Workplace training gets results in Kununurra


Billie Evans and Donita Hill were the first two girls to be a part of the program.(Supplied: Landi Bradshaw)



........But a program in Kununurra, located 3,000 kilometres from Perth, is achieving success by bringing small businesses and young Indigenous people together to help them learn basic workplace skills.

It was a challenging experience for Billie Evans, 18 — she did not complete high school and had not been previously employed……


Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Crow attacking Pope’s peace dove




Antequera Dolmen archaeological site, Spain




MUSICAL CAVE: A string quartet performs inside one of the dolmens at the Antequera Dolmen archaeological site, in Antequera, Malaga, southern Spain. The archaeological site is to reopen to the public on June 24th following three months of closure due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Photograph: Jorge Zapata/EPA

(To create a dolmen, you simply place a large slab or 'capstone' on top of three or more upright stones, creating an open, box-like chamber)


Russian soldiers attend church service



CHURCH SERVICE: Russian soldiers attend a service in the Cathedral of Christ's Resurrection, the main Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces, in the Patriot park in Kubinka outside Moscow on June 23rd. The cathedral was built for the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the second World War. 
Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA

Rayshard Brooks funeral



Tomika Miller, the widow of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot dead June 12 by an Atlanta police officer, holds their 2-year-old daughter Memory with her other children during his funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

Andrew Jackson statue attacked outside White House



Protesters attach a chain to the statue of President Andrew Jackson to pull down in the middle of Lafayette Park outside the White House as someone throws a roll of toilet paper during racial inequality protests in Washington, D.C., June 22, 2020.