Mar 27, 2012

Daily Brief: March 27, 2012

Nick Tann 1 Comment Daily Brief Afghanistan, Baltimore, cherry blossoms, China, healthcare, Jakarta, Manila, protest, Somalia, table tennis, Tibet, Titanic, Washington DC

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Industrial firms continue to profit in China, a full face transplant is completed on a 37-year-old male patient in Baltimore, and more in today’s daily brief.

: China’s industrial firms made total profits of $96 billion in the first two months of 2012, down 5.2 percent from the same period last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Above, a labourer works at a shipyard in Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

: The University of Maryland announced on Tuesday that a full face transplant, including both jaws and tongue, was completed on 37-year-old male patient, Richard Norris. The 36-hour operative procedure took place at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and involved a multi-disciplinary team of faculty physicians. (Patrick Smith/Reuters)

: Visitors look down on a projection showing the wreck of the Titanic on the seabed at the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction in Northern Ireland. The Titanic Belfast Experience is a new £90 million visitor attraction opening this week. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

: U.S. servicemen inside of a plane before their departure to Afghanistan outside Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Tibetan woman lights lamps during prayers at the Tibetan refugee colony of Majnu Ka Tilla in New Delhi for Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi, who set himself on fire March 26. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images)

: Displaced children walk along a war-ravaged building in the Hamaerweyne district in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)

: A boy dives while his friend looks on as they take a swim in a polluted open creek in Manila. A local government warned residents against swimming in the creek and Manila Bay, saying both are contaminated with domestic and industrial wastes. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

: Jorgen Persson of Sweden eyes the ball in a match against Lin Ma of China during the third round of the men’s event in the world team table tennis championships in Dortmund. (Patrick Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman drives a van with protest signs on the second day of oral arguments for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

: U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama takes part in a 1912 Cherry Blossom tree planting re-enactment ceremony with Yoriko Fujisaki. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Daily Brief: March 27, 2012

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