Jan 24, 2013

Jan. 24 Photo Brief: Ostriches in the snow, an empty suit, dancing poodles, Ghanian soccer fans, World Cup skiing

Ostriches in the snow, an empty suit, dancing poodles, Ghanian soccer fans, World Cup skiing and more in today’s Daily Brief.

: Ostriches crowd in an open-air cage at the ostrich farm in the Belarus village of Kozishche, some 300 km southwest of Minsk. (Viktor Drachev/Getty Images)

: Matt Gone poses before the opening of the Expotattoo Venezuela 2013 in Caracas. (Juan Barreto/Getty Images)

: A man wears a costume depicting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he sits inside a bus during an awareness campaign in New Delhi. The campaign was launched by Avaaz on Thursday to create awareness among the masses to stop violence against women, a media release from the non-profit organization said. (Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters)

: A Ukrainian National Circus artist performs with dogs during presentation of the new program in Kiev. (Sergei Supinsky/Getty Images)

: Poodle dogs and their tamer perform during a show presenting the new program “From Heart to Heart” at the National circus in the Ukrainian capital Kiev,. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

: A bear rides a bicycle during a show presenting the new program “From Heart to Heart” at the National circus in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.(Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

: Mike Bryan (left) and Bob Bryan of the United States of America serve in the warm-up ahead of the doubles Semifinal match against Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini of Italy during day eleven of the 2013 Australian Open at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)

: Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) talks with committee staffer Bertie Bowman as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a laugh before Kerry’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to become the next Secretary of State in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. Nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Kerry has served on this committee for 28 years and has been chairman for four of those years. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

: U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) speaks during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Senator Kerry will replace outgoing Secretary Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

: Firefighter Michael De Jesus is covered in ice as he mans a water cannon while fighting a warehouse fire in Chicago which caught fire Tuesday night. Fire department officials said it is the biggest fire the department has had to battle in years and one-third of all Chicago firefighters were on the scene at one point or another trying to put out the flames. (John Gress/Reuters)

: A pedestrian bundled up against the cold walks through the streets of Manhattan in New York City. Polar air settled in over the northwest U.S. Wednesday, with temperatures in the teens and twenties. (John Moore/Getty Images)

: An Indian Hindu devotee takes a dip in the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna in Allahabad. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)

: A fisherman anchors his boat in the low tide sand as the sun sets in Mumbai. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)

: Austria’s Max Franz competes during the men’s World Cup Downhill training in Kitzbuehel. (Alexander Klein/Getty Images)

: Andrew Weibrecht of the USA competes during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Men’s Downhill Training on January 24, 2013 in Kitzbuehel, Austria. (Alexis Boichard/Getty Images)

: Ghana’s supporters cheer prior the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations football match between Ghana and Mali at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. (Stephane De Sakutin/Getty Images)

: Paraglider pilot Tomas Brauner of Czech Republic flies above the mountains in Roldanillo, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, during the Paragliding World Cup Superfinal. The competition is taking place for the first time in Colombia and involves the 140 world’s best pilots from 32 countries. (Luis Robayo/Getty Images)

: Austrian paraglider pilot Herman Stockl is seen flying in the mountains in Roldanillo, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, during the Paragliding World Cup Superfina. (Luis Robayo/Getty Images)

: A flock of starlings fly over an agricultural field near the southern Israeli city of Netivot . (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

: India’s Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers ride their camels in front of India’s presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan during a rehearsal for the “Beating the Retreat” ceremony in New Delhi. The ceremony symbolises retreat after a day on the battlefield, and marks the official end of the Indian Republic Day celebrations. It is held every year on January 29. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)

: A man walks out from a business building in Tokyo. Sentiment among Japanese manufacturers improved for a second straight month and is expected to turn into a positive reading in the coming few months, a Reuters poll showed, providing some evidence that the economy is crawling out of a mild recession. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

: A girl and her mother walk in a building in Tokyo. Sentiment among Japanese manufacturers improved for a second straight month and is expected to turn into a positive reading in the coming few months, a Reuters poll showed. (Toru Hanai /Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter stands in front of the building destroyed by Syrian Army air strikes in the Arabeen neighbourhood of Damascus. (Goran Tomasevic /Reuters)

: The suit worn by Britain’s then-four year old Prince Charles on the day of his mother Queen Elizabeth’s coronation is displayed in the throne room at Buckingham Palace during a media preview of this summer’s exhibition, in central London. This summer’s Buckingham Palace exhibition will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation with a collection of dresses, uniforms and robes worn on the day. (Andrew Winning/Reuters)