Jan. 8 Photo Brief: Betty White’s early birthday surprise, Alabama’s Nick Saban gets dunked and is Hugo Chavez dead?
Betty White gets a hunky 91st birthday surprise on Anderson Live, head coach Nick Saban is dunked with Gatorade following Alabama’s win over Notre Dame in the 2013 BCS Championship, speculation abounds about the health status of Venezuela’s cancer-stricken president and much more in today’s daily brief.
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- Actress Betty White looks on as a man jumps out of a birthday cake with television personality Lisa Vanderpump, and media personality Anderson Cooper as ‘RHOBH’ Lisa Vanderpump Co-Host’s Anderson Live with guest Betty White at CBS Studios in New York City. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Anderson Live)
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- A woman poses for a photographer on the bank of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about minus 25 degrees Celsius (minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit), outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- A girl stands on the top of her house in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
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- A man polishes a snow sculpture in preparation for Shenyang International Ice and Snow Festival, Liaoning province, China. The festival kicks off on January 10, local media reported. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- In this combination photo, Alabama head coach Nick Saban absorbs a ceremonial dunk following a 42-14 win against Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship game at Sun Life Stadium on Monday, January 7, 2013, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Steve Mitchell/USA TODAY Sports; Al Diaz/Miami Herald/MCT)
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- A silvery marmoset looks through a window to check for food at Whipsnade Zoo. The zoo is kicking off the New Year with its annual animal stocktake. Home to more than 2,500 animals, the compulsory count is required to have a zoo license. All of the information is logged into the International Species Information System, where it’s used to manage the international breeding programmes for endangered animals. (Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Children watch the waves on the shore of in the southern Lebanese town of Rmaileh, near Sidon. Stormy weather, including high winds and heavy rainfall, lashed the eastern Mediterranean coast, downing power lines and trees and causing several injuries in a number of countries. (Mahamoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man walks past a graffiti reading ‘Say the Truth, Chavez is Dead’ in Caracas. A constitutional fight over cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez’s status intensified Tuesday with the government planning a massive show of support in the streets on the day he is supposed to be sworn in to a new term. The call for a rally Thursday outside the Miraflores presidential palace comes amid a stormy debate over whether Chavez and his current government can remain in office if he is too sick to take the oath of office. Chavez, who underwent his fourth round of cancer surgery in Havana nearly a month ago, is suffering from a severe pulmonary infection that has resulted in a respiratory insufficiency. (Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Greek Presidential Guard performs during a snowfall in Athens. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Classical music composer and presidential candidate Vladimir Franz answers journalists’ questions after a rehearsal of his opera ‘War with the Newts’ at the State Opera in Prague. The first Czech direct presidential election will be held on January 11-12, 2013. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian villagers drink tea as they arrive at temporary camp in Kolkata, while making their way to The Gangasagar Mela. As thousands of homeless people sought places in temporary shelters, the unusual cold in throughout India has been attributed to dense fog which has obscured the sun and disrupted airports and trains, as well as icy winds from the snowy Himalayas to the north. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A young Indian child looks out from within a blanket in a slum area of Kolkata. As thousands of homeless people sought places in temporary shelters, the unusual cold throughout India has been attributed to dense fog which has obscured the sun and disrupted airports and trains, as well as icy winds from the snowy Himalayas to the north. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Kerstin Menke of the German Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund, northern Germany poses next to a replica of a basking shark’s mouth. The nearly ten-meter long model should, according to the museum will be placed in the entrance area of the North Sea aquarium. (Stefan Sauer/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A woman feeds geese under snow fall in Pererov, a village located in central Belarus. (Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard as a polio vaccination worker marks a child after immunization with anti-polio drops in Karachi. Pakistan is providing paramilitary and police support to polio vaccinations being resumed discreetly in the northwest after a series of attacks on medical workers, officials said. UN agencies suspended work on a nationwide campaign to inoculate children against the highly infectious disease after nine health workers were murdered in a string of attacks in the northwest and Karachi in December 2012. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian students shout slogans as they burn an effigy of Indian spiritual guru Asharam during a protest in New Delhi. Asharam sparked a backlash Tuesday after saying a 23-year-old student could have averted a murderous gang-rape by begging for mercy from her attackers. The 71-year-old’s remarks – the latest in a series of gaffes by public figures blaming women for the country’s rape epidemic – drew a chorus of condemnation. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Children in traditional costumes celebrate Orthodox Christmas in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Orthodox Ukrainians celebrate Christmas according to the Julian calendar on January 7. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
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- Jamil, the four week old Greater One Horned Rhinoceros runs in her enclosure at Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, England. The 3ft high baby rhino weighing 59kg at birth made her first public appearance today as keepers at the zoo undertook their annual stocktake. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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- Smoke rises as fires rage in the Kybeyan Valley, New South Wales in Nimmitabel, Australia. NSW was declared a total fire ban with the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Southern Ranges regions placed on ‘Catastrophic’ alert. (Pamela Martin/Getty Images)
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- Walt Disney is teaming up with toy company JAKKS Pacific and Patrick Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles’ wealthiest person, on a new line of toys with a nifty technological twist designed to link the goodies that kids lug home from the store with Disney’s stable of well-known animated characters. The ‘DreamPlay’ app developed by Soon-Shiong’s NantWorks company and JAKKS, is seen on a tablet in this undated handout photograph. (JAKKS Pacific/Handout/Reuters)
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