Feb. 15 Photo Brief: Lemon festival in France, Knut on display in Germany, chewable art in Ukraine
Since his untimely death in 2011, the hand-reared polar bear Knut returns to Berlin as a life-sized model with the bear’s real fur, the 80th Lemon festival in France creates a citrus-infused ‘Around The World In 80 Days’ wonderland, a Ukrainian artist paints with chewing gum and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A model of Knut the polar bear, featuring his original fur, is displayed in the Natural History Museum (Naturkundemuseum) in Berlin, Germany. Though Knut, the world-famous polar bear from the city’s zoo abandoned by his mother and ultimately immortalized as a cartoon film character, stuffed toys, and more temporarily as a gummy bear, died two years ago, he will live on additionally as a partially-taxidermied specimen in the museum. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)
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- A visitor uses an Apple iPad to take a picture of a model of Knut the polar bear, featuring his original fur on display in the Natural History Museum (Naturkundemuseum) in Berlin, Germany. Until March 15, the dermoplastic model of the ursine celebrity will be on display before it joins the museum’s archive, though visitors can see it once again as part of a permanent exhibition that begins in 2014. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)
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- File picture shows polar bear cub Knut playing with a blanket during the bear’s first presentation in Berlin zoo March 23, 2007. Knut, the hand-reared polar bear who captured Germans’ hearts before his early death in 2011, returns to his adoring Berlin public on February 15, 2013 as a life-sized model with the bear’s real fur. The sculpture will be shown for four weeks to the public starting on February 16. (Arnd Wiegmann/File/Reuters)
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- Buddhist ascetics splash cold water over their body at the end of their 100-day austere Bhuddhism training to pray for peace in the world at Nose Myokenzan Betsuin temple in Tokyo on the anniversary of Buddha’s death. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Ukrainian painter Anna-Sofiya Matveeva, 22, sits on a sofa in her studio with her cerations which she makes with chewed chewing gum in the small Ukrainian city of Makiyivka. (Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Young Ukrainian painter Anna-Sofiya Matveeva, 22, uses chewed chewing gum during her work to create a portret of the football club Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu in her studio in small Ukrainian city of Makiyivka. Some 800 chewed chewing gums were used for the the creation, some 1000 chewing gums – for the portrait of Steve Jobs made one month before and the 500 gums for the portrait of British rock-star Elton John. (Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A hairless newborn calf is displayed at a farm in Liberchies, Pont-a-Celles. The calf was born on the 14th February, despite the rare birth defect it appears to be in good health. (Virgine Lefour/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Children play beside the tomb of the Askia in Gao, northern Mali. The European Union on Friday announced fresh aid worth 20 million euros to help restore law and order in Mali as well as the return of basic state services such as education after months of trouble. (Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A visitor touches a pattern made with lemons and oranges during the 80th Lemon festival in Menton, France. Some 145 metric tons of lemons and oranges are used to make displays during the 80th festival, which is themed ‘Around The World In 80 Days,’ and runs from February 16 through March 6. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
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- A worker puts the final touch near an Indian elephant sculpture made with lemons and oranges during the 80th Lemon festival in Menton, France. Some 145 metric tons of lemons and oranges are used to make displays during the 80th festival, which is themed ‘Around The World In 80 Days,’ and runs from February 16 through March 6. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
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- A worker puts the final touch to a train near a replica of Big Ben made with lemons and oranges during the 80th Lemon festival in Menton, France. Some 145 metric tons of lemons and oranges are used to make displays during the 80th festival, which is themed ‘Around The World In 80 Days,’ and runs from February 16 through March 6. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
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- A model adjusts a mask she was wearing backstage before the presentation of the Fyodor Golan Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during London Fashion Week. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)
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- A model presents a creation from the Fyodor Golan Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during London Fashion Week. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)
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- Protesters, who oppose Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, hold a cross, a Koran and empty tear gas canisters during a demonstration against Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood at Tahrir Square in Cairo. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
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- Naga Sadhus or Hindu holy men raise their arms while shouting religious hymns on the banks of the river Ganges after taking the holy dip during the third ‘Shahi Snan’ (grand bath) at the ongoing ‘Kumbh Mela’ or Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. During the festival, Hindus take part in a religious gathering on the banks of the river Ganges. The festival is held every 12 years in a temporary city covering an area larger than Athens, spread over a wide sandy river bank in Allahabad at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet a third mythical river. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
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- Than Shin, 52, holds her grandchild in front of her family’s tree-house built for protection, after telling her personal experience with wild elephants attacking her house, in Kyar Chaung village, Taikkyi Township February 6, 2013. People in Kyar Chaung and surrounding villages some 60 miles (96.5 km) from Yangon live in constant fear of wild elephants after animals started attacking humans some 15 years ago. Every year, an average of seven people die from such attacks in the area, according to the government’s forest department. Elephants come close to the villages because of lack of food in the forests where they usually live due to deforestation, villagers say. (Minzayar/Reuters)
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- Sona Nakarmi, 7, writes on a wall at the Saraswati temple during the Shreepanchami festival in Kathmandu. Children are given their first writing and reading lessons at the temple during this festival in the belief that the goddess of education Saraswati will help them excel in education. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- Germany’s Sandra Kiriasis (L ) and Franziska Bartels start during the two-woman bobsleigh competition test event at the ‘Sanki’ siding center in Rosa Khutor, a venue for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics near Sochi. The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opens on February 7, 2014. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
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- Teams of villagers attempt to extinguish the fires used by their opponents to cook rice in pots on boats along a river, as part of the Bach Hao pagoda festival in Thanh Xa village, in Vietnam’s northern Hai Duong province, about 80 km (50 miles) east of Hanoi. The competition was a reenactment of the training Emperor Tran Nhan Tong put 13th century villagers through to teach them to fight Chinese and Mongolia invaders on the water. (Kham/Reuters)
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- Villagers compete to cook rice in pots on boats as part of the Bach Hao pagoda festival in Thanh Xa village, in Vietnam’s northern Hai Duong province, about 80 km (50 miles) east of Hanoi. Villagers also reenacted other daily life activities of the period during the annual festival which takes place on the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. (Kham/Reuters)
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