Feb 19, 2013

Feb. 19 Photo Brief: The royal baby bump debuts, Oscar Pistorius in court, Nice carnival, blindfolded styling, Sydney Doll Hospital

Jerry Jackson 0 Comment Daily Brief Britain, China, France, India, Italy, London, Russia, Spain, Syria

Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge debuts the royal baby bump, Oscar Pistorius appears in court, a Ukrainian stylist cuts hair blindfolded, the Sydney Doll Hospital celebrates 100 years in business and more in today’s daily brief.

: A worker cleans debris from the Fun Town Pier that was damaged by Superstorm Sandy in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Governor Chris Christie has estimated that damage in New Jersey caused by Superstorm Sandy could reach $37 billion. New Jersey. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

: Horses clear a hurdle during ‘The Family Fun Day Meeting 4th April Handicap Hurdle Race’ at Taunton Racecourse in Taunton, England. (Harry Engels/Getty Images)

: Dancers parade on during the carnival in the southeastern French city of Nice. The carnival, which ends on March 6, celebrates the King of the Five Continents for its 140th anniversary. (Valery Hache/Getty Images)

: The float with a giant figure of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) is paraded through the crowd followed by giant figures of French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the Carnival parade in Nice. The 129th Carnival of Nice runs from February 15 to March 6 and will celebrate the “King of the five continents”. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

: Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge cradles her “baby bump” as she speaks with trustees at Hope House charity in south London. The Duchess visited Hope House, an all-female rehabilitation centre which is is one of the projects run by her patronage, Action on Addiction. (Mary Turner/Reuters)

: Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge pays an official visit to the Hope House residential treatment centre, run by Action on Addiction for recovering addicts, London. (Mary Turner/Reuters)

: Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge receives flowers from children as she leaves Hope House addiction treatment centre after an official visit in London. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)

: Canadian Christopher Delbosco (L) races during Ski Cross final race at the Snowboarding and Free Style World Cup Test Event at the Snowboard and Free Style Center in Rosa Khutor near the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Swedish Victor Oehling Norberg won ahead of Canadian Christopher Delbosco and German Andreas Schauer. (Natalia Kolesnikova/Getty Images)

: South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius (C) appears at the Magistrate Court in Pretoria as he father Henke (3rd L), brother Carl (2nd L) and sister Aimee (L) attend. Pistorius battled to secure bail as he appeared on charges of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, Valentine’s Day. South African prosecutors will argue that Pistorius is guilty of premeditated murder in Steenkamp’s death, a charge which could carry a life sentence. (Stephane De Sakutin/Getty Images)

: Oscar Pistorius awaits the start of court proceedings while his brother Carl (L) looks on, in the Pretoria Magistrates court. Pistorius, a double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics, was applying for bail after being charged in court with shooting dead his girlfriend, 30-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria house. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

: A man looks at models presenting creations from Ailanto’s Fall/Winter 2013 collection during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid. (Susana Vera/Reuters)

: A Model backstage at the Louise Gray show during London Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013/14 at TopShop Show Space in London, England. (Tim Whitby/Getty Images)

: A model displays an outfit by Spanish designer Maria Barros of the Autumn/Winter 2013-2014 collection during the Mercedes Benz Madrid Fashion Week in Madrid. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou/Getty Images)

: Oleg Maksyuk, a Ukrainian hair-stylist wearing a mask while using two pairs of scissors, cuts the hair of a client in a salon in the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Sevastopol. The hair-stylist mastered the unusual work style to attract more clients to his salon. (Vasiliy Batanov/Getty Images)

: Dolls heads are seen on display at Sydney’s Original Doll Hospital in Bexley in Sydney, Australia. Established in 1913 by Harold Chapman Jr., the Doll hospital is now run by Geoff Chapman, the third generation of Chapmans to run the business and will celebrate 100 years of repairing all types of dolls, teddy bears, rocking horses, umbrellas, prams and various other items. (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

: Gail Grainger works on a doll at Sydney’s Original Doll Hospital in Bexley in Sydney, Australia. Established in 1913 by Harold Chapman Jnr the Doll hospital is now run by Geoff Chapman, the third generation of Chapmans to run the business and will celebrate 100 years of repairing all types of dolls, teddy bears, rocking horses, umbrellas, prams and various other items. (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

: Spare doll body parts are seen at Sydney’s Original Doll Hospital in Bexley in Sydney, Australia. (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

: Piles of doll body parts are seen at Sydney’s Original Doll Hospital in Bexley in Sydney, Australia. (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

: A view of a public housing estate in Choi Hung in Hong Kong. One of the most densely populated countries in the world is Hong Kong, with a population of over 7.1 million inhabitants in an area of 1100 square kilometres. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

: A worker walks past piles of wood at a wood processing factory in Huaibei, Anhui province. (Reuters)

: People and police officers try to recover charred bodies of the driver and passengers by cutting the wreckage of a burnt taxi at the site of a military aircraft crash in Sanaa. A Yemeni fighter jet crashed in the centre of the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, killing at least six people, medical sources said. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

: Protesters clash with police outside Cambridge University’s Student Union as Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right ‘Front National’ party, prepares to address the Union’s debating society on in Cambridge, England. Mrs Le Pen, who has been an MEP since 2004 and is the daughter of former Front National leader Jean Marie Le Pen, is expected to speak about the future of the European Union and French politics. Although her appearance at the Union has provoked controversy with the anti-fascist group ‘Unite Against Fascism’. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

: A Palestinian works inside a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt will not tolerate a two-way flow of smuggled arms with the Gaza Strip that is destabilising its Sinai peninsula, a senior aide to its Islamist president said, explaining why Egyptian forces flooded sub-border tunnels last week. T(Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

: Supporters of Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), one of the largest Sunni political parties, and Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jaaat (ASWJ), a political and religious group, attend a funeral prayer for two of their workers who were shot by unidentified gunmen a day earlier, in Karachi. At least eight persons, including four activists from ASWJ, were killed and seven others injured, while vehicles were torched, in different areas of the metropolis amid the strike called by Shia Ulema Council, Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen and other organizations against the Quetta blast, local media reported. (Athar Hussain/Reuters)

: A Palestinian uses a sling to throw a teargas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes outside Israel’s Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared a one-day fast on Tuesday in solidarity with four inmates whose hunger strike has fuelled violent anti-Israeli protests outside the prison and in West Bank towns. (Darren Whiteside/Reuters)