Feb. 21 Photo Brief: Golf and snow don’t mix, a cute baby elephant, snow hits the plains and Danica Patrick with love interest Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
The PGA stop near Tucson continues to be delayed by snow, a cute week-old baby Asian elephant at the Budapest zoo, Danica Patrick talks with new boyfriend and fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. in Daytona Beach and more in today’s Daily Photo Brief.
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- A detail of a Callaway golf ball is seen on the course as the start of the continuation of round one was delayed due to snow during the World Golf Championships – Accenture Match Play at the Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona. (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)
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- Danica Patrick (L), driver of the #34 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, talks with Cup Series Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (R), driver of the #17 Best Buy Ford, in the garage during practice for the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)
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- A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrians carrying an injured man after a powerful car bomb exploded near the headquarters of Syria’s ruling Baath party in the centre of Damascus. (SANA /via Getty Images)
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- A resident smiles as she cleans her dishes in Tanjung Labian, near the location where suspected Philippine militants are holding off. Followers of a Philippine sultan who crossed to the Malaysian state of Sabah this month will not leave and are reclaiming the area as their ancestral territory, the sultan said on February 17 amid a tense stand off. (Mohd Rasfan/Getty Images)
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- Chinese men smoke while walking beneath lanterns as the city prepares for the traditional Lantern Festival which falls on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year and officially ends the celebrations, in Beijing. The festival which dates back more than 2000 years to the Han Dynasty sees China’s cities becoming a sea of lanterns and fireworks. (Mark Ralston/Getty Images)
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- Williams’s Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas drives during the third day of Formula One testing at the Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona. (Josep Lago/Getty Images)
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- Members of the Peasant Women Movement take part in a demonstration along the Esplanade of Ministries, in Brasilia, as part of the closing of their national meeting. They demanded the end of violence against women and honored those who died from domestic violence. (Pedro Ladeira/Getty Images)
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- A model displays a creation as part of Fendi Fall-Winter 2013-2014 Womenswear collection during the Women’s fashion week in Milan. (Gabriel Bouys/Getty Images)
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- Motorist help out wherever they can, pushing a stranded car at the Zoo and I-235 in Wichita, Kansas. A major snowstorm lashes U.S. Great Plains as it heads east. (Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle/MCT)
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- A one week old baby Asian elephant is seen next to its mother in the Budapest zoo. The baby does not have a name yet and will be on display at the zoo from the weekend. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters photo)
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- A man stands next to hot rolled coil at the PT Krakatau Steel Tbk plant in Cilegon, Indonesia’s Banten province. PT Krakatau Steel Tbk, the Southeast Asia’s largest steelmaker, plans to spend 6.5 Trillion Rupiah ($674 million) in capital expenditure this year, according to Irvan K Hakim, Krakatau Steel’s president director. (Beawiharta/Reuters photo)
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- A freed detainee carries his daughters and kisses them after his release outside al-Rusafa prison in Baghdad. Iraq’s government released more than 200 prisoners held under anti-terrorism laws as a goodwill gesture to try to appease Sunni Muslim demonstrators who are staging protests against Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters photo)
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- A Palestinian uses a sling to throw a stone towards Israeli troops during clashes outside Israel’s Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The hunger strike of Samer al-Issawi and three other detainees held in Israeli jails has fueled anti-Israel protests in the occupied West Bank over the past several weeks. (Darren Whiteside/Reuters photo)
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- Zebras, female Zizi (front) and male Moryachok, run on the snow in an open-air enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo on the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters photo)
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- Erik Guay of Canada jumps during the first training session for the men’s downhill event of the Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill ski race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters photo)
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- A boy plays with his pet on a beach as the sun sets in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters photo)
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- Men are helped out of a burning factory through a hole in a wall after trying to put out a fire that resulted from jet shelling in the al-Meyasar district of Aleppo, Syria. (Hamid Khatib/Reuters photo)
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- A boy cycles over a busy commuter highway which leads to Washington D.C. on his way to school in Arlington, Virginia. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters photo)
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- Yemen’s national flag is reflected on the sunglasses of a supporter of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi as he attends a rally to mark the first anniversary of his election in the southern port city of Aden. The headband reads, “Yemen is in our hearts.” (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters photo)
Major snowstorm lashes Great Plains, heads east
Kevin Murphy | Reuters
2:24 p.m. EST, February 21, 2013
Kansas City, Missouri (Reuters) – A major winter storm pounded the Great Plains on Thursday, creating hazardous travel that resulted in at least one death, closing schools, scuttling air travel and cutting off power to some communities.
Winter storm warnings and advisories were in place for much of the central and southern Plains and into the upper Midwest and Mississippi River Valley as the storm moved east, packing snow, sleet and freezing rain, the National Weather Service said.
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