Feb. 25 Photo Brief: Polar bear root canal, Presidential inauguration in South Korea, Makha Bucha Day in Bangkok, Trouble in Trinidad
Boris the bear gets a root canal in Tacoma, Psy performs at the South Korean presidential inauguration, Makha Bucha Day in Bangkok, Trouble in Trinidad and more in today’s daily brief.
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- People walk around the Buddha Statue holding candles for prayers during Makha Bucha Day at Buddhist Park in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Makha Bucha Day is celebrated by Buddhist monks in local temples across Thailand on the full moon of the third lunar month. The holiday is an important religious festival held in honour of Buddha that is marked in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. (Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images)
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- Buddhist monks pray at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok on Makha Bucha Day. Makha Bucha Day honors Buddha and his teachings, and falls on the full moon day of the third lunar month. (Kerek Wongsa/Reuters)
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- Buddhist monks hold candles as they walk around a Pagoda on Makha Bhucha Day at the Dhammakaya Temple in Pathumthani province. Makha Bhucha day is observed in Thailand on the full moon of the third lunar month and commemorates the day when 1,250 monks gathered to be ordained by the Buddha. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/Getty Images)
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- A pair of gloved hands are dwarfed by the furry paws of Boris the Polar Bear at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s animal health care hospital in Tacoma, Washington. (Dean J. Koepfler/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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- A sleeping giant, Boris the Polar bear underwent a full physical exam at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s animal hospital in Tacoma, Washington, as a team of veterinarians, technicians and staff also performed a root canal and some minor eye surgery on the 27-year-old polar bear. (Dean J. Koepfler/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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- Sedated, Boris the bear is cared for during a physical examine at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s animal health care hospital in Tacoma, Washington. A team of veterinarians, technicians and staff performed a full physical exam, a root canal and some minor eye surgery on the 27-year-old polar bear who was rescued from a mexican circus in Puerto Rico. (Dean J. Koepfler/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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- Carson Reed, 6 years old hugs his stuffed polar bear “Poley,” after a physical for Boris the Polar Bear at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s animal health care hospital in Tacoma, Washington. Carson’s dad, Dr. Jim Reed, was part of the team of that performed a full physical exam, a root canal and some minor eye surgery on the 27-year-old polar bear. (Dean J. Koepfler/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT)
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- A South Korean elderly man (C) wearing a traditional scholar outfit sits during the presidential inauguration ceremony for South Korea’s incoming president Park Geun-Hye at the National Assembly in Seoul. Park Geun-Hye was sworn in as South Korea’s first female president on February 25, vowing zero tolerance with provocations from a nuclearized North Korea and a new era of economic prosperity for all. (Jung Yeon-Je/Getty Images)
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- Singer Psy (C) performs during the inauguration ceremony of South Korea’s new President Park Geun-Hye at parliament in Seoul. Park Geun-Hye became South Korea’s first female president on February 25, vowing zero tolerance with North Korean provocation and demanding Pyongyang “abandon its nuclear ambitions” immediately. (Kim Hong-Ji/Getty Images)
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- An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lies drunk on the sidewalk during celebrations for the Jewish festival of Purim in the religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. Purim marks the deliverance of the Jewish people from a genocidal plot in ancient Persia, as recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. (Menahem Kahana/Getty Images)
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- Nepalese Hindu devotees offer prayers by rolling on the ground after performing a bathing ritual on the last day of the month-long Swasthani Festival in the Hanumante River at Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Hundreds of married and unmarried women in the Himalayan nation are marking the last day of a month-long fast in the hope of a prosperous life and conjugal happiness. (Prakash Mathema/Getty Images)
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- Nepalese Hindu devotees perform a bathing ritual on the last day of the month-long Swasthani Festival in the Hanumante River at Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Hundreds of married and unmarried women in the Himalayan nation are marking the last day of a month-long fast in the hope of a prosperous life and conjugal happiness. (Prakash Mathema/Getty Images)
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- A horse gallops in a snow covered field in the Northern Spanish Basque village of Gujuli. (Rafa Rivas/Getty Images)
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- Malian army gunner Modibo Tangara, aged 22, stands beside a gun machine in Gao, some 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) north of Bamako. After recapturing the north’s cities from the Al Qaeda groups that had controlled them since April 2012, the six-week-long French-led offensive took the fight to the retreating Islamist insurgents’ toughest desert bastions. (Joel Sagat/Getty Images)
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- A resident throws a mattress into a fire as part of a road block on the Beetham Highway at Sea Lots, east Port-of-Spain. A protest staged by residents heightened a day after a young mother and her two daughters were killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman. A total of six people were hit by the driver, who lost control of his vehicle, according to local media. (Andrea De Silva/Reuters)
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- Devotees sleep on the bank of Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad . The Kumbh Mela in the town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)
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- A newborn elephant drinks milk of its mother in the zoo of Copenhagen. The unnamed elephant was born early this morning. (Torkil Adsersen/Getty Images)
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- A woman looks her mobile phone as she walks past a Samsung stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The GSMA Mobile World Congress, representing the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, will take place from February 25 to 28 in Barcelona. (Albert Gea/Reuters)
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- Members of the Hamas security forces prepare to destroy the remains of ordnance from an eight-day conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in 2012, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)
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- A Palestinian protester throws stones during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron following the funeral of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat. Jaradat’s death in an Israeli jail on Saturday and a hunger strike by four other Palestinian inmates have raised tension in the occupied territory after repeated clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli soldiers in recent days. (Mussa Qawasma/Reuters)
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- Palestinians mourn during the funeral Arafat Jaradat in the village of Saair in the West Bank. According to reports, Jaradat died while in Israeli custody under disputed circumstances, with Palestinian officials saying an autopsy showed he was tortured. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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