Feb. 27 Photo Brief: Prince Harry in Lesotho, Paris fashion, Rosa Parks statue unveiled, world’s oldest person, British pub cat, the Pope says goodbye
Prince Harry in Lesotho, Paris fashion, Rosa Parks statue unveiled, world’s oldest person, British pub cat, Pope Benedict XVI’s final audience, Macedonia flooding and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A cat watches passers-by from a pub window in central London. ‘Ray Brown’ is the resident cat at the seventeenth century public house, ‘The Seven Stars’ in the legal district of London. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
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- Candidates wave U.S. flags during a naturalization ceremony to become new U.S. Citizens at Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony included 4495 candidates from more than 100 countries. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
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- U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) applaud as they look at the statue of Rosa Parks after its unveiling in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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- A boy works at a car wash in Aleppo. (Giath Taha/Reuters)
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- Prince Harry learns sign language during at visit to the Kananelo Centre for the deaf, a project supported by his charity Sentebale on in Maseru, Lesotho. Sentebale is a charity founded by Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho. It helps the most vulnerable children in Lesotho get the support they need to lead healthy and productive lives. Sentebale works with local grassroots organizations to help these children, the victims of extreme poverty and Lesotho’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. Cathy Ferrier was appointed as Sentebale’s Chief Executive in March 2012 and is spearheading a fundraising initiative to build the Mamohato Centre which will provide psychosocial support for children and young people infected with HIV. Prince Harry is due to pay a visit to Lesotho this week to catch up on his charity’s progress and meet key children who will be supported by the charity. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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- A model presents a creation by Nicolas Andreas Taralis during the Fall/Winter 2013-2014 ready-to-wear collection show. (Martin Bureau/Getty Images)
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- Models present creations by Italian designer Marco Zanini as part of his Fall-Winter 2013/2014 women’s ready-to-wear show for French fashion house Rochas during Paris fashion week. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)
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- Pilgrims travel by boat on the Yen Vy river to attend the Chua Huong, or Perfume Pagoda, festival outside Hanoi. The festival is the longest and most crowded annual festival in Vietnam and lasts through three months in spring, attracting millions of pilgrims, reported local newspapers. (Kham/Reuters)
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- Supporters of Kenya’s Deputy Prime Minister and presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta cheer as he leaves on a helicopter after a campaign rally in the Rift Valley town of Suswa, about 70 km (43 miles) west of the capital Nairobi. The trial of Kenyan presidential candidate Kenyatta for crimes against humanity is unlikely to begin until August, international prosecutors said on Tuesday, a delay that would leave him freer to run in the election’s second round. Kenya will hold its general elections on March 4. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
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- Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful from the Popemobile as he arrives in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City, Vatican. The Pontiff has attended his last weekly public audience before stepping down tomorrow. Pope Benedict XVI has been the leader of the Catholic Church for eight years and is the first Pope to retire since 1415. He cites ailing health as his reason for retirement and will spend the rest of his life in solitude away from public engagements. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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- Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd during last general audience in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Pope Benedict bid an emotional farewell at his last general audience on Wednesday, acknowledging the “rough seas” that marked his papacy “when it seemed that the Lord was sleeping.” (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
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- Pilgrims and clergy members hold a candle-lit vigil in Saint Peter’s Square, facing Pope Benedict XVI’s private apartment, after his final weekly public audience in Vatican City, Vatican. The Pontiff has attended his last weekly public audience before stepping down tomorrow. Pope Benedict XVI has been the leader of the Catholic Church for eight years and is the first Pope to retire since 1415. He cites ailing health as his reason for retirement and will spend the rest of his life in solitude away from public engagements. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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- Supporters of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh climb up flag poles flying their national flag during celebrations on the occasion of the first anniversary of the handover of power in Sanaa. Saleh stepped down after 33-years at the helm in February 2011 and formally handed power to his then deputy, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. (Mohammed Huwais/Getty Images)
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- Misao Okawa (R) receives a certification from an official of Guinness World Records in Osaka, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Okawa of the western Japanese city of Osaka was on Wednesday officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest woman alive at 114 years old. Born to a clothing merchant in 1898, also the year of the Spanish-American war, Okawa is due to celebrate her 115th birthday next week on March 5th. (Kyodo/Reuters)
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- Members of the national police beat students as they demonstrate in Caracas. The students were demonstrating, believing that the government is not saying the truth about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s health. Chavez, whose inauguration was delayed due to cancer treatment, will decide himself when he is ready to be sworn in to office, the National Assembly’s leader said Monday. (Juan Barreto/Getty Images)
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- A child, supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and wearing a T-shirt reading “I am Chavez”, takes part in a rally in Caracas to commemorate 24 years of the Patriotic Rebellion of 1989. The “Caracazo” of 1989 was a wave of protests against the neoliberal reforms of imposed by the government of Carlos Andres Perez, in which some 3000 people were killed. (Geraldo Caso/Getty Images)
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- An employee prepares to release a Yangtze alligator into a pool after examining its physical condition inside a greenhouse at a conservation area in Huzhou, Zhejiang province. Around 50 Yangtze alligators, aged 5-7, will be reintroduced to the wild in early April. (William Hong/Reuters)
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- A man gestures as he wades through floodwater in his house in Murtino, 180 km east of Skopje. One man drowned and several hundred homes in Macedonia were flooded on Tuesday as two days of heavy rain drenched farmland and caused power outages in the Balkan country, authorities said. (Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters)
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