March 1 Photo Brief: Australian air show, Egyptian Harlem Shake, panda specimens and Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza
The Royal Australian Air Force draws 180,000 patrons to the Australian International Airshow, Egyptian activists perform the “Harlem Shake” in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters, the Shanghai Nature museum prepares panda specimens, Cirque du Soleil’s “Kooza” hits Madrid and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A Royal Australian Air Force FA-18 Super Hornet flies out of the sun at the first public day at the Australian International Airshow in Melbourne. 180,000 patrons are expected through the gates over the duration of the event staged at the Avalon Airfield some 80kms south-west of Melbourne. (Paul Crock/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An aerobatics demonstration helps open the first public day at the Australian International Airshow in Melbourne. (Paul Crock/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Airshow patrons watch a battlefield attack simulation by Royal Australian Air Force FA-18 Super Hornets on the first public day at the Australian International Airshow in Melbourne. (Paul Crock/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Two seals pups who were stranded last summer on the Belgian coast are released into the North Sea by the Sea Life Center of Blankenberge. (Kurt Desplenter/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Hadi from Denmark jumps over one of the last heaps of snow during a stop of his tourist group in front of the Reichstag Building in Berlin, on February 28, 2013. (Stephanie Pilick/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Egyptian Actvists and youth perform the Internet craze, the “Harlem Shake” in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo on February 28, 2013. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Imagess)
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- An Egyptian activist ignites fireworks following a performance by Egyptian activists and youth of the internet craze “Harlem Shake” in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo on February 28, 2013. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (front L) and former NBA star Dennis Rodman (front R) speaking at a basketball game in Pyongyang in this February 28, 2013 photo released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 1, 2013. Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman has become the most high-profile American to meet the new leader of North Korea, vowing eternal friendship with Kim Jong-Un at a basketball game in Pyongyang. (KCNA/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A man walks past a poster of the former Pope Benedict XVI on a board in downtown Rome. With Pope Benedict XVI now officially in retirement, Catholic cardinals from around the world begin on Friday the complex, cryptic and uncertain process of picking the next leader of the world’s largest church. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
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- A fake electoral placard showing Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson, seen by some as Africa’s top candidate to become the next pope and reading “during the conclave, vote Turkson” is displayed in front of the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome. Catholic cardinals from around the world were summoned Friday to meetings that will set a date for a conclave to elect a new pope, the day after Benedict XVI’s historic resignation. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Prisoners’ hands are bound together as they arrive by boat escorted by Malian soldiers in Kadji, on the Niger river. French and Malian troops launched an operation yesterday in the village of Kadji, northern Mali, where Islamists are hiding out on an island in the Niger river, a military source told AFP. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A model presents a creation for Christian Dior during the Fall/Winter 2013-2014 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris. (Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Chinese dancer performs a traditional dance during an event organised by the Chinese Consulate of the People’s Republic of China and Indo-China Promotion Council, in Kolkata. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Chinese dancers perform a traditional dance during an event organised by the Chinese Consulate of the People’s Republic of China and Indo-China Promotion Council, in Kolkata. The event was organised to create synergy which would not only benifit the two trading partners but also to foster peaceful development among these two global emerging economies in Asia. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A worker directs the removal of a dinosaur from a lorry at Twycross Zoo near Atherstone, central England. 15 dinosaurs will go on display at Dinosaur Valley, a new attraction at the zoo. (Darren Staples/Reuters)
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- An employee works on a specimen of a panda for Shanghai Nature museum at a specimen centre in Shanghai February 27, 2013. The centre, which started production in 2007, takes about three months to complete a panda specimen and has made some 500 specimens to date. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- Employees work on a specimen of a panda for Shanghai Nature museum at a specimen centre in Shanghai February 27, 2013. The centre, which started production in 2007, takes about three months to complete a panda specimen and has made some 500 specimens to date. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- A Pakistani boy plays in the waters of a polluted canal in Lahore. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Contortion artists perform during the Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza show in Madrid February 28, 2013. Picture taken February 28, 2013. (Sergio Perez/Reuters)
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- Artist Irina Akimova dances with hoops in this multiple-exposure picture as she performs during the Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza show in Madrid February 28, 2013. (Sergio Perez/Reuters)
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