March 13 Photo Brief: France digs out of deep snow, David Beckham holds a crunch, comet PANSTARRS, World Figure Skating Championships, a lucky haircut
France digs out of deep snow, David Beckham holds a crunch, comet PANSTARRS is visible, World Figure Skating Championships in London, a lucky haircut and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A woman cycles as she carries baskets to sell in a market near Lapdaung mountain in Sarlingyi township. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)
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- Passengers walk by cars covered in snow on the D901 around Beaumont-Hague, northern France, following a heavy snow storm. Blizzard-like conditions — coming only eight days before the official start of spring — knocked out power to thousands of people in France and left motorists stranded in their cars. (Alain Jocard/Getty Images)
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- Cars covered in snow are seen on the D901 around Beaumont-Hague, northern France, following a heavy snow storm. Blizzard-like conditions — coming only eight days before the official start of spring — knocked out power to thousands of people in France and left motorists stranded in their cars. (Alain Jocard/Getty Images)
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- A woman takes a picture of the snow in Ver-sur-Mer, northern France. More than 68,000 homes were without electricity in France and hundreds of people were trapped in their cars after a winter storm hit with heavy snow, officials and weather services said on March 12. Twenty-six regions in northwest and northern France were put on orange alert because of heavy snowfalls, which Meteo France said were “remarkable for the season because of the expected quantity and length of time”. (Charly Triballeau/Getty Images)
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- An Eiffel Tower made in snow is seen in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. (Franck Fife/Getty Images)
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- A man mimics the wax figure of football star David Beckham at a press preview of Madame Tussauds museum in Tokyo. Tokyo’s Madame Tussauds museum will exhibit some 60 wax figures of Japanese and foreign stars when it re-opens on March 15. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Getty Images)
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- A child cries while getting a haircut at a barber shop in Huaibei, Anhui province. According to traditional Chinese beliefs, getting a haircut on the second day of the second month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which falls on March 13 this year, will bring good luck. (China Daily)
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- An Afghan policeman stands during a graduation ceremony at a police training centre in Jalalabad. Afghan forces, police and army, are due to take full security responsibility from their Western allies, a US-led NATO force, by the end of 2014 when the foreign troops leave the country. (Noorullah Shirzada/Getty Images)
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- A soldier from the ‘Karakal’ Battalion during a graduation march near the Israeli-Egyptian border on March 13, 2010 near Azoz, Israel. The Karakal is a mixed-sex battalion formed in 2004, with men and women serving together in this combat unit, based in the Negev desert on the borders with Egypt and Jordan. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)
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- A soldier from the ‘Karakal’ Battalion ahead of a graduation march near the Israeli-Egyptian border near Azoz, Israel. The Karakal is a mixed-sex battalion formed in 2004, with men and women serving together in this combat unit, based in the Negev desert on the borders with Egypt and Jordan. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)
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- A Syrian rebel crosses a street while trying to dodge sniper fire in the old city of Aleppo in northern Syria. Syria warned on March 12 it is ready to fight “for years” against rebels, as world powers worked on a new initiative to find regime officials suitable for peace talks with the opposition. (JM Lopez/Getty Images)
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- The comet PANSTARRS is seen next to the waxing crescent moon off the western coast of Southern California, in Los Angeles. The comet will be visible until the end of March. (Gene Blevins/Reuters)
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- A girl walks on the ledge of a mud brick house in Gao. (Joe Penney/Reuters)
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- Afghan children from the Mobile Mini Circus Children (MMCC) perform during a show at the French Culture center in Kabu. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
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- Palestinian women mourn during the funeral of Mahmoud Titi in Fuwar near the West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli troops killed a Palestinian, Titi, on Tuesday during a confrontation with a stone-throwing crowd in a flashpoint district of the occupied West Bank, both sides said. The incident stoked tensions ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama next week that has been billed as a bid to encourage new peacemaking. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
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- Kashmiri Muslim women wail during the funeral of Altaf Ahmad Wani in Srinagar. Police said civilian Wani was injured when members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) opened fire after a group of youths hurled stones at their vehicle while they were returning from a hospital where they had dropped off their colleagues who were injured in a militant attack on a paramilitary camp. Wani subsequently died, according to a hospital official.(Danish Ismail/Reuters)
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- Sui Wenjing (top) and Han Cong of China perform in the pairs short program at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in London. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)
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- Pang Qing (Top) and Tong Jian of China perform their pairs short program at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in London. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)
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- Faithful wait during the conclave in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Max Rossi/Reuters)
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- Faithful cheer as white smoke rises from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel, indicating a new pope has been elected at the Vatican. White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica rang out on Wednesday, signaling that Roman Catholic cardinals had ended their conclave and elected a pope to succeed Benedict XVI. (Kevin Coombs/Reuters)
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