March 14 Photo Brief: All smiles from Pope Francis, North Korea does some target practicing and Pippa takes in the horses
It’s all smiles today for the new Pope, North Korea takes in some target practice, Pippa Middleton goes to the race track for the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A Bahraini woman holds up her national flag decorated with anti-government slogans in the village of Jidhafs, west of Manama, on March 14, 2013. Bahraini police clashed with youths protesting against the deployment into a third year of a Gulf military force that backed Manama’s bid to crush a Shiite-led uprising, witnesses said. (Mohammed Al-Shaikh/Getty Images)
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- Riders take part in the Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed al-Nahyan International Equestrian festival in the Boudthib Endurance Village near the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi. (Karim Sahib/Getty Images)
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- Austria’s Klaus Kroell crashes during the Men Super G at the Alpine ski World Cup finals on March 14, 2013 in Lenzerheide. (Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images)
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- A passer-by walks as a high wave hits the waterfront in Marseille March 14, 2013. French public weather agency Meteo France issued an orange alert warning of winds threatening southern French departments. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters photo)
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- Pippa Middleton (R), the sister of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, reacts while watching the first race with an unidentified companion at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England March 14, 2013. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters photo)
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- Horses jump a fence during the Novices’ Steeple Chase race at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters photo)
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- An activist from India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scuffles with police during a protest in Jammu. Hundreds of the BJP activists on Thursday held a protest in Jammu against the killing of five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. Two militants hiding automatic rifles and grenades in cricket kit opened fire on a paramilitary camp on the Indian side of Kashmir on Wednesday, killing five CRPF personnel and wounding five, police said. (Mukesh Gupta/Reuters photo)
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- Naina (L), a student, and her instructor Rahul practice swinging “pois” at a park in Mumbai. Poi is a recreational activity in which people swing weights tied to strings in a variety of patterns and shapes, the instructor said. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters photo)
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- Mementos are seen on a headstone in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Section 60 contains graves of soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters photo)
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- North Korea’s artillery sub-units, whose mission is to strike Daeyeonpyeong island and Baengnyeong island of South Korea, conduct a live shell firing drill to examine war fighting capabilities in the western sector of the front line in this picture released by the North’s official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang. (KCNA/via Reuters)
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- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) and military officers watch a live shell firing drill to examine war fighting capabilities of artillery sub-units, whose mission is to strike DaeYeonpyeong island and Baengnyeong island of South Korea, in the western sector of the front line in this picture released by the North’s official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang. (KCNA/via Reuters)
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- North Korea’s artillery sub-units, whose mission is to strike Daeyeonpyeong island and Baengnyeong island of South Korea, conduct a live shell firing drill to examine war fighting capabilities in the western sector of the front line in this picture released by the North’s official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang. (KCNA/via Reuters)
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- Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina waves as he leaves the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters photo)
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- A Christian worshipper lights a candle at the Church of the Nativity, revered as the site of Jesus’ birth, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Israeli and Palestinian officials welcomed the appointment of the new Pope, on Thursday wishing him success in leading the Catholic Church. (Ammar Awad/Reuters photo)
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- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) takes part in a wreath laying ceremony under a heavy snowfall at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the walls of Moscow’s Kremlin. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters photo)
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- A worker of state-run oil company PDVSA yells a slogan as he waits for his turn to view Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez’s body lying in state at the military academy in Caracas. Tuesday was the last day of official mourning for Chavez, although ceremonies appear set to continue. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters photo)
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