March 15 Photo Brief: The new Pope’s ex-girlfriend, chocolate couture, fake Chinese medicine, et tu, Bieber?
The smiling lady that sent the new Pope packing for the priesthood, models walk the runway in edible attire during the second Bordeaux’s Chocolate fair, Justin Bieber plays on after apologizing for his online slam against Lindsay Lohan, environmental artist Christo unveils his “Big Air Package” and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Civilian passengers of the Airbus A330 Zero-G, who are not astronauts nor scientists, enjoy the weightlessness during the first zero gravity flight for paying passengers in Europe. All boarding cards, costing 6,000 euros, were sold for the years 2013 and 2014. Zero gravity flights for paying passengers have already taken place in the United States and Russia. The zero-gravity of space is simulated by flying a series of parabolic flight maneuvers that counter the forces of gravity and allow astronauts and cosmonauts to learn how to accomplish tasks with no gravity. (Mehdi Fedouach/AFP/Getty Images)
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- USA’s Eliza Outtrim competes during the women’s Moguls event at the FIS Freestyle World Cup in Are, Sweden. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Amalia Damonte, who was girlfriend of Jorge Mario Bergoglio –now elected as Pope Francis– more than sixty years ago, poses at her home in the Flores neighborhood in Buenos Aires. “If I don’t marry you, I’ll become a priest,” said young Bergoglio to his girfriend, according to her words. (Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This handout picture released by the Press office shows Pope Francis (c), Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio, leading a mass at the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on March 14, 2013 a day after his election. Pope Francis and the cardinals who made him the first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, this time to celebrate mass together. (Osservatore Romano/AFP/Getty Images)
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- US-Bulgarian artist Christo stands in front of photojournalists during a press-visit in his installation “Big Air Package” on March 14, 2013 at the Oberhausen Casle in Oberhausen, western Germany. 18 years after the wrapping of the Reichstag and 14 years after the installation “The Wall” as the finale of the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition, Christo is returning to Germany with a further art project: From March 16 to December 30, 2013, Christo will fill the Oberhausen Gasometer with his Big Air Package. The artwork is the largest ever inflated frameless envelope and the largest indoor sculpture ever made. (Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Journalists stand inside the latest work of art ‘Big Air Package’ by artist Christo, during a preview at the Gasometer in Oberhausen. The indoor installation ‘Big Air Package’ which was created for the former gas holder, is 90 metres high, with a diameter of 50 metres and a volume of 177,000 cubic metres. (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)
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- Stacey Kemp (Top) and David King of Great Britain perform their free skating program at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in London. (Fred Thornhill/Reuters)
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- A judge checks Rachel, a three-month-old Afghan Hound, as her trainer (L) holds her during the Shanghai International Dog Show, in Shanghai. Rachel, the offspring of an award-winning dog, was bought by her new owners for 35.000RMB ($5,600). The Afghan Hound represents one of the oldest dog breeds, and is distinguished by its thick, silky coat and its tail with a ring curl at the end. The breed acquired its unique features in the cold mountains of Afghanistan and east of Iran, where it was originally used to hunt hares and gazelles. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
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- A man hold a Miniature Poodle during a dog beauty contest during the Shanghai International Dog Show, in Shanghai. In a country where dog meat is still being consumed, dog shows got their start about 15 years ago and are gaining popularity among a fast-growing sector of upper-class Chinese. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
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- The iconic Manicouagan meteor crater in Quebec is pictured in this handout photo taken March 14, 2013, courtesy of the Canadian Space Agency. The crater is one of the oldest known impact craters on Earth, still visible from space and is located primarily in Manicouagan Regional County Municipality in the CÙte-Nord region of Quebec. (CSA/Chris Hadfield/Handout/Reuters)
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- A model presents a dress made from chocolate during the second Bordeaux’s Chocolate fair (Salon du Chocolat) in Bordeaux, western France. (Jean-Pierre Muller/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A model presents a dress made from chocolate during the second Bordeaux’s Chocolate fair (Salon du Chocolat) in Bordeaux, western France. (Jean-Pierre Muller/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Kijivu, a western lowland gorilla, holds her three months old baby as they rest at the Zoo in Prague. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This picture taken on March 14 shows health workers preparing to destroy fake medicines seized in Beijing in recent months. (PHOTOSTR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This picture taken on March 14 shows a Chinese policeman walking across a pile of fake medicines seized in Beijing in recent months, which were later destroyed. The rapid growth of Internet commerce has led to an explosion of counterfeit drugs sold around the world, with China the biggest source of fake medicines, pharmaceutical experts said as the illicit trade is now believed to be worth around 75 billion USD globally, with criminal gangs increasingly using the web to move their products across borders. (PHOTOSTR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This handout picture received from Crossrail on March 15, 2013 shows archaeologists working to uncover skeletons from what is understood to be a mass grave for victims of the Black Death, discovered when excavations were made to create a Crossrail tunnel shaft under Charterhouse Square in central London. Construction workers building a new railway in London have unearthed thirteen skeletons believed to be victims of the Black Death plague that killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century, archaeologists said on March 15, 2013. (Handout/Crossrail/AFP/Getty Images
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- Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs live in concert at Palacio de los Deportes de Madrid on March 14, 2013. (Curto de la Torre/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Members of pacifist group Platform Against The BBVA, covered in red paint to symbolise investments in armaments, hold up euro notes and bank books before the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Spain’s second biggest bank BBVA, at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao. (Vincent West/Reuters)
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