March 20 Photo Brief: A collection of Lindsay Lohan mugshots, President Obama visits Israel and tigers in London get a new home
President Barack Obama gets a warm welcome in Israel, London zoo builds a new enclosure for it’s Sumatran tigers,
a trip down memory lane with Lindsay Lohan’s various police mugshots and more in today’s daily brief.
- Firefighters put out a Falla during the last day of the Las Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain. The Fallas festival, which runs from March 15 until March 19, celebrates the arrival of spring with fireworks, fiestas and bonfires made by large puppets named Ninots. (David Ramos/Getty Images)
- Sumatran tiger Melati looks on in her enclosure during the opening of London Zoo’s new Tiger Territory, a 3.6GBP million project to house Sumatran tigers Jae Jae and Melati, at ZSL London Zoo in London, England. (Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)
- Actress Lindsay Lohan is shown in various booking photos provided by law enforcement agencies from over the years for her brushes with the law. (Top L to R) July 24, 2007, November. 15, 2007, July 20, 2010. (Bottom L to R) September 24, 2010, October 19, 2011 and March 19, 2013. Handout file photos/via Reuters)
- An Indian labourer sifts coloured powder, known as “gulal”, to be used during the forthcoming spring festival of Holi, on the outskirts of Siliguri. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival colours observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month, will be celebrated March 27 this year. (Diptendu Dutta/Getty Images)
- Nomads vie for the ball during a match of nomad hokey, played on sand, in the Moroccan desert in M’hamid El Ghizlane, southeast of Zagora. (Fadel Senna/Getty Images)
- Acrobats of the Chinese National Circus perform a new program “Feng Shui Life Harmony” in Brno, Czech Republic. (Radek Mica/Getty Images)
- An outfit worn by musician David Bowie is displayed at the “David Bowie is” exhibition at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum in central London. Running March 23 to August 11, the exhibition features more than 300 objects that include handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs and Bowie’s own instruments. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
- A Free Syrian Army fighter takes position inside a room as he points his weapon through a hole in Aleppo’s Saif al-Dawla district. (Giath Taha/Reuters photo)
- A little boy plays snow at the Imperial Ancestral Temple following overnight snowfall in Beijing, China. Beijing witnessed a heavy spring snowfall with a depth reaching 10-17 centimeters overnight. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
- Rabbits warm sit in snow in Marlow, northern Germany. (Bernd Wustneck/Getty Images)
- A fireman attempts to put out a fire that broke out at a garment factory in Karachi. According to a factory worker, no casualties were reported from the fire that broke out in the garment factory in the federal b. industrial area of Karachi. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters photo)
- An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past posters calling for U.S. President Barack Obama to free Jonathan Pollard from a U.S. prison, in Jerusalem March 20, 2013. Obama arrives in Israel on Wednesday without any new peace initiative to offer disillusioned Palestinians and facing deep Israeli doubts over his pledge to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, has been serving a life sentence in the United States since he was caught spying for Israel in the 1980s. (Baz Ratner/Reuters photo)
- Residents collect dried fish, to be sold at the market, outside their homes in Coronel town, some 550 km (335 miles) southwest of Santiago. According to the town’s residents the custom of selling dried fish is slowly dying out due to the decreased level of fishes found in their area. Picture taken. (Jose Luis Saavedra/Reuters photo)
- A native indian paints his face at the Brazilian Indian Museum in Rio de Janeiro. A native Indian community of around 30 individuals who have been living in the abandoned Indian Museum since 2006, were summoned to leave the museum in 72 hours by court officials since last Friday, local media reported. The group is fighting against the destruction of the museum, which is next to the Maracana Stadium. (Sergio Moraes/Reuters photo)
- U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with children next to Israel’s President Shimon Peres at his residence in Jerusalem. Making his first official visit to Israel, Obama pledged on Wednesday unwavering commitment to the security of the Jewish State where concern over a nuclear-armed Iran has clouded U.S.-Israeli relations. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
- Italy’s Debora Agreiter competes during the women’s 1.1 kilometer cross country World Cup Royal Palace Sprint in Stockholm. (Jonathan Nackstrand/Getty Images)
- Greek shipyards workers, many of them without any income for months , march to the Merchant ministry in the port of Piraeus, during their protest rally. Shipyard workers are taking industrial action for months, over delayed payments and soaring unemployment in their sector . (Louisa, Gouliamaki/Getty Images)
- Policemen (L and 2nd L) stand on a car on a flooded street following heavy rains in Sanaa, Yemen. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters photo)