Mar 28, 2013

March 28 Photo Brief: Pope Francis leads Chrismal mass, a supersized bottle of Czech wine and a cute baby elephant

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Pope Francis leads the Chrismal mass at the Vatican, the Czech Republic unveils their supersized bottle of wine, a baby Asiatic elephant shows of his cuteness and more in today’s daily brief.

: A boy carries a donkey as Ultra Orthodox Jews take part in the “Pidyon Peter Chamor” ceremony, or the “Redemption of the first born donkey” in the Meir Sharim neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. The traditional ceremony is part of the 613 laws commemorated in the Torah. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

: A US B-2 stealth bomber (R) flies over a US air base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul as part of South Korea-US joint military exercise. Two nuclear-capable US B-2 stealth bombers flew what the US military described as “deterrence” missions over South Korea on March 28, in a move sure to further inflame tensions with North Korea. (Yonhap/Getty Images)

: Models parade creations of Lu Classic Lu Weixing dress collection at the China Fashion Week in Beijing. Beijing Fashion Week began on March 25 with local and Asian designers now playing a major role in an event previously dominated by European fashion houses. (Getty Images)

: Brown bears play in their snow-covered enclosure at the Budapest Zoo and Botanic garden of the Varosliget public park in the Hungarian capital. (Attila Kisbenedek/Getty Images)

: This undated handout photograph taken in March, 2013 by Google Street View and received on March 28, 2013 shows a Google car mounted with a street view camera as it drives through a street in Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture. Google began offering the chance for people to wander virtually through an abandoned town deep within the exclusion zone around Japan’s crippled nuclear plant. Visitors to the Internet giant’s mapping site can take a tour through the overgrown and deserted streets of Namie, where time appears to have stood still for two years. (Google/via Getty Images)

: An Indian Sikh devotee bathes in the holy sarover (water tank) on the occasion of ‘Hola Mohalla’ at The Golden Temple in Amritsar. Hola Mohalla is a three day Sikh festival, in which Nihang Sikh ‘warriors’ perform Gatka (mock encounters with real weapons), tent pegging and bareback horse-riding, which usually falls in March following the Hindu festival of Holi. (Narinder Nanu/Getty Images)

: A homeless person covered in blankets for warmth, sleeps at the entrance of a Metro station near the White House in Washington, DC. (Karen Bleir/Getty images)

: Family members of 34 Turkish Kurdish civilians, who were killed in December 2011 in Uludere at the Turkey-Iraq border by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in Iraq, hold pictures of the victims during a protest outside the Turkish Parliament in Ankara. A recent parliamentary report on the massacre concluded that the Turkish military’s air strike was not deliberate. (Adem Altan/Getty Images)

: A representative of the Czech Guinness Book of Records measures a giant bottle of wine in Cejkovice, southern Czech Repubic. The bottle, which is over two meters in height and contains 200 liters of wine, has being registered as the “Largest wine bottle in the Czech Republic”. (Radek Mica/Getty Images)

: A woman wearing the traditional Mantilla walks under the Macarena arch during the Holy Week in Sevilla. Christian believers around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Cristina Quicler/Getty Images)

: An Asiatic elephant male calf reacts as he stands under his mother Sammy at Zoomadrid in Madrid. The young pachyderm was born on March 2, 2013 at Madrid’s zoo. (Dominique Faget/Getty Images)

: A retired man demonstrates in Lyon, to protest against the reduction of his pensions. (Jeff Pachoud/Getty Images)

: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth walks past Yeomen of the Guard as she leaves the Maundy Service at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, southern England. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/Reuters photo)

: A Laiki Bank manager tries to calm depositors waiting for the opening of the bank’s branch in Nicosia. Banks in Cyprus opened their doors on Thursday for the first time in almost two weeks, with tight controls on transactions to prevent a run on deposits after the island was forced to accept a stringent EU rescue package to avert bankruptcy. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters photo)

: A university student confronts riot policemen during a rally against a planned overhaul of the Greek university system outside the parliament in Athens. (John Kolesidis/Reuters photo)

: A boy slides through orange coloured water during Huranga at the Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura. Huranga is a game played between men and women a day after Holi, the festival of colours, during which men drench women with liquid colours and women tear off the clothes of the men. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters photo)

: Pope Francis leads the Chrismal mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters photo)

: Workers transport the SpaceX Dragon capsule, which splashed down off the coast of Baja California, Mexico on Tuesday, back to port in San Pedro, California. Dragon returned to Earth from the International Space Station with 2,668 (1,210 kg) of cargo, including a freezer filled with biological samples from the crew for medical research. (Gene Blevins/Reuters photo)