April 23 Photo Brief: China’s quake victims seek normalcy, WWI soldier’s funeral, Britain’s bionic man

Patrick Kane is fitted with the new Touch Bionics prosthetic hand on in Livingston, Scotland. The new i-limb ultra revolution has a powered thumb rotation along with multiple grip patterns, which enables users to perform daily activities easier than with previous prosthesis. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Visitors stand in the staircase of the restored former Prussian justice palace, that serves now as county court in Halle an der Saale, eastern Germany. The 110 years old building housing 20 courtrooms, 110 offices and further 100 rooms re-opened after two years of restoration. (Jan Woitas/Getty Images)

The coffin containing the remains of Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard is carried in the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) Cemetery at Ecoust-Saint- Mein as four British soldiers were laid to rest with full military honours in northern France on Tuesday, nearly a century after they were killed in action in World War I. Their bodies were discovered in 2009 when a local farmer was clearing one of his fields. (Denis Charlet/Getty Images)

A dog wrapped in a jacket, belonging to a street artist, sits on a pavement in London. An influential academic paper which made the case for austerity, is thought to be flawed. The paper, called ‘Growth in a Time of Debt’ by Harvard professors, Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, has data missing, according to Universtiy of Massachusetts student, Thomas Herndon. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)

U.S. Marine soldiers from 3rd Marine Expeditionary force landing team deployed from Okinawa, Japan, rest during the CJLOTS (Combined Joint Logistics Over The Shore) exercise in Pohang, South Korea. The operation, part of annual 2-month Foal Eagle exercise, while the tension at Korean Peninsula remains high as North Korea’s ballistic missiles have been ready to launch. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Children play on a metal beam in Manila. The Philippines has failed to make headway in cutting rampant poverty, with more than one in four citizens deemed poor despite the country’s economic growth, according to census figures released Tuesday. The July 2012 poverty rate of 27.9 percent is practically unchanged from 2006 and 2009 data, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)

Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (L) waves at children waving English flags as she arrives on her visit to The Willows Primary School, Wythenshawe, Manchester, northwest England on April 23, 2013 to launch a new school counselling programme. The duchess of Cambridge met staff and volunteers, teachers and parents at the school as she launched the program, which is a partnership between the Royal Foundation, Comic Relief, Place2Be and Action on Addiction. (Paul Ellis/Getty Images)

Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arrives to visit The Willows Primary School in the Wythenshawe district near Manchester, northwest England. (Paul Ellis/Getty Images)

Models present creations by Morio Deguchi during “the Soen Prize,” the budding fashion designers’ contest at Bunka fashion college in Tokyo. Sixteen designers took part in the competition. (Toru Yamanaka/Getty Images)

Brooklyn Nets Brook Lopez (11) gets a shot off over Chicago Bulls Joakim Noah (13) during game two of their first round NBA playoff game at the Barclay Center in New York. (Don Emmert/Getty Images)

Chicago Blackhawks’ Bryan Bickell (R) knocks Vancouver Canucks’ Henrik Sedin over during the third period of their NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Andy Clark/Reuters)

A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, carrying a Bion-M satellite blasts off from a launch pad in the Russian leased Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome. Bion-M, part of the Russia’s space program, is to conduct fundamental and applied research in space biology, physiology and biotechnology while in orbit, RIA-Novosti news agency reported. (Getty Images)

Local residents have a family gathering meal outside their damaged home after the earthquake in Yaan, southwest China’s Sichuan province. Tens of thousands of homeless survivors of China’s devastating quake are living in makeshift tents or on the streets, facing shortages of food and supplies as well as an uncertain future. (Getty Images)

Kids salute rescuers in a temporary settlement in Lingguan Middle School in Baoxing county of Yaan, southwest China’s Sichuan province. Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers on April 22 as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwest China that has left at least 192 dead. (Getty Images)

Children have instant noodles in a temporary settlement in Lingguan Middle School in Baoxing county of Yaan, southwest China’s Sichuan province. Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers on April 22 as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwest China that has left at least 192 dead. (Getty Images)

Rescue workers carry a pig out from a damaged house after Saturday’s earthquake hit Lushan county, Ya’an, Sichuan province. The earthquake left 193 dead, 25 missing and 12,211 injured as of 6 a.m. Tuesday, according to Xinhua News Agency. (China Daily)

A woman stands on a collapsed house in Longmen township, one of the seriously-damaged towns in disaster-hit Yaan, southwest China’s Sichuan province. Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers on April 22 as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwest China that has left at least 192 dead. (Getty Images)

A new-born baby which was born in a relief tent is attended by medical staff after Saturday’s earthquake hit Lushan county, Ya’an, Sichuan province. Hundreds of survivors of an earthquake that killed nearly 200 people in southwest China pushed into traffic on a main road on Monday, waving protest signs, demanding help and shouting at police. The Chinese characters on the tent read “Disaster relief”. (Reuters)

A bonobo looks through a window at the Wilhelma zoo in Stuttgart, southern Germany. The bonobos of the zoo just have moved to a new indoor enclosure. In the wild, the great apes live in the Congo Basin in Africa. (Franziska Kraufmann/Getty Images)

A combination of six pictures shows freshly shorn alpacas in the village of Winklarn near Regensburg. The alpacas are always shorn in spring, to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months and to collect the expensive and well known alpaca wool. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)

A police officer hits a supporter of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who is the head of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) political party, during Musharraf’s hearing at an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi. An ATC in Rawalpindi granted Musharraf’s request to meet his lawyers on Tuesday. Musharraf appeared before the court in relation to the Benazir Bhutto murder case and made three requests including the request to unfreeze his assets and bank accounts, local media reported.(Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)

A rubber glove being used as a marker bobs in the water after flooding in Fox Lake, Illinois. The Fox River is expected to crest after heavy rains brought flooding to the area last week. (Jim Young/Reuters)

April 23 Photo Brief: China’s quake victims seek normalcy, WWI soldier’s funeral, Britain’s bionic man

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