April 4 Photo Brief: Catherine takes her best shot, a flying automobile and it heats up in Germany
Catherine, Countess of Strathearn shoots some hoops, a 1989 flying Ford Fiesta returns to the roof of Cologne’s city museum, temperatures in Germany expect to take a turn to the warm side and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Georgia May Jagger poses inside an engine of a British Airways 777 airliner in Sydney, Australia. Celebrating a new chapter in British Airways long history of flying between Australia and the UK, British Airways launched the new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft on the route with a special on board celebration. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
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- A boy walks along a damaged street filled with debris in Deir al-Zor, Syria. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters photo)
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- A woman sleeps next to her newborn baby in a nursery in the Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba. Very few births in South Sudan, which has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world at 2,054 per 100,000 live births, are assisted by trained midwives, according to the UNDP’s website. (Andreea Campeanu/Reuters photo)
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- Calgary Flames’ Tim Jackman (R) and Edmonton Oilers’ Ryan Whitney fight during the third period of their NHL hockey game in Calgary. (Dan Riedlhuber /Reuters photo)
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- Men pass their time sitting along a street in Bhaktapur, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters photo)
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- Flamingos are pictured in the zoo in Berlin. After particular low temperatures at the beginning of spring, meteorologists forecast slightly raising temperatures for the coming week in Germany. (Ole Spata/Getty Images)
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- A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw a stone during clashes with Israeli soldiers following the funeral of Maysara Abu Hamdeya in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Mussa Qawasma/Reuters photo)
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- The ‘Fluegelauto’ (winged car) by German artist HA Schult is lowered by a crane to the top of Cologne’s historic armoury. The Fluegelauto, a 1989 Ford Fiesta, returned to the roof of Cologne’s city museum on Thursday in front of the famous Cologne cathedral after it has been renovated by the trainees of car maker Ford at its Cologne car plant. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters photo)
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- The ‘Fluegelauto’ (winged car) by German artist HA Schult is lowered by a crane to the top of Cologne’s historic armoury. The Fluegelauto, a 1989 Ford Fiesta, returned to the roof of Cologne’s city museum on Thursday in front of the famous Cologne cathedral after it has been renovated by the trainees of car maker Ford at its Cologne car plant. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters photo)
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- An elderly man sits on a wheelchair as he visits a cemetery during Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, at Songhe graveyard, on the outskirts of Shanghai. The festival, which falls on April 4 this year, is a day for the Chinese to remember and honor their ancestors. (Carlos Barria/Reuters photo)
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- A jogger runs past graffiti on a sunny spring day in Vienna April 4, 2013. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters photo)
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- Horse ‘Bold Addition’ ridden by Steven Clements (C) falls at Beechers Brook during the Fox Hunters Steeple Chase on the opening day of the Grand National Meeting horse racing event at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, north-west England. (Andrew Yates/Getty Images)
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- Flamingos are pictured in the zoo in Berlin. After particular low temperatures at the beginning of spring, meteorologists forecast slightly raising temperatures for the coming week in Germany. (Ole Spata/Getty Images)
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- An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers walks on the floor of a room at a court house in Farah province. Taliban gunmen who killed 46 people at an Afghan court complex in a bid to free insurgents standing trial moved ruthlessly from room to room, shooting everyone they found, officials recounted on April 3. Defenceless civilians, judges, lawyers and court staff were left dead after nine militants disguised as Afghan soldiers launched an eight-hour assault which only ended after security forces finally killed the last surviving gunman. (Aref Karimi/Getty Images)
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- This image obtained from NASA on April 4, 2013 shows the tip of the “wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy in this new view from NASA’s Great Observatories. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy.The colors represent wavelengths of light across a broad spectrum. X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in purple; visible-light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is colored red, green and blue; and infrared observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope are also represented in red. The spiral galaxy seen in the lower corner is actually behind this nebula. Other distant galaxies located hundreds of millions of light-years or more away can be seen sprinkled around the edge of the image. (NASA image/via Getty)
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- A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask stands outside the Finance Ministry in Athens, as ‘Independent Greeks’ party members and supporters take part in a protest as they waited for the arrival of the EU-IMF-ECB troika, whose meeting was finally rescheduled. EU and IMF auditors are to meet Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras later today, as they resume an audit suspended days before the eruption of the banking crisis in Cyprus.(Louisa Gouliamaki/Getty Images)
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- A man looks at a burning skyscraper in central Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, late. A fire raged yesterday in Grozny in a 40-storey skyscraper, a building which is a centrepiece of a drive by local authorities to promote the city as a glitzy and modern hub .The building was uninhabited. (Elena Fitkulina/Getty Images)
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- Colombian infantry soldiers to be deployed as the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) peacekeeping force in the Sinai peninsula take part in a military ceremony at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, to mark the 100th reshuffle of the MFO peacekeeping force overseeing the terms of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in the Sinai peninsula. (Eitan Abramovich/Getty Images)
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- Catherine, Countess of Strathearn plays basketball at the Donald Dewer Leisure centre on April 4, 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland. The Emirates Arena will play host to several events at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. (David Cheskin/Getty Images)
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- South Korean soldiers patrol inside the barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea. Still 400 South Korean remain in the joint industrial park fearing they can not get back there once return to South. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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