July 23 Photo Brief: England celebrated the royal birth, beating the heat in Berlin and a polar bear with a strawberry ice cube
Britain celebrates the birth of the royal baby, people try to beat the heat in Berlin, a polar bear enjoys a giant strawberry ice cube and more in today’s daily brief.
- A student of a madrasa, or religious school, performs a prayer inside a mosque as he waits for iftar during the holy month of Ramadan in Old Dhaka. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters photo)
- A vendor rests as he waits for customers at a wholesale vegetables market during the Muslim fasting of Ramadan in Sanaa, Yemen. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters photo
- A Southwest Airlines plane sits on the tarmac as passengers disembark at LaGuardia airport in New York in this photo courtesy of @mattjfriedman and Frank Ferramosca. The Southwest Airlines plane flying from Nashville to New York City landed without its nose gear at LaGuardia airport on Monday but no one was hurt, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. (@mattjfriedman and Frank Ferramosca/via Reuters)
- A member of the Free Syrian Army aims his weapon as fellow fighters stand behind him in Deir al-Zor, Syria. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters photo)
- A boat sails out of Cully harbour on Lake Leman in front of the UNSECO listed Lavaux vineyards on a summer morning. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters photo)
- Russia’s Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina perform in the synchronised swimming duet free preliminaries during the World Swimming Championships at the Sant Jordi arena in Barcelona. (Michael Dalder/Reuters photo)
- Venezuela’s Albany Avila and Karla Loaiza perform in the synchronised swimming duet free preliminaries during the World Swimming Championships at the Sant Jordi arena in Barcelona. (Michael Dalder/Reuters photo)
- A man holds an umbrella as he rides along a street during a heavy rain in Jinan, Shandong province, China. (Stringer/Reuters photo)
- Chelsea pensioners toast the birth of a baby boy born to Britain’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at the Royal Chelsea Hospital in London. Prince William’s wife Kate gave birth to a boy on Monday, the couple’s first child and the third in line to the British throne, heralding celebrations in London and messages of goodwill from across the world. (Neil Hall/Reuters photo)
- Two of the three recently arrived baby meercats, play together in their enclosure at Bristol Zoo Gardens in Bristol, England. The triplets, who were born on June 21 to mum Babushka, are currently too young to be sexed so are yet to be named and bring the number of meerkats homed at the Zoo up to eighteen. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
- A man passes a graffiti along the Danube canal on a hot summer day in Vienna July 23, 2013. Austria has been hit by a heat wave with temperatures in Vienna rising up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 Fahrenheit) in the next days. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters photo)
- Faithful light candles at the Basilica and National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida -which will be visited by Pope Francis Wednesday- in Aparecida, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. Pope Francis’s popularity on his Latin American home turf posed a challenge to Brazilian authorities after adoring crowds mobbed his car on his landmark visit during the World Youth day (WYD) to Rio de Janeiro. (Nelson Almeida/Getty images)
- People walk on the footbridge to the Basilica and National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida -which will be visited by Pope Francis Wednesday- in Aparecida, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. Pope Francis’s popularity on his Latin American home turf posed a challenge to Brazilian authorities Tuesday after adoring crowds mobbed his car on his landmark visit during the World Youth day (WYD) to Rio de Janeiro. (Nelson Almeida/Getty images)
- A boy jumps into the water of a public swimming pool in Berlin’s Neukoelln district as temperatures in the capital reached 30 degrees Celsius. (Johannes Eisele/Getty images)
- Korean athlete Min Jae Jeon celebrates as she wins the women’s 200m T36 final of the IPC Athletics World Championships of Lyon on July 23, 2013 at the Rhone Stadium in Venissieux, near Lyon. (Jeff Pachoud/Getty images)
- A polar bear refreshes with a giant strawberry syrup ice cube at the La Fleche zoo, western France. Keepers at the zoo prepare cold treats for animals to give them respite from the hot weather. (Jean-Francois Monier/Getty images)
- Members of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), the City of Londons Army Reserve Regiment, fire a 62 gun salute to mark the birth of a new royal baby at the Tower of London in central London. International messages of congratulations poured in for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge following the birth of the third in line to the throne, celebrated by gunfire salutes across London. (Justin Tallis/Getty images)
- Royal Supporter Terry Hutt reads a newspaper announcing the birth of the newest member of Britain’s royal family outside St Mary’s Hospital in London. Britain’s new baby prince follows his father and late grandmother by being born under the zodiac sign of Cancer, suggesting he will be a strong leader, according to astrologists. (Justin Tallis/Getty images)