August 20 Photo Brief: Sunny at the White House, a shark-within-a-shark, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
A new puppy at the White House named Sunny, a shark-within-a-shark caught, tourists visit Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial ahead of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom anniversary and more in today’s daily brief.
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- This handout picture taken by Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory on August 18 and released by Japan Meteorological Agency on August 19, 2013 shows smoke rising from the 1,117-meter Mount Sakurajima at Kagoshima city in Japan’s southern island of Kyushu. The volcano erupted an ash plume up to 5,000 meters into the air. It was the 500th eruption this year of Sakurajima, which is about 950 kilometers southwest of Tokyo. (AFP/Getty Images)
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- Geese fly over the the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington August 20, 2013. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “I have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This coming week, Washington will play host to an array of events marking the historic anniversary. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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- Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces helicopters fly over armored vehicles during an annual live fire exercise at the Higashi-Fuji firing range in Gotemba, at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka prefecture on August 20, 2013. The annual drill involves some 2,400 personnel, 80 tanks and armored vehicles and 30 aircraft and helicopters. (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Mayflies are pictured above a river at dusk in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, August 19, 2013. The nuptial flight of mayflies takes place in evening time during spring and summer every year, as the insect mates and reproduces. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- Bo (L) and Sunny, the Obama family’s new puppy, are pictured on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in this photo released on August 19, 2013 by the White House. (Pete Souza/White House HO Photo)
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- Afghan footballers celebrate their 3-0 win against Pakistan at the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) stadium in Kabul on August 20, 2013. Afghanistan’s football team sparked rowdy celebrations across the war-battered nation on August 20 after securing an convincing 3-0 win over arch-rivals Pakistan in the first international match in Kabul for ten years. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian policemen detain an activist of the Forum for Justice to Enforced Disappeared Persons (FJEDP) during a protest in Srinagar August 20, 2013. Dozens of activists on Tuesday appealed to the international community to press the Indian government to disclose whereabouts of their family members who disappeared in the custody of Indian security forces and other agencies, according to a media release from the FJEDP. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)
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- A man walks inside the damaged historical old souk of Homs August 19, 2013. Picture taken August 19, 2013. (Yazan Homsy/Reuters)
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- Residents ride in a rescue boat after being evacuated due to heavy flooding in Marikina, Metro Manila August 20, 2013. Monsoon rains reinforced by a tropical storm flooded half the Philippine capital in just 24 hours, triggering landslides and killing at least seven people, officials said on Tuesday. (John Javellana /Reuters)
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- This long-exposure photograph taken on August 18, 2013 from the Mirador del Higueron in La Linea de la Concepcion shows the Rock of Gibraltar. Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity in 1713 but has long argued that it should be returned to Spanish sovereignty. London says it will not do so against the wishes of Gibraltarians, who are staunchly pro-British. (Marcos Moreno/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A Bedouin man jumps over camels during the Sanaa Summer Festival in Sanaa August 20, 2013. The two-week festival aims to stimulate domestic tourism and reassure local and international tourists about Yemen’s stability. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
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- A one-month-old zebra jumps next to its mother in their enclosure at Planckendael’s zoo near Mechelen August 20, 2013. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
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- Men exercise on a sea wall along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai August 20, 2013. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
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- Professor Karl Oldhafer, chief physician of general and visceral surgery at the Asklepios Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek, adjusts a tablet computer to access and visualize planning data during liver surgery, one of the first liver surgeries of its kind in Germany August 15, 2013. The tablet computer uses augmented reality, which allows the liver to be filmed with an iPad and overlaid during an operation with virtual 3D models reconstructed from the real organ. Developed by Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen, this procedure helps locate critical structures such as tumors and vessels and is expected to improve the quality of transferring pre-operational resection plans into actual surgery. (Fabian Bimmer/Reuters)
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- A smooth dogfish is pictured after having being swallowed by a sand tiger shark, which in turn was caught by researchers at the University of Delaware’s Ocean Exploration, Remote Sensing, Biogeography (ORB) Lab in this July 19, 2013 handout photo. The shark-within-a-shark situation occurred when researchers in Delaware Bay baited a hook with a menhaden, a common marine fish, in order to capture sand tiger sharks that had previously been tagged. The bait was taken by the dogfish, which in turn was swallowed by the tiger shark. (University of Delaware ORB Lab/Handout via Reuters)
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- The logo of the GSW property firm is seen at its headquarters in Berlin, August 20, 2013. Deutsche Wohnen offered to buy rival property group GSW Immobilien for 1.75 billion euros ($2.3 billion) to expand in Berlin’s booming real-estate market, as a tentative pick-up in Europe’s economy attracts international investors. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)
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- A combination picture (top-bottom) shows a fire-fighter rescuing a woman who tried to commit suicide from a window of a hotel in Tongren, Guizhou province August 19, 2013. According to local media, the woman made the suicide attempt due to relationship problems, and was sent to hospital for treatment after being rescued from the seventh floor of the hotel. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- A dog stands between Panda figures on a market place in Bremen, northern Germany, on August 20, 2013. The environmental organization WWF Germany (World Wildlife Fund) wants to draw attention to the shrinking number of just 1600 animals left of this endangered specie. (Ingo Wagner/AFP/Getty Images)
Obamas welcomes new puppy named Sunny to White House
Reuters, 9:02 p.m. EDT, August 19, 2013
The White House announced a new resident on Monday.
Sunny, a 1-year-old Portuguese Water Dog, moved into the Washington residence of President Barack Obama and his family, joining Bo, a male dog of the same breed, the White House announced on its website. That breed works well with the allergies in the Obama family.
“Sunny is the perfect little sister for Bo – full of energy and very affectionate – and the first family picked her name because it fit her cheerful personality,” it said.
The announcement featured pictures of the two dogs relaxing in the residence’s South Lawn and a video that appeared to show that they have clicked.
“We suspect Sunny will follow in Bo’s footsteps and keep the president company in the Oval Office, go for walks with the first family after their 6:30 family dinner and even jump up on the first lady’s lap from time to time!” the White House said in its announcement.
Bo was given to the first family in 2009 as a gift from Senator Edward Kennedy.
(Reporting by Edith Honan in New York; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Lisa Shumaker)
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