Jan. 29 Daily Brief: Super Pope, flamingos in the snow, icy Atlanta, Chinese new year, bombing in Aleppo

A woman jumps as a friend (not seen) takes a photo in front of a large drawing of Pope Francis depicting him as a superhero near the Vatican. The Argentinian Pope is shown taking off into air with his right fist clenched in a classic Superman style. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)

Madonna and Miley Cyrus perform onstage during Miley Cyrus: MTV Unplugged at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

Flamingos stand in a pond of their snow-covered enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, central Germany. (Christoph Schmidt/Getty Images)

Anti-government protesters rest at a barricade at the site of clashes with riot police in Kiev. Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed his government on Wednesday to honour its agreements to lend Ukraine $15 billion to Ukraine and cut the price of gas it sells to its crisis-hit neighbour. (Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)

As dawn breaks early Wednesday south of Downtown Atlanta, the Connector Southbound is clogged with traffic, as the Connector Northbound is an empty sheet of ice. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/MCT)

A teacher at E. Rivers Elementary School in Atlanta covers sleeping children in the gym Wednesday morning as school children were stranded overnight. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/MCT)

A visitor tries out a remote-controlled mini multicopter flying toy at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair (Nuernberger Spielwarenmesse) in Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg toy fair, which is the worldÕs biggest trade fair for toys, is open to the public from January 29 until February 3. (Timm Schamberger/Getty Images)

People walk on rubble of collapsed buildings at a site hit by what activists said was barrel bombs dropped by government forces in Aleppo’s Dahret Awwad neighborhood. (Saad AboBrahim/Reuters)

A girl cries near a damaged car at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by government forces in Aleppo’s Dahret Awwad neighbourhood. (Saad AboBrahim/Reuters)

A Syrian man carries the body of a victim out of the rubble of a destroyed building following alleged air raids by government forces on the rebel-controlled part of Aleppo’s Maadi residential district on January 29, 2014. The Syrian army is edging its way towards southeastern Aleppo as it battles rebel fighters for control of the northern city, a monitor and a pro-government daily said. (Zein Al-Rifai/Getty Images)

Barbed wire is seen as security stands guard outside the Pheu Thai party, Yingluck Shinawatra’s political party headquarters on January 29, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand.The general elections on February 2nd will take place as the anti-government protesters vow to cause chaos by blocking polling stations. Bangkok Shutdown has been in effect for over two weeks as the anti-government protesters continue to block major intersections. The Thai government imposed a 60-day state of emergency in Bangkok and the surrounding provinces in an attempt to cope with the on-going political turmoil but so far this decree has had no effect on the mass protests. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Anti-government protesters leave the Thai Royal Police Club in a bus during a rally in Bangkok. Thailand’s government will deploy 10,000 police in the capital for Sunday’s election, which protesters have promised to disrupt as part of their drawn-out attempt to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

Revelers take photos of themselves during Chinese New Year celebrations ahead of the new year at Marina Bay in Singapore. The Lunar New Year which falls on January 31 marks the year of the horse. (Edgar Su/Reuters)

A person drags a suitcase as a boy clings to it on a square in front of a railway station ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Qingdao, Shandong province. About 3.62 billion trips will be made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which started from January 16, reported Xinhua News Agency citing a government official. (China Daily/Reuters)

College students shout as they raise their arms at the start of a ceremony to mark the annual job hunt in Tokyo. Some 1,500 students, who will graduate from schools in March 2015, attended the annual ceremony which aims to encourage future graduates to look for employment. (Toru Yamanaka/Getty Images)

Palestinian relatives mourn during the funeral of Muhammad Mubarak, 21, in Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli soldiers killed Mubarak on Wednesday who the military said had opened fire on their position near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)

Cemetery worker Mohammad Udin has his hair cut by a mobile barber as the flooded cemetery complex is pictured in the background in Jakarta. Torrential rains that have continued in Jakarta in recent days widened the number of flooded areas to more than 10,000 affected houses, displacing close to 64,000 people. The death toll in Jakarta’s rainy season has risen to 23, according to local media citing the Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) on Sunday. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

An Amazon Indian sits on the street in front of the headquarters of Brazil’s Indian affairs bureau FUNAI after police expelled by court order a group of Indians who were occupying the building, in Manaus. Some 50 Indians have been occupying FUNAI’s building since last November as they pressure the institution to change its current director, Eduardo Desiderio Chaves, who they complained for being a non-Indian and is accused of ignoring their needs, according to the group. (Bruno Kelly/Reuters)

An Indian band member waits at the roadside ahead of the bridal procession in New Delhi on January 28, 2014. South Asian weddings are often lavish affairs, filled with ritual and celebration that continues for several days. (Sajjad Hussain/Getty Images)

The Central Secretariat and Parliament buildings are illuminated during the Beating Retreat Ceremony at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on January 29, 2014. The ceremony is a culmination of Republic Day celebrations and dates back to the days when troops disengaged themselves from battle at sunset. (Raveendran/Getty Images)

Trees are reflected in flood waters on the Somerset Levels near Langport in Somerset, England. As weather forecasters predict more stormy weather, many villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with the village Muchelney cut off because of flooded roads for almost a month. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Afghans walk past Shuhada lake in Kabul. Economic development is considered a vital weapon to stop the country from sinking back into civil war and to stem Islamist extremism after 100,000 international combat troops pull out. (Shah Marai/Getty Images)

Jan. 29 Daily Brief: Super Pope, flamingos in the snow, icy Atlanta, Chinese new year, bombing in Aleppo

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