Feb. 11 Daily Brief: Shirley Temple Black dies, Obama meets with French president, a devastating fire
Shirley Temple Black dies at 85, President Barack Obama meets with French President Francois Hollande at the White House, a fire in Dhaka consumed more than 200 shanties, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- U.S. President Barack Obama (L) greets French President Francois Hollande following a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, February 11, 2014. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
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- Shirley Temple Black accepts the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award at the 12th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California in this January 29, 2006 file photo. Temple Black, who lifted America’s spirits as a bright-eyed, dimpled child movie star during the Great Depression and later became a U.S. diplomat, died late on February 10, 2014 evening at the age of 85, a family spokeswoman said in a statement. Temple Black, who lured millions to the movies in the 1930s, “peacefully passed away” at her California home from natural causes at 10:57 p.m. local time (0657 GMT), surrounded by her family and caregivers, the statement said on Tuesday. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
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- People cry after losing all of their belongings in a fire at a slum at Mirpur in Dhaka February 11, 2014. According to local media, at least 200 shanties and 20 shops were destroyed in the fire on Tuesday, which was caused by an electric short circuit at a slum in the Mirpur area of Dhaka. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
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- A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, the deepest ever made image of any cluster of galaxies, is seen in an undated NASA handout. It shows some of the faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in space. Abell 2744, located in the constellation Sculptor, appears in the foreground of this image. It contains several hundred galaxies as they looked 3.5 billion years ago. (NASA/ESA/Handout via Reuters)
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- A Kashmiri Muslim woman looks through the window of a car at a police checkpoint during restrictions as it rains in Srinagar February 11, 2014. Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar city on Tuesday during the third day of a strike called by separatists to demand for the remains of Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Guru. Bhat, founder and leader of JKLF, was hanged and buried in an Indian jail on February 11, 1984 on charges of killing an Indian intelligence officer. Guru, a Kashmiri man, was executed on February 9, 2013, for an attack on India’s parliament in 2001. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)
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- South Sudanese internally displaced people (IDP) fight for food supplies, distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on February 9, 2014 at the Mingkaman temporary camp. South Sudan rebels on Monday threatened to stall peace talks aimed at ending nearly two months of fighting, demanding the release of detainees and the withdrawal of foreign troops as officials said a new round had been postponed. The conflict, which started in the capital Juba and spread rapidly to different parts of South Sudan, has left thousands dead since mid-December and has caused nearly 900,000 to flee their homes. (Fabio Bucciarelli/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A woman takes a self portrait with U.S. President Barack Obama (L) as Obama and French President Francois Hollande greet students at a State Arrival ceremony in Hollande’s honor on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, February 11, 2014. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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- Riot police stand behind crosses installed by anti-government protesters in memory of the people who have died and went missing during clashes in Ukraine, near the barricades in Kiev February 11, 2014. Ukrainian protesters, now in their third month of action, kept up pressure on President Viktor Yanukovich on Sunday with a mass rally where opposition leaders called for an end to his “dictatorial” powers. (Konstantin Grishin/Reuters)
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- A man pulls a boat through floodwaters as he sets off to collect food in Thames Meadow, near Shepperton, south of London on February 11, 2014. Flooding in Britain spread along the River Thames and began to threaten London on Monday, as a political row over the handling of devastating winter storms erupted into the open. (Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A protester reacts inside the Appeal Court during a demonstration in central Phnom Penh February 11, 2014. Cambodia’s Appeal Court on Tuesday denied bail to 21 rights defenders and garment workers jailed in January after a deadly crackdown on striking workers over higher wage that killed 5 people and wounded many others, local rights groups said. Around 200 supporters gathering at the court faced off briefly with riot police after the bail was denied. (Samrang Pring/Reuters)
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- A picture taken on February 11, 2014 shows people walking at sunrise on the Trocadero Esplanade, also known as the Parvis des droits de l’homme (Parvis of Human Rights), in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Menstruating devotees, considered by believers to be impure due to their monthly cycle, sit apart from other devotees while performing rituals and prayers, during the Swasthani Bratakatha festival at the woods of Changu Narayan in Bhaktapur February 11, 2014. The month-long festival, dedicated to God Madhavnarayan and Goddess Swasthani, involves the recitation of folk tales about miraculous feats performed by them in many Hindu households. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- Members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) detain a farmer activist during a protest near the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila February 11, 2014. The farmers are calling for President Benigno Aquino to fully implement the land acquisition and distribution component of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), according to local media. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
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- A tiger clutches a stack of bamboo in the snow at a zoo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, February 9, 2014. Picture taken February 9, 2014. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- A pro-democracy demonstrator shouts slogans during a celebration to mark the anniversary of an uprising against the regime of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa February 11, 2014. The characters on his chest read “February 11.” (Mohamed al-Sayagh/Reuters)
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