Feb. 21 Daily Brief: Milan Fashion Week, Iguazu Falls, steel production in China
Models present creations from the Versace Autumn/Winter 2014 collection during Milan Fashion Week, a tourist takes a photo of the Iguazu Falls from an observation platform at the Iguazu National Park near the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Iguacu, fog envelops the United Nations building in the Manhattan borough of New York and more. [WARNING: Graphic Images]
- The Olympic flame is reflected in a puddle at the Olympic Park during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Eric Gaillard)
- A customer jumps on piles of steel coils at a steel market in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province February 21, 2014. Global steel production fell slightly in January as the Chinese New Year holiday slowed industrial activity in the top steel producing country and as steelmakers in China and elsewhere responded to depressed demand and softer prices. (REUTERS/William Hong)
- People attend the funeral of an anti-government protester who was killed during Thursday’s clashes with riot police, in Kiev February 21, 2014. Ukraine’s opposition leaders signed an EU-mediated peace deal with President Viktor Yanukovich on Friday, aiming to resolve a political crisis in which dozens have been killed and opening the way for an early presidential election this year. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner)
- A man holds a sign which reads, “Not extendable” amid smoke and fire after angry protesters set tyres on fire in a street during a demonstration against the General National Congress (GNC) in Benghazi February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)
- Fog envelops the United Nations building in the Manhattan borough of New York February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri )
- A view of a sinkhole opened up at the intersection of Laurier Avenue E and Waller Street, near the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa February 21, 2014. The sinkhole is about eight meters (26 feet) wide and 12 meters (39 feet) deep. (REUTERS/Blair Gable)
- Models present creations from the Versace Autumn/Winter 2014 collection during Milan Fashion Week February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo)
- Eva Borja Jimenez, 35, (2nd L), her mother Pilar Jimenez Pozuelo (L) and her daughter Samara Suarez Borja (C) wait for the judicial commission to carry out their eviction in Madrid, February 21, 2014. Borja Jimenez, 35, and her husband Arturo Suarez Cadiz, 35, have been occupying a flat of Madrid’s Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS) for the past sixteen years. The flat was owned by a relative of theirs who moved away in 1998 leaving a housing debt behind. The couple moved into his vacant apartment, fixed it and raised their three children there. Everyone in the family is currently unemployed and struggle to find odd jobs. Since their unemployment benefits have ran out, the family, who’s expecting their fourth child, gets by peddling clothes in street markets. The EMVS has not been willing to negotiate with them to pay social rent for the flat on the grounds that they are squatting. Their eviction was postponed until April 11 thanks to the help of the Mortgage Victims Platform (PAH). The banner reads: “No homes without people, no people without homes.” (REUTERS/Susana Vera/Face masked due to Spanish Law dealing with minors in photographs)
- A tourist takes a photo of the Iguazu Falls from an observation platform at the Iguazu National Park near the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Iguacu February 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Jorge Adorno)
- An anti-government demonstrator holds a burning tire as he build a barricade on February 21, 2014 at the Independent square in Kiev. Armed protesters stormed police barricades in Kiev on Thursday in renewed violence that killed at least 26 people and shattered an hours-old truce as EU envoys held crisis talks with Ukraine’s embattled president. Bodies of anti-government demonstrators lay amid smouldering debris after masked protesters hurling Molotov cocktails and stones forced police from Kiev’s iconic Independence Square — the epicentre of the ex-Soviet country’s three-month-old crisis. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
- A boy stands on an airplane in the Christian Mpoko refugee camp on February 20, 2014 during sunset, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Interim President Samba Panza has vowed to “go to war” on the anti-balaka, who claim to seek vengeance for atrocities committed by a mainly Muslim rebel alliance, the Seleka, which temporarily seized power in March last year. The Seleka coup plunged the country into chaos, unleashing a wave of Muslim-Christian violence that has left thousands dead. Hundreds of thousands of people have also been displaced by the brutal surge of killings, mutilations, rapes and looting. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)
- Bhutanese children look on as unseen students take part in celebrations marking the Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck’s 34th birthday at the National stadium in Thimphu on February 21, 2014. The remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan celebrated the 34th birthday of its king with fanfare at the country’s national stadium. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
- A People’s Liberation Army guard stands in front of doors during US Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno meeting with Fan Changlong, Deputy Chaiman of the Central Military Commission at Bayi Building in Beijing on February 21, 2014. (Lintao Zhang/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cyclists ride their bikes during the 173-kilometre fourth stage of the Oman cycling tour on February 21, 2014 between Wadi Al Abiyad and Muscat. Slovakia’s Peter Sagan, who inherits the leader’s red jersey from Andre Greipel, prevailed in a sprint from Rigoberto Uran of Colombia and Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali. (Mohammed Mahjoub/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Chadian child looks on during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Zakouma National Park, Chad’s oldest natural park, led by the Chadian President during which a thousand kilogrammes of elephant tusks will be incinerated. (Margo Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
- Palestinian civilians carry an injured boy during clashes with Israeli security forces near the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, east of the northern town of Jabalia, on February 21, 2014 following a demonstration demanding for the lifting of the Israeli blockade on the Palestinian enclave. The territory has been languishing under an Israeli blockade since 2006 after Gaza militants snatched an Israeli soldier who was released in a prisoner swap deal in 2011. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)