Feb 25, 2014

Turkish protestors use fireworks against the police in a protest over a new road, across-border Korean family reunions end, tennis players practice on a floating court at the Mexican Open, and more in today’s daily brief.

: Demonstrators take cover from a police water cannon as fireworks, thrown by other protesters, explode around them during a demonstration against the opening of a new road including a part of the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara February 25, 2014. Erdogan opened the road across the Middle East Technical University campus and uprooting a large number of trees in the area in Ankara on Tuesday. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

: Riot police take cover as protesters use fireworks against them during a demonstration against the opening of a new road including a part of the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara February 25, 2014. Erdogan opened the road across the Middle East Technical University campus and uprooting a large number of trees in the area in Ankara on Tuesday. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

: A portrait of Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan burns during a demonstration against the opening of a new road include a part of the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara February 25, 2014. Erdogan opened the road across the Middle East Technical University campus and uprooting a large number of trees in the area in Ankara on Tuesday. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

: A NASA image released on February 24, 2014 shows a photo taken by the Expedition 38 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on January 30, 2014 of the night view of the Korean Peninsula, and North Korea in the middle is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea (bottom right) and China (top left). The photograph was cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed at source. (NASA/Reuters)

: South Koreans hold hands with their North Korean family members (in bus) as they bid farewell after their three-day temporary family reunion at the Mount Kumgang resort in North Korea, February 25, 2014.The six days of family reunions take place under the cloud of a U.N. report on human rights abuses in North Korea, which investigators have said were comparable to Nazi-era atrocities. A group of South Koreans crossed the world’s most heavily fortified border on Sunday, a frontier that separates two countries that remain at war after their conflict ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty. (Lee Ji-eun/Yonhap/Reuters)

: Russian citizens Alexander Eremeev (L) and Dimitry Zaytsev, a gay couple from Sochi, Russia, are showered with rice after their wedding ceremony at a civil registry office in Buenos Aires February 25, 2014. Eremeev, a travel agent, and Zaytsev, who said he was a former member of the KGB, have came to Buenos Aires, where same-sex marriage is legalized, to get married and escape prosecution under Russia’s anti-gay laws. (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)

: Iraqi women wait behind a window to receive their electronic voter ID cards in the capital Baghdad on February 25, 2014, ahead of legislative elections in April. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

: Rescue workers pull out a victim from the rubble of a collapsed building under construction in Samut Prakan province February 25, 2014. A hospital under construction just east of Bangkok’s main airport collapsed on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 16, police said. (Stringer/Reuters)

: Canadian WTA tennis player Eugenie Bouchard (R) and Bulgarian ATP player Grigor Dimitrov play during an exhibition match on a floating court of the Mexican Open, at Santa Lucia Bay in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico on February 24, 2014. (Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images)

: A protester stands with a placard as fellow anti-U.S. demonstrators are sprayed with water from a water canon by Philippines’ Bureau of Fire Protection during a clash with riot policemen near the U.S. embassy in Manila February 25, 2014. About a hundred leftist activists tried to force their way to the U.S. embassy in Manila on Tuesday during a series of demonstrations ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to the Philippines in April, local media reported. (Romeo Ranoco /Reuters)

: A carnival enthusiast works on a papier mache figure for a carnival float depicting Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg, in preparations for the upcoming Rose Monday carnival parade in Mainz February 25, 2014. Tebartz-van Elst reaped stiff criticism from German Catholics and the title “luxury bishop” in the media after it was revealed he spent at least 30 million euros ($40.69 million) on a new residence complex. (Ralph Orlowskk/Reuters)

: Indian Angami Nag tribesmen look on during the Angami Naga Sekrenyi festival at Kisama, some 12 kms from Kohima, in the north eastern state of Nagaland on February 25, 2014. Sekrenyi, a purification festival, is celebrated by Angami Nagas with a series of rituals and ceremonies, and takes place after the harvest, falling on the twenty-fifth day of the Angami month of Kezei. (STRSTRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)

: People use their phones in the relaxation area of the 2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 25, 2014 The Mobile World Congress runs from the 24 to 27 February where participants and visitors alike can attend conferences, network, discover cutting-edge products and technologies at among the 1,700 exhibitors as well as seek industry opportunities and make deals. (Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images)

Feb. 25 Daily Brief: Weaponized fireworks, goodbyes in Korea, a floating tennis court

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