Vigil for Malaysia Airlines passengers, Oscar Pistorius’ trial, protesting Israeli government | March 10
A vigil for missing Malaysia Airlines passengers is held in Kuala Lumpur, thousands of Orthodox Jews gather in Manhattan to protest against the current effort by the Israeli government to pass a law to draft religious Jews into its army, the trial of Oscar Pistorius and more in today’s daily brief.
- A reveller carries a “Chienbaese”, made of burning bundles of pinewood chips, during the traditional Swiss “Chienbaese” celebration on March 9, 2014 in the streets of Liestal, near Basel. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
- Thousands of Orthodox Jews gather on Water Street in lower Manhattan on March 9, 2014 to pray and protest against the current effort by the Israeli government to pass a law to draft religious Jews into its army. The gathering is intended as a show of solidarity with the Orthodox Jews in the State of Israel, who gathered last Sunday at the entrance of Jerusalem in the what some have called the largest protest of its kind in recent history. Most estimated the crowd there at over 600,000 men, women and children. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
- Robots perform a pole dance at the booth of the Tobit Software company on the eve of the start of the 2014 CeBIT technology trade fair on March 9, 2014 in Hanover, central Germany. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo competes in the Men’s Triple Jump Final event at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in the Ergo Arena in the Polish coastal town of Sopot, on March 9, 2014. (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Malaysian child reacts to the camera as others light candles during a vigil for missing Malaysia Airlines passengers at the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur on March 10, 2014. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
- Pro-Kremlin activists rally in support of ethnic Russians in Ukraine in central Moscow, on March 10, 2014. (DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV/AFP/Getty Images)
- People pray for victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami at the former disaster control center in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 9, 2014, two days before the third anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake in 2011 sent a huge wall of water into the coast of the Tohoku region, splintering whole communities, ruining swathes of prime farmland and killing nearly 19,000 people. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)
- Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius is pictured during a hearing on the sixth day of his trial for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, on March 10, 2014 at the high court in Pretoria. (SIPHIWE SIBEKO/AFP/Getty Images)
- A young painted during the “Los Pintados” (The Painted ones) carnival, in San Mateo Ozolco community, Puebla State, Mexico on March 09, 2014. Los Pintados is a 62-year old tradition during which young people paint their bodies and “threaten” locals and tourists to paint them if they refuse to give them a coin. (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images)
- Forty rockets (type M-302) are put on display by the Israeli military along the docks of the southern Israeli military port of Eilat, on March 10, 2014. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
- Fishing boats sit grounded on land three years after the disaster in Namie, near the striken TEPCO Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture on March 10, 2014, one day before the third anniversary of March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
- A soldier stands guard outside a polling station in Toribio, deparment of Cauca, during parliamentary elections in Colombia, on March 9, 2014. Colombians went to the polls on Sunday to elect new legislators, in a vote seen as a referendum on peace talks with leftist guerrillas and a bellwether for May’s presidential election. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images)
- A flock of birds fly in the morning light over the Chapman Park Studio Building in Los Angeles on March 9, 2014. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
- West Indies cricketer Andre Russell runs out England’s James Tredwell during the first T20 match between England and West Indies at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown on March 9, 2014. West Indies won the match by 27 runs. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
- Nepalese riot police arrest Tibetan protesters in front of the consular section of the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu on March 10, 2014, during a protest marking the 55th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. (PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)
- Russia’s Vladimir Kononov competes during the Men’s Cross Country 20 km Classic Standing at XI Paralympic games in the Rosa Khutor stadium near Sochi on March 10, 2014. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)