March 3 Daily Brief: Carnival celebrated, “Blade Runner” trial begins, Niagara falls freezes again
Carnival revelers celebrate with parades, the murder trial begins for double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, a Corvette is rescued from the sinkhole that swallowed the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Revelers of the Mangueira samba school perform during the first night of carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 3, 2014. (Tasso Marcelo Leal/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A performer takes part in an event marking the closing of carnival celebrations in the Malecon of Santo Domingo March 2, 2014. (Ricardo Rojas/Reuters)
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- Carnival revellers wear carved wooden masks during the traditional folklore ìNarrensprungî (ìFoolsí Jumpî) procession on Rose Monday in the Black Forest town of Rottweil in south-western Germany March 3, 2014. Some 3500 participants disguised in their handmade costumes and wooden masks perform their precarious vaults across the cobblestones of the medieval town of Rottweil, the origin of the Rottweiler dog breed. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)
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- June Steenkamp (L), mother of Reeva Steenkamp, reacts during the trial of Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria March 3, 2014. “Blade Runner” Pistorius pleaded not guilty on Monday to murdering his girlfriend Reeva, at the start of a trial with massive media cover that could see one of global sports’ most admired role models go to jail for life. (Themba Hadebe/Pool/Reuters)
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- Oscar Pistorius sits in court ahead of his trial at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria March 3, 2014. “Blade Runner” Pistorius arrived at the Pretoria High Court on Monday for the start of his murder trial, opening a decisive chapter in the story of the rise and fall of one of the world’s best-known athletes. (Themba Hadebe/Pool/Reuters)
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- A partially frozen Niagara Falls is seen on the American side during sub-freezing temperatures in Niagara Falls, Ontario, March 3, 2014. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)
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- Jeannette Ibrahim (L) photographs the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial during blizzard conditions in Arlington, Virginia during a snow storm in the Washington metro area March 3, 2014. A powerful winter storm hit the U.S. East Coast on Monday with freezing rain, snow and arctic cold, forcing cancellation of about 2,250 flights, shutting down Washington and closing schools and local governments. (Gary Cameron/Reuters)
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- Women displaced by recent fighting are seen through a fence as they wait with containers to get water inside a United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) camp in Malakal, Upper Nile State March 3, 2014. (Andreea Campeanu/Reuters)
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- A child suffering from severe malnutrition is assisted by medical staff in a medical camp run by international humanitarian organisation Doctors without Borders (MSF, Medicins Sans Frontieres), where about 50 000 people have been vaccinated against cholera, in Minkamman, South Sudan, on March 3, 2014. On February 27, Human Rights Watch said war crimes have been committed by all sides in conflict-wracked South Sudan, reporting widespread atrocities in weeks of carnage in the world’s youngest nation. (JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Workers use a crane to recover the first Chevrolet Corvette, the 2009 Corvette ZR-1 “Blue Devil,” from the sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky in this March 3, 2014 picture provided by Chevrolet. The 40-foot (12-metre) sinkhole opened up under museum in Kentucky on February 12, 2014 and swallowed eight collector cars, including the historic one millionth Corvette built in 1992. (Adam Boca/Chevrolet/Handout via Reuters)
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- Delegate Yao Ming (C), a former NBA basketball star, attends the opening session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held at the Great Hall of the People on March 3, 2014 in Beijing, China. The 2nd Session of the 12th Chinese People’s Political and Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is opened at the Great Hall of People on March 3rd, 2014 in Beijing, China. It will be closed on March 12th, 2014. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
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- Attendants adjust tea cups before the opening ceremony of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 3, 2014. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
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- Boeing 737 fuselages are delivered by train to a Boeing manufacturing site in Renton, Washington, February 26, 2014. The world’s largest plane makers are soaring, fueled by historic demand for new jets that has cranked up their factories to record speeds. But booming sales of aircraft, far from being a bonanza for suppliers, are spurring brutal competition between Airbus Group NV and Boeing Co, which are demanding better deals from the companies that make billions of parts the factories need. Picture taken February 26, 2014. (Jason Redmond/Reuters)
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- A firefighter takes a drink after extinguishing a fire burning at a plantation on March 3, 2014 in Siak, Riau, Indonesia. The air quality reached dangerous levels while forest fires continue to burn in Indonesia’s Riau province after a long period of dry weather. The smokey haze has reportedly caused more than 25,000 to have respiratory problems. (Oscar Siagian/Getty Images)
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- Children play as soldiers with the U.S. Army’s 4th squadron 2d Cavalry Regiment patrol through their village on March 3, 2014 near Kandahar, Afghanistan. President Obama recently ordered the Pentagon to begin contingency planning for a pullout from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 if Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai or his successor refuses to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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