Bubba Watson wins Masters, Valparaiso fire, Paris-Roubaix, Grumpy Cat on the red carpet, Color Run Paris | April 13
Bubba Watson wins Masters, Valparaiso fire, Paris-Roubaix, Grumpy Cat on the red carpet, Color Run Paris and more in today’s daily brief.
- Competitors perform at the World Irish Dance Championship in London, England. The 44th World Irish Dance Championship is currently running at London’s Hilton London Metropole hotel, and will host approximately 5,000 dancers competing in solo, Ceili, modern figure choreography and dance drama categories during the week long event. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
- Grumpy cat arrives at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, California. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters)
- A participant smiles after finishing The Color Run in Paris. The Color Run is a five-kilometer, untimed race, held in cities worldwide, with the aim of promoting healthy living, and to benefit a charity that organizers choose in each of the cities the run visits. Participants are doused from head to toe in different colors at each kilometer. (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)
- A runner is sprayed with purple powder during the Color Run race in Paris. The Color Run is a five kilometres paint race without winners nor prizes, while runners are showered with colored powder at stations along the run. (Fred Dufour/Getty Images)
- Edmond Aviv, 62, sits with a sign he made at a street corner in the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid, Ohio. Aviv, who called his neighbor “Monkey Mama” as she held her adopted, disabled African-American children, and has smeared dog feces on their wheelchair ramp, was ordered by a judge to carry an “I AM A BULLY!” sign on the busy street on Sunday. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters)
- Masters champion Bubba Watson of the U.S. is presented with the traditional green jacket by last year’s champion Adam Scott of Australia (rear) after the final round of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
- U.S. golfer Bubba Watson (rear) hugs caddie Ted Scott after winning the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. (Jim Young/Reuters)
- View of part of a neighborhood destroyed by a blaze overnight, in Valparaiso, Chile. At least eleven people have died in a huge fire in Chile’s port city of Valparaiso famous for its UNESCO-listed historic center, officials said Sunday. The blaze, which started in woodland near the city on Saturday and whose cause is under investigation, destroyed 500 homes and forced the evacuation of more than 5,000. (Felipe Gamboa/Getty Images)
- View of houses in flames during a fire in Valparaiso, 110 km west of Santiago, Chile. Authorities decreed a red alert for the area after the fire consumed more than 100 houses. (Alberto Miranda/Getty Images)
- Spectators watch the pack of riders pedaling through a cobblestoned section during the 112th edition of the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic cycling race between Compiegne and Roubaix, northern France. (Eric Feferberg/Getty Images)
- Belgium’s Kenny Dehaes (Lotto-Belisol) leads an 8-men breakaway during the 112th edition of the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic cycling race between Compiegne and Roubaix, northern France. A(Eric Feferberg/Getty Images)
- Netherland’s Niki Terpstra (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) rides in the last velodrome lap on his way to win the 112th edition of the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic cycling race between Compiegne and Roubaix, northern France. (Eric Feferberg/Getty Images)
- An armed man stands next to a barricade in front of the police headquarters in Slaviansk. Ukraine’s Interior Minister on Sunday told residents in the eastern city of Slaviansk to stay indoors, in anticipation of clashes between pro-Russian militants who have seized official buildings and Ukrainian security forces. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
- Armed pro-Russia protesters prepare for the battle with Ukrainian police special team on the outskirts the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. Ukraine on Sunday launched an “anti-terrorist operation” in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. (Anatoliy Stepanov/Getty Images)
- Enthusiasts dressed up as French soldiers swear loyalty to Napoleon Bonaparte after a re-enactment of a battle in Valtice, south Moravia, 50 km south from Brno, Czech Republic. The year 2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the Napoleon’s French campaign of 1814, battles at Montereau, Reims or Montmirail, and a number of other (205th anniversary of the Battle of Sacile, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of the Mincio), and the 209 anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz. (Radek Mica/Getty Images)
- Palestinian Orthodox Christians attend Palm Sunday mass at the Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
- Girls, dressed in the uniform of Soviet pioneers, wait before the start of a costumed reconstruction performance dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Simferopol from fascist troops during the World War Two outside of the village of Kurtsy near Simferopol in Crimea. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
- Prefectural government employees and other workers put on protective suits to cull chickens in Taragi town, Kumamoto prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Two chickens have tested positive for avian influenza at a farm in Japan where more than 1,000 chickens have died, marking the country’s first case of bird flu in three years, the Agricultural Ministry said on Sunday. The highly pathogenic H5 virus was detected through genetic testing of chickens at a farm in Kumamoto prefecture in the south, the ministry said on its website. Mandatory credit (Kyodo/Reuters)
- A reveller looks on as he takes part in a water fight during Songkran Festival celebrations at Khaosan road in Bangkok. The Songkran festival, also known as the water festival, marks the start of Thailand’s traditional New Year and is believed to wash away bad luck. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
- A competitor dressed as Freddie Mercury and carrying a vacuum cleaner runs for charity during the London Marathon. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
- A rhinoceros plays with a football in his enclosure at the Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen, central Germany. (Peter Steffen/Getty Images)