White House Easter Egg Roll, Philippine Fire, Boston Marathon | April 21
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, a fire rages through Philippine slums, runners return to the Boston Marathon, and more in today’s daily brief.
- US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama react to a child rolling an Easter egg during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 21, 2014. The 126th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, the largest annual public event at the White House with more than 30,000 attendees expected, features live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling and Easter egg rolling, with the theme, “Hop into Healthy, Swing into Shape.” (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
- U.S. President Barack Obama acts out the line “gnashed their terrible teeth” from the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” during the 136th annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington April 21, 2014. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
- U.S. President Barack Obama kisses first lady Michelle Obama next to the Easter Bunny during the 136th annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington April 21, 2014. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
- A boy climbs out of a charred shanty as he collects reusable materials after a fire razed through a slum area in Caloocan City, Metro Manila April 21, 2014. The fire left one dead and displaced an estimated 1,000 families and at least 400 houses were destroyed during the fire, a local media reported. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
- A woman guards her belongings placed on top of “apartment-styled” tombs after a fire razed through a slum area in Caloocan City, Metro Manila April 21, 2014. The fire left one dead and displaced an estimated 1,000 families and at least 400 houses were destroyed during the fire, a local media reported. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
- Meb Keflezighi of the U.S. (bottom) is congratulated by 2013 Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman (top C) after winning the 118th running of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2014. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
- Marc Fucarile, injured in last years Boston Marathon bombings, prepares to throw out the first pitch prior to the Boston Red Sox/ Baltimore Orioles game at Fenway Park April 21, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
- A pro-Russian armed man escorts Ukrainian journalist Irma Krat after news conference in Slaviansk, April 21, 2014. Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have detained a Ukrainian journalist, accusing her of “war crimes” during the “Euromaidan” protests that toppled the Moscow-backed president, her lawyer said on Monday. Krat, 29, was held late on Sunday by militants in the city of Slaviansk, said Oleg Veremienko, a lawyer for the online television news site Krat runs. Russian Internet channel Life News posted video of her being escorted by masked men in combat gear and of an activist saying she was under arrest. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
- Spanish matador Manuel Escribano is tackled by a bull during a bullfight at The Maestranza bullring in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain April 20, 2014. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)
- Rescue workers carry the bodies of passengers who were on the capsized Sewol passenger ship, which sank in the sea off Jindo, at a port where family members of missing passengers have gathered, in Jindo April 20, 2014. South Korean prosecutors investigating the ferry disaster said on Sunday they would seek to extend the detention of the ship’s captain and two other crew by 10 days as they tried to determine the cause of the accident that may claim more than 300 lives. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)
- Kim Ha-na, the sister of Kim Dong-hyup, one of missing passengers onboard the South Korean ferry Sewol which capsized on Wednesday, takes a rest while she waits for a news about rescue and search operation in makeshift accommodation at a gymnasium in the port city of Jindo, April 20, 2014. Kim Ha-na no longer sleeps or eats and is haunted by the voice of her 17-year-old brother, calling frantically to tell her the ferry he was aboard with more than 300 classmates and staff from his high school on the outskirts of Seoul was sinking. Since then, Kim and hundreds of other relatives have spent 24 hours a day waiting helplessly for news in makeshift accommodation at a gymnasium in the port city of Jindo, the centre of the rescue operation. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
- Anti-government protesters jump and step on a banner of Banco de Venezuela after bringing down the banner during riots in Caracas April 20, 2014. Masked youths battled police, protesters burned and hung from lamp-posts effigies of President Nicolas Maduro and marchers demanded the “resurrection” of democracy on a volatile Easter Sunday in Venezuela. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)
- Drug addicts sit after registering their names during a campaign by the Nejat rehabilitation centre for drug addicts in Kabul April 20, 2014. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
- A brass instrument lies in the grass as pilgrims dressed in traditional Bavarian clothes attend the traditional Georgi horse riding procession on Easter Monday in the southern Bavarian town of Traunstein April 21, 2014. Since the early 16th century, farmers have taken part in the pilgrimage to bless their horses. This tradition, the “Georgiritt”, goes back to the legend of Saint George, the horsemen’s patron saint. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)
- People gather near cherry trees in full blossom in Central Park in New York April 20, 2014. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)