May 28, 2014

Blackpool Dance Festival, West Point graduation, National Spelling Bee, a baby giraffe, a motorized suitcase and more in today’s Daily Brief.

: He Liang rides his home-made suitcase vehicle along a street in Changsha, Hunan province. He spent 10 years modifying the suitcase into a motor-driven vehicle. The suitcase has a top speed of up to 20km/h and the power capacity to travel up to 50-60km after one charge, according to local media. (China Daily)

: Jennifer Tenant of Hollywood, Maryland reacts as she misspells her word during round two of the preliminaries at the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee at National Harbor, Maryland (Gary Cameron/Reuters)

: A visitor takes photos from an elevated walkway connecting giant concrete tree-like structures called Supertrees at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. (Edgar Su/Reuters)

: Giraffe “Maud” looks on in the zoo in Kronsberg am Taunus, central Germany. (Boris Roessler/Getty Images)

: Giraffe “Maud” stands next to its offspring “Martin” in the zoo in Kronsberg am Taunus, central Germany. The giraffe that was born on May 25, 2014 was shown for the first time to spectators. (Boris Roessler/Getty Images)

: Underclassmen listen from the back of the stadium as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a commencement ceremony at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Obama’s commencement address here is the first in a series of speeches that he and top advisers will use to explain U.S. foreign policy in the aftermath of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and lay out a broad vision for the rest of his presidency. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

: Rick Nash #61 of the New York Rangers crashes into Dustin Tokarski #35 of the Montreal Canadiens during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Final in the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. (Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)

: Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives for his general audience at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Andreas Solaro/Getty Images)

: Mariah Carey performs during the ceremony of World Music Awards at Sporting Monte-Carlo in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

: US singer Miley Cyrus performs during the World Music Awards at Monte Carlo Sporting Club in Monaco. (Valery Hache/Getty Images)

: Actress Pamela Anderson arrives at the World Music Awards at Sporting Monte-Carlo in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

: A man arrives with a mannequin for the British Open Dance Championships at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England. Couples from all over the world gather in Blackpool for the Latin professional British open championships which forms part of the Blackpool Dance Festival that began in 1920 at the Winter Gardens ballroom. The festival covers a 9 day period with professional and amateur couples competing in Ballroom and Latin competitions. (Nigel Roddis/Getty Images)

: Competitors perform during the British Amateur Championships at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England. Couples from all over the world gather in Blackpool for the Latin professional British open championships which forms part of the Blackpool Dance Festival that began in 1920 at the Winter Gardens ballroom. The festival covers a 9 day period with professional and amateur couples competing in Ballroom and Latin competitions. (Nigel Roddis/Getty Images)

: Competitors perform during the British Amateur Championships at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England. Couples from all over the world gather in Blackpool for the Latin professional British open championships which forms part of the Blackpool Dance Festival that began in 1920 at the Winter Gardens ballroom. The festival covers a 9 day period with professional and amateur couples competing in Ballroom and Latin competitions. (Nigel Roddis/Getty Images)

: Competitors watch at the British Open Dance Championships at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England. (Nigel Roddis/Getty Images)

: Syrian expatriates living in Lebanon cast their ballots in the country’s presidential elections at the Syrian Embassy in Yarze east of Beirut. Filling the streets around the embassy in Beirut, thousands of Syrians turned out to vote in a controversial presidential election that Bashar al-Assad is expected to clinch effortlessly, as civil war rages. (Joseph Eid/Getty Images)

: A supporter of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad kisses his portrait as Syrian expatriates living in Yemen cast their ballots in their country’s presidential elections, at the Syrian embassy in Sanaa. Polls open in Syrian embassies for refugees who fled their homeland through recognised checkpoints, in a controversial election expected to return President Bashar al-Assad to office despite three years of civil war. A(Mohammed Huwais/Getty Images)

: Men celebrate, before voting for the upcoming presidential elections in Syria, outside the Syrian Embassy in Yarze east of Beirut. Filling the streets around the embassy in Beirut, thousands of Syrians turned out to vote in a controversial presidential election that Bashar al-Assad is expected to clinch effortlessly, as civil war rages. (Joseph Eid/Getty Images)

: An indigenous man protests against the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Brasilia. Police in the Brazilian capital fired tear gas Tuesday to break up a protest by Indian chiefs and groups opposed to the money being spent to host the World Cup. (Evaristo Sa/Getty Images)

: Protesters against military rule hit soldiers with a traffic metal railing during a scuffle at Victory Monument in Bangkok. There have been daily protests in Bangkok against the coup and on Wednesday about 200 people confronted troops and police at the Victory Monument. Protesters jeered and threw plastic water bottles and spray-painted “Get Out” and “No Coup” over an army Humvee. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)

: A worker of the urban drainage company walks through the so-called candelabra hall of the canalisation system of the city of Cologne, western Germany, during an inspection. When the system was inaugurated in the year 1890, the room was equipped with two candelabras, as the then German Emperor William II was expected to visit. (oliver Berg/Getty Images)

: A girl jumps rope in an alley as others watch in Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums, in Mumba. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

: An Orthodox priest baptizes a baby at a church inside the Doctor Voino-Yasenetsky Saint Luka train, which serves as a free consultative and diagnostic medical centre, at a railway station of Divnogorsk, outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The train transports well-qualified medical personnel and equipment to assist about 200 patients a day and has been traveling annually from the main regional centre Krasnoyarsk to distant settlements of Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia Regions, where hospitals and clinics are scarce, for the last seven years. The train also has a carriage which operates as a mobile Orthodox church. The train was named after an outstanding Russian surgeon, an Orthodox bishop and GULAG prisoner Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: Children bathe in a roof top water tank, in front of a wall paint with the flag of 2014 World Cup host Brazil, in Dhaka. Millions of Bangladeshi football fans mostly support the national football teams of Argentina and Brazil. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)

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