May 21, 2014

Sunrise at Belmont, Berlin air show, Sophia Loren at Cannes, River Jordan baptism and more in today’s daily brief.

: Elephants are pictured in their outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Magdeburg. (Jens Wolf/Getty Images)

: Horses are seen in silhouette making their way to the track for morning workouts at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The Belmont Stakes will be host to California Chrome as he competes for the coveted triple crown at Belmont Park on June 7, 2014. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

: Eurocopter Tiger EC665 military attack helicopters of the French and German air forces fly together at the ILA 2014 Berlin Air Show on May 21, 2014 in Schoenefeld, Germany. The ILA 2014 is open from may 20-25. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

: An RAF Eurofighter Typhoon and RAF Spitfire perform a flypast during the unveiling of the commemorative D-Day Eurofighter Typhoon jet at RAF Coningsby in Coningsby, England. This year commemorates the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings on the 6th June. The attack saw more than 156,000 Allied troops storm the beaches of France and eventually led to the Allied liberation of France in 1944. (Stephen Pond/Getty Images)

: A girl designated to assist with transferring the National 9/11 Flag, donated by New York Says Thank You Foundation, holds it aloft on the grounds of the 9/11 Memorial Plaza before donating it to the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Destroyed in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11 the flag has been stitched back together and has visited all 50 states. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters

: Christian pilgrims dip in the water at the baptismal site known as Qasr el-Yahud on the banks of the Jordan River near the West Bank city of Jericho. Pope Francis will visit the Jordanian side of the baptismal site, known as Bethany Beyond the Jordan, situated on the east bank of the Jordan River and believed to be where Jesus was baptised, during this visit to the region next week, where he will travel to Jordan, Palestinian Territories and Israel between May 24-26. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

: Students of the Krasnoyarsk choreographic college stretch backstage before a dress rehearsal of a performance by graduates of the college at the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The annual performance showcases the work of students from across Russia who study or have studied at the well-known school. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: An emergency response worker cuts a tree which fell onto a car during a storm and strong winds, in Limoges. High winds up to 120 km/h and storms have caused at least one death and cut off some 42 000 homes from electricity today in the Midi-Pyrenees region of France. (Pascal Lachenaud/Getty Images)

: Yekaterina Len, 61, cries outside her destroyed house following what locals say was overnight shelling by Ukrainian forces in the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk. A number of houses sustained serious damages by the shelling in a residential area of Slaviansk. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

: A crime scene investigator walks at the scene of a knife attack at a subway platform in the Taipei Metro Jiangzicui station in New Taipei city. A knife-wielding college student killed three people and injured 25, police said, in the rare incident on Taipei’s metro on Wednesday. Police said a motive was not immediately clear, although the man had been drinking alcohol before the attacks. (Reuters)

: A Palestinian girl cries as she walks past her family’s house after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers in Om Ajaj village, north of the West Bank city of Jericho. Palestinians say Israeli-issued construction licenses are nearly impossible to obtain. (Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters)

: Egypt’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak looks on as he reacts inside a dock at the police academy on the outskirts of Cairo. An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison on charges of stealing public funds. (Reuters)

: A dwarf walks in between mushroom-shaped houses after performances at Kunming World Butterflies Garden, Yunnan province . The “Kingdom of The Dwarves” opened in the summer of 2009 with over 100 people suffering from dwarfism from all over China, forming a unique community. The only criteria for a job in the “Kingdom Of The Dwarves” is to be shorter than 130cm. Discrimination in their home town and a lack of job opportunities are some of the reasons that drive the dwarfs to find a job in the park which runs two shows a day. (Wong Campion/Reuters)

: A police officer (top) grabs a man who tries to jump off the seventh floor of a hotel, in Chengdu, Sichuan province. The 32-year-old man attempted to commit suicide on Monday after a failed relationship. Police and his ex-girlfriend managed to talk him down 3 hours later, local media reported. (Reuters)

: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth (C) poses for a photograph with the crew of HMS Lancaster in Portsmouth, southern England. The Queen met crew members and was given a tour of the ship at Portsmouth Naval Base. (Reuters)

: Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) personnel ride on a tank after recapturing the Daldako area, outside the military headquarters in Kadogli. The SAF had recaptured the Daldako area, east of the South Kordofan state capital of Kadogli, from rebels, according to media reports quoting the SAF on Sunday. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)

: Fata Kovacevic reacts near her flood-damaged house in Topcic Polje. At least 40 people have died in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, after days of the heaviest rainfall since records began 120 years ago caused rivers to burst their banks and triggered hundreds of landslides. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

: A light show featuring a ballet dancer and swans from Swan Lake is projected onto spraying water by the Vivid Aquatique Water Theatre during a preview of the Vivid Sydney light and music festival. For 18 days beginning on May 23 the Vivid Sydney festival, one of the world’s largest creative industry forums, will combine outdoor lighting sculptures and installations. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

: Italian actress Sophia Loren holds a professional camera as she sits among photographers during a photocall for “Voce Umana” at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Bertrand Langlois/Getty Images)

: US President Barack Obama (R) kisses First Lady Michelle Obama as he makes a surprise visit to the White House Talent Show, an event sponsored by The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), at the White House in Washington, DC. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)

: Mourners gather during the funeral procession of Mahmud al-Sayed al-Dakruri, who was killed when supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi and police clashed outside Cairo’s al-Azhar university, in the province of Dakhaliya, North of the capital. Student backers of Morsi have staged regular demonstrations on campuses as a police crackdown has weakened their ability to hold large street protests. (Sayed Baz/Getty Images)

: “Dancing With The Stars” Season 18 finalists Amy Purdy and Derek Hough perform at ABC’s “Good Morning America” at Times Square in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

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