March 29 Photo Brief: Pope Francis prays for Good friday, German beaches get snow for Easter, North Korea takes aim for America
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Pope Francis presides over the first Holy Week of his papacy, beach-goers enjoy snow during the opening day of Strandbad Wannsee beach in Berlin, North Korea releases a picture of Kim Jong-un during an urgent operations meeting to put the country's rockets on standby to attack U.S. military bases and more in today's daily brief.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) presides over an urgent operation meeting on the Korean People's Army Strategic Rocket Force's performance of duty for firepower strike at the Supreme Command in Pyongyang, early March 29, 2013, in this picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency on Friday. North Korea put its rocket units on standby on Friday to attack U.S. military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force. Kim Jong-un signed off on the order at a midnight meeting of top generals and "judged the time has come to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists in view of the prevailing situation", the official KCNA news agency said. The sign on the left reads, "Strategic force's plan to hit the mainland of the U.S." (KCNA/Reuters)
Catholic worshippers celebrate Good Friday inside the Our Lady of Aparecida Basilica in Aparecida do Norte, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Roosevelt Cassio/Reuters)
This handout picture released by the Vatican press office on March 28, 2013 shows Pope Francis (R) kissing the feet of a young offender after washing them during a mass at the church of the Casal del Marmo youth prison on the outskirts of Rome as part of Holy Thursday. Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 young offenders including two girls at a Rome prison on Thursday in an unprecedented version of an ancient Easter ritual seen as part of an effort by the new pope to bring the Catholic Church closer to the needy. (Osservatore Romano/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian pedestrians walk during a heavy hailstorm in the northern hill town of Shimla. A severe thunderstorm accompanied by heavy showers lashed Shimla and its adjoining hills while higher reaches received fresh snowfall. (STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)
A gaucho prepares a wild horse for riding during the annual celebration of Criolla Week in Montevideo, March 28, 2013. Throughout Easter Week, "gauchos", the Latin American equivalent of the North American cowboy, from all over Uruguay and neighboring Argentina and Brazil will visit Montevideo to participate in the Criolla Week to win the best rider award. The competition is held from March 24 to March 30 this year. (Andres Stapff/Reuters)
Aerial view of the Taim Ecological Station on fire, in Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil, on March 27, 2013. The fire that started Tuesday in southern Brazil had reached approximately 1,400 acres and the risk of spreading is severe, since there is no way to reach the place by water or land. (Lauro Alves/Agencia RBS/AFP/Getty Images)XMIT: –
A Palestinian boy stands on a bed of nails during a class at the Red Dragon martial arts club in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. Dozens of boys from eight to 15 years of age are part of the club. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
Pope Francis prays on the floor as he presides over a Papal Mass with the Celebration of the Lord's Passion inside St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis is taking part in his first holy week as pontiff and will later today preside over the Way Of the Cross procession at the Colosseum in Rome. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Pope Francis attends the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (Max Rossi/Reuters)
Tourists watch as penitents, bloodied after self-flagellation, walk during a Good Friday crucifixion re-enactment in San Pedro Cutud town, Pampanga province, north of Manila March 29, 2013. About two dozen Filipinos were nailed to crosses on Good Friday in an extreme display of devotion that the Catholic church looks down upon as a form of folk religion but appears powerless to stop. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
A bather reaches for a chocolate Easter bunny while drying off after swimming on the snow-covered Strandbad Wannsee beach during its opening day for the year in Berlin, Germany. Despite continued unseasonably cold temperatures in the country, organizers opened the beach for bathers in time for the last weekend of March, when Easter Sunday is expected to be colder than the previous Christmas Day had been. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)
People take a bath at Berlin's Wannsee lido. The Strandbad Wannsee opened the annual swimming season this Friday with temperatures of 3 degrees Celsuis (37 degrees Fahrenheit) in water and 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit) air temperature. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
Visitors walk past painting "Maria" by Konstantin Khudyakov at the exhibition ICONS in St. Petersburg on March 28, 2013. (Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images
A toucan flies at Zoomadrid in Madrid on March 28, 2013. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
Jewish men draped in prayer shawls perform the Cohanim prayer (priest's blessing) during the Pesach (Passover) holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 28, 2013. Thousands of Jews make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem during the eight-day Pesach holiday, which commemorates the Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt some 3,500 years ago and their plight by refraining from eating leavened food products. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
Models present creations by South Korean fashion brand VANTVAART for the Korean Designers' collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing. Fashion week runs till March 30. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
Models present creations by Korean brand Vantvaart from the Korean Designers' Collection show on the sixth day of Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013/2014 at Banquet Hall of Beijing Hotel in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
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