World in Pictures, March 14, 2013: Pope Francis is unveiled, One World Trade Center grows and penguins enjoy the big chill (GALLERY)

Mar 14 2013 By Cheryl Mullin

TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of Pope Francis waving to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican; One World Trade Center emerging from the clouds in the night sky in a photo taken from a passing airplane in New York and penguins at Edinburgh Zoo enjoying their new enclosure – Penguins Rock.

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Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican
One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky in a photo taken from a passing airplane in New York
Edinburgh Zoo is set to reopen to the public following a £750,000 revamp. The outdoor pool, called Penguins Rock, offers improved viewing areas for people visiting one of the zoo's most popular species
People pass a sand sculpture of the new pope at the Golden Sea beach on the Bay of Bengal coast in Puri, Orissa state, India
Ian Whyte, of Whyte & Sons Auctioneers Ltd, holds the only known surviving promotional copy of a 1954 recording of That's All Right (Mama) by Elvis Presley, the vinyl that kick-started his career. It is expected to fetch £43,000 to £60,000
President Barack Obama, escorted by House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, right, waves as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, for closed-door talks with House Speaker John Boehner and the House Republican Conference to discuss the budget
Comet Pan-STARRS is seen over the western horizon and just above Mount Taylor, from Albuquerque, New Mexico
A seagull flies in front of a fire that still burns after a tugboat and barge hit a gas pipeline yesterday evening in Perot Bay in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana