Obama selfie at Mandela memorial service

Today, a large amount of pictures was taken at the Soweto stadium, where most important world dignitaries and leaders paid tribute to former South Africa president Nelson Mandela. During the rain-soaked memorial service, there have been a lot of remarkable moments: the handshake between Barack Obama and Raùl Castro, Francois Hollande sitting next to his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy and a lot of US Presidents. But at the end of the ceremony some pictures from press agencies tickled readers’ fancy more than others, according to the reactions on social media and on news sites. First, those which showed a disappointed Michelle Obama looking harshly – or pretending indifference – at the cheerful talk between Barack Obama and the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Then, the one in which Obama himself and Thorning-Shmidt joined British PM David Cameron for a smartphone self portrait, a real pop “selfie”, with Michelle even more annoyed. Many international news sites judged a faux pas – aside from Michelle’s expressions – that during a de facto funeral some guest leaders had good time with a selfie. Neither the proposer of the idea nor the smartphone owner have been revealed.