Mar 12, 2014

Maryland’s Tatyana McFadden wins silver at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games, the Holi festival of colors starts in India, President Barack Obama shops for clothes, and more in today’s daily brief.

: Tatyana McFadden of the U.S. competes in the women’s 1-km sprint cross-country sitting event at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Rosa Khutor (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters

: Norway’s Mariann Martinssen (right) celebrates with second-place finisher Tatyana Mcfadden of the United States during the women’s 1-km sprint cross-country sitting at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Rosa Khutor. (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters)

: An Indian Hindu devotee performs with fire as he participates in a procession ahead of the Holi festival in Amritsar. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colors is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month. It will be celebrated on March 16 this year (Narinder Nanu/Getty Images)

: A Venezuelan National Guard officer shakes hands with an anti-government activist during a protest in Caracas against the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro. The death toll from five weeks of political unrest in Venezuela has climbed to 21 after a student was fatally shot in the city of San Cristobal, authorities said. Maduro invited opposition leaders and students for a “peace talks” meeting on March 12. (Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images)

: Actor Ricky Gervais takes a “selfie” with fans at the premiere of “Muppets Most Wanted” at the El Capitan theatre in Hollywood. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

: Posters tower over a woman stands in front of a poster in Bamako, Mali. (Joe Penney/Reuters)

: Men sit at the bar of a cafe in Bamako, Mali. (Joe Penney/Reuters

: France’s Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, a member of the Greens/European Free Alliance of the European Parliament, holds up a portrait of former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden during a vote. The NSA’s surveillance program and its impact on the fundamental rights of European Union. (Vincent KesslerReuters)

: The Royal College of Art’s annual ‘secret’ art exhibition London. Postcard-sized artworks are sold at 50 pounds ($83) each to raise money for young art students. Some of the pieces are by famous artists, and the secret is that they are signed on the back, so the buyer does not know which artist created the art, until after they have purchased it. (Andrew Winning/Reuters)

: People hang onto a crowded local passenger train as they travel to Colombo March 11, 2014. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)

: Cleaners sweep the grounds riding tricycles after the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. China has banned delegates to its annual rubber-stamp parliament from holding banquets, an official said as the government tries to improve its image following a series of corruption scandals. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)

: A protester waves a black flag during clashes with riot police in Kadikoy, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. Turkish riot police fired tear gas at protesters massed outside a hospital after the death of a teenage boy wounded during anti-government protests last year and left comatose. Berkin Elvan, 15, who has been in a coma since June 2013 after being struck in the head by a gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters, diedthe day before. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

: Anna Jochemsen of the Netherlands skis during the first run of the women’s standing slalom event at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)

: A student of Rabindra Bharati University reacts as her fellow students apply colored powder to her face during celebrations for Holi, also known as the festival of colors in Kolkata March 12, 2014. The traditional event heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

: Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo of Australia races alongside a Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornet during a promotional event near Melbourne in this handout photo provided by Red Bull. The Australian Formula One Grand Prix will be held on March 16. (Handout/Reuters)

: Police forensic expert Col. Johannes Vermeulen hits the door with a cricket bat as he re-enacts how South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius broke down the door of the bathroom where he shot and killed his girlfriend during the trial’s cross-examination at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius’s murder trial was set to hear more details on the autopsy of his slain girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a day after the star sprinter threw up as he listened to a graphic account of the gunshot injuries he inflicted on his lover. (Wener Beukes/AFP/Getty Images pool photo)

: President Barack Obama looks at a shirt as he shops for clothing for his family with Gap employee Susan Panariello at a New York City store to highlight his proposal to raise the federal minimum wage. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

: Swedish acrobatics perform during the Arbil Festival, in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraqon the 23rd anniversary of the uprising against the regime of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. (Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images)

McFadden wins silver, Holi festival and presidential shopping | March 12

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