Mar 4, 2014

Fat Tuesday celebrations attract revelers worldwide, models show off their acrobatic skills in ready-to-wear fashions, struggles for refugees and more in today’s daily brief.

: The King of the Krewe of Zulu parades diepite the rain Mardi Gras day on March 4, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fat Tuesday, the traditional celebration on the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, is marked in New Orleans with parades and marches through many neighborhoods in the city.(Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

: Members of the Krew of Mondo Kayo Social Marching Club parade Mardi Gras day in the rain on March 4, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

: Members of the Mondo Kayo Social and Marching Club parade down St. Charles Avenue on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans, Louisiana March 4, 2014. (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters)

: Members of the Krewe of Zulu parade despite the rain Mardi Gras day on March 4, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fat Tuesday, the traditional celebration on the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, is marked in New Orleans with parades and marches through many neighborhoods in the city.(Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

: Members of the Krew of Mondo Kayo Social Marching Club parade Mardi Gras day in the rain on March 4, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fat Tuesday, the traditional celebration on the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, is marked in New Orleans with parades and marches through many neighborhoods in the city.(Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

: Members of the Krew of Mondo Kayo Social Marching Club parade Mardi Gras day in the rain on March 4, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fat Tuesday, the traditional celebration on the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, is marked in New Orleans with parades and marches through many neighborhoods in the city.(Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

: Revelers of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school perform during the second night of carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 4, 2014. (Lealtosso Marcelo/Getty Images)

: Revelers of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school perform during the second night of carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 4, 2014. (Lealtasso Marcelo/AFP/Getty Images)

: A reveler parades through the French Quarter on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans, Louisiana March 4, 2014. (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters)

: Secretary of State John Kerry lays red roses to the Shrine of the Fallen, an homage to anti-government protesters who died during the February clashes with anti-riot policemen in Kiev, on March 4, 2014. US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev Tuesday for talks with Ukraine’s new interim government, amid an escalating crisis in Crimea. His visit came as the United States said it would provide $1 billion to financially-stricken Ukraine as part of an international loan. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

: A model presents a creation by designer Iris van Herpen as part of her Fall/Winter 2014-2015 women’s ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week March 4, 2014. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters)

: A model presents a creation by Iris Van Herpen during the 2014/2015 Autumn/Winter ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on March 4, 2014 in Paris. (Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images)

: A model presents a creation by Iris Van Herpen during the 2014/2015 Autumn/Winter ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on March 4, 2014 in Paris. (Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images)

: A group of boys play football on a hilltop overlooking Kabul March 4, 2014. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)

: Two girls part of internally displaced South Sudanese people stand in Malakal on March 3, 2014 as. Almost 40,000 people may have been displaced by militia arson and looting in Sudan’s Darfur region, according to new data obtained by AFP on March 4, 2014. More than 19,000 arrivals have been recorded at two camps for displaced people near the South Darfur state capital, Nyala, the International Organisation for Migration said. (Andrei Pungovsch//AFP/Getty Images)

: Men with helmets are hit by oranges during the traditional “battle of the oranges” held during the carnival in Ivrea, near Turin, on March 4, 2014. During the event which marks the people’s rebellion against tyrannical lords who ruled the town in the Middle Ages, revellers parading on floats represent guards of the tyrant, while those on foot the townsfolk. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images)

: Men with helmets are hit by oranges during the traditional “battle of the oranges” held during the carnival in Ivrea, near Turin, on March 4, 2014. During the event which marks the people’s rebellion against tyrannical lords who ruled the town in the Middle Ages, revelers parading on floats represent guards of the tyrant, while those on foot the townsfolk. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images)

: Women wait to have their babies examined at a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital near the airport of the capital Bangui March 4, 2014. (Siegfried Modola/Reuters)

: Youths chat in an airplane hangar, which is being used to shelter Muslims fleeing ongoing sectarian violence, at the airport of the capital Bangui March 4, 2014. (Siegfried Modola/Reuters)

: An Afghan girl, whose family fled the Soviet-led war in Afghanistan, plays with a toy bus beside her makeshift shelter in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad March 4, 2014. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

: A carnival reveller dressed as a “Peliqueiro” runs through a street in Spain’s northwestern village of Laza March 4, 2014. “Peliqueiros”, or ancient tax collectors, pursued villagers through the streets ringing their cowbells and hitting villagers with their sticks. (Miguel Vidal/Reuters)

March 4 Daily Brief: Mardi Gras, “battle of the oranges” and ready-to-wear fashions

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