Lady Terps practice, Afghan voting and Obama goes golfing | April 5
Lady Terps practice in Nashville, voting in Afghanistan elections and more in today’s photo brief.
- Maryland Terrapins mascot Testudo hugs guard Sequoia Austin during practice before the semifinals of the Final Four. The team will play Notre Dame and try to get to the 2014 NCAA Womens Division I Championship game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. (Don McPeak/USA Today Sports)
- Maryland Terrapins head coach Brenda Frese on the ourt with her son Tyler Frese as the team practices before the semifinals of the Final Four. The team will play Notre Dame and try to get to the 2014 NCAA Womens Division I Championship game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. (Jim Brown/USA Today Sports)
- Afghan election officials count paper ballots at the end of polling in Kandahar. Afghans voted in large numbers to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer of power as U.S.-led forces end their 13-year involvement with the country. (Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
- An Afghan woman after casting her vote at a polling station in the northwestern city of Herat. Afghan voters went to the polls to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, braving Taliban threats in a landmark election held as U.S. forces wind down their long intervention in the country. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
- Afghan women wait to cast their ballot at a polling station in Mazar-i-sharif. Voting began on Saturday in Afghanistan’s presidential election, which will mark the first democratic transfer of power since the country was tipped into chaos by the fall of the hardline Islamist Taliban regime in 2001. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
- Indian Hindu devotees offer prayers during the Chaiti Chhath festival in Siliguri. Devotees pay obeisance to both the rising and the setting sun in the Chhath festival when people express their thanks and seek the blessings of the forces of nature, mainly the sun and river. (Dutta Diptendu/AFP/Getty Images)
- An instructor (gold tail) assists participants of a monofin swimming summer workshop as they practice floating in Paranaque city, metro Manila. The Philippine Mermaid Swimming Academy workshops, which were originally conducted on the beaches of Boracay Island, central Philippines, currently cost 1,800 pesos per person ($40) for a two-hour session. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
- An instructor (gold tail) assists participants of a monofin swimming summer workshop as they practice floating in Paranaque city, metro Manila. The Philippine Mermaid Swimming Academy workshops, which were originally conducted on the beaches of Boracay Island, central Philippines, currently cost 1,800 pesos per person ($40) for a two-hour session. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
- Jayden Hayward of the Force collides midair with Jonah Placid of the Reds during the round eight Super Rugby match at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia. (Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images)
- Atletico de Madrid teammates celebrate a goal scored by Raul Garcia (second from right) during the La Liga match between Club Atletico de Madrid and Villarreal CF at Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid, Spain. (Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)
- Indian army recruits take part in their passing out parade at a garrison in Rangreth on the outskirts of Srinagar. The 311 young Kashmiri men from various religious backgrounds were formally inducted into the Indian Army’s Jammu and Kashmiri Light Infantry Regiment after 49 weeks of training. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)1
- A Brazilian Army soldier patrols the Mare slums complex in Rio de Janeiro where they have taken control of security operations. The federal troops are helping to quell a surge in violent crime following attacks by drug traffickers on police posts in three slums on the north side of the city, government officials said. Less than three months before Rio welcomes tens of thousands of foreign soccer fans for the World Cup, the attacks cast new doubts on government efforts to expel gangs from slums using a strong police presence. The city will host the Olympics in 2016. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)
- President Barack Obama walks from a sports utility vehicle upon arrival at the Andrews Air Force Base golf course in Maryland. Obama is at Andrews for a weekend game of golf. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
- Children scavenge among twisted metal and corrugated iron sheets in the burned ruins of a slum in Davao City. A huge night fire destroyed more than a thousand homes in the slum in the Philippines’ largest southern city, sending residents running for their lives, officials said. (AFP/Getty Images)
- An anti-government demonstrator, dressed as comic book superhero Batman, talks with a boy during a protest by non-governmental organization Rio de Paz (Rio of Peace) at the Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro. The protest was to tell FIFA President Sepp Blatter of the conditions in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, as well as a call for the Brazilian government to improve education, health and public services so that they will achieve the same standards as the 2014 World Cup stadiums, according to the organization. (Sergio Moraes/Reuters)
- A competitor attends the Russian Beard and Moustache Championships in Moscow. Participants are judged in various categories of either moustache, beard or sideburns. (Artur Bainozarov/Reuters)
- A cupcake sits atop a grave during the Qingming festival at a cemetery in Petaling Jaya. Qingming, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is an annual Chinese festival to commemorate the dead. Families visit and clean the graves of their ancestors, burning incense, paper money and presenting offerings such as food, tea, wine and joss paper accessories. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images)
- Revelers take part in a mass pillow fight in Trafalgar Square in central London on International Pillow Fight Day. ( Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)
- A man protects his head as a riot police officer hits him with a baton during an anti-Muslim riot in Hlegu, outside Yangon in Myanmar. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)
- A polling officer carries an electronic voting machine after arriving from a ferryboat in Nimatighat, Jorhat district, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. India, the world’s largest democracy, will hold its general election in nine stages staggered between April 7 and May 12. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
- Pro-government red shirt supporters react to a speech during a rally on the outskirts of the Thai capital in Bangkok, Thailand. Tens of thousands of government supporters from across the country massed on the western suburbs of Bangkok in a show of strength, warning that any opposition attempt to remove the embattled caretaker administration of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra would be met with resistance. (Rufus Cox/Getty Images)
- Driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Infiniti Red Bull Racing prepares to take the track during qualifying for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. (Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
- A policeman aims his shotgun from the back of a motorcycle during clashes with opposition activists in Caracas. Venezuela’s attorney general formally charged jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez over anti-government protests that have roiled the country for two months, triggering fresh demonstrations in Caracas. (Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images)
- Preserved human skulls are seen on display at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, as the country prepares to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 genocide in the Rwandan capital Kigali. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in 100 days during this genocide. (Noor Khamis/Reuters)
- Clergymen and members of the Maidan self-defence forces during the funeral of an unidentified activist, who was killed in recent clashes in Kiev. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)