Let's jump to the 2010 - A year Full Of Happenings World wide
LADY IN RED: A woman greeted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s supporters at a rally in Ang Thong, Thailand, Monday. The government plans to give the armed forces more power to control such rallies after political protests brought traffic to a halt in April 2009. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
ON GUARD: An Iraqi soldier sat near a polling station as voters cast their ballots in the nation’s parliamentary election Sunday in Nasiriyah, Iraq. Voter turnout was around 62.4%, the nation’s electoral commission said Monday. (Matt Ford/Associated Press)
A MOTHER MOURNS: Stavriani Anastasis, center, cried before her son’s funeral in Famagusta, Cyprus, Sunday. The remains of Christofis Anastasis, missing since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, were found during exhumations and identified through DNA testing. (Petros Karadjias/Associated Press)
A RED ROSE: A man offered a rose to a woman to mark International Women’s Day in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
SLEEPY USHERS: Chinese soldiers working as ushers napped near a stairway during a break Monday of the annual National People’s Congress session at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Alexander F. Yuan/Associated Press)
FALL FASHION: Models showed off fall-winter designs by John Galliano in Paris Sunday. (Jacques Brinon/Associated Press)
RIBBON RHYTHM: Russia’s Evgenia Kanaeva competed in the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup in Debrecen, Hungary, Sunday. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
RING OF FIRE: Spectators watched a car fly through a burning ring during the extreme sports event “Winter Circle 2010″ in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Sunday. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
PASSING BY: A pedestrian jogged between people running in the San Diego Tribune Race for Literacy in downtown San Diego Sunday. (Eduardo Contreras/San Diego Union-Tribune/ZUMA Press)
SNOW FALLING ON PIERS: A person walked on a pier in Collioure, France, as heavy snow fell Monday. (Raymond Roig/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
MISSED OPPORTUNITY: The Washington Wizards’ Al Thornton, right, and Boston Celtics’ Paul Pierce watched a missed pass intended for Mr. Thornton during their game in Boston Sunday. The Celtics won 86-83. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
FRIENDLY COMPETITION: “Avatar” director James Cameron playfully gestured at his ex-wife, director Kathryn Bigelow, before the start of the Academy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday. Ms. Bigelo became the first woman to win the Oscar for best director. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)
EARTHQUAKE VICTIM: A man carried a dead child in Okcular, Turkey, Monday. A strong, pre-dawn quake rattled eastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people and knocking down stone and mud-brick houses. More than 50 aftershocks followed. (Ibrahim Yakut/European Pressphoto Agency)
CAMPING OUT: A woman slept outside her house in Talcahuano, Chile, Sunday, eight days after a powerful earthquake struck Chile, causing deaths and widespread damage. (Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press)
RESTING IN A RICKSHAW: A man rested on a bed being transported by a modified rickshaw in Amritsar, India, Sunday. Rickshaw drivers earn less than $3 a day. (Narinder Nanu/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
WATER WORLD: Crew members played soccer aboard the Majan, one of the world’s biggest and fastest yachts, as the vessel sailed into Cape Town, South Africa, Monday. The crew is tracing the route of a new yacht race. (Nic Bothma/European Pressphoto Agency)
FLOATING THROUGH THE SEA: Storm “Xynthia” ravaged through France, Spain and Portugal on Sunday, leaving more than one million households without power. France is seeking emergency aid from the European Union after the fiercest storm in a decade, which has left at least 51 people dead. (Philippe Cherel/Maxppp/ZUMA Press)
3-D POLITICIANS: From left to right: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bettina Wulff and Lower Saxony’s state prime minister, Christian Wulff, wore 3-D glasses during the opening ceremony of the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover, Germany, on Monday.
TACKLING THE FLAMES: A firefighter hosed down the remains of three buildings from a fire in Bellingham, Wash., on Monday. (The Bellingham Herald/Mark Malijan/Associated Press)
GUARDED ENTRANCE: Riot police guarded the entrance of Greece’s employment ministry during a meeting with the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Olli Rehn, in Athens on Monday. The demonstrators threw out streamers proclaiming in English, “We must become their crisis” and in Greek, “The capitalists have to pay crisis.” (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
FILLED WITH SORROW: Bejamira Neira Zapata caressed her dog after a tsunami caused by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake almost destroyed her house in the village of Penca, Chile, on Monday.
SNEAKING A PEEK: A member of the U.S. Air Force watched out the window during a flight from Kabul to the Helmand province in Afghanistan on Monday. At least four NATO soldiers and 10 Afghans were killed over the weekend in twin car bombs and several other attacks. (Massoud Hossaini/EPA)
HUNGER STRIKE: Cuban journalist and dissident Guillermo Farinas completed seven days of a hunger and thirst strike at his house in Santa Clara, Cuba, on Tuesday. Mr. Farinas went on the strike as a call to release Cuba’s 200 political prisoners. (Alejandro Ernesto/EPA)
HYGIENIC PROTESTOR: A student pretended to brush his teeth Tuesday as police used water cannons to disperse protesters outside the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia, where the parliamentary inquiry committee’s recommendations over the Bank Century rescue is being held. A parliamentary probe failed on Tuesday to resolve bitter divisions over the fate of two economic reformers for authorizing a bailout of a small lender in late 2008. (Beawiharta/Reuters)
OUTDOOR HOME: An earthquake survivor slept outside her damaged home in Constitucion, Chile, on Wednesday. Four days after the 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed around 800 people in south-central Chile, rescue crews with dogs fanned out around ravaged cities and villages, searching for survivors inside the mountains of rubble. (Enrique Marcarian/Reuters)
TO THE RESCUE: A plain clothes police officer, left, restrained a man with a knife who threatened to harm his sister-in-law in Wuxi, China, on Wednesday. According to a police report, the armed man was under the influence of drugs and believed that people were out to harm him. The woman was rescued unharmed. (AP Photo)
AERO STUNT GONE WRONG: People looked on after a plane, partially seen at left, crashed into a building in Hyderabad, India, on Wednesday. An Indian navy plane performing aerobatics at an air show crashed into the building, killing both the pilot and the co-pilot and injuring four people on the ground, police said. (Mahesh Kumar/Associated Press)
FIRECRACKER BRINGS WEALTH: Worshippers threw firecrackers at a shirtless man acting as Master Handan during the Handan ritual as part of the Chinese Lantern Festival celebration “Yuan Hsiao Jie” in Taitung, China, on Wednesday. According to some cultural historians, Master Handan is a god of wealth who is afraid of the cold. People believe throwing firecrackers at him can drive the chill away from his body. During procession, the more firecrackers onlookers set off, the more successful and wealthy they will become. The Lantern Festival was celebrated on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year. (Stringers/Reuters)
NOSE IN A BOOK: Aida, a 29-year-old unmarried pregnant woman, read in her room at “Dar al Insania,” a Humanitarian House, in Algiers, Algeria, on Wednesday. The house is a shelter run by the Algerian Woman for Development Association, which aims to provide temporary space for women abandoned by their families before helping them reintegrate. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
LONG JUMPS: Members of the U.S. Air Force exited an aircraft Wednesday during rehearsal jumps as part of the exercise regiment for Cope Tiger 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand. Cope Tiger is an annual, multilateral, aerial force exercise conducted in the Asia-Pacific region. More than 1,600 participants from the U.S., Singapore and Thai air forces participated in the field training exercise. (Narong Sangnak/EPA)
SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS: A boy walked over soil after a landslide in Bududa, Uganda, on Wednesday. Soldiers and villagers in eastern Uganda hacked at mounds of thick mud with picks and hoes Wednesday in a desperate bid to find more survivors from a landslide that killed at least 80 people. (James Akena/Reuters)
A CHUCKLE: Spokesman for the National People’s Congress, Li Zhaoxing, reacted to a question during a press conference for the NPC in Beijing on Thursday. (Ng Han Guan/Associated Press)
EARLY VOTE: Peshmerga soldiers waited in line to vote outside the Ahmedi Khani School in Erbil, Iraq, on Thursday. Three days before the polls officially opened in Iraq, government employees, convicts and the disabled voted in the Iraqi Parliamentary elections. (Sebastian Meyer/Polaris)
STAMPEDE VICTIM: An Indian policeman carried the body of a stampede victim at a hospital in Kunda village, India, on Thursday. At least 63 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured, when a stampede broke out by a massive rush for free food and clothes at a temple, police said. (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)
HIDING BEHIND THE SHIELD: Antiriot police hid behind their shields Thursday during a clash with student in Makassar, Indonesia. The students were protesting against the rescue of Bank Century. Indonesia’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, rejected parliament’s call for a criminal investigation of his two top reformers and said they deserved thanks for “outstanding service” in averting a banking crisis. Parliament voted Wednesday for a criminal investigation of Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Vice President Boediono over their decision to rescue Bank Century in 2008. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)
ROYAL SALUTE: The body of Senior Aircraftman Luke Southgate of the Royal Air Force Regiment is repatriated to Lyneham, England, on Thursday. (Sgt. Ian Forsyth RLC/Getty Images)
LEAVING FOR GOOD: Rep. Charles Rangel left the House Ways and Means office in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Last week, the House ethics committee found he broke congressional rules by not properly disclosing trips to the Caribbean that were paid for by companies. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
READY, AIM: An Israeli border police officer aimed a tear-gas launcher toward Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes that left several people injured at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City Friday. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
CLASH: A demonstrator protected his face from riot police in Athens Friday. Residents have been protesting the country’s austerity measures. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
COLLAPSED: A worker collapsed after having a seizure while working at a recycling and garbage dump in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Friday. Migrant workers at the garbage dump this winter suffered extreme hardships as temperatures dropped to record levels below -25 degrees Celsius. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
SHINY BULLET: Workers cleaned the high-speed “bullet train” in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, Thursday. (ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA Press)
LEADING POLICY: European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet said Thursday in Frankfurt that the bank was keeping its benchmark interest unchanged. “It would be a mistake to over interpret what we have just decided today in terms of signaling a new monetary policy stance,” he said. (Johannes Eisele/Reuters)
HEALTH-CARE MEETING: President Barack Obama greeted health-care workers after an event at the White House Wednesday. Mr. Obama asked lawmakers to bring health-care reform legislation to a vote before the Easter break. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
BRACING HIMSELF: Croatia’s Hrvoje Cale, right, reacted as a Belgian player went for a soccer ball during a match in Brussels Wednesday. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
BIG-ENTRANCE READY: A worker installed a red carpet outside the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood Wednesday, in preparation for the Annual Academy Awards Sunday. (Chris Carlson/Associated Press)
I VOTED: An Iraqi security personnel member stood guard after voting in Baghdad Thursday. A string of blasts targeting early voters killed at least 17 people ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary election. (Mohammed Ameen/Reuters)
TEMPLE GUARDIAN: A soldier stood guard in front of a Buddha statue at a temple in restive Yala province, Thailand, Thursday. (Muhammad Sabri/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
CLEANING UP: A man wearing a cap showing the Chilean flag was illuminated by a headlamp as he cleaned debris in Constitución, Chile, Wednesday. Reconstruction after a huge earthquake and tsunami struck will take at least three years, President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)
BUZZ CUT: A Marine gave his comrade a haircut at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)
HELD HOSTAGE: A man held his sister-in-law hostage at knifepoint on a street in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China, Wednesday. Authorities were able to rescue the woman unharmed and the man was taken into custody. (China Daily/Reuters)
STAMPEDE DEATHS: A man grieved near bodies after 63 people were killed in a stampede while scrambling to get free food and clothing at a temple in Kunda, India, Thursday. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press)
MEET THE PRESS: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe met with editors of state and independent media outlets for the first time in 10 years in the capital, Harare, Thursday. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press)
SMOKE IN THE SKY: Smoke rose from a fire at a textile factory in Tainan, Taiwan, Thursday, after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook the country. No deaths were reported, but at least 64 people were injured. (National Airborne Service Corps/Reuters)
NEW FIND: In this undated photo, people observed a yellow-spotted bell frog in New South Wales, Australia. The species, thought to have been extinct for many years, has been discovered in rural farmland, officials said Thursday. (Stuart Cohen/Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service via Associated Press)
FINAL FLIGHT: Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in January 2009, flew his final flight from Florida to Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday. In his retirement, he plans to push for more flight safety. (Todd Sumlin/The Charlotte Observer via Associated Press)
RUNWAY POSE: A model wore a design by Indian designer Manish Arora at Paris Fashion Week Thursday. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters)
HOPEFUL FAN: A fan held a baseball in hopes of getting an autograph during an exhibition game between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Fla., Wednesday. The Tigers won 7-6. (Eric Gay/Associated Press)
SHIELDING THEMSELVES: Police officers shielded themselves from rocks thrown by anti-government protesters outside parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday. Lawmakers recommended a criminal investigation into the 2008 government bailout of PT Bank Century. (Dita Alangkara/Associated Press)
AUSTERITY PROTEST: Protesters tried to force their way past riot police blocking the way to the prime minister’s office in Athens Wednesday. The Greece cabinet approved a $6.5 billion austerity plan that will reduce bonus pay for civil servants and increase the sales tax to 21%. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
HUNGER STRIKE: Cuban dissident and journalist Guillermo Farinas completed a week-long hunger strike Tuesday. He was calling for the release of the country’s political prisoners. Mr. Farinas was rushed to a hospital in central Cuba after losing consciousness, a family spokeswoman said Wednesday. (Alejandro Ernesto/European Pressphoto Agency)
THE KING CLEANS: A performer from the Mischief La-Bas group dressed as Elvis Presley cleaned a woman’s shoe at Prestwick Airport in Scotland Wednesday. On March 3, 1960, Mr. Presley flew into what was then a U.S. Air Force base at Prestwick on a brief re-fuelling stop, after two years’ military service. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)
RANGEL’S ANNOUNCEMENT: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D., N.Y.) left a news conference in Washington Wednesday. He temporarily stepped aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee amid an investigation into possible ethics violations. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
CONCESSION SPEECH: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas), and her husband, received support from a crowd after she delivered a concession speech in Dallas Tuesday. The senator lost the Republican gubernatorial primary to incumbent Rick Perry. (Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press)
DEBATE TIME: Former Congressman Rob Simmons spoke with the media while former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon (in red) and Fairfield County money manager Peter Schiff (unseen) waited their turn at a debate in West Hartford, Conn., Tuesday. The Republicans are vying for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat. (John Woike/Associated Press)
MAKING HER EXIT: Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko left parliament in Kiev Wednesday. Lawmakers ousted her government in a no-confidence vote that could lead to the formation of a coalition government under newly elected President Viktor Yanukovych. (Sergei Chuzavkov/Associated Press)
NATIONAL PRIDE: Supporters of Bulgaria’s National Union Attack political party celebrated the country’s National Day in Sofia, Bulgaria, Wednesday. National Day marks Bulgaria’s independence from Ottoman rule. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)
PLANE CRASH: An Indian navy plane performing aerobatics at an air show crashed into a building in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring four people on the ground, police said. (Mahesh Kumar A./Associated Press)
TOUCHING A STAR: Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli touched the star he received on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Tuesday. (Phil McCarten/Reuters)
CONDUCTING REHEARSALS: A military band conductor led rehearsals ahead of the opening of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
WARMING UP ON ICE: Chicago Blackhawks players Colin Fraser, left, and Troy Brouwer warmed up before playing the New York Islanders at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., Tuesday. The Islanders won 5-3. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
KISSING COUPLE: Jonathan Howard, left, and Gregory Jones kissed after they applied for a marriage license in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. Couples waited in line for hours to apply for the licenses on the first day same-sex marriage became legal in the nation’s capital. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE: Music teacher Claudia Vergara cried near a destroyed piano at the site of what used to be her house in Constitucion, Chile, Tuesday. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Saturday killed hundreds of people and caused widespread damage. (Luis Hidalgo/Associated Press)
AFTER THE LANDSLIDE: A boy walked through dirt in Bududa, Uganda, Wednesday, after a landslide hit the area, killing dozens. Fifty students are feared dead. (James Akena/Reuters)
TRYING TO BE HEARD: A taxi driver on strike shouted slogans against the Greek government’s austerity plan during a protest in Athens Tuesday. (Orestis Panagiotou/European Pressphoto Agency)
SPLASHED: A student pretended to brush his teeth as police used water cannons to disperse protesters outside parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday. A parliamentary committee submitted contradictory findings in a probe into the government bailout of a bank. (Beawiharta/Reuters)
IN JAPAN: A homeless man sat in a subway station in Tokyo. Japan’s key consumer price index fell in January for the 11th straight month in a worrisome sign that consistently falling prices still weigh on the country’s economic recovery. (Hitoshi Yamada/ZUMA Press)
BLAZING A TRAIL: The Indian navy’s aerobatic team practiced in Hyderabad Tuesday, ahead of the India Aviation 2010 show, which starts Wednesday. (Mahesh Kumar A./Associated Press)
SURF’S UP: Surfers prepared to ride a tidal bore — a natural tidal phenomenon that takes place around the spring and autumn equinoxes — along the River Severn in Gloucestershire, England, Tuesday. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
ADRIFT: A mobile home sat surrounded by floodwaters in La Faute-sur-Mer, France, Monday. A storm called Xynthia slammed France, Spain and Portugal over the weekend, leaving at least 62 people dead and many without electricity. France was affected the most. (Philippe Cherel/Maxppp/ZUMA Press)
MIND THE GAP: A road in Pelluhue, Chile, gaped open Tuesday, three days after an earthquake killed at least 796 people. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said troops were deployed and met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Authorities began handing out food. (Martin Bernetti/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
INAUGURATION SPEECH: Former leftist guerrilla Jose Mujica was sworn in Monday in Montevideo as president of Uruguay. He promised to pursue and extend his predecessor’s moderate policies. (Pablo Porciuncula/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
SCHOLAR SPEAKS: Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a former Pakistani lawmaker, spoke at an antiterrorism meeting in London Tuesday. He issued a “fatwa,” a decree, against terrorist attacks. (Akira Suemori/Associated Press)
RECYCLING ON THE RUNWAY: Models wore dresses made out of office products at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover, Germany, Tuesday. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)
A FAMILY’S TRAGEDY: Relatives of Palestinian militant Mohammed Gabin mourned during his funeral in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Monday. He was killed by the Israeli army. A militant group claims Mr. Gabin was on a jihad mission. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
FUN IN CANCUN: Students partied at a Cancun, Mexico, nightclub Tuesday during spring break. (Israel Leal/Associated Press)
ALONG CAME A SPIDER: The Porsche 918 Spyder was presented at media day for the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland Tuesday. (Uli Deck/DPA/ZUMA Press)
REFLECTING ON TIANANMEN: A security worker Tuesday in Beijing was photographed through glass that reflected Tiananmen Square. Lawmakers will gather this week for the annual National People’s Congress meeting. (Ng Han Guan/Associated Press)
LOCKED UP: Detained Americans shouted from a prison van as they left court in Sargodha, Pakistan, Tuesday. Prosecutors told a judge the five Muslims from the Washington, D.C., area should be indicted for allegedly plotting to attack Pakistan. (Anjum Naveed/Associated Press)
PERFECT VIEW: Visitors watched the sunset from the observation deck at the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, in Dubai Monday. (Gabriela Marj/Bloomberg)
FESTIVAL OF COLORS: Children celebrated “Holi,” a festival of colors, in Calcutta, India, Sunday. The festival marks the coming of spring. (Sucheta Das/Associated Press)
OFF-KILTER: A woman stood in front of a damaged house in Pelluhue, Chile, after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the country’s coast Saturday. More than 700 people were killed. (Roberto Candia/Associated Press)
DISPLACED: A hospital patient lay under the stairs of an unfinished building after the Immaculate Conception Hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, was flooded due to heavy rainfall Sunday. More than 10 people were killed in floodwaters and mudslides. (Eitan Abramovich/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
ON HIGHER GROUND: Residents were trapped in their houses in Porto, Portugal, Sunday, due to heavy rainfall and the rising level of the Douro River. (Paulo Duarte/Associated Press)
GETTING A LIFT: A woman was evacuated from her flooded home in L’Aiguillon-sur-Mer, France, Sunday. A violent storm that swept across western Europe killed at least 51 people, many in France. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters)
LYING AROUND: About 5,200 people lay naked on the steps of the Sydney Opera House Monday to have their picture taken by American artist Spencer Tunick. (Rick Rycroft/Associated Press)
PITCH A TENT: A staff member of the Dresden State Art Collections admired a 17th century Ottoman tent in Dresden, Germany, Monday. (Ralf Hirschberger/DPA/ZUMA Press)
LIGHTED LANTERNS: People released lanterns into the sky to welcome the Chinese Lantern Festival in Pingshi, Taiwan, Sunday. (Wally Santana/Associated Press)
USING HIS HAIR: An Orthodox Jewish man tied balloons to his hair in Jerusalem Monday to celebrate Purim, the holiday that commemorates the salvation of the Jews from the ancient Persians. (Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
WINDY PRAYER: Pope Benedict XVI led the Angelus prayer from his Vatican apartment Sunday as a gust of wind blew a cloth at the window. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
ELEPHANT DOWN: A policeman looked at an elephant that was knocked down by a train at the Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary near Gauhati, India, Sunday. The elephant died and another pregnant elephant, which gave birth and fled the site, was seriously injured. Officials rescued the baby. (Anupam Nath/Associated Press)
GRATEFUL: A woman hugged a rescuer in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Sunday. Twenty-two people were rescued from heavy snow and avalanches. (Xinhua/ZUMA Press)
A MARINE’S FUNERAL: Master Gunnery Sgt. John Lund attended a memorial ceremony for Marine Sgt. Jeremy McQueary in Nashville, Ind., Sunday. Sgt. McQueary, 27, was killed in Afghanistan last month. (James Brosher/The Herald-Times via Associated Press)
HOCKEY HAPPY: Canada’s Sidney Crosby celebrated after making the game-winning goal in overtime to give Canada a 3-2 hockey win over Team USA at the Vancouver Winter Olympics Sunday. (Chris O’Meara/Associated Press)
SNEAK PEEK: David Barnes peered over the edge of a track to get a better view of the men’s long jump at the Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., Sunday. (Craig Fritz/Associated Press)
TORCHES HELD HIGH: South Koreans carrying torches celebrated March First Independence Movement Day in Cheonan, South Korea, Sunday. The day marks the anniversary of the uprising against Japanese colonial rule. (Ahn Young-joon/Associated Press)
MUDSLIDE DEATH: Rescue workers removed a body from a car in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, Monday. Authorities confirm flash floods killed dozens and left hundreds homeless. (Gregorio Cunha/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
DRIVING A JALOPY: A man smiled as he drove a damaged car on a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
ALLEGED GUNMAN: Police officers displayed weapons allegedly used in the killing of a family as a suspected gunman sat handcuffed and blindfolded in Baghdad Monday. Eight relatives were found shot — and some beheaded — in the predominantly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Wehdah. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
PATRIOTIC DISPLAY: Simon Brown, 31, who was blinded by sniper fire while serving in Basra, Iraq, in 2006, wore a false eyeball adorned with the British flag during Prince William’s visit to a rehabilitation center in Llandudno, Wales, Monday. (Peter Byrne/Associated Press)
KEEPING GOD CLOSE: A Marine with “God” written on his helmet patrolled a poppy field near Marjah, Afghanistan, Tuesday. NATO’s Taliban offensive is facing pockets of resistance and roadside bombs, officials said. (Patrick Baz/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
ITALIAN ECONOMY: Italian Economics Minister Giulio Tremonti told reporters in Rome Tuesday that Italy’s economy remains resistant to the global crisis because of its high savings and experience dealing with a long-running deficit. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
COVERED IN COLORS: Men celebrated the Festival of Colors in Barsana, India, Tuesday. The tradition heralds the beginning of spring. (K. K. Arora/Reuters)
ALL ABOARD! Passengers traveled on an overcrowded train in Patna, India, Tuesday. (Krishna Murari Kishan/Reuters)
EVACUATION: Marines carried a wounded comrade to a waiting helicopter following an attack on their armored vehicle by an improvised explosive device in Marjah, Afghanistan, Tuesday. (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)
KICKING AT POLICE: A protester kicked at riot police officers during a demonstration in Athens Wednesday. Unions staged a strike and citizens took to the streets in protest of Greek austerity measures. (Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
ON THE ICE: The. U.S.’s Zach Parise scores past Switzerland goalie Jonas Hiller and Switzerland player Thierry Paterlini during their game at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in Canada Wednesday. The U.S. won 2-0 to advance. (Bruce Bennett/Associated Press)
LINED UP: Police officers walked among bundles of marijuana that were seized during an operation in Cauca province, Colombia, after clashes with FARC rebels. At least 20 tons of marijuana were confiscated. (Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters)
THE BIG PICTURE: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington Wednesday. He said the U.S. economy still needed near-zero interest rates for several months. (Richard Clement/Reuters)
TOYODA TESTIFIES: Toyota President Akio Toyoda testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday about Toyota’s recalls. He pledged to fully cooperate with U.S. officials investigating vehicle-safety problems. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
COLD QUESTION: A question mark sign was seen on the snow-covered steps of a church in Helsinki, Finland, Thursday. (Zhao Changchun/Xinhua/ZUMA Press)
DON’T FORGET THE SCORE: Members of Haiti’s presidential honor band wore the musical score of Brazil’s national anthem on their backs as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in Port-au-Prince Thursday. (Dario Lopez-Mills/Associated Press)
POURING OUT WATER: Women drained their flooded house after the Guadalquivir River overflowed in Tocina, Spain, Thursday. Hundreds of people have been evacuated due to heavy rainfall. (Cristina Quicler/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
NOTHING BUT NET: Swedish goalie Sara Grahn watched the puck go past her into the net for a game-winning goal by Finland’s Karoliina Rantamaki during the Vancouver Winter Olympics in Canada Thursday. Finland won 3-2 in the bronze medal match. (Alex Livesey/Reuters)
HEALTH SUMMIT: President Barack Obama held bipartisan talks on the nation’s health-care system Thursday in Washington. Mr. Obama asked lawmakers to refrain from “political theater,” saying an overhaul is “absolutely critical.”(Jason Reed/Reuters)
WAITING TO BOARD: Young women from rural areas waited to leave the railway station in Fuyang, Anhui province, China, Thursday. They are headed to Beijing to work for a clothing company. (Lu Qijian/China Foto Press/ZUMA Press)
FIGHTING FIRE: A villager tried to extinguish a fire in Sabah, Malaysia, Friday. Dozens of homes were destroyed. (Xinhua/ZUMA Press)
AFGHANISTAN ATTACK: Afghan security officers carried a man’s body from the site of a gunbattle as firemen inspected the debris from a blast in Kabul Friday. Insurgents struck at hotels with suicide attackers and a car bomb, killing at least 16 people, half of them foreigners. (Massoud Hossaini/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
THROWING STONES: Palestinians prepared to throw stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes in the village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, West Bank, Friday over the expansion of an Israeli settlement. (Abbas Momani/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
CROSSING CAREFULLY: Children crossed a puddle of water after heavy rainfall at a makeshift tent camp in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
SPEAKING TO THE MEDIA: SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment President Jim Atchison gave a news conference in Orlando, Fla., Friday. Mr. Atchison said the whale that killed a trainer will continue to perform, but no one will be allowed in the water with any of the killer whales until an investigation is finished. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via Associated Press)
POLE CLIMBER: An engineer worked on power lines near Auchterarder, Scotland, Friday. A storm left some homes without power overnight and closed roads. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)
MANY HANDS: Dance troupes from the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and China Overseas Exchange Association performed in Philadelphia Wednesday as part of a tour celebrating the Lunar New Year. (Wang Chengyun/Xinhua/ZUMA Press)
HELPING HANDS: U.S. bobsledders Shauna Rohbock and Michelle Rzepka competed at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in Canada Wednesday. (Elise Amendola/Associated Press)
SYNCHRONIZED JUMP: Cheerleaders from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas jumped into the air as players were introduced before a game against Texas Christian University in Las Vegas Wednesday. UNLV won, 78-62. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
TAKING TO THE FIELD: Houston Astros players walked onto the field for spring training in Kissimmee, Fla., Wednesday. (Rob Carr/Associated Press)
HITTING THE GROUND: North Carolina’s Will Graves hit the floor after a foul during a game against Florida State in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday. Florida won 77-67. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via Associated Press)
HANDCUFFED: A psychiatric patient who escaped during the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti was handcuffed at the Mars and Kline Psychiatric Centre in Port-au-Prince Wednesday. (Eitan Abramovich/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
CRIME SCENE: Tom Moore, left, and Julie Althof, right, investigated a mock burglary scene for a crime-scene investigation class at the National Forensic Science Center in Largo, Fla., Wednesday. (Douglas R. Clifford/St. Petersburg Times/ZUMA Press)
HERE COMES THE SUN: The sun rose over London Thursday. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
KILLER WHALES: Three killer whales swam in tanks at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday. Tilikum, the whale that killed veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau as a horrified audience watched, will continue to interact with trainers under new procedures, officials said Thursday. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via Associated Press)
SOLEMN GIFT: Maj. Gen. Michael Repass presented an American flag to Amber Christian during her husband’s funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia Wednesday. Army Staff Sgt. Rusty Christian, 24, died Jan. 28 in Afghanistan when his unit was attacked with an improvised explosive device. (Kevin Wolf/Associated Press)
REMEMBERING LEE: A floral arrangement bearing designer Alexander McQueen’s first name, Lee, was displayed at his funeral in London Thursday. The designer was found dead in his home earlier this month. (National News/Zuma Press)
HUSBAND MOURNS: A man cried Thursday after finding his wife’s body in the fallout from a landslide in West Java, Indonesia. A tea plantation owner may have helped cause the landslide, which killed as many as 45 people Tuesday, by cutting down too many trees around the site, according to a cabinet minister. (Bay Ismoyo/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
HEALTH SUMMIT: President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and others attended a summit on the nation’s health-care system Thursday in Washington. Mr. Obama asked lawmakers to refrain from “political theater,” saying an overhaul is “absolutely critical.” (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)
TOYODA ON TV: A man walked through a Tokyo electronics store Thursday as televisions carried a broadcast of Toyota President Akio Toyoda’s meetings in Washington, where he apologized to lawmakers about the auto maker’s safety record. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
A PHOTO WITH CASTRO: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva photographed the Brazilian communications minister, wearing a blue shirt, with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana Wednesday. Mr. Lula spent more than an hour discussing various topics with Mr. Castro. (Ricardo Stuckert/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
MOBILE MODEL: A model using a mobility scooter presented a design from the New Power Studio’s collection during London Fashion Week Wednesday. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)
COVERED IN COLORS: Men celebrated the Festival of Colors in Barsana, India, Tuesday. The tradition heralds the beginning of spring. (K. K. Arora/Reuters)
SNAKE BITE: A street performer used a snake in his act on a road near Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
IN MOURNING: Villagers mourned relatives as a search for bodies buried in a landslide continued Wednesday in Dewata, Indonesia. At least 17 bodies have been pulled from debris since rain prompted the landslide at a tea plantation Tuesday. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)
CONEHEAD: Protesters shielded themselves from rain in Bucharest Wednesday during a rally to accuse Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi of racism for remarks he made concerning crime and the Roma community. (Daniel Mihailescu/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
EYES CLOSED SHUT: A child closed his eyes as his train left Wuchang Railway Station in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, Tuesday. (Wang He/China Foto Press/ZUMA Press)
THE BIG PICTURE: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke listened during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Mr. Bernanke said the U.S. economic recovery is not yet on a sustainable path, and near-zero interest rates are still needed. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
RELIGIOUS RIFT: A Christian woman screamed at voodoo practitioners at a ceremony to honor earthquake victims in Cite Soleil, Haiti, Tuesday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
ATHENS AUSTERITY CLASH: A protester clashed with a riot policemen during an antigovernment rally in Athens Wednesday. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets against austerity measures. (Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters)
LINED UP: A soccer player lined up his shot during a match between the Tranmere Rovers and Huddersfield Town at Prenton Park in Birkenhead, England, Tuesday. (Action Images/ZUMA Press)
STOCKINGS FOR SALE: Amy Symington from auctioneer Lyon & Turnbull modeled a pair of hand-stitched silk stockings in Edinburgh Wednesday. The stockings go on sale next month. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)
GETTING UNDRESSED: A model removed her shoe as she ran to change her dress during Valeria Marini’s fashion show at Milan Fashion Week Wednesday. (Max Rossi/Reuters)
HANGING ON: Astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the cupola space observation bay that was installed at the International Space Station last week. (NASA/Eyevine/ZUMA Press)
AUCTION BLOCK: Memorabilia from the TV show “Dr. Who” was auctioned off at Bonhams’s in London Wednesday. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
TESTIFYING: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Capitol Hill Wednesday. “They have a lot of good people in North America, but the decisions are made in Japan,” Mr. LaHood said of Toyota. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
CATCHING A RIDE: A man carried a woman in a flooded suburb of Cordoba, Spain, Wednesday. Heavy rain also caused floods in Seville and Jaen, and forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 people. (Javier Barbancho/Reuters)
ICE CONTORTIONIST: Japan’s Miki Ando, the 2007 world winner, was fourth in the women’s figure skating short program at the Vancouver Winter Olympics Tuesday. (Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
ITALIAN ECONOMY: Italian Economics Minister Giulio Tremonti told reporters in Rome Tuesday that Italy’s economy remains resistant to the global crisis because of its high savings and experience dealing with a long-running deficit. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
POWERFUL PANEL: Two members of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, a body of clerics elected by the public, attended an Assembly meeting in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday. (Vahid Salemi/Associated Press)
STONED TO DEATH: The body of a young man lay on a street after residents stoned him to death for allegedly stealing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
LAID BACK: U.S. Marines rested after an operation in Marjah, Afghanistan, Tuesday. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press)
UP-DO: A model smoked as she got her hair done at Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week Tuesday. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
SHOUTING SLOGANS: A Sikh man protested against the Taliban in Jammu, India, Tuesday after the decapitated bodies of two Sikhs, who were kidnapped in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, were found. (Channi Anand/Associated Press)
CROWD SURFING: A fan of the group Face to Face surfed a crowd while the band played at the Musink Tattoo Convention and Music Festival in Costa Mesa, Calif., Sunday. (The Orange County Register/ZUMA Press)
TEMPLE TOURISTS: Tourists looked at statues inside the Abu Simbel temple south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday. The temple was designed to allow sunlight to shine into the inner sanctuary. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
BLUE PERIOD: A roadside tea vendor warmed his kettle as protesters slept on a stretch of road near the Indian Parliament in New Delhi Tuesday. Residents have descended on the capital during the budget session. (Mustafa Quraishi/Associated Press)
WATCHING IN THE WINGS: Tamara Darvish, vice president of Darcars Automotive Group, watched a group of Toyota dealers hold a news conference in Washington Tuesday. Toyota President Akio Toyoda is expected to apologize during congressional testimony Wednesday. (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg)
MUDSLIDE DEATH: Rescue workers removed a body from a car in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, Monday. Authorities confirm flash foods killed at least 42 people; crews are searching for 32 missing people. (Gregorio Cunha/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
MYANMAR MIGRANTS: Migrant children from Myanmar passed the time in their crowded settlement in Mahachai, Thailand, Tuesday. A rights group says the migrants face abuse in Thailand. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
GOVERNORS MEET: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R., Calif.) spoke to reporters after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House Monday. The nation’s governors were in town for the annual National Governors Association meeting. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
KISSING STALIN: A women kisses a portrait of the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at a communist rally on Defenders of the Fatherland Day in Moscow Tuesday. (Mikhail Metzel/Associated Press)
CHEERING SECTION: Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo performed at a medal ceremony at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Monday. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
BATTER UP: New York Yankees coaches watched batting practice at the team’s spring training camp at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., Monday.(Steve Nesius/Reuters)
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