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Week in photos - Jan. 17, 2013

 

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Browse some of the most interesting photos shot from around the world over the weekend.

Thousands celebrate inauguration Mass for Pope Francis

Thousands celebrate inauguration Mass for Pope Francis

Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a clear focus of his priorities as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

Hugo Chavez through the years

Hugo Chavez through the years

President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, died Tuesday at age 58.

 
  • Coca leaf producers toss coca leaves being given away for free during an event commemorating the tradition of coca leaf chewing in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. Coca growers held street demonstrations in La Paz and Cochabamba to celebrate that their centuries-old Andean practice of chewing or otherwise ingesting coca leaves, a mild stimulant in its natural form, will now be universally recognized as legal within Bolivia, after Bolivia recently rejoined the 1961 U.N. convention on narcotic drugs. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
  • Yoko Ono, left, and her son Sean Lennon chat aboard a bus on the way to visit fracking sites in Pennsylvania Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. They are touring natural-gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania and visiting with residents who say they've been harmed by the controversial extraction process known as fracking. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
  • A model presents a creation by designer Patrick Mohr at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for autumn winter 2013 in Berlin, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
  • Sabine Conrad plays with her French sheepdog El Lobo in front of the snow covered skyline of Erfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Weather forecasts predict cold winter weather during the next few days in Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
  • New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs New York's Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act into law during a ceremony in the Red Room at the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Also pictured from left are Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein, D-Bronx, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, and Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers. Behind Cuomo is Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
  • Michael Kiefer, of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., checks out a display of rifles at the Rock River Arms booth during the 35th annual SHOT Show, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in Las Vegas. The world's largest gun and outdoor trade show runs through Friday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
  • Indian military bands practice during preparations for the upcoming Beating Retreat ceremony near the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
  • A bull charges towards bull tamers during the bull-taming sport called Jallikattu, in Alanganallur, about 530 kilometers (331 miles) south of Chennai, India, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Jallikattu is an ancient heroic sporting event of the Tamils played during the harvest festival of Pongal. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K.)
  • Bull tamers try to control a bull during the bull-taming sport called Jallikattu, in Palamedu, about 575 kilometers (359 miles) south of Chennai, India, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Jallikattu is an ancient heroic sporting event of the Tamils played during the harvest festival. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K.)
  • An Indian Hindu holy man performs morning prayers for devotees at Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganges and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the large religious congregation that lasts more than 50 days on the banks of Sangam during the Maha Kumbh Mela in January 2013, which falls every 12th year. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
  • People walk through thick fog on their way to take a bath at the Bay of Bengal in Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
  • A man pushes his motorcycle through a flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Floods regularly hit parts of Jakarta in the rainy season, but Thursday's inundation following an intense rain storm appeared especially widespread. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana.)
  • Pope Benedict XVI greets U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta after the pontiff's weekly general audience in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Panetta was in the front row at Wednesday's weekly general audience in the Vatican auditorium. Panetta, a staunch Catholic, is in Rome as part of a weeklong swing across Europe, meeting with defense ministers to talk about ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Mali. This is expected to be Panetta's last overseas trip as Pentagon chief, as he long has planned to step down once his replacement is confirmed. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
  • Young men play football in Bamako, Mali, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013. French forces led an all-night aerial bombing campaign Tuesday to wrest control of a small Malian town from armed Islamist extremists who seized the area, including its strategic military camp. A a convoy of 40 to 50 trucks carrying French troops crossed into Mali from Ivory Coast as France prepares for a possible land assault. Several thousand soldiers from the nations neighboring Mali are also expected to begin arriving in coming days. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
  • An Afghan midwife attends her graduation ceremony at the governor's house, in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Over 52, midwives graduated after receiving 2 year of training in Jalalabad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
  • Pascal Larroque, co-driver of Pascal Thomasse, both of France, pulls their car with a cable from the bank of a river during the 11th stage of the 2013 Dakar Rally from La Rioja to Fiambala, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Bertrand Metayer, Le Parisien, Pool)
  • Giniel de Villiers of South Africa and Dirk Von Zitzewitz of Germany race their Toyota across a river during the 10th stage of the 2013 Dakar Rally from Cordoba to La Rioja, Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. The race finishes in Santiago, Chile, on Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
  • A man cycles under frost-covered trees in Ghent, 50 km (31 miles) west of Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
  • Debris lies on the ground after a helicopter crashed into a construction crane on top of St George's Wharf tower building, in London, Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013. Police say two people were killed when a helicopter crashed during rush hour in central London after apparently hitting a construction crane on top of a building. (AP Photo/Vince Pol)
  • The shadow of a helicopter is projected over KTM rider Cyril Despres of France competes in the 12th stage of the 2013 Dakar Rally from Fiambala, Argentina, to Copiapo, Chile, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. The race finishes in Santiago, Chile, on Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
  • A model shows a wedding dress partially made of chocolate during a chocolate fashion show in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
  • Ian and Nicole Hockley, parents of Sandy Hook School shooting victim Dylan, listen at a news conference at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn., Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. One month after the mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the parents joined a grassroots initiative called Sandy Hook Promise to support solutions for a safer community. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
  • Jimmy Greene, left, kisses his wife Nelba Marquez-Greene as he holds a portrait of their daughter, Sandy Hook School shooting victim Ana Marquez-Greene at a news conference at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn., Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. One month after the mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the parents joined a grassroots initiative called Sandy Hook Promise to support solutions for a safer community. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
  • Marco Tade, of Switzerland, falls as he competes in the men's moguls World Cup freestyle skiing event, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in Wilmington, N.Y. (AP Photo/John DiGiacomo)
  • In this Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 photo, An Egyptian labor works as his employer smokes a water pipe at the new construction site of the illegal expansion of a local cemetery that is spreading toward Egypt�s first pyramids and temples, at the ancient historic site of Dahshour, Egypt. The illegal expansion of a local cemetery has raised a panic among antiquities experts, who warn that the construction endangers the ancient, largely unexplored complex of Dahshour. The tombs are small complexes on their own, build mainly of cheap white bricks: Each is a walled courtyard with multiple enclosed niches where multiple family members can be buried. Rows of them now cover several acres inside the UNESCO-defined antiquities zone of Dahshour, coming to within 150 meters (yards) of Sneferu's Valley Temple. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
  • Backdropped by a picture poster, Tiger Woods from U.S. tees off on the 15th hole during the first round of Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
  • Iranian actress Elaheh Pourjamshid, performs her role as a mother in 'Awakening of The Particles' street theater, telling a story on children's education, during the 31st Fajr International Theater Festival, in central Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. IIran holds the Fajr festival, the most important theatrical event in the country, along with film, music, and visual arts, marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
  • President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, left, hugs eight-year-old letter writer Grant Fritz during a news conference on proposals to reduce gun violence, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. Obama and Biden were joined by law enforcement officials, lawmakers and children who wrote the president about gun violence following the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
  • A Pakistani boy warped with a plastic sheet to shield the rain, looks up while standing with his father, not seen, a supporter of Pakistani Sunni cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, during an anti-government rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Qadri is demanding the government be dissolved and replaced with a caretaker administration formed in consultation with the judiciary and the military. He also wants electoral reform to weed out corrupt politicians and prevent them from winning elections in the future. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
  • Pakistani police officers stand guards on a shipping container placed to block the supporters of Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, to enter into high security area Red Zone during an anti government rally in Islamabad, Pakistan Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Thousands of Pakistanis fed up with political leaders they say are corrupt and indifferent rallied in the Pakistani capital Tuesday, as the fiery cleric who organized the rally called for the government to resign and for his followers to remain on the streets until then. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
  • Supporters of Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, chant anti-government slogans during a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Thousands of anti-government protesters are rallying in the streets of the Pakistani capital for a second day despite early-morning clashes with police who fired off shots and tear gas to disperse the crowd. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
  • Pittsburgh Penguins White Team's Zach Sill, left, collides with Black Team goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, center, and Brian Dumoulin (32) during the second period of an NHL hockey scrimmage in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
  • A woman is rescued from being trapped inside a wall of the parking garage at the Gretchen Kafoury Commons in SW Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Portland firefighters worked for over three and a half hours cutting her free. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Brent Wojahn)
  • Owen Kenny, 5, says a lunchtime prayer at the St. Bernard School in New Washington, Ohio, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. One month after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., students at St. Bernard included the shooting victims and their families in their daily prayers. School principal Susan Maloy has also decided to hold lockdown drills on the 14th of each month to refine a safety plan and increase school security. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
  • New Washington, Ohio, Chief of Police Scott Robertson talks with fourth grade students as they huddle in closet a during a lockdown drill at the St. Bernard School in New Washington, Ohio, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. A month after the shootings of 20 students and six educators a the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., St. Bernard School principal Susan Maloy, inspired by the memories of those who lost their lives, has decided to hold lockdown drills on the 14th of each month to refine a safety plan and increase school security. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
  • A woman rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, hundreds ride their horses trough the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the
  • A priest distributes bibles to people before taking take part in a mass at San Anton Church in Madrid, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. The feast is celebrated each year in many parts of Spain and people bring their pets to churches to be blessed.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
  • A dog looks over the back of a pew as people take part in a mass at San Anton Church in Madrid, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. The feast is celebrated each year in many parts of Spain and people bring their pets to churches to be blessed. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
  • Ice covers an orange at an orange grove in Redlands, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. A cold snap that has California farmers struggling to protect a $1.5 billion citrus crop has slowly started to ease, though frigid temperatures were still the norm Tuesday morning throughout the state and across other parts of the West. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
 

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