Pictures of the Week

The casket of Cpl. Joshua Alexander Molina, 20, is loaded into a hearse for transfer from St. Matthews Episcopal Church to Houston National Cemetery, April 8, in Houston. A saluting veteran is seen reflected in one of the windows. Molina died March 27 in Baghdad of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.
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Eric Kayne, Houston Chronicle / AP
Japanese rider Noriyuki Haga of Yamaha Motor Italia WSB team loses control of his motorbike during the a race at the 2008 Spanish Round of the SKB World Superbike Championship at Ricardo Tormo racetrack in Cheste, near Valencia, Spain, April 6.
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Fernando Bustamante, AP
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, at right in the frame, reaches over the crowd to take 8-month-old Natalie Pankratz-Osborn at a rally at the Adams Center at the University of Montana in Missoula, Mont., April 5.
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Alex Brandon, AP
Residents fight during political clashes in Puerto Cabezas in northern Nicaragua in a photo from April 5. Nicaraguan police say they sent reinforcements to Puerto Cabezas after two people were killed and others wounded in the clashes. Liberal party officials say a group of Miskito Indians supporting the ruling Sandinista party attacked members of their party and looted the city hall.
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Isidro Hernandez, El Nuevo Diario, AP
Alf Steel reads the Sunday paper in his dining room as the remains of the inferno at Tamahere smolder behind him April 6 in Hamilton, New Zealand. The night before, the fire ripped through a cool storage facility containing cheese, meat and vegetables. The blaze claimed the life of one fire fighter and put seven in hospital in critical condition.
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Sandra Mu, Getty Images
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" cast member Kristen Bell tries to get fellow cast member Russell Brands attention as he talks to a hula dancer at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles on April 10.
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Chris Pizzello, Reuters
The Martian moon Phobos is seen in an image released by NASA April 9. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took the photo from a distance of about 3,600 miles. The larger of Mars' two, relatively tiny moons, Phobos, is closer to the surface of Mars.
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NASA / AP
A red-tailed hawk soars over Fenway Park with a rodent in it's beak during an Opening Day baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers in Boston, April 8. Red-tailed hawks, one which attacked a fan last week, have been living at Fenway Park during this past off-season.
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Charles Krupa, AP
School children run to safety past burning barricades during clashes between police and opposition party supporters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi April 8. Kenya's opposition party has suspended talks with the government on sharing power until President Mwai Kibaki dissolves his current cabinet and agrees to negotiate a new government on a 50-50 basis, an opposition official said.
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Karel Prinsloo, AP
Lorena Ochoa of Mexico jumps into the water to celebrate her victory after the final round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club on April 6 in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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Stephen Dunn, Getty Images