Pictures of the Week: Feb. 9-15

Four eyes, indeed! A model displays false eyes painted above her own as she wears an autumn/winter design by Antonio Alvarado during the Pasarela Cibeles fashion show in Madrid, Feb. 14.
Daniel Ochoa de Olza, AP
Afghan refugees desperately crowd in to try to obtain blankets during a relief distribution in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 14. Nationwide cold weather, snowstorms and avalanches have claimed at least 654 lives and more than 100,000 sheep and goats, according to the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Commission.
Rafiq Maaqbool, AP
Sgt. 1st class Charles Bowen of the Army National Guard 142nd Arkansas field artillery hugs his daughter Kelsey, 11, at Sleepy Hollow Elementary School Feb. 13. Bowen surprised his daughters after he appeared out of a box onstage in front of the entire school, which had sent him letters and gifts.
Stephen Spillman, Amarillo Globe-News / AP
Gina, a 12-year-old German shepherd dog, carries the leash of two-year-old Kitty during a walk with their owner (not pictured) in Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 11.
Christian Charisius, Reuters
Kanye West performs 'Stronger' at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Feb. 10. West won Best Rap Solo Performance for the song as well as three other Grammys, including Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Album. To see more photos from the Grammy Awards, go to: Grammys, 2008.
Mike Blake, Reuters
Colombian bullfighter Cesar Rincon is gored during a bullfight at the Macarena's fair in Medellin, Colombia, Feb. 9. Rincon was not seriously injured.
Luis Benavides, AP
Greg Joyce hangs on to his shovel as Lightning, ridden by Shawn Yeager, provides the horse power in the shovel race during the Street Events at the 95th Annual Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival, Feb. 9, in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Steamboat's Winter Carnival, hosted by the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, is an annual winter sports event featuring ski racing, ski jumping, and the famous Street Events. Held for several days in February since 1914 in this small northwest Colorado community, the town is taken over by snow lovers, ranchers, cowboys, the young and old who come together to show visitors how winter is celebrated.
Doug Pensinger, Getty Images
Relatives mourn the death of 9-year-old Suroor Salman Hussein at a hospital morgue in Baquba, 40 miles northeast of Baghdad, Feb. 12. According to local authorities, the girl was killed by a roadside bomb while walking.
Reuters
A U.N. Brazilian peacekeeper patrols the Cite-Soleil area in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 11. Brazil leads a U.N. peacekeeping force that has been in Haiti since 2004.
Ariana Cubillos, AP
British tourist Victoria O'Brien, 11, held by her grandfather, Mike Hall, gets a big, ol' kiss from a giraffe trying to get food she is holding at the Giraffe Center, which is part of the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife in Kenya, Feb. 12 in Nairobi, Kenya. According to reports, Kenya is expect to suffer a 90 percent drop in tourism because of the post-election violence.
Paula Bronstein, Getty Images

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House residents throw a baby to awaiting members of the fire brigade during a fire in an apartment building Feb. 3 in the western German town of Ludwigshafen. The baby survived after being caught by rescuers, however the fire resulted in the deaths of nine people including five children.
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain adjusts his collar after telling a joke at the Baltimore County Republican Central Committees Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner in Halethorpe, Md., Feb. 7. For more live photo coverage of the presidential campaign, go to: 2008 Presidential Election.
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Jonathan Ernst, Reuters
A last supper figurine sits amidst a tornado damaged home, Feb. 6 in Atkins, Ark. Tornadoes swept through southern states, tearing lives, families and communities apart. At week's end, the death toll stood at 57. For more up to the minute photo coverage, go to: Tornadoes Rip Through South live photo feed gallery.
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Mike Wintroath, AP
A Spanish recortador jumps over a bull during the rehearsal ceremony of the World Bull Fair in Seville, Feb. 5. The show pays homage to the bulls used in traditional bullfights, and the fair will run from Feb. 6 to 10.
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Marcelo del Pozo, Reuters
Two children stand together as heavy rain falls at a temporary shelter for around 19,000 displaced people during post-election violence in Eldoret, Kenya, Feb. 7. Ethnic violence has convulsed the country since President Mwai Kibakis disputed re-election, officials said. For more photos from Kenya, go to our photo gallery, Violence in Kenya.
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Georgina Cranston, Reuters
Fireworks are seen above Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, Feb. 7, in celebration of the Luna New Year.
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Chitose Suzuki, AP
People ride bicycles on 'A Day Without Cars' in Bogota, Colombia, Feb. 7. Residents of Colombia's capital walk, bike, or use buses and taxis during the day to promote alternative transportation as a way to reduce smog.
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William Fernando Martinez, AP
Victoria Beckham, center, and Project Runway Judge Heidi Klum, right, attend Bravo Network's "Project Runway" final runway show during Fashion Week, Feb. 8, in New York.
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Peter Kramer, AP
In a rare alignment, the crescent Moon rises with the planets Venus (left) and Jupiter (top) over boat masts at a dock at dawn Feb. 4 in Titusville, Fla.
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A crowd of people try to catch beads on Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras day, Feb. 5, in New Orleans, La. Mardi Gras day, or Fat Tuesday, is a celebration the day before Lent begins on the Christian calendar.
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Chris Graythen, Getty Images

Pictures of the Week: Jan. 26-Feb. 1

Men play with snow in Amman Jan. 31. A heavy overnight snowstorm blanketed Jordan Wednesday, closing schools and stores and grounding public transportation.
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Muhammad Hamed, Reuters
Parliament, Westminster Bridge and the River Thames are enveloped in fog Jan. 28 in London.
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A crowd gathers near the body of a man who was reportedly shot by police in the central Kenyan town of Nakuru Jan. 26. What started as post-election riots rapidly descended into settling of tribal vendettas, with marauding gangs armed with machetes, metal bars, and bows and arrows stalking parts of the west of the country, which until the crisis was seen as a beacon of democracy and stability in the troubled east African region. The death toll from weeks of violence has topped 800 and is rising. Vote for best photo
Walter Astrada, AFP / Getty Images
Hostages held in a branch of the Banco Provincial in Altagracia de Orituco, in the Venezuelan state of Guarico, plead for help from the window of the bank Jan. 29. Four would-be bank robbers armed with rifles and grenades have been holding up to 50 people hostage for almost 24 hours. Authorities allowed the captors to leave the bank with five hostages being used as human shields. The other hostages were unharmed and the five being used as shields were later released unharmed. Vote for best photo
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A couple check out their reflections on the underside of the 110-ton stainless steel Anish Kapoor sculpture called 'Cloud Gate' and nicknamed 'The Bean' at Millennium Park, Jan. 31, in Chicago.
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Nam Y. Huh, AP
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton greets Sen. Edward Kennedy as her Democrat rival, Sen. Barack Obama, turns away in the moments leading up to President Bush's the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress Jan. 28 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Vote for best photo
J. Scott Applewhite, AP
South Korean Marines blast their way through snow during a winter exercise in Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 1. Vote for best photo
Yoo Hyung-jae, Yonhap / AP
A jet passes above a balloon during the 7th Kaiserwinkel Alpine Ballooning Week in Koessen in the western Austrian province of Tyrol Jan. 29. Balloons from Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Norway, England, Belgium, Luxemburg and Austria participate at the competition.
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Kerstin Joensson, AP
Competitors make their way through an obstacle course during the Tough Guy Challenge at South Perton Farm Jan. 27 near Wolverhampton, England.
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Mike Hewitt, Getty Images
A rainbow is visible looking West from Palm Springs, Calif., Jan. 28, next to an array of wind turbines. Southern California has been hit with heavy rainstorms totaling more than 4 inches in some areas over a 24-hour period which has some experts on edge about the possibility of mudslides. Scattered showers remained in the forecast.
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Sandy Huffaker, AP

Pictures of the Week: Jan. 19-25

The moon sets behind the Mount Sainte-Odile monastery Jan. 23 at dawn on a clear day in Alsace in eastern France.
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Olivier Morin, AFP / Getty Images
Law enforcement officers push members of the New Black Panthers party near the LaSalle Parish Courthouse in Jena, La., Jan. 21, the Martin Luther King Jr., holiday.
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Matt Slocum, AP
Naomi Kering, 34, from the Kalenjin tribe, whose husband of 17 years Isaac Guthua, from the Kikuyu tribe, was forced to leave her because of ethnic unrest, returns to her destroyed house in the village of Chepkanga, near Eldoret, Kenya. In the riots and ethnic violence following the country's Dec. 27 vote, love has not been immune and marriages that united different ethnic groups are now splitting up as communities shun the Kikuyu tribe of President Mwai Kibaki.
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Ben Curtis, AP
Indian paramilitary force soldiers march by during a full dress rehearsal of Republic Day parade in New Delhi, Jan. 23. The actual Republic Day parade is held on Jan. 26, when India will showcase its military might and economic strength.
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Manish Swarup, AP
A girl, holding a red flower, stands between soldiers in Stavropol, Russia, Jan. 21 as they attend a ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Stavropol from German forces.
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Daniel Semyonov, AFP / Getty Images
Palestinians walk on a destroyed section of the border wall as they cross between Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, and Egypt Jan. 23. Masked Palestinian gunmen blew holes into the Gaza-Egypt border wall, and thousands of Gazans trapped in their territory by a tight blockade poured into Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies that have become scarce.
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Kevin Frayer, AP
A Palestinian family sits in front of a bullet-riddled building, damaged in the conflict with Israel, as they watch Palestinians cross the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 23. Masked Palestinian gunmen blew holes into the Gaza-Egypt border wall Wednesday, and thousands of Gazans trapped in their territory by a tight blockade poured into Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies that have become scarce.
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Kevin Frayer, AP
Priests reflect in a ice-hole during an Epiphany holiday service in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk Jan. 19. Epiphany is one of the biggest events in the Orthodox calendar.
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Alexander Khudoteply, AFP / Getty Images
The construction site of the new China Central Television headquarters building is seen in Beijing Jan. 23. The building's two angled towers were connected in December to form a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections. The complex is due for completion before the Olympic Games later in the year. The spectacular 755 foot-tall building, one of Beijing's tallest, will house more than 10,000 staff.
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Greg Baker, AP
A model wears a creation by Italian fashion designer Valentino for his Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2008 collection presented in Paris Jan. 23. Celebrities, socialites and fashion editors prepare to bid adieu to Italian designer Valentino, the king of the red carpet, who showed his final collection after 45 years in business.
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Jacques Brinon, AP

Pictures of the Week: Jan. 12-18

Babies are born nearly every day at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, but there's one birth this week that was a bit special. Cpl. Andrew Powell (at left on monitor) and his wife, Kristin, welcomed baby daughter, Bailey Mae Powell, Jan. 16, in Danville, Ky., and Andrew watched - even though he's overseas, serving his country in Iraq. (Clay Jackson /The Advocate Messenger)
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Clay Jackson /The Advocate Messenger
A man jumps on a burnt vehicle after he and other supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga set barricades on fire on a road in the Kibera slum of Nairobi Jan. 16. Odinga vowed to press with plans to stage nationwide rallies protesting President Mwai Kibaki's re-election despite a police ban. (Simon Maina, AFP / Getty Images)
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A doe mule deer, left, rests in the deep snow of the Gunnison Basin east of Gunnison, Colo., as another deer forages for food beneath the snow. Recent below zero temperatures and above average snow has forced the Colorado Department of Wildlife to launch its biggest feeding operation in the past 24 years. (George Kochaniec, Jr., Rocky Mountain News / AP)
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George Kochaniec, Jr., Rocky Mountain News / AP
Scattered clouds over Bass Strait take on a surreal appearance when viewed from a tinted aircraft window through a circular polarizer. Bass Strait is the body of water that separates Australia from Tasmania to the south. (Torsten Blackwood, AFP / Getty Images)
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President Bush shares a laugh with Saudi Prince Salman, brother of Saudi King Abdullah, while watching a traditional sword dance at the Al Murabba Palace and Natural History Museum in Al Janadriyah, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 15. (Susan Walsh, AP)
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Susan Walsh, AP
Japanese 20-year-olds dressed in traditional kimonos enjoy riding a roller coaster as they attend the annual Coming-of-Age Day ceremony at Toshimaen Amusement Park Jan. 14 in Tokyo. In Japan at the age of 20, people officially become part of the adult community and are eligible to vote, drink alcohol and smoke. (Koichi Kamoshida, Getty Images)
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A camera aboard NASAs MESSENGER probe snapped this image of crater-scarred Mercury Jan. 13 at a distance of about 470,000 miles from the closest planet to the sun. (MESSENGER is an acronym for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging probe.) The only previous times Mercury was visited by a spacecraft were in 1974 and 1975 when NASAs Mariner 10 flew past it three times and mapped about 45 percent of its surface. (NASA / Reuters)
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NASA / Reuters
Youngsters try to tame a bull during Jallikkattu,a version of bull fighting at a village near Madurai in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India, Jan. 17. The Indian Supreme Court reversed with conditions an earlier order banning this traditional sport, which is held every year during the festival of Pongal. (M. Lakshman, AP)
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M. Lakshman, AP
Safar Ali prepares traditional sweets at a sweet factory in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 13. (Rafiq Maqbool, AP)
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Rafiq Maqbool, AP
Kashmiri activists of the Jammu Kashmir Muslim Khawateen Markaz (MKM), a womens separatist party, scuffle with Indian police in Srinagar Jan. 18 during a protest demanding the release of Afzal Guru. Police detained six MKM activists. Guru was convicted for an attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001. (Danish Ismail, Reuters)
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Danish Ismail, Reuters

Pictures of the Week: Jan. 5-11

Pictures of the Week: Jan. 5-11
In this photo released by Ecuador's Geophysics Institute, the Tungurahua volcano, located about 80 miles southeast of Quito, erupts in the late hours of Jan. 8. The Tungurahua is poised for a major eruption in days or weeks, U.S. volcanologist Patricia Mothes said. (Ecuador's Geophysics Institute / AP)
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A worker processes poultry at a factory in Changzhi, Shanxi province, China, Jan 5. Bird flu has killed 4,850 poultry in Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang region, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The outbreak occurred in Turpan, a city in the Xinjiang region, on Dec. 29 and a state laboratory confirmed the presence of the pathogenic H5N1 virus, Xinhua said. (EyePress / AP)
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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, reacts as she takes the stage with her daughter, Chelsea, at a rally in Nashua, N.H., Jan. 6. She went on to become the Democrat winner in the state's primary later in the week. (Elise Amendola, AP)
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A Montenegrin fisherman steers his boat on Skadar lake, south of Montenegro's capital Podgorica, Jan. 8. (Risto Bozovic, AP)
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Georgians walk to attend the Orthodox Christmas service at Trinity Cathedral complex in Tbilisi, Georgia, Jan. 6. The Eastern Orthodox Churches mark the occasion according to the old calendar, two weeks after Western denominations. (Sergey Ponomarev, AP)
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A zoo keeper takes stock of animals in the penguin enclosure during the annual stocktake at London Zoo Jan. 10. Each animal, from more than 600 species, must be accounted for by the zoo's keepers. (Daniel Berehulak, Getty Images)
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This undated photo released this week by NASA shows the galaxy NGC 4622, which appears to be rotating in the opposite direction to what they expected. Pictures by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers determine that the galaxy may be spinning clockwise by showing which side of the galaxy is closer to Earth. (NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team / AP)
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A seagull takes flight at the Deepor Beel bird sanctuary on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Jan. 6. (Anupam Nath, AP)
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An Indian youth works in a mustard field on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India' northeastern state of Tripura, Jan. 10. Indian agriculture is heading for a crisis as food output stagnates and millions of poor farmers struggle with high debt and crop failures, the nation' foremost farm scientist has warned. (Bapi Roy Choudhury, AFP/Getty Images)
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A skiier is silhouetted above the trees during the first training session of the FIS Freestyle World Cup, Ski Cross event, Jan. 11 in Les Contamines Montjoie, France. (Agence Zoom/Getty Images)
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