Pictures of the Week

Laborers work at an under-construction chemical factory in Huai'an, Jiangsu province, China, March 2.
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Patty Chen, Reuters
Girls ride a merry-go-round during an event to celebrate women's empowerment organized by the Delhi government, as part of activities related to International Women's Day, in New Delhi, India, March 7.
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Gurinder Osan, AP
Half model, half man? Something about this model's legs appears a bit unusual as a creation from designer Dino Alves' Autumn/Winter 2008-2009 collection is presented during Lisbon Fashion Week in Estoril, March 6.
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Hugo Correia, Reuters
The New York Yankees' Johnny Damon signs baseballs and autographs for fans before a spring training game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Fla., March 4.
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Keith Srakocic, AP
One of Tim Osmar's sled dogs looks out of its pen before the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Willow, Alaska, March 2. A record field of 96 mushers are running the 1,100 mile sled dog race to Nome.
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Al Grillo, AP
A boy splashes at a public faucet in front of a graffiti showing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Complexo de Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, March 6. Brazils President Lula will launch a program on March 7 aimed to improve living conditions in the so-called favelas, or metropolitan slum areas. The government hopes that the injection of capital will weaken drug traffickers, who in some cases are the biggest employers in these favelas.
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Silvia Izquierdo, AP
New York Police bomb squad officers investigate an explosion outside the U.S. Armed Forces Career Center in New Yorks Times Square March 6.
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Brendan McDermid, Reuters
The glow on the horizon is from forest fires burning in the area of Valparaiso city, about 75 miles northwest of Santiago, Chile, March 5. More than 8,895 acres of land have been burned as a result of multiple forest fires.
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Eliseo Fernandez, Reuters
An Indian laborer dusts watermelons at the Gaddiannaram wholesale fruit market on the outskirts of Hyderabad March 4. Analysts say India, which produces most of its own food, exports surplus items such as sugar and heavily subsidizes supplies for the poor, has so far managed to avoid severe price shocks. But it is facing the same mix of factors as other nations that are grappling with rising food prices. Higher incomes are boosting demand for protein, surging demand for energy is pressuring oil prices, and conversion of agricultural land to urbanization and industrialization -- as well as grain production for biofuels -- is pushing land values sky high.
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Noah Seelam, AFP / Getty Images
A couple walks on the causeway leading to the Corbiere lighthouse March 1 in Jersey, Britain's most southerly island in the Channel Islands chain. Jersey is located 100 miles south of mainland Britain and 14 miles from the coast of France. Jersey is only nine miles by five and is one of the Channel Islands, which are British Crown Dependencies but are not part of the United Kingdom. Tourism, banking and finance are the mainstays of the economy.
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Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images