Pictures of the Week

Indian laborers rest on water melons at a fruit market in Hyderabad, India, March 15.
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Mahesh Kumar A, AP
Masked protestors are arrested by police after they would not move out of an intersection during a protest against the war in Iraq, in Washington, D.C., March 19. Anti-war protests took place across the nation Wednesday.
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Jacquelyn Martin, AP
School children apply color to each other to celebrate Holi, the Festival of Colors or Spring Festival, at Kumkum Vidhyalaya in Ahmadabad, India, March 20. Holi is officially celebrated on March 22.
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Ajit Solanki, AP
Penitents of the 'Stmo. Cristo de las Injurias' light their candles before a Holy Week procession in Zamora, northern Spain, March 19. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.
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Daniel Ochoa de Olza, AP
Britain's Sinead Kerr and John Kerr perform their original dance routine on the third day of the World Figure Skating Championships in Goteborg, Sweden, March 20.
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Ivan Sekretarev, AP
Fedex driver Jay McMullin helps 78-year-old Odell Bunch into the delivery truck after Bunch's Ford Ranger was swept off of Hwy. 34 March 18 following torrential rains across southern Missouri.
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Aaron Eisenhauer, Southeast Missourian / AP
An Iraqi girl plays with her chewing gum inside the former Iraqi army air defenses headquarters March 18 where she lives in the ruins with her family in central Baghdad. The buildings were destroyed in the "shock and awe" bombing campaign in the early stages of the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq in March 2003.
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Hadi Mizban, AP
Men of the Matyo minority pour buckets of water on girls dressed in traditional clothing, in Mezoekoevesd (about 87 miles east of Budapest, Hungary) March 20 during a typical Hungarian Easter tradition.
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Bela Szandelszky, AP
Pakistanis cross a river using a rope operated bridge in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, March 18. The lack of bridges in the area forces hundreds of Pakistanis to use this alternative means to commute daily at the price of 2 Pakistani rupees (3 US cents) per trip.
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Emilio Morenatti, AP
A "ninot" sculpture burns during the last day of the Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, March 19. The Fallas festival is a week of fireworks and bonfires. The Fallas are huge paper mache caricatures of famous national and international characters. They are built throughout the year before being displayed in the city squares for five days and then on March 19, the night of Saint Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters, they are burnt.
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Diego Tuson, AFP / Getty Images