Pictures of the Week

An STS-123 Endeavour crewmember captured the glowing green beauty of the Aurora Borealis while docked and onboard the International Space Station March 21. NASA released the photo this past week. Looking northward across the Gulf of Alaska, over a low pressure area (cloud vortex), the aurora brightens the night sky.
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An actor of the French Group F performs during the closing ceremony of the Bogot International Theater Festival 2008 in Bogota, Colombia, March 23.
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William Fernando Martinez, AP
Actor George Clooney has his tie checked by his father Nick Clooney on the red carpet during the premiere of his sons new movie, 'Leatherheads,' in his home town of Maysville, Ky., March 24.
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John Sommers II, Reuters
Pitcher Hideki Okajima of the Boston Red Sox signs autographs as Japanese fans dangle replica shirts and balls prior to Major League Baseball's opening series between the Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome March 26 in Tokyo, Japan.
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koichi Kamoshida, Getty Images
A slum dweller reacts after a fire broke out at a timber warehouse in New Delhi March 26. Hundreds of huts were gutted in the fire, although no casualties or injuries were reported.
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Vijay Mathur, Reuters
Comoran and Tanzanian African Union soldiers hit a man suspected of collaborating with renegade Anjouan leader Mohamed Bacar in Mutsamudu, March 25. The Comoran army said it had located the renegade leader of the isle of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, during the operation it launched earlier in the day with the African Union to oust him. Some 400 AND troops backed by around 1,000 soldiers from Sudan and Tanzania launched a offensive before dawn to wrest back control of the isle of Anjouan from Bacar, its self-proclaimed leader, and capture him.
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Jose Cendon, AFP / Getty Images
An Afghan school girl looks out from the window of her classroom during the opening of a school in Bagram, Afghanistan, March 24. Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan renovated the school and distributed bags and books to the Afghan children.
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Rafiq Maqbool, AP
Tibetan nuns are dispersed by policemen as Tibetans protest against Chinese rule in Tibet, outside the Chinese visa office in Katmandu, Nepal, March 25, 2008.
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Saurabh Das, AP
Wildflowers surround a burnt tree near Interstate 15 near Fallbrook, Calif., March 24 in a landscape that burned in the Rice Fire when wildfires of historic size and intensity swept across southern California in October 2007. The arrival of spring brings new growth on a scorched land. The spraying of hydromulch along highways and freeways has resulted in an unnaturally abundance of yellow flowers. Flowers that grow in the areas unaltered by the roadside hydromulching are spaced farther apart and dominated by purple flowers such as lupines. After years of drought and a bone-dry rain season, a series of massive wildfires swept across hundreds of thousands of acres and destroyed thousands of homes and killing at least nine people in late October 2007, surpassing the destruction of the state's previously largest firestorms of 2003.
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David McNew, Getty Images
Venezuelas President Hugo Chavez smiles during an interview in Recife, northeastern Brazil, March 27.
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Lula Marques, Folha Imagem / Reuters