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Week in photos - Feb. 15, 2013

 

 
  • Hindu holy men of the Shree Niranjani Akhara participate in the rituals that is believed to rid them of all ties in this life and dedicate themselves to serving God as a
  • Maria Caren Paz, from Argentina, from the Mangueira samba school parades during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
  • American Airlines and US Airways jets prepare for flight at gate at the Philadelphia International Airport, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Philadelphia. The merger of US Airways and American Airlines has given birth to a mega airline with more passengers than any other in the world. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
  • In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo, Cambodian farmers take breaks in their lemon grass field at Arey Ksat village near the Mekong river, in the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
  • Children wearing traditional Chinese hats pose with a pair of statues on display at a shopping district in Beijing Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
  • Passengers spell out the word
  • A model walks in front of a huge sun as spectators watch from an arena-style set-up during the Marc Jacobs Fall 2013 fashion show at Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
  • Players for the Seattle Mariners warm up during a spring training baseball workout Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, in Peoria, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
  • Wounded Bahraini anti-government protesters are treated at a house after shot with pellets fired by riot police during clashes in Daih, Bahrain, on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, the second anniversary of the start of a pro-democracy uprising in the Gulf island kingdom. Protests began at daybreak in opposition areas nationwide as protesters attempted to return to the well-barricaded main site of the uprising. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
  • Palestinian women walk behind mannequins decorated for Valentine's Day, outside a shop in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2012. Valentine's Day is a festival of romantic love and is celebrated in many countries over the world by giving cards, flowers or gifts to spouses or partners. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
  • Exiled Tibetan monks pray at a Tibetan Monastery near Boudhanath Stupa during the third day of Tibetan New Year in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. A Tibetan protester doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Nepal's capital Wednesday, the latest self-immolation to protest Chinese rule in Tibet. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
  • A neighborhood near New Haven, Conn., is buried in snow Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in the aftermath of a storm that hit Connecticut and much of New England Friday and early Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
  • Charlie Beljan misses a birdie putt on the 18th green as fog rolls in and darkness brings an end to the first round of the Northern Trust Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
  • President Barack Obama reacts as he draws a card during a learning game during a visit to a pre-kindergarten classroom at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. The president is traveling to promote his economic and educational plan that he highlighted in his State of the Union address. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
  • A Pakistani youth poses for a picture taken by his friend in front of a big red heart made of flowers displayed outside flowers shop on Valentine's Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Romance may not be dead in Pakistan but it is under attack. Conservatives in Pakistan are attacking the romantic holiday as a western-inspired event helping to spread vulgarity in their country and putting up posters calling on people to boycott the holiday. But romantics are fighting back with an arsenal of flowers, pink teddy bears and heart-shaped balloons. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
  • Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius leaves the Boschkop police station, east of Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 en route to appear in court charged with murder. Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was taken into custody and was expected to appear in court Thursday, after a 30-year-old woman who was believed to be his girlfriend was shot dead at his home in South Africa's capital, Pretoria. (AP Photo/Chris Collingridge)
  • South Korean protesters burn an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an anti-North Korea rally denouncing the North's nuclear test in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. A day after North Korea defied U.N. warnings with a nuclear test, Pyongyang's neighbors turned Wednesday to the business of bolstering their military preparations and sending out scientists to determine whether the detonation was as successful as the North claimed. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
  • Cardinal Angelo Comastri puts ash on Pope Benedict XVI's head during the celebration of Ash Wednesday mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. Pope Benedict XVI told thousands of faithful Wednesday that he was resigning for
  • Ernesto Lara celebrates with Banana Joe, an affenpinscher, who won Best in Show, during the 137th Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
 

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