Week in photos (Feb. 13-17)
February 18, 2012
Photo gallery: View a gallery of photos from the week of Feb. 13, 2012.
People light candles commemorating the 67th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden during WWII in Dresden, Germany, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. British and U.S. bombers on Feb. 13-14, 1945 destroyed Dresden’s centuries-old baroque city center. In background the 18th-century Frauenkirche , Church of Our Lady. (Jens Meyer / Associated Press)
Afghan refugee children peek through a door curtain in the center of Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Feb 13, 2012. Pakistan is seeking to return some 1.2 million Afghan refugees still living in Pakistan. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)
Owner and handler Anna Carlsson, of Sweden, kisses her Chinese Crested dog named Prefix while grooming at the136th annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, in New York. (Craig Ruttle / Fr61802 Ap)
The Badgley Mischka Fall 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (John Minchillo / Fr170537 Ap)
A worker carries a painting as stands mount their exhibitions at the ARCO art fair in Madrid Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012. ARCO opens Feb. 15. (Paul White / Associated Press)
A ski jumper reflects in the helm of Tom Hilde of Norway during the training at the men’s Large Hill individual ski jumping at the FIS Team Tour World Cup in Klingenthal, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. One and a half months after his spinal fracture during the the Four Hills Tournament, he makes his World Cup comeback in Klingenthal . (Jens Meyer / Associated Press)
Malachy, a Pekingese, winner of the best in show title at the136th Annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, takes a rest after eating a chicken and rice meal at Sardi’s Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in New York. (Craig Ruttle / Fr61802 Ap)
A woman exercises in a fur coat on an elliptical machine at an outdoor park in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Since the end of January, Eastern Europe has been pummeled by a deep freeze, which has brought the heaviest blizzards in recent memory, trapped thousands behind walls of snow, and left officials struggling to reach out to the vulnerable. (John Mcconnico / Associated Press)
Dancers perform during the 62nd edition of the Sanremo Song Festival, in Sanremo, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)
An Indian worker washes his hands as installed solar panels seen atop the Narmada canal at Chandrasan village, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Western Indian state of Gujarat is all set to become the first state in the country to generate solar power through panels mounted on a water body. Generated solar power will be supplied to villages alongside the canal, which will lead to lower transmission losses and also helping to reduce the evaporation of water. (Ajit Solanki / Associated Press)
Tools lay by skeletal remains during an excavation after they were discovered buried at the National Police Special Forces Headquarters in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday Feb. 16, 2012. This is the 13th skeleton found since 2009 at the location that was used as a clandestine prison during the (1954-1989) military dictatorship of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. Paraguay’s Truth and Justice Commission is a human rights group in Paraguay looking for the 336 people who disappeared during Stroessner’s dictatorship. (Jorge Saenz / Associated Press)
Masked participants parade through the streets of Lucerne, Switzerland during the carnival parade Thursday Feb. 16, 2012. ( AP Photo/Keystone/Sigi Tischler) (Sigi Tischler / Keystone)
Riot police catch a high school student during an anti-austerity protest in Athens, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. Tensions between Athens and other European capitals hit new highs this week as eurozone ministers delayed to next Monday a decision on a bailout agreement and demanded more commitments from Greece. (Thanassis Stavrakis / Associated Press)
Supporters of India’s ruling Congress party listen to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at an election rally in Kanpur, India, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. Elections in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous and politically crucial state, are being currently held in seven phases. (Rajesh Singh / Associated Press)
Bahraini anti-government protesters gesture in the spray of police water canons during clashes Friday night, Feb. 17, 2012, in Sanabis, Bahrain, on the edge of the capital of Manama. Clashes erupted as several groups of protesters tried Friday to walk from different directions toward the main site of last spring’s pro-democracy protests, now a revamped but sealed-off traffic junction in the capital. (Hasan Jamali / Associated Press)
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