The Week in Pictures

One of several tent cities that have sprung up around Port-au-Prince, where thousands of residents have become homeless after a 7.0 earthquake. More photos from Haiti  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

A photograph of earthquake victim Leslie Polynice lies in the rubble of a home in Port-au-Prince. Full coverage  (Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)

The Charlotte Bobcats’ D.J. Augustin (14) passes as DeJuan Blair of the visiting San Antonio Spurs exerts defensive pressure during Charlotte’s 92-76 win.  (Chuck Burton / Associated Press)

Elena Dementieva of Russia exults after defeating Serena Williams of the U.S., 6-3, 6-2, in the women’s singles final Friday at the Sydney International tennis tournament.  (Rick Rycroft / Associated Press)

The Tungurahua volcano spews smoke and lava. The volcano, one of Ecuador’s most active, has awoken after six months of calm.  (Jose Jacome / EPA)

The Arizona Cardinals’ LaRod Stephens-Howling (36) is stopped short of the end zone by the Green Bay Packers’ Tramon Williams (38), Brandon Chillar (54) and Atari Bigby (20) during the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff game on Sunday.  (Ross D. Franklin / Associated Press)

A family evacuates their home near Shkodra, 75 miles north of the Albanian capital, Tirana. European countries are sending emergency aid to the country’s northwest, where more than 2,400 houses have been flooded because of heavy rainfall.  (Hektor Pustina / Associated Press)

A convoy of trucks lies pushed to the side of the road by flood water on the outskirts of Bacallek.  (Hektor Pustina / Associated Press)

Travelers crowd the terminal at Geneva’s international airport, which was temporarily closed because of heavy snow.  (Martial Trezzini / EPA)

AC Milan’s Brazilian forward Ronaldinho, background, controls the ball as Juventus defender Zdenek Grygera of Czech Republic vies for the ball during their Serie A soccer match at the Olympic Stadium.  (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)

Volkswagen’s driver Mark Miller of the U.S. and co-driver South Africa’s Ralph Pitchford compete during the eighth stage of the 2010 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Antofagasta and Copiapo, Chile, on Sunday.  (Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press)

Hartwig Rackwitz and his dogs take part in a race in eastern Germany. The region is covered with snow.  (Jens Schlueter / AFP / Getty Images)

Thousands of South Korean anglers drop lines through holes cut in a frozen river during a contest to catch trout in Hwacheon. The event is part of an annual ice festival that draws more than 1 million visitors.  (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

An immigrant worker in Rosarno, in the southern Italian region of Calabria, walks by a wall in the town after clashes with residents took place overninght. Authorities and reports said residents beat immigrants with iron bars, shot at them and ran them over, injuring nine -- two seriously -- in a second night of racially charged violence.  (Carlo Hermann / AFP / Getty Images)

Rajasthani musicians from the Indian group the Manganiyar Seduction perform during opening night of the 34th Sydney Festival. Over 1 million Sydneysiders are expected to watch 1,300 artists from across the country and around the world perform in 81 different events scattered across 27 venues until January 30.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images)

Thai children aim an armored vehicle-mounted gun as a soldier watches during a gathering at a navy camp on the occasion of National Children’s Day in Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat. More than 4,100 people have died during a six-year anti-government insurgency across the south led by a shadowy mix of Islamist and separatist militants who never publicly state their goals.  (Madaree Tohlala / AFP / Getty Images)

Louisville’s Jerry Smith battles St. John’s Malik Boothe for a loose ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game.  (Timothy D. Easley / Associated Press)

Cars drive relatively slowly on snowy Autobahn A52 in Essen, Germany.  (Martin Meissner / AP Photo)

A naga sadhu, or naked Hindu holy man, exhales smoke after puffing marijuana at a transit camp on the way to Gangasagar in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta.  (Bikas Das / Associated Press)

Young men use wooden tubs to splash cold water onto themselves during an annual cold-endurance festival at the ancient Kanda Myojin Shinto shrine in Tokyo.  (Koji Sasahara / Associated Press)

Hannah Teter competes during qualifying for the halfpipe competition of the 2010 U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain ski resort in Mammoth Lakes, Calif.  (Jed Jacobsohn / Getty Images)

Current World cup leader Jason Lamy Chappuis of France competes in the ski jumping portion of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Predazzo, Italy. Finland’s Anssi Koivuranta leads the event ahead of Russia’s Sergej Maslennikov and Johnny Spillane of the United States.  (Alberto Pizzoli / AFP/Getty Images)

On Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday, flowers lie on his grave at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn.  (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)

A sign announces discounts along Fifth Avenue. December retail sales, helped by a better-than-expected Christmas, rose 2.9% from the same month in 2008, according to Thomson Reuters’ tally of major chains.  (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares for a photo with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the State Department. Gheit told Clinton he hopes to get Mideast peace talks moving again.  (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)

The sun rises, but it isn’t enough to thaw the frozen Ijsselmeer lake in The Netherlands. Heavy snowfall, ice and cold temperatures have caused serious problems at airports, roads and train stations across Europe.  (Koen Suyk / EPA)

Two mounted police officers patrol the federal courthouse prior to the arraignment of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, at U.S. District Court in Detroit. Abdulmutallab, an alleged Al Qaeda member accused of attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, faces a six-count federal indictment. The charges include the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder.  (Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)

Two brothers share a shawl as they try to keep warm in New Delhi. Extremely cold weather and thick fog in northern India during the last two weeks has caused hundreds of deaths, some caused by traffic accidents, flight cancellations and school closures.  (Saurabh Das / Associated Press)

Gay activists celebrate in front of Portugal’s Parliament building in Lisbon after a bill to legalize same-sex marriages was approved. Lawmakers rejected proposals to allow gay couples to adopt, but otherwise the bill passed with little public controversy in the predominantly Catholic country. Conservative President Anibal Cavaco Silva is not expected to veto the bill.  (Francisco Leong / AFP / Getty Images)

Endangered tigers fight for a wild bird at the Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Jacky Loomans of Belgium drives his Nissan behind his assistance truck in Tabenkrout, Mauritania, during the ninth stage of the Africa Eco Race. The race, which began Dec. 30 in Nador, Morocco, and covers about 3,700 miles over 11 days, ends Sunday in Dakar, Senegal.  (Lionel Bonaventure / AFP / Getty Images)

A chef in the Arab-Israeli town of Abu Gosh puts the finishing touches on a giant hummus dish that, weighing more than 4 tons, breaks Lebanon’s Guiness World Record for biggest bowl of hummus ever made. The popular Middle Eastern food, made from crushed chick peas, olive oil, lemon juice and spices, was prepared in a sattelite dish in the parking lot of a restaurant.  (Yossi Zamir / EPA)

U.S. sledder Noelle Pikus-Pace of Orem, Utah, competes in the women’s first race of the skeleton World Cup in Koenigssee, southern Germany.  (Oliver Lang / AFP / Getty Images)

Archie Kirk takes the opportunity to practice his rugby kicking skills after the youngster was told his school would be closed for the third day in a row. Heavy snowfall, ice and freezing temperatures in Brighton and many other parts of England have caused treacherous travel conditions.  (Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty Images)

A user tries out an interactive wall display at the International Consumer Electronics Show, a consumer technology trade show in Las Vegas that is being attended by more than 100,000 people.  (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

A bus is encrusted in ice and snow in Elkhorn, Neb., near Omaha.  (Nati Harnik / Associated Press)

Icicles form on a row of houses at sunset in Fauldhouse, in Scotland’s West Lothian region as temperatures continued to fall across Britain. Forecasters warned the cold snap brought by an Arctic weather system would continue through next week.  (Andrew Milligan / Associated Press)

A man walks through the snow-covered concrete steles at the Holocaust memorial for the murdered Jews in Berlin. Winter weather continues in Germany with more snowfall forecast and very low temperatures for the next few days.  (John Macdougall / AFP/Getty Images)

A car races from Antofagasta to Iquique, Chile, in Stage 6 of the Dakar Rally 2010 in which drivers circle from Chile through Argentina and back. The rally moved to Latin America last year from Africa amid security concerns.  (Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press)

A man pulls his daughter on a sled past beach huts. People across Britain are digging out after some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades, which caused the closure of airport runways and roads and led to train delays across the country.  (Scott Heppell / Associated Press)

As a pedestrian walks past, snow falls on a 25-foot-tall statue titled “God Bless America.” The statue by J. Steward Johnson was inspired by Grant Wood’s painting “American Gothic.”  (Kiichiro Sato / Associated Press)

An Orthodox Christian woman touches an icon during the religious service celebrating the Orthodox Christmas in St. Clement Cathedral.  (Robert Atanasovski / AFP/Getty Images)

Muscovites dance in front of St. Basil Cathedral during Orthodox Christmas celebrations.  (Andrei Smirnov / AFP/Getty Images)

In sub-zero temperatures, Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of a mountain hot spring. Jigokudani is the only known place in the world where monkeys bathe in natural hot springs.  (Everett Kennedy Brown / EPA)

Palestinian men carry an elderly woman after a confrontation among settlers, Israeli soldiers and the Palestinians.  (Abed Al Hashlamoun / EPA)

Boatmen carry passengers in a canal. Fishing, farming and the boat trade are the main occupations in the villages across the country.  (Abir Abdullah / EPA)

Workers finalizing construction of the SAMSUNG 128 LED television booth at this year’s CES, at the Las Vegas Covention center.  (Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times)

Five-month-old panda cub Yun Zi plays in one of the panda exhibit areas at the San Diego Zoo. Yun Zi goes on display to the public Thursday.  (Lenny Ignelzi / Associated Press)

Texas quarterback Colt McCoy takes in the sun Wednesday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., where the Longhorns will play the Alabama Crimson Tide in college football’s Bowl Championship Series title game on Thursday.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

France’s Julien Lizeroux clears a gate while competing in the FIS World Cup slalom event at Sljeme, near Zagreb, Croatia, on Wednesday.  (AFP / Getty Images))

Pope Benedict XVI kisses a child during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to mark the Epiphany, a day when Christians recall the journey of the Magi to pay homage to the newborn Jesus.  (Pier Paolo Cito / Associated Press)

Francois Lethier, left, and Jerome Pelichet of France compete in the seventh stage of the Africa Eco Race on Wednesday. The 11-day race, which began Dec. 30 in Morocco, covers 6,000 kilometers and ends in Senegal.  (Lionel Bonaventure / AFP/ Getty Images)

Bulgarians jump into an icy lake, where they will compete to catch a cross as part of Epiphany celebrations. Tradition holds that the man who gets the cross, thrown into the water by an Eastern Orthodox priest, will be healthy throughout the new year.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)

Men sing and dance in the Tundzha River as they celebrate Epiphany Day in the tiny town of Kalofer, southern Bulgaria. The Eastern Orthodox priests throw a cross in the river and the men take it out. It is believed that those who dance in the river will be healthy throughout the year.  (Petar Petrov / Associated Press)

Giorgos Ipsilantis holds a wooden cross after retrieving it from the sea during an Epiphany ceremony in Greece’s northern port city of Thessaloniki. Similar ceremonies to mark Epiphany Day were held across Greece on river banks, seafronts and lakes.  (Sakis Mitroldis / AFP / Getty Images)

Children wear traditional outfits as they celebrate Christmas Eve in Lviv, western Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church follows the original Julian calendar, which currently is 13 days behind the standard Western or Gregorian calendar.  (Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP / Getty Images)

Children sled down a hill in Bramhall Park in Bramhall, northwest England. Severe weather warnings have been issued for for much of Britain as heavy snowfall sweeps across the southern counties of Scotland and northern England.  (Alex Livesey / Getty Images)

A blanket of ice covers strawberries in Plant City, Fla. Temperatures in the area dipped into the mid-20s, and farmers there have sprayed their strawberries with water to protect them from the cold in an effort to prevent millions of dollars’ worth of losses. The water freezes and forms a protective igloo that keeps the fruit from being ruined.  (Chris O’Meara / Associated Press)

A deer stands among snow-covered trees at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire, central England. Extreme weather warnings have been issued across England as heavy snowfall has caused hazardous road conditions and led to the closure of airports and hundreds of schools. According to the national weather service, the latest arctic cold snap forecast has made this Britain’s coldest winter in 30 years.  (Michael Regan / Getty Images)

Three-year-old Thomas hides between other carol singers during a meeting with North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Jurgen Ruettgers in the State Chancellery in Dusseldorf, Germany. The carol singers go from door to door on Three Kings Day to bless the house and collect donations.  (Julian Stratenschulte / EPA)

A woman stands on the porch of her floodwater-surrounded home in Obot, a village in Albania’s northwestern Shkoder district. Authorities have declared a natural disaster in several of the country’s northwestern regions devastated by storm-driven flooding over the last several days. Hundreds of families have been forced to evacuate.  (Armando Babani / EPA)

Visitors enjoy the sights at the 26th annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival held in Harbin in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province. The show features elaborate ice sculptures illuminated with multicolored lights.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Space shuttle Endeavour rolls to launch pad 39-a at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station early next month.  (Matt Stroshane / Getty Images)

Emmett Walling, left, Spencer Di Dio, center on rock, Jack Ostler and Ellie Doran take an “ice bath,” as Walling called it, while checking out the tide pools amid warm weather at sunset in south Laguna Beach. The teammates, who are competitive swimmers at USC, were taking a break from swim practice.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A man walks through rising steam on a chilly city street. The National Weather Service says the mercury could fall below zero in St. Louis later this week for the first time since 1999.  (Jeff Roberson / Associated Press)

A mailbox with a unusual post sticks up from a snow bank. Forecasters say snow will continue to fall in northeast Ohio in areas that already have 2 or more feet on the ground.  (Amy Sancetta / Associated Press)

Army National Guard Pfc. Andres Merchan hugs his wife, Gennary Merchan, goodbye during a deployment ceremony. The event honored 600 of the nearly 2,500 members of the Florida National Guard’s 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team who are being deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in the largest single-unit deployment of Florida National Guard members since World War II.  (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Visitors take in the view of the Empire State Building from the observation deck at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. New York City overtook Orlando, Fla., as the No. 1 tourist destination in America last year, drawing an estimated 45.3 million visitors.  (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Laura Childs, an insect keeper at London Zoo, keeps an eye on a spiny stick insect.  (Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press)

Nicholas Alexander of USA competes during trial round for the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event of the 58th Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria.  (Alexander Hassenstein / Getty Images)

A woman slides down an ice slide at the Harbin International Ice and Snow festival held in Harbin in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Visitors of the hot springs Vita Classica enjoy a whirlpool bath in an outside pool, in Bad Krozingen, Germany. In icy air temperatures, the warm-water bath is a special pleasure.  (Rolf Haid / EPA)

A robin redbreast eats berries in the western German city of Neubeckum. Winter weather continues in Germany with more snowfall forecast and very low temperatures for the next few days.  (Clemens Bilan / AFP / Getty Images)

A Sikh man stands on a makeshift boat as he performs the cleaning work of the sacred pond of the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines, enveloped in fog on the occasion of the 344th birth anniversary of the 10th Sikh Guru or master, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, in the northern Indian city of Amritsar,. Guru Gobind Singh Ji was the last Sikh Guru who initiated the special order or sect of the Sikhs called the “Khalsa Panth.”  (Raminder Pal Singh / EPA)

An Indian holy boy or Sandhu receives Prasad or Sanctified Food after worshipping as he arrives in Calcutta for the upcoming Gangasagar Fair in eastern India. The Gangasagar Fair is the annual gathering of Hindu pilgrims during Makar Sankranti at Sagar Island, about 80 miles south of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, to take a dip in sacred waters of the Ganga River. In 2010, the holy dip in the Ganga River takes place Jan. 14.  (Piyal Adhikary / EPA)

Amungme tribesmen run to strike another group of Amungme as a dispute has arisen in Timika. The Amungme tribe is one of about 312 different tribes in Papua who commonly end their disputes in traditional fashion. About 13,000 Amungme live in the highlands of the Papua province of Indonesia where the Grasberg mine owned by Freeport-McMoRan is located.  (Tjahjo Eranius / AFP / Getty Images)

Cristobal Delgado stands in his flooded yard after heavy rainfall in the Pachecas near Jerez de la Frontera. Heavy rain and snowfall forced the closure of about 30 roads in Spain on Dec. 31, mainly in the country’s southwest where fields and homes have been flooded in recent days.  (Pedro Armestre / AFP / Getty Images)

From left, Liria Enriquez, Veronica Flores, Sabrina Fernandez, Carmen Molina and Zoraida Molina attend a vigil for school board member Agustin Roberto “Bobby” Salcedo, who was killed in Mexico last week.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times))