The Week in Pictures

The singer Pink is suspended above the Grammy Awards audience Sunday as part of her performance at Staples Center.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Elton John and Lady Gaga take a bow after performing at the Grammy Awards show Sunday at Staples Center.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Athletes start the 70K Marcialonga, cross-country ski competition on Sunday.  (Mario Facchini / Associated Press)

A man kayaks past an iceberg on the Baltic Sea near the Binz resort on the German island of Rugia, in the Baltic Sea. A low pressure system, “Keziban” has turned the beach into a strange winter landscape.  (Stefam Saier / EPA)

A man digs out his car with using a broom after a heavy snowfall in Espiral in the Navarra region of northern Spain. The Spanish meteorology agency put out an alert for four regions in northern Spain amid forecasts of heavy snow.  (Jesus Eiges / EPA)

Soccer fans at a pub in London wear 3D glasses as they watch the English Premier League match between Arsenal and Manchester United broadcast live by Sky Sports. It was Sky’s first 3D soccer broadcast to selected venues around Britain in a trial for 3D TV.  (Akira Suemori / Associated Press)

Lady Gaga arrives at the Grammy Awards on Sunday at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The entertainer won two Grammys at a pre-telecast ceremony.  (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant is fouled under the net as Boston Celtics’ Ray Allen, bottom left, Kevin Garnett, left, and Kendrick Perkins defend during the fourth quarter of a basketball game Sunday. The Lakers won, 90-89.  (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

The new year’s first full moon rises behind a Hindu temple in Hyderabad, in southern India. According to scientists, this year’s first full moon is larger and brighter than usual.  (Noah Seelam / AFP/Getty Images)

Angolan boys play soccer on the beach at sunset in Luanda, the capital. Defending champion Egypt meets Ghana Sunday in Luanda, in the final of the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament.  (Rebecca Blackwell / AP Photo)

Serena Williams of the United States reacts to a point won against Justine Henin of Belgium during the women’s singles final match at the Australian Open tennis championship on Saturday. Williams won the match, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, for her fifth Australian Open title.  (Rick Rycroft / Associated Press)

Sporting Gijon’s Canella, right, vies with Barcelona’s captain, Carles Puyol, during a Spanish League soccer match Saturday at Molinon Stadium.  (Rafa Rivas / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman and her son awake after spending the night on the street in front of the collapsed presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. Full coverage  (Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press)

Women walk by a small jewelry shop, right, and a grocery store in a Christian neighborhood of Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Missouri’s Keith Ramsey, left, and teammate Laurence Bowers get tangled up as they pull down a rebound during the first half of a college basketball game against Oklahoma State on Saturday.  (L.G. Patterson / Associated Press)

A Delta plane is de-iced at the Nashville International Airport. A strong storm dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow across Tennessee.  (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)

Fire breaks out at the Iron market in Haiti’s capital, where earthquake victims face a new threat as the United Nations reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus in squalid tent camps.  (Alex Ogle / AFP/Getty Images)

Ice dangles from power lines and the walkway to the dam at Lake Lawtonka on Friday. Heavy ice brought down electrical lines and trees limbs, leaving more than 179,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma without power, according to the state Department of Emergency Management.  (Jeff Dixon / Lawton Constitution)

At the Kasseque market, salted fish stacked on the ground await purchase.  (Khaled Desouki / AFP/Getty Images)

An antiwar protester is removed by police from the building where a British panel is holding an inquiry into the Iraq war.  (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)

A protester wearing a Tony Blair mask stands in a mock cage outside the building where the former British prime minister was testifying about the nation’s involvement in the Iraq war.  (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)

Members of a carnival group taking part in a carnival parade in Montevideo, Uruguay. Thousands of Uruguayans and tourists gathered to see more than 40 groups participating in this year’s official carnival competition.  (Ivan Franco / EPA)

Phil Casabon of Canada does an aerial maneuver during the men’s skiing slopestyle eliminations during Winter X Games 14 in Aspen, Colo.  (Doug Pensinger / Getty Images)

Unemployed men gather on a street corner waiting for work in Kabul, Afghanistan.  (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

Firemen sift through the rubble after a half-century-old building block collapsed in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district. Three people were killed when the five-story building collapsed, while at least two were missing and believed to be trapped in the rubble, reports said. Two people were also injured.  (AFP / Getty Images)

A Buddhist lights incense sticks after offering prayers at Kelaniya Temple in the Gampaha district of Kelaniya, western Sri Lanka. The predominantly Buddhist country marks every full-moon day as an official holiday, or Poya day. The full moon is the phase under which Buddha was said to have been born, enlightened and attained nirvana (the state of bliss) 2,500 years ago.  (Indranil Mukherjee / AFP / Getty Images)

A shot by Nigeria’s Obinna Nsofor is blocked by Ghanaian goalkeeper Richard Kingson on Thursday in the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament. Ghana prevailed, 1-0, and will face defending champion Egypt in the tournament final.  (Joe Klamar / AFP / Getty Images)

Workers search among houses destroyed by a landslide caused by heavy rains in southern La Paz, Bolivia.  (Aizar Raldes / AFP / Getty Images)

Young pandas from the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Center in China’s Sichuan province roam at the Shanghai zoo, where they are being featured as part of this year’s World Expo.  (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)

A happy Serena Williams of the U.S. savors her Australian Open semifinals victory Thursday over China’s Li Na, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Li had earlier eliminated Williams’ sister Venus from the tournament.  (Andy Wong / Associated Press)

Andy Murray of Great Britain lets out a yell after winning a point against Croatia’s Marin Cilic, whom Murray bested, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2, on Thursday to reach his second Grand Slam final.  (Mark Baker / Associated Press)

Actress Anne Hathaway is honored as woman of the year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.  (Elise Amendola / Associated Press)

A winter sunset in downtown Moscow. Experts say the Russian capital has seen its coldest January in 60 years.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs speaks as a vintage image of himself and fellow Apple founder Steve Wozniak fills a video screen at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where Apple introduced its new iPad mobile tablet.  (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

Henry T. Nicholas III, left, arrives at federal court in Santa Ana with friends Kim Davis and Steve Ipsen, president of the Los Angeles County Assn. of Deputy District Attorneys. A judge threw out drug-trafficking charges against Nicholas, co-founder of Broadcom.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Keith Scobie-Youngs of Cumbria Clock Co. carries out maintenance work on the “Great Abel” clock at Town Hall in Manchester, England. The clock bears the inscription “Teach us to number our days.”  (Dave Thompson / Associated Press)

Immigrant workers walk past snowmen in Moscow. Temperatures in the Russian capital -- and across Europe -- remain steadily below freezing; the cold snap, along with snow and ice, have caused fatalities, travel disruptions and school closures.  (Alexey Sazonov / AFP / Getty Images)

French interior minister Brice Hortefeux walks through the main Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, eastern France. According to police, the cemetery was desecrated, with some gravestones marked with swastikas and overturned, on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the infamous World War II Nazi concentration camp.  (Christian Lutz / Associated Press)

Tourists are evacuated by government troops from the Machu Picchu archeological site in Cuzco, Peru. Heavy rain and mudslides in Peru’s southern Andes have blocked the train route to the ancient Inca citadel, leaving nearly 2,000 tourists stranded.  (Martin Mejia / Associated Press)

A woman at her beachfront home looks at a Panamanian cargo ship that ran aground because of strong winds near the port city of Algeciras, southern Spain.  (Andy Ragel / Associated Press)

Relatives of Tony Elias Zakhem, one of 90 people who died in a Jan. 25 plane crash off Beirut’s coast, attend his funeral in Diddeh, northern Lebanon. Authorities have not yet found the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, or black boxes, that could yield clues about the cause of the crash, which occurred during a fierce storm. The Ethiopian Airlines flight was bound for Addis Ababa.  (AFP / Getty Images)

Hundreds of students at the University of Havana hold torches during a late-night march to celebrate the 157th anniversary of the birth of Cuban revolutionary José Martí. He was born Jan. 28, 1853.  (Javier Galeano / Associated Press)

Supporters of former President Manuel Zelaya gather to watch the ousted leader leave Honduras by plane at Toncontin airport in Tegucigalpa. Hours after Porfirio Lobo was sworn in as president, Zelaya and his family flew into exile in the Dominican Republic under a deal that ends months of turmoil since a military coup in June. “We’ll be back,” Zelaya shouted before boarding the plane.  (Yuri Cortez / AFP / Getty Images)

Visitors from around the world pass under the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei (“Work Sets You Free”) sign over the main gate at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, just hours before solemn ceremonies to mark 65 years since the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Later today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will join Polish leaders in commemorative ceremonies at Birkenau, the larger of the two camps, in which about 1 million Jews were murdered.  (Czarek Sokolowski / Associated Press)

People look at exhibits frozen into an ice memorial made in St. Petersburg, Russia, to mark the 66th anniversary of the end of the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.  (Dmitry Lovetsky / Associated Press)

Despite freezing temperatures, a man fishes at the Khimki Water Reservoir in northwest Moscow. Weather experts said January was the coldest in the Russian capital in sixty years.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

A model sets fire to a fake 20 euro banknote during On Aura Tout Vu’s spring-summer 2010 Haute Couture fashion show in Paris.  (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press)

Firefighters in Liege, Belgium, try to extinguish a fire in a five-story apartment building that collapsed following an explosion that left at least 20 people injured, two of them critically. The explosion was probably caused by a gas leak, officials said.  (Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Associated Press)

Former Liverpool and England striker John Barnes playfully arm-wrestles with children at Lar Kuzola orphanage in Luanda, Angola. Barnes is in the south-central African country during the Orange Africa Cup of Nations football championships CAN2010, which ends Sunday, to promote England’s 2018 World Cup bid.  (Joe Klamar / AFP / Getty Images)

Earthquake survivors participate in a prayer service on a golf course in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.  (David Hernandez / EPA)

People gather around the India Gate national war memorial, festively glowing with orange, white and green lights, the colors of the Indian flag, a day after Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. India celebrates its Republic Day on Jan. 26 every year.  (Saurabh Das / Associated Press)

People make their way past illuminated government buildings during Republic Day in the Indian capital.  (Gurinder Osan / Associated Press)

The crowd gets unruly at a food distribution site in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, the capital.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

A member of the Viking Jarl Squad is seen in front of a Viking galley ship during the annual Up Helly Aa Festival in Scotland. The event celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings and culminates with up to 1,000 men in costume throwing flaming torches into a Viking longship.  (Carl de Souza / AFP/Getty Images)

People make their way on a flooded street in the Jardim Romano neighborhood. Heavy rains have left dozens of people dead in Sao Paulo state and caused extensive damage in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo.  (Nelson Antoine / Associated Press)

A Lebanese firefighter carries a piece of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 that crashed into the sea Monday shortly after takeoff in Beirut. The pilot of the plane performed “a very fast and strange turn before disappearing from the radar,” Lebanon’s transportation minister said Tuesday. All 90 people on board are feared dead.  (Hussein Malla / Associated Press)

A Lebanese firefighter uses a raft to retrieve small debris at the public beach of Ramlet Baida as a vessel helps in the search efforts after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane on Monday  (Hussein Malla / Associated Press)

Rape blossoms attract admirers at Azumayayama park in Kanagawa, Japan, west of Tokyo.  (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)

Robert Aviles, accompanied by a California sunset, goes airborne while kite surfing in Huntington Beach.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A South African resident of Makhaza suburb walks past an open-air toilet in Khayelitsha. The South African Human Rights Commission says residents, lacking enclosures, have been covering themselves with blankets when they use the toilets in the township. Community activists say residents’ dignity will only be restored once permanent enclosures are built. Housing and the lack thereof is one of the major issues facing the ruling African National Congress.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

Indian school girls perform a folk dance from the state of Punjab as they take part in India’s Republic Day celebrations in Amritsar. Republic Day marks the adoption of the constitution of India and the transition of the nation from British rule to status as a republic.  (Raminder Pal Singh / EPA)

Teenagers jump from the bell at Cottesloe Beach during Australia Day celebrations. The holiday commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.  (Paul Kane / Getty Images)

A student performs an ancient form of Indian gymnastics during Republic Day celebrations in Bangalore. Paramilitary soldiers and police set up roadblocks and snipers took positions atop government buildings as India celebrated its national day Tuesday against the backdrop of a terror alert.  (Aijaz Rahi / Associated Press)

A woman walks through one of three sites bombed Monday in Baghdad. The coordinated attack targeted three hotels favored by Western journalists.  (Hadi Mizban / Associated Press)

Suspected Yemeni Al Qaeda member Mohammed Kassem Ali Ghawly stands behind bars during his trial at a court in Sanaa. A Yemeni court sentenced seven suspected Al Qaeda members to five to 10 years in jail after convicting them of plotting to attack foreign interests and tourists.  (Marwan Naamani / AFP / Getty Images)

Put out of his home after this month’s deadly earthquake, Rudeson Laurent, 10, takes a drink of water after brushing his teeth on a burning pile of trash inside the Daihatsu tent camp on the outskirts of the capital.  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A woman walks in the snow-covered capital. Dozens are reported to have died in eastern and central Europe during a recent brutal cold snap. More than a foot of snow was expected in parts of Istanbul.  (Ibrahim Usta / Associated Press)

Pakistanis empty a truck loaded with garbage in a dump on the outskirts of Islamabad.  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France celebrates after his five-set victory against Nicolas Almagro of Spain in a men’s singles fourth-round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne on Monday.  (John Donegan / Associated Press)

President Obama shares a laugh with members of the Lakers in the East Room of the White House on Monday, during a ceremony honoring the 2008-09 NBA champions.  (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)

On a clear, cold and breezy early morning, the moon sets behind the Oceanside, Calif., pier as offshore winds lift plumes of spray from the crashing surf.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

An airplane takes off as Lebanese soldiers gather debris washed ashore from a crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane. The plane, carrying 90 people, caught fire and crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff this morning from Beirut.  (Mohammed Zaatari / Associated Press)

Lebanese Red Cross workers carry the body of one of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash into a Beirut hospital.  (Ben Curtis / Associated Press)

A wounded girl is carried away from the Hamra hotel, one of three hotel compounds in Baghdad targeted in coordinated suicide attacks that killed dozens.  (Mohammed Jalil / EPA)

A husky shows off his baby blues in Yildiz park in Istanbul, where heavy snowfall is expected.  (Mustafa Ozer / AFP / Getty Images)

A man takes a photo of icicles on a thickly frozen jetty in Sassnitz, Germany, on the Baltic Sea island of Rugen. The coast around the island is covered in about half a foot of ice.  (Jens Koehler / AFP / Getty Images)

A girl looks out a frost-covered bus window on January 25, 2010 in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, where temperatures dropped below 0.  (Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP / Getty Images)

Trash and shopping carts litter the beach near Seal Beach Pier. Last week’s storms brought debris down the San Gabriel River. “It’s gross,” one surfer said. “There’s plastic bags everywhere.”  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Rafael Nadal of Spain serves to Ivo Karlovic of Croatia during their men’s singles fourth-round match at the Australian Open tennis championship on Sunday. Nadal won, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.  (Andrew Brownbill / Associated Press)

Iranian firefighters work on a passenger plane that crash-landed at Mashhad airport ub northeastern Iran. The Russian-made Tupolev passenger plane was carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew members; at least 45 were hospitalized, state television reported. Full story  (Mehdi Ghorbani / Associated Press)

“Leo,” a seven-year-old South American sea lion, performs during a training session at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo.  (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)

Border Security Force officers on camels rehearse during preparations for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. India will celebrate Republic Day on Jan. 26.  (Mustafa Quraishi / Associated Press)

Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Austin Collie (17) is tackled short of the goal line by New York Jets safety Kerry Rhodes (25) in the second quarter during the AFC Championship game on Sunday. The Colts won, 30-17, and are headed to Super Bowl XLIV.  (Darron Cummings / Associated Press)

People participate in the “Flour battle” during a festival in the village of Xinzo, in northwestern Spain.  (Miguel Riopa / AFP / Getty Images)

The Soufriere Hills volcano erupts on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.  (Wayne Fenton / Associated Press)

Storm clouds clear to reveal the sunset at Dana Point . More storms are expected to arrive in Southern California, but the brief break provided a pleasant view.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)