The Week in Pictures

A woman digs her car out of the snow in Chevy Chase, Md., after a blizzard paralyzed the Washington, D.C., region this weekend. Full story  (Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images)

BMW Oracle’s BOR 90 boat sails on Sunday. The 33rd America’s Cup is scheduled to start Monday.  (Victor R. Caivano / Associated Press)

At least seven homes were destroyed in the mountainside neighborhood along Ocean View Boulevard in La Canada after a deluge of water, mud and debris came down the hillsides early Saturday morning. By Saturday night, evacuation orders had been lifted for most of the more than 500 homes that had been under mandatory orders throughout the day.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Indiana’s Christian Watford falls over Northwestern’s Luka Mirkovic as they scramble for a loose ball with Northwestern’s Drew Crawford during the second half of a college basketball game Sunday. Northwestern won, 78-61.  (Jim Prisching / Associated Press)

Beyoncé performs in concert in Sao Paulo. The singer is on her first Brazilian tour and will also perform in Florianopolis, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador.  (Nelson Antoine / Associated Press)

A penguin suit looks right at home on Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C. Record snow knocked out power and grounded flights in the capital.  (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images)

Members of the Anima Naturalis organization protest against bullfighting in front of the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City. The sign reads, “No bullfights!”  (Alfredo Estrella / AFP/Getty Images)

A worker with the gas company digs a hole outside a home on Manistee Drive in La Cañada Flintridge. Heavy rain Saturday caused a flash flood that devastated homes in the Los Angeles-area foothills. Full coverage  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A Sumbanese man on horseback holds a wooden spear in a game of Pasola during the annual Pasola festival in Lamboya, in Indonesia’s West Sumba region. Pasola is a traditional game in which two groups “battle” against each other as a ritual to celebrate rice planting season.  (Firdia Lisnawati / Associated Press)

With more than two feet of snow on the sidewalks, pedestrians walk in the street along Wisconsin Ave. in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.  (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images)

Soldiers deloyed to Afghanistan wait to board a plane at Ft. Campbell.  (Josh Anderson / Associated Press)

A Delta airplane is de-iced at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The region’s second snowstorm in less than two months could be “extremely dangerous,” the National Weather Service said. Full story  (Cliff Owen / Associated Press)

A young Afghan refugee girl looks on during a rainy day in a poor neighborhood of Rawalpindi, Pakistan.  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

A police officer patrols the west front of the U.S. Capitol while much of the Washington Metropolitan area remains under a National Weather Service blizzard warning. Full story  (Tim Sloan / AFP / Getty Images)

Heavy snowfall in Lawrence, Kan., isn’t stopping University of Kansas student Paul Calnon from walking to class.  (Orlin Wagner / Associated Press)

Fishermen covered in plastic bags to protect themselves from the wind sit on the frozen Dnieper River in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.  (Sergei Grits / Associated Press)

Hollyn Bullock, left, Ray Rodriguez and Brad Ibanez of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s urban search and rescue team look for possible victims of a crash after a car that plunged off a cliff near the 13300 block of Mulholland Drive in Beverly Crest was found early Friday. The car is owned by actor Charlie Sheen, who called police Friday to report the vehicle stolen from his home in Sherman Oaks, authorities said.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Phil Mickelson shows disappointment after missing a putt Thursday during the first round of the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. Mickelson is pursuing an unprecedented third straight victory at Riviera.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Iraqi soldiers examine a rocket they discovered during recent operations in Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib suburb. The rocket was likely buried by Saddam Hussein’s army before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.  (Karim Kadim / Associated Press)

Kashmiri Muslim protesters chase Indian policemen during a protest in Srinagar. Thousands of soldiers in riot gear patrolled the streets in Indian Kashmir’s main city Thursday and warned residents to stay home to quell protests over the death of a teenage boy, police said.  (Yasin Dar / Associated Press)

A US Marine wears combat camouflage during the annual combined military exercise Cobra Gold 2010 at a Navy base in Thailand’s Rayong province. About 14,000 military personnel from six nations, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Singapore and Japan, are taking part in the largest U.S.-led war games in the Pacific.  (Pornchai Kittiwongakul / AFP / Getty Images)

A child sits on a Windsor chair from 1770 during the press view of the exhibition “Sit Down: Seating for Kids” at the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood in London. Spanning four centuries, the exhibition features over 70 examples of seating made for children, from school chairs to armchairs, saddles to swings, highchairs to potties.  (Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images)

A model displays a creation by designer Mona al-Mansouri from the United Arab Emirates during a four-day fashion show for Lebanese and other Arab designers in Beirut.  (Hussein Malla / Associated Press)

A worker helps to prepare the freestyle skiing venue at Cypress Mountain for the Winter Olympics, which will begin Feb. 12 in British Columbia.  (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)

Nicole Meese feeds giant panda Tai Shan on a cargo plane at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va. Tai Shan is heading to China, one of two giant pandas born in American zoos flying to China by special cargo jet to become part of a breeding program in their native land.  (Susan Walsh / Associated Press)

Katherine Svoboda, 20, watches as her hair is cut off by Sarah Davis, center, and Elizabeth Hartley, right, of the Vidal Sassoon Academy for a “Locks of Love” event at the UCLA campus. More than 240 UCLA students, staff, alumni and friends got their hair cut. The hair will be donated to the nonprofit, which creates wigs for children who have lost their hair because of illness. The cuts were provided by student stylists from the Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica, and the event was hosted by the Alumni Scholars Club, a student group that is part of the UCLA Alumni Assn. Svoboda is a senior at Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley, and her father is a UCLA alumnus.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

A man jogs past a sign for Super Bowl XLIV on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Indianapolis Colts will play the New Orleans Saints at Sun Life Stadium in South Florida on Sunday.  (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

U.S. troops keep Haitians without tickets for food from entering a food distribution point in downtown Port-au-Prince. The Jan. 12 earthquake killed an estimated 150,000 people, about 1 in 13 residents of the Port-au-Prince area.  (Roberto Schmidt / AFP / Getty Images)

People dressed in stormtrooper costumes are seen during a promotional event for Adidas’ new Star Wars-themed sneaker in New York’s Times Square.  (Justin Lane / EPA)

Holographic light installation “Homos Luminosos” by Rosaline de Thelin is seen on display at the Kinetica Art Fair in London. The artist used fiber optic cable to show the human form.  (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)

Images of Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko and President Viktor Yushchenko are seen on boots placed outside the Ukrainian Embassy in the Russian capital o Moscow by members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi during a protest against the two politicians. Tymoshenko raised tensions ahead of Sunday’s election, warning that she would call for mass protests if her rival, Viktor Yanukovych, rigged the polls.  (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Getty Images)

Children watch as peasants protest debt bondage in Hyderabad, the second-largest city in Pakistan’s Sindh province. According to media reports, the problem of debt bondage is increasing in Sindh. Families either in search of employment or in need of cash to deal with a crisis become victims of the feudal lords who lend money to them and then make them work for little or no pay to pay off the debt.  (Nadeem Khawer / EPA)

A Turkish army officer stands in front of a meeting hall during an informal gathering of NATO defense ministers in Istanbul, Turkey.  (Mustafa Ozer / AFP / Getty Images)

Visitors look at a snow sculpture in Odori Park in Sapporo, northern Japan, on the eve of the annual Sapporo Snow Festival. About 2 million people are expected to attend the week-long winter event.  (Kimimasa Mayama / EPA)

Investigators from various law enforcement agencies are seen at the scene of an officer-involved shooting in South Gate. Police were following a white car from Bell to South Gate shortly after midnight when it crashed at Seville Avenue and Santa Ana Street, authorities said. Police and the car’s occupants fired at each other, and one of the officers hit the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is investigating the incident.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Sevilla’s Brazilian forward Luis Fabiano reacts during a Spanish Kingís Cup soccer match against Getafe at Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain.  (Christine Quicler / AFP/Getty Images)

An elderly woman begs on a roadside in New Delhi.  (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press)

President Obama pauses as he listens to a question from Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) while attending the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference at the Newseum.  (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)

Art teacher Lilia Ramirez, 38, of Boyle Heights wears an angel costume while asking the City Council not to cut city arts programs as it discussed proposed layoffs.  (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)

The Lotus Temple’s silhouette is seen at sunset in New Delhi. The Bahai House of Worship, popularly known as the Lotus Temple because of its flowerlike shape, is a prominent attraction in the Indian capital. It was completed in 1986.  (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP/Getty Images)

Mark Grimmette of the U.S. Olympic luge team tests a racing suit Wednesday at the San Diego Air & Space Museum wind tunnel. The new type of suit is to be used in the Winter Olympics at Vancouver, Canada, this month.  (Lenny Ignelzi / Associated Press)

A child in Kashmir looks on as protesters clash with police in downtown Srinagar. Police and demonstrators have been hurt in violent riots in the city, one of several Muslim-majority towns shut down by a strike called by separatists in reaction to the death of Muslim boy Wamiq Farooq, who was killed by a police tear-gas shell Jan. 31.  (Tauseef Mustafa / AFP/Getty Images)

A pack of cyclists speeds along the route of the Etoile de Besseges race in southern France on Wednesday, when Slovenian Borut Bozic won the 145-kilometer first stage.  (Pascal Guyot / AFP/ Getty Images)

Opposition lawmakers belonging to the Italia Dei Valori (‘Italy of Values”) party hold up signs against the final vote on the government’s planned changes to the legal system.  (Andreas Solaro / AFP/Getty Images)

The town of Iqaluit, capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, has a population of 7,000, It may seem an unlikely venue for a Group of 7 industrial nations session on the global economy, but the host nation chose it in part to underscore a message about sovereignty over its part of the Arctic.  (Robert Gillies / Associated Press)

A pair of Evzones -- members of Greece’s elite presidential guard -- complete their sentry duty in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in downtown Athens.  (Orestis Panagiotou / EPA)

A woman holds a pair of angel wings in the warehouse of Angels, the Costumiers. On Saturday, the London company holds its Retro Sale, with more than 25,000 items of clothing and accessories from their warehouse in Wembley. The sale features fashion items from the 1950s to the 1990s as well as period military uniforms. Angels, founded in 1840, supplies costumes to more than 1,000 film and theater productions each year.  (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

Amal Meseha, the mother of Abanoub Atef, one of six Copts killed Jan. 6 during the bloody Coptic Christmas Eve attack in the southern town of Nag Hammadi, Egypt, waves a poster with an image of her son during a protest in front the Egyptian Parliament. Protesters were calling for new laws giving Christians the right, equal to Muslims, to build houses of worship.  (Nasser Nouri / Associated Press)

The 966th anniversary of the death of Data Gunj Baksh, the patron saint of Lahore, is marked in that Pakistani city. A Muslim man dances as part of the event.  (K.M.Chaudary / Associated Press)

A Palestinian youth walks through the rubble following an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip. Early Wednesday, Israeli warplanes struck two smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border in response to the launch of floating explosives known as barrel bombs and the firing of a rocket from Gaza, the military said.  (Eyad Baba / Associated Press)

A Chinese woman carries salvaged raw materials from a residential area being demolished on the outskirts of Beijing. Rapid urban redevelopment is spreading to the outskirts of the Chinese capital as easy credit fuels real estate speculation.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Iraqi Shiite pilgrims beat themselves to mark Arbaeen, one of the holiest days in their religious calendar. A bomb planted on a parked motorcycle exploded on the outskirts of Karbala amid tight security for the huge religious procession.  (Hadi Mizban / Associated Press)

A man passes a campaign poster for presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, who is Ukraine’s prime minister, in central Kiev.  (Sergei Supinsky / AFP/Getty Images)

Japan defender Tulio Tanaka Marcus, right, leaves the ground to shoot over Giovanny Romero of Venezuela during an international friendly soccer match at Kyushu Oil Dome on Tuesday. The teams played to a scoreless draw. For Japan, the friendly marked the start of a four-match series of World Cup tuneups.  (Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP / Getty Images)

People make offerings to Yemanja, the goddess of the sea in the Afro-American religion Umbanda, at a beach in Montevideo.  (Pablo Porciuncula / AFP/Getty Images)

Men’s division competitors in the 33rd annual Empire State Building Run-Up charge from the ground-floor starting point on Tuesday. Thomas Dold earned his record-tying fifth consecutive win, scampering up 86 flights in 10 minutes 16 seconds.  (Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images)

Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog of them all, is held by Ben Hughes after emerging from his burrow on Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. Legend says that if the rodent sees his shadow -- which he did this Groundhog Day -- winter will last six more weeks.  (Gene J. Puskar / Associated Press)

A woman walks with her dogs in deep snow in Minsk, Belarus.  (Viktor Drachev / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman walks past snowmen in central Moscow. The snowmen are part of an annual installation that advertises a show and is built in a different part of Russia’s capital city every year.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

Giant panda Tai Shan eats bamboo in his enclosure at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, which has announced that the 4-year-old panda will be sent to China on Thursday. Tai Shan, once dubbed “butterstick” for his tiny size, was born in 2005 to Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, themselves gifts from China. A stipulation of the gift is that all cubs must be sent to China.  (Tim Sloan / AFP/Getty Images)

Shiite pilgrims file into the holy city of Karbala, south of Baghdad for the Arbaeen holiday, which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period after the death anniversary of the 7th-century martyr Imam Hussein. A female suicide bomber walking among pilgrims in Baghdad killing dozens. Full story  (Hadi Mizban / Associated Press)

Pakistani villagers search for water, which is in short supply because of a long dry spell.  (Fida Baluch / Associated Press)

Two youths play cricket in a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The nation’s army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, announced that the army would help the U.S. and NATO in training Afghan troops. Full story  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Children enjoy a slide on a hill after a heavy snowfall in Minsk.  (Sergei Grits / Associated Press)

A woman walks through a mustard field at Bisothi village, about 33 miles east of Allahabad, northern India.  (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)

Female students wave Iranian national flags at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran, during a celebration marking the anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s return from exile in 1979. Ten days later, the late cleric toppled the monarchy system and formed the Islamic republic.  (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)

A model wears a creation from Italian fashion designer Lorenzo Riva’s spring/summer 2010 collection, unveiled in Rome.  (Andrew Medichini / Associated Press)

A staff worker walks through the Michael Jackson Gallery, which on Monday opened its doors to the public at the Ponte 16 resort in Macau, China. The gallery features more than 40 iconic items from the late pop singer’s career, including the famous rhinestone glove.  (YM Yik / EPA)

Chinatsu Ooe walks Riki, her Siberian Husky, at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo. Monday marked the first accumulation of snow this winter in downtown Tokyo, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.  (Hiro Komae / Associated Press)

A farmer plants seedlings in a small greenhouse in a rural area of Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province. China will boost spending in rural areas and let more farmers migrate to urban areas in a bid to close the widening income gap between villages and cities, government officials said Monday.  (Wu Hong / EPA)

Firefighters try to extinguish a burning oil tanker, which mysteriously exploded in the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, while on its way to NATO troops in Afghanistan. Over the last few years, such tankers have been regularly targeted by suspected militants on both sides of the border; roughly 75% of food and military supplies for U.S. and NATO forces in landlocked Afghanistan must travel through neighboring Pakistan.  (Arshad Arbab / EPA)

The sun rises over Capitol Hill in Washington. President Obama on Monday unveiled a $3.83-trillion budget proposal for 2011 that would pour more money into the fight against the nation’s high unemployment rate, boost taxes on the wealthy and freeze spending for a wide swath of government programs. The deficit for this year is expected surge to $1.56 trillion, topping last year’s then unprecedented $1.41-trillion gap.  (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

Kashmiri Muslims pray near the body of Wamiq Farooq, 14, during his funeral procession in Srinagar, India. Violent anti-India protests erupted in Kashmir’s main city Monday a day after Farooq was killed when police fired tear gas shells, which fell on his head, police and locals said.  (Dar Yasin / Associated Press)