The Week in Pictures

Competitors run the Madrid marathon on Sunday.  (Predro Armestre / AFP / Getty Images)

Roman Kulesza of Poland performs Sunday on the horizontal bar during the men’s seniors apparatus final at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2010 in Birmingham, England.  (Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty Images)

President Obama attends a memorial service for the 29 men killed in a disaster at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine April 5. Obama says the U.S. is morally obligated to protect miners from such tragedies. Full story  (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images)

A member of the Afghan security forces keeps a look out as trucks carrying supplies to coalition forces burn after hundreds of people blocked a main road and set them on fire to protest what they said were civilian deaths in NATO operations in Logar province.  (Mohammed Obaid Ormur / Associated Press)

A model and a dog walk the catwalk during Pet Fashion Week in Sao Paulo.  (Andre Penner / Associated Press)

Emirati women look at “Witness from Baghdad,” a piece by Iraqi Halim al-Karim exhibited by Christie’s in Dubai.  (Karim Sahib / AFP / Getty Images)

Sights of the Stagecoach country music festival are reflected Sunday in glasses worn by Charlie Stumpin of Indio.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A member of Neturei Karta, a fringe of the ultra-Orthodox movement within the anti-Zionist bloc in Israel, talks with a masked Palestinian youth as he shows his support during clashes with Israeli police in the mostly Arab neighborhood of Silwan in Jerusalem. Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli police as dozens of ultra-nationalist Jews carried Israeli flags through Silwan to assert Jewish sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, according to the organizers of the march.  (Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Images)

Everton’s Victor Anichebe, top left, scores against Fulham in an English Premier League game in Liverpool on Sunday.  (Tim Hales / Associated Press)

Visitors gather in front of a huge animated baby in the Spanish pavilion at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.  (Philippe Lopez / AFP / Getty Images)

A young Indian Hindu pilgrim joins in prayers after bathing in the mud of a dried up pond believed to have holy, restorative powers in Nakali village, south of Kolkata.  (Deshakalyan Chowdhury / AFP / Getty Images)

Participants in the Critical Mass bicycle ride hold their bikes aloft after pedaling across Budapest, Hungary. Tens of thousands of cyclists participated in the event.  (Bela Szandelszky / Associated Press)

Ashdale Cruise Master falls on rider Oliver Townend of England as they stumble over the sink hole jump during the Rolex Three-Day Event’s cross-country equestrian test. Ashdale Cruise Master walked away, while Townend was airlifted to the hospital.  (Candice Chavez / Associated Press)

Brittany Carr, 17, left, poses for her sister Lauren, 19, after signing the “What are You Reading?” wall during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA.  (Ann Johansson / For The Times)

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher D.J. Carrasco, left, and third baseman Andy LaRoche reach for the ball on a bunt by the Houston Astros’ Wandy Rodriguez after Carrasco bobbled it for an error in the fourth inning of a baseball game.  (Pat Sullivan / Associated Press)

An Australian stands at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli, Turkey, the day before ANZAC Day commemorations marking the 95th anniversary of the World War I landing by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.  (Ibrahim Usta / Associated Press)

The Milwaukee Bucks’ John Salmons and Atlanta Hawks’ Josh Smith react to a call during the first half of Game 3 of the first round of the NBA playoffs.  (Jeffrey Phelps / Associated Press)

Skateboarding pooch Tillman, left, and his pal Lyle take some practice runs in Central Park before Tillman competes at “Bark in the Park.” The 4-year old English bulldog, who was named after the late NFL star and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman, hails from Southern California and snowboarded on a float in this year’s Rose Parade.  (Timothy A. Clary / AFP/Getty Images)

Portugal’s Joao Pina, in blue, vies with Russia’s Batratz Kaitmazov for gold in the men’s 73-kilogram event during the European judo championships in Vienna. Pina is the new European champ in the category.  (Joe Klamar / AFP/Getty Images)

A spectator on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean watches yachts sail past minutes after the high-noon start of the 63rd Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race. Two hundred twelve boats are entered in this year’s race. News of Mexico’s relentless drug violence has had an effect on the event, with the number of entrants down considerably from past years.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Striking Capistrano Valley High School teachers shout at one of the replacement instructors leaving the Mission Viejo campus. Teachers in the Capistrano Unified School District went on strike Thursday after contract negotiations broke down between the teachers and the board over reinstatement of the 10% pay cut after the economy improves.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Funeral services are held for Bishop Norman F. McFarland at Holy Family Cathedral in Orange. McFarland, the second bishop of Orange, passed away last week at the age of 88.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, a boat tries to contain oil spilled when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and collapsed this week  (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)

Men dig graves in the Shiite holy city of Najaf for the victims of a wave of attacks that killed 58 people. Five car bombs, including three during Friday prayers at Shiite mosques in Baghdad, killed at least 52 people days after the government said the militant group Al Qaeda in Iraq was on the run.  (Qassem Zein / AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian demonstrator jumps over burning tires during a protest over water supplies in the West Bank village of Nabi Salah. The water supply is used by Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Halamish and is claimed by both sides.  (Nasser Ishtayeh / Associated Press)

Police try to disperse residents at a Manezh Square rally in Moscow where they are demanding a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev. Protesters claim their land was illegally taken away by authorities.  (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

Afghan refugees wait to leave for Afghanistan, at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration center in Peshawar, Pakistan. Under the agency’s voluntary repatriation program, started in March 2002, about 2.78 million Afghans have gone back home, but there are more than 1.7 million still residing in Pakistan, a majority of whom have lived in this neighboring country for decades.  (Arshad Arbab / EPA)

A South Korean worker attaches the name cards of Buddhists on lanterns to celebrate the Buddha’s upcoming birthday (May 21) at the Bongun Temple in Seoul.  (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

Thai pro-government supporters wave a giant Thai flag at the Royal Plaza in Bangkok, Thailand. Four grenade explosions in the area killed three and injured 75 people, sparking night-long street battles between pro- and anti-government protesters.  (Narong Sangnal / EPA)

Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to bellow smoke and ash. Hundreds of thousands of travelers were left stranded across the globe by flight disruptions as a result of the ash that the volcano began emitting last week.  (Emmanual Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)

A participant in the Glacier Patrol race climbs the Rosablanche pass. Thousands of teams of ski-borne mountaineers took to the Swiss Alps overnight in the legendary Glacier Patrol, a grueling race of up to 33 miles across the snowbound Haute Route along the Swiss-Italian border from Zermatt to Verbier. The race covers 31.8 miles by foot and ski.  (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images)

Afghan refugees wait for transport to leave for Afghanistan at a repatriation center run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in Peshawar, Pakistan. The agency is working to help Afghan refugees who had fled their country because of fighting and famine return home.  (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)

A Lebanese taxi driver lies on the ground as he defies an operating cab during a strike for taxi and bus drivers who are protesting rising petrol prices in Beirut.  (Bilal Hussein / Associated Press)

Four charity runners dressed as knights chase a fifth runner posing as Lady Guinevere near Tower Bridge in London. The five athletes will compete in the London Marathon on Sunday.  (Tom Hevezi / Associated Press)

An unnamed two-headed bobtail lizard, a type of skink, is seen at its new reptile park home at Henley Brook in Perth, Australia. The reptile was rescued from Coogee by the Park and appears to be doing well, despite a short life expectancy. It eats from both heads, but the larger head has also tried to attack the smaller one, and its movement is difficult as both heads control its back legs. It has a healthy sibling without any mutation. Bobtails give birth to live offspring rather than laying eggs.  (Paul Kane / Getty Images)

Space shuttle Atlantis leaves the vehicle assembly building on its last trip to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. Atlantis is scheduled to launch May 14 on a mission to the international space station.  (Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel)

A passenger jet prepares to land at Heathrow airport. Airlines sent their jets back into the skies of Europe in large numbers after the disruption caused by Iceland’s volcano eruption, but they faced an enormous backlog of passengers that will probably take days to clear.  (Ben Stansall / AFP/Getty Images)

Activity is still seen at the volcano beneath Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier. Geologists continued to keep a close watch on Eyjafjallajokull after noticing a change in the eruption pattern. Instead of thick black smoke, the plume was almost white and more like steam than black ash.  (Brynjar Gauti / Associated Press)

An aerial photo taken southeast of Venice, on Louisiana’s tip, shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning in the Gulf of Mexico.  (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)

An image released Wednesday by NASA, made from an April 12-13 video, shows a prominence blasting away from the sun. The prominence appears to stretch almost halfway across the sun, or about 500,000 miles. NASA unveiled the first images from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms, and scientists say they’re already learning new things.  (NASA / Associated Press)

The image of an angel is projected onto the Church of the Piazza del Popolo during a performance to celebrate the anniversary of the city of Rome’s founding in 753 BC.  (Tiziana Fabi / AFP/Getty Images)

The Lakers’ Pau Gasol, right, alters the shot of the Thunder’s Eric Maynor in Game 2 of the Western Conference Playoffs at Staples Center on Tuesday. L.A. took a 2-0 edge in the series with a 95-92 victory over Oklahoma City.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Supporters of the Sandinista National Liberation Front fire homemade mortars at a hotel in the Nicaraguan capital where opposition lawmakers were meeting to try to overturn a presidential decree unilaterally extending the terms of two Supreme Court justices.  (Esteban Felix / Associated Press)

A television in a store in Uruguay’s capital shows Judge Peter Tomka of the International Court of Justice in The Hague reading the judgment in a dispute between Argentina and Uruguay. The court ruled Uruguay did not breach its obligation to protect the environment by building a pulp mill on its side of a river that forms its border with Argentina.  (Matilde Campodonico / Associated Press)

Vice President Joe Biden strikes an inspirational pose during a speech to female student athletes, telling them how encouraging they are to younger girls.  (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)

Two women wait for their husbands to return from their work in the fields.  (Anupam Nath / Associated Press)

Indigenous people from Ecuador attend a session of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.  (Juan Karita / Associated Press)

A farmer in Steinar, Iceland, cleans the roof of a goat house dirtied by heavy ash from the active Eyjafjallajokull volcano.  (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty Images)

People line up at a Ryanair information and ticketing office at Madrid’s Barajas airport, which is acting as a hub to get stranded passengers home as European airspace largely remains closed because of ash and grit from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland.  (Denis Doyle / Getty Images)

A couple kisses near a blossoming magnolia tree in Kiev, Ukraine.  (Sergei Chuzavkov / Associated Press)

A 4-month-old hawksbill turtle with an injured right eye returns to shore on Indonesia’s Pramuka Island shortly after a symbolic release ceremony by Thousand Islands Marine Park and Coca-Cola company officials to commemorate Earth Day. The injured turtle will be rehabilitated in the park’s turtle conservation center.  (Romeo Gacad / AFP / Getty Images)

Tibetan monks gather outside their destroyed monastery in Jiegu, Yushu county, in China’s northwestern Qinghai province. China declared a national day of mourning for victims of last week’s earthquake as rescuers battled altitude sickness and bad weather conditions in the Tibetan disaster zone.  (AFP / Getty Images)

A young male giraffe named Carlo takes his first walk with his parents at a zoo in Nuremberg, southern Germany. Carlo was born April 8.  (Timm Schamberger / AFP / Getty Images)

A gun rights supporter attends a 2nd Amendment rally near the Capitol with the Washington Monument in the background. Full story  (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

The special exhibition “Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings” is prepared for the April 22 opening at the British Museum in London.  (Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images)

The Iceland volcano Eyjafjallajokull continues to erupt.  (Vilhelm Gunnarsson / EPA)

Volcanic ash settles near Reykjavik as the Iceland volcano Eyjafjallajokull continues to erupt.  (Jon Snorrason / EPA)

A departure board at Athens international airport is pictured through a metal advertising placard.  (Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty Images)

A security guard tries to stop a photographer taking pictures of the offices of Goldman Sachs.  (Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images)

Indian youths dance and cool off in artificial rain at a water park.  (Noah Seelam / AFP / Getty Images)

Supporters of former president and now presidential candidate Joseph Estrada (not pictured) reach out for free T-shirts after a luncheon to celebrate his 73rd birthday.  (Ted Aljibe / AFP / Getty Images)

Journalists look at a giant screen at the Chinese Information and Communication Pavilion at the World Expo site. Shanghai’s Expo opens May 1.  (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)

A cyclist admires a sunset enhanced by volcanic ash.  (Patrick Pleul / EPA)

Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts after defeating Fernando Verdasco of Spain for Nadal’s sixth consecutive Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament title.  (Lionel Cironneau / Associated Press)

A supporter of Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu holds a Turkish national flag during celebrations in the Turkish-controlled area of Nicosia. Final results indicate that hard-liner Eroglu has won a key Turkish Cypriot leadership election with 50.38% of the vote. Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.  (Petros Karadjias / Associated Press)

The No.11 GSR Kawasaki French team driven by Julien Da Costa leads during the 33rd 24-hour Le Mans motorcycle race at Le Mans race track.  (David Vincent / Associated Press)

Boston Red Sox’s Adrian Beltre makes the catch in foul territory on a pop foul by Tampa Bay Rays’ Carl Crawford in the ninth inning of a baseball game. The Rays won, 7-1.  (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

Polish soldiers carry the coffin of President Lech Kaczynski in Krakow. Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, were interred at the historic Wawel cathedral after a majestic funeral Mass at St. Mary’s cathedral.
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Lakers center Pau Gasol is fouled by Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook in the second half of Game 1 of the Western Conference playoffs at Staples Center.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant drives past the Thunder’s Nick Collison in Game 1 of the Western Conference playoffs at Staples Center. The Lakers won, 87-79.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Workers prepare a podium at Pilsudski Square in Warsaw for a ceremony to be held in memory of 96 people who died in an air crash on April 10. President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and many of the country’s military and state elite perished in thick fog when their aircraft attempted to land in Russia. World leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, are to travel here to pay last respects to Kaczynski at his funeral April 18.  (Janek Skarzynski / AFP/Getty Images)

A designer prepares a hair creation during Cristal Angel, the 9th International Festival of Hairdresser Art, in Kiev, Ukraine.  (Sergei Supinsky / AFP/Getty Images)

The Philadelphia Phillies’ Jayson Werth dives but cannot come up with a single by the Washington Nationals’ Ian Desmond in the ninth inning of a baseball game. Washington, won 7-5.  (Matt Slocum / Associated Press)

People attend the Thingyan water festival in Yangon, Myanmar. Participants believe the celebration washes away sins before they welcome the Myanmar New Year.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Commuters pass a tree uprooted by a cyclone in Rayganj, India, about 250 miles north of Kolkata. Aid workers distributed rice, dried fruits, water and tarpaulins to the victims of the cyclone, which killed at least 119 people in northeastern India and demolished ten of thousands of mud huts.  (Anupam Nath / Associated Press)

Smoke and steam spew from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising flood waters. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic disrupted air traffic across Europe and beyond.  (Brynjar Gaudi / Associated Press)

An airline passenger sleeps on his luggage at Gatwick Airport after flights across Europe were canceled because of a cloud of ash from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland.  (Carl Court / AFP/Getty Images)

People looking to refinance mortgage loans stand in line as they wait to enter the “Save the Dream” tour stop by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. The tour, which makes stops around the United States, has hundreds of counselors on hand from different mortgage companies to help people try to restructure their mortgages and avoid foreclosure.  (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

A Greenpeace activist dressed as an orangutan is thrown out of the annual general meeting of Nestle shareholders. Protesters criticized Nestle’s use of palm oil, which they said is destroying Indonesian forests and pushing species such as orangutans from their native habitats.  (Tanja Demarmels / AFP/Getty Images)

Brenda Althouse watches as a convoy bearing steel beams salvaged from the World Trade Center passes through Coatesville, Pa. Officials hope to use the steel as the centerpiece of an industrial history museum.  (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

A goatherd and his tribe cross parched earth on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, amid a heat wave.  (Mahesh Kumar A. / Associated Press)

A stylist works on a creation for the opening of the IX International Festival of Hairdresser Art in Kiev.  (Serei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images)

David De Jesus of the Kansas City Royals slides in safely to home after Detroit Tigers catcher Gerald Laird dropped the ball in a game at Comerica Park in Detroit. The Royals won, 7-3.  (Paul Sancya / Associated Press)

People stop at the base of a giant cross at Pilsudski Square in Warsaw where candles have been left in memory of the 96 people, including the country’s president and other prominent leaders, who died in an air crash on April 10.  (Joe Klamar / AFP / Getty Images)

Members of the Ailey II dance company perform a scene during a dress rehearsal of “Echoes” at the Joyce Theater in New York.  (Timothy A. Clary / AFP/Getty Images)