The Week in Pictures

Children in Kolkata are smeared with colors as they celebrate ‘Holi,’ the Indian festival of colors that marks the triumph of good over evil and the coming of spring. Kolkata, in eastern India, was formerly known as Calcutta.  (Sucheta Das / Associated Press)

Sidney Crosby is mobbed by teammates after he scored the winning goal in overtime Sunday in Canada’s 3-2 victory over the U.S. in the men’s hockey final at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Canada thus earned the gold medal and the U.S. took the silver.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

The Phoenix Suns’ Amare Stoudemire dunks over the San Antonio Spurs’ Richard Jefferson during the second half of an NBA basketball game Sunday. San Antonio won, 113-110.  (Darren Abate / Associated Press)

Men in traditional costumes shout during a ceremony to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Cheonan, South Korea.  (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

Ethnic Chinese devotees in Thailand spit fire during the annual festival at Chao Mae Lim Ko Nieo temple in southern Pattani province. The goddess Chao Mae Lim Ko Nieo is revered by ethnic Chinese in southern Thailand as well as in Malaysia and Singapore.  (Tuwaedaniya Meringing / AFP / Getty Images)

Children swim near flooded homes in Puerto Barador, in Bolivia’s Beni state. Bolivia has suffered floods in seven of its nine states, called departments, affecting some 40,000 people.  (Aizar Raldes / AFP / Getty Images)

A camel-back rider races in the fourth edition of the Dakhla festival in the Western Sahara desert, which is controlled by Morocco. The event also features windsurfing and kitesurfing races.  (Abdelhak Senna / AFP / Getty Images)

Northern Iowa’s Lucas O’Rear, top, blocks a shot by Illinois State’s Jackie Carmichael during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday. O’Rear was called for an intentional foul on the play. Northern Iowa won, 61-55.  (Matthew Putney / Associated Press)

The U.S.-1 team piloted by Steven Holcomb makes a turn during a four-man bobsled heat. The team, which also includes Steve Mesler, Curtis Tomasevicz and Justin Olsen, went on to win the gold medal.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

U.S. speedskaters, from left, Brian Hansen, Chad Hedrick and Jonathan Kuck compete in the Olympic men’s team pursuit. The U.S. team finished second to Canada.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Benjamin Karl of Austria bites his silver medal, which he won in the parallel giant slalom snowboarding event. Canada’s Jasey Jay Anderson won the gold.  (Bela Szandelszky / Associated Press)

In Talca, Chile, a woman and her dog sit among homes destroyed by the magnitude 8.8 earthquake.  (Sebastian Martinez / Associated Press)

Vehicles are overturned along a highway that collapsed outside Santiago, the Chilean capital, in the massive earthquake.  (David Lillo / Associated Press)

Children cool off in a river in Marikina, Philippines, on a warm day in the Manila suburb.  (Noel Celis / AFP/Getty Images)

Afghan private security soldiers look out from the broken windows at the scene of a gun battle between Afghan security forces and insurgents who struck Friday in the heart of Kabul with suicide attackers and a car bomb, targeting hotels used by foreigners and killing at least 17 people, police said.  (Ahmad Nazar / Associated Press)

Singer Salome Kammer and saxophonist Lutz Koppetsch perform during a dress rehearsal for the theater piece “Die Wunde Heine.”  (Jens Schlueter / AFP / Getty Images)

A wave breaks over an occupied car as people attempt to tow it to safety Friday at Camp Ellis in Saco. The driver left the car as the tide continued to rise, flooding local streets.  (Joel Page / Associated Press)

A Palestinian demonstrator runs between burning tires during clashes Friday with Israeli soldiers, who are not visible. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad made a rare visit to the tomb of Abraham, which is holy to both Jews and Muslims. Speaking to reporters after prayers, Fayyad accused Israel of “annexing” the tomb. Palestinians have been violently protesting in Hebron since Israel declared this week that it would add the Cave of Patriarchs in Hebron to its list of national heritage sites.  (Nasser Shiyoukhi / Associated Press)

A farmer walks his paddy Friday, when India began to roll back tax cuts as the government’s new budget pledged to trim a deficit while maintaining spending on social programs and infrastructure.  (Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press)

A Jordanian boy walks down flooded stairs at the Jabal Amman District of the city on Friday. Jordan and other parts of the Mideast are under the influence of a cold-air mass associated with a depression, bringing a continued drop in temperatures.  (Jamal Nasrallah / EPA)

Schoolchildren smear a classmate with colors Friday as they celebrate Holi, the Indian festival of colors.  (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)

Sled dogs compete in a race Friday that matched 1,500 dogs from 17 countries.  (Uwe Meinhold AFP / Getty Images)

A US Airways Express plane is treated prior to take off at Newark Liberty International Airport. A snow storm delayed flights.  (Joe Epstein / Associated Press)

Valencia forward Nikola Zigic takes one in the face as he heads the ball during a Europa League soccer match at Mestalla Stadium in Valencia, Spain.  (Jose Jordan / AFP/Getty Images)

A Norwegian speedskater picks up a drink while training for the team pursuit at the Richmond Olympic Oval at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

President Obama listens as the Republican congressional leadership speaks at a healthcare summit in Washington. Obama said he welcomed ideas from both parties on the stalled effort to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system. Full coverage  (Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images)

On a cold day, a US Airways Express plane is prepped before takeoff at Newark Liberty International Airport.  (Joe Epstein / Associated Press)

Rescuers search for approximately 35 people still missing after heavy rains caused a landslide that hit houses, factories and the offices of a tea plantation.  (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)

Villagers carry food to areas hit by a rain-induced landslide.  (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)

A migrant worker from Myanmar looks out from a building in a minority settlement on the outskirts of the city. Thai soldiers shot and killed three Burmese migrant children traveling by pickup truck after their driver failed to stop at a checkpoint, police said.  (Nicolas Asfouri / AFP/Getty Images)

A mother and her child spend time on Jimbaran Beach at sunset.  (Sonny Tumbelaka / AFP/Getty Images)

Commuters make their way through Times Square during a snowstorm. The city may receive over a foot of snow in the next two days, and regional airports have canceled hundreds of flights because of the weather.  (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

Ismatt Mahmoud smokes a water pipe while taking a break from working in a plastic recycling factory.  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Marines cook a chicken at a farm compound where they stayed for the night.  (David Guttenfelder / Associated Press)

A crowd watches a demonstration by advocates for universal, government-financed healthcare. The protest near the Manhattan Criminal Court building was also in support of 17 defendants fighting charges connected to a September sit-in at the offices of insurance giant Aetna.  (Stan Honda / AFP/Getty Images)

Supporters of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich rally near an ad for the film “Alice in Wonderland.” Yanukovich was recently inaugurated as Ukraine’s president, five years after his first bid failed amid massive protests over vote fraud.  (Sergei Chuzavkov / Associated Press)

Afghan army commandos stand on a sand bank as a U.S. Army Apache helicopter flies overhead in Marja, Afghanistan.  (Patrick Baz / AFP/Getty Images)

Alvaro Negredo of Sevilla FC, left, and CSKA Moscow goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev compete during a UEFA Champions League soccer match in Moscow.  (Alexander Nemenov / AFP/Getty Images)

Akio Toyoda’s Highlander SUV is parked on Capitol Hill, where the Toyota Motor Corp. president was testifying before a congressional committee.  (Cliff Owen / Associated Press)

A young fan awaits the start of an Olympic women’s 1,000-meter speedskating race at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.  (Yuri Kadobnov / AFP/Getty Images)

The Dutch women’s Olympic bobsled team of Esme Kamphuis and Tine Veenstra makes a run at the Whistler Sliding Center near Vancouver, Canada.  (Shaun Botterill / Getty Images)

German Green Party activists protest in Berlin wearing masks depicting, from left, Bavarian prime minister Horst Seehofer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle.  (Michael Gottschalk / AFP/Getty Images)

The Battersea Power Station building in London is illuminated for a soccer shoe promotion.  (Christopher Lee / Getty Images)

A municipal worker fumigates a residential area in Allahabad, India.  (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)

Treo, an 8-year-old black Labrador from the Military Working Dogs, who is to be presented with Britain’s Dickin medal, awarded for bravery and commitment in wartime, the highest military honor an animal can expect, poses with the medal at the Imperial War Museum in London. Treo is being decorated for his work sniffing out explosives in Afghanistan.  (Sang Tan / Associated Press)

Villagers mourn the loss of relatives as the search continues for people buried under a landslide in Dewata, Indonesia. About 35 people are still missing after heavy rain caused the landslide to destroy houses, factories and offices at a tea plantation.  (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)

Ethnic Roma youths shield themselves from the rain during a protest against Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi in front of government headquarters in Bucharest. Accusing Baconschi of racism, the protesters asked for his resignation after statements he made two weeks ago concerning crime and the Roma community in the presence of French State Secretary for European Affairs Pierre Lellouche. In a news statement on Feb. 18 Baconschi said, “We have physiological problems, natural, crime in certain Romanian communities, especially in communities of Romanian citizens of Roma origin.”  (Daniel Mihailescu / AFP/Getty Images)

Buffaloes rest on the dried bed of a reservoir in Shilin county in southwest China’s Yunnan province. A total of about 3.56 million hectares of crops and millions of livestock in China had been affected by severe drought, mostly in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, where residents are facing severe water shortages, according to the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Protesters clash with riot police in central Athens. A nationwide strike has paralyzed Greece as more than 3 million public and private sector workers embarked on a 24-hour walkout protesting tough government measures, including salary freezes and tax increases. Greece has vowed to tackle the debt crisis that has shaken the entire European Union and put the euro currency under pressure.  (Orestis Panagiotou / EPA)

African immigrants chant slogans during a demonstration in Athens. Police fired tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in central Athens as violence broke out after a large march against government austerity measures intended to fix the country’s debt crisis.  (Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press)

U.S. figure skater Mirai Nagasu performs in the Olympic women’s short program competition in Vancouver, Canada.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Devin Harris of the New Jersey Nets drives to the basket past Portland’s Nicolas Batum, left, and Marcus Camby during the first quarter of a game at New Jersey.  (Bill Kostroun / Associated Press)

A man holds a child near the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. People from different parts of India have arrived in the capital to protest a variety of issues including rising inflation, unemployment and food security. The budget session of the legislative body began Monday.  (Mustafa Quraishi / Associated Press)

Members of an Afghan fire brigade inspect the site of an explosion near Jalalabad, east of Kabul. Two civilians were killed and two others injured, authorities said, when an auto rickshaw exploded. The bombing was intended to target police. No police were injured.  (Rahmat Gul / Associated Press)

Dodi, a 3-month-old orangutan, plays with her mother, Daisy, in the zoological garden in Dresden.  (Matthias Rietschel / Associated Press)

The Nevskie Berega International Beauty Expo showcases makeup and hairstyling techniques. A Russian model shows a creation by Kira Gonchar.  (Victoria Lamzina / EPA)

At a workshop near Kfar Saba in central Israel, a man paints the face of an oversized French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his dancing partner as he puts the final touches on one of dozens of large, colorful floats to be used next week in Purim carnivals throughout the country. Purim traditionally symbolizes the victory of the Jewish people over anti-Semitic tyranny and is marked by fancy-dress parades and carnivals.  (David Silverman / Getty Images)

Forensics investigators with the Police Service of Northern Ireland examine the site of a car bombing outside Newry Court House in Northern Ireland. No one was killed or injured in the Monday night blast, although police were still evacuating the scene when the explosive detonated. Republican extremists were being blamed for the attack in which a number of buildings were damaged.  (Paul McErlane / EPA)

A woman kisses a portrait of Soviet leader Josef Stalin at a rally in downtown Moscow celebrating Defender of the Fatherland Day, a Russian holiday honoring the military.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

Lufthansa’s check-in terminals are empty on the first day of a strike by more than 4,000 of the German airline’s pilots.  (Michael Probst / Associated Press)

Fashion show staffers prepare a model for the Paul Smith autumn/winter collection.  (Ben Stansall / AFP/Getty Images)

Residents of a camp for displaced people on the grounds of the Haitian prime minister’s residence watch as a woman is evicted for fighting with police. Tens of thousands of Haitians have been displaced by last month’s earthquake.  (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dance near the tomb of Jewish biblical figure Calev ben Yefuneh in the northern Palestinian village. Calev ben Yefuneh was one of the two Jewish spies who reported to the biblical leader Moses that the Holy Land, which Jews believe God promised to their patriarch Abraham, was “flowing with milk and honey.”  (Jonthan Nackstrand / AFP/Getty Images)

A man selling straw for animal feed leads his camel past the central bank building. Niger’s dictatorial president was ousted in a coup last week after he refused to step down when his mandate expired.  (Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press)

Ingo Auer, left, and Andreas Flatscher, climb an ice fall in Unken’s Heutal Valley in the Austrian province of Salzburg.  (Kerstin Joensson / Associated Press)

Ultra-orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Rabbi Menachem Porush in Jerusalem. The esteemed Israeli rabbi and longtime leader of one of the most influential ultra-Orthodox factions in parliament, died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 93.  (Bernat Armangue / Associated Press)

An Afghan boy covers his head with his jacket at a market as it rains in Kabul. A NATO airstrike in Afghanistan’s central Uruzgan province killed as many as 33 civilians, triggering government criticism over noncombatant deaths as a U.S.-led offensive against the Taliban continues in neighboring Helmand province.  (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)

Tigers recently confiscated from an Indonesian man sit in a cage at an International Animal Rescue center in Bogor, Indonesia. Conservationists are against a government plan that would allow Indonesians to keep endangered Sumatran tigers as pets if they give a $100,000 deposit and build a large enough enclosure. The tigers’ DNA is currently being tested to determine their species.  (Irwin Fedriansyah / Associated Press)

Pilots for German airline Lufthansa hold posters that say “We are not for sale” or “Lufthansa airplanes, Lufthansa pilots” as they protest at an airport in Frankfurt am Main. Lufthansa pilots scared of losing their jobs began a crippling four-day strike on Monday, grounding two-thirds of flights at Europe’s biggest airline and all but emptying Germany’s normally busy airports.  (Thomas Lohnes / AFP / Getty Images)

A masked Palestinian youth is seen near a burning tire during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Hebron. Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops in Hebron amid outrage over Israel’s plan to restore two flashpoint Jewish holy sites in the occupied territory.  (Hazem Bader / AFP / Getty Images)

A man walks along the snow-covered banks of a river as steam rises from the water in Stockholm. Sweden is experiencing its worst winter in 22 years.  (Anders Wiklund / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman cleans out a store near a street filled with mud and debris in downtown Funchal, the capital of Madeira Island. Rescue teams on Monday were searching for at least four people still missing after flash floods and rockslides crashed through hillside villages and costal towns during a deadly weekend storm on the Portuguese vacation island.  (Armando Franca / Associated Press)

The Harsens Island ferry navigates behind a U.S. Coast Guard ice breaker in the St. Clair River.  (Paul Sancya / Associated Press)