Pictures of the Week: February 22 - March 1

Feb. 25, 2013.Buddhist monks pray at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand.

Feb. 23, 2013. Ugandan soldiers, operating under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), advance towards Burhkaba from their former position in the town of Leego, Somalia alongside members of the Somali National Army (SNA).

Feb. 26, 2013. A dog looks at Pakistani Kushti wrestlers, right, reflected on a mirror, attend their daily training session in Lahore, Pakistan.

Feb. 25, 2013. Kashmiri villagers offer funeral prayers during the funeral procession of ruling National Conference Sarpanch, Javed Ahmad Wani, in Kalantra village of north Kashmir, India.

Feb. 24, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and a boy in a lion's costume read from the Scroll of Esther during the Purim festival at a synagogue in the neighborhood of Mea Shaarim in Jerusalem, Israel.

Feb. 22, 2013. A dancer performs in front of judges in the All Scotland Championships in Irish Dancing being held at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Ireland.

Feb. 23, 2013. North Korean paratroopers drop from the sky during a flight exercise and a para-trooping drill in North Korea.

Feb. 24, 2013. Men smoke in a room in Gao, Mali.

Feb. 23, 2013. Riot police run toward Bahraini anti-government protesters in Daih, Bahrain.

Feb. 24, 2013. An Afghan Security force stands over the dead body of a suspected suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Feb. 22, 2013. Roses grace train tracks, thrown on the tracks by crash victims' relatives, during the one-year anniversary ceremony of a train crash at the Once train station in Buenos Aires.

Feb. 22, 2013. Jessica Bushell from the Geraghty dance club in Ireland performs in the All Scotland Championships in Irish Dancing, being held at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Ireland.

Feb. 22, 2013. An Indian Air Force's MI-17 V5 helicopter is illuminated by search lights from a MI-17 chopper during the Indian Air Force (IAF) fire power demonstration exercise in Pokhran, Rajasthan, India.

Feb. 22, 2013. A boy wears a costume ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood.

Feb. 22, 2013. A Jewish child wears a costume ahead of the festival of Purim at the settlement outpost of Havat Gilad, West Bank.

Feb. 22, 2013. An employee wears a panda suit while talking to a woman at a panda-themed hotel at the foot of Emei Mountain in Emeishan, southwest China's Sichuan province.

Feb. 22, 2013. People hold candles during a praying ceremony for the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Feb. 23, 2013. Riot police stand in line during a protest against austerity, near the parliament in Madrid, Spain.

Feb. 23, 2013. The feet of U Ohn Myint, 60, who died of cancer, are tied with a piece of cloth as his body is placed inside the morgue in U Hla Tun Cancer Hospice on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.

Feb. 23, 2013. Students attend a masterclass with dancers of the Royal Opera House at the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre in Brazil.

Feb. 23, 2013. Students study at a dormitory of Nangarhar university on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Feb. 23, 2013. Men wrap the bodies of victims of a traffic accident at the Cianjur hospital in Cianjur, Indonesia.

Feb. 23, 2013. A tamed golden eagle attacks a fox during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, 93 miles east of Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Feb. 24, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI's leads the Angelus prayer from the window of his apartments at the Vatican.

Feb. 24, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter prepares a fire to cook, inside a cave at Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib, Syria.

Feb. 24, 2013. Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Lelov Hasidic sect rest as they celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim.

Feb. 24, 2013. Two dragon dancers of the Tujia ethnic group perform with a dragon head in the flames of firecrackers at a dragon lantern carnival in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

Feb. 24, 2013. Luis Amezquita hangs upside down over the Periferico avenue during a slacklining practice in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Feb. 24, 2013. A girl from Burkina Faso looks at a photography exhibition during the Panafrican Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Feb. 24, 2013. A nun gets ready to vote at a polling station in downtown Rome.

Feb. 24, 2013. A tiger plays with a pig before killing it at the Sumatra Tiger Rescue Centre compound, inside the Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation (TWNC) near Bandar Lampung, Indonesia.

Feb. 25, 2013. Mourners of Arafat Jaradat are seen during his funeral in the Palestinian village of Saair.

Feb. 25, 2013. Mourners of Arafat Jaradat are seen as they mourn his coffin in the Palestinian village of Saair.

Feb. 25, 2013. Palestinian members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group loyal to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, attend the funeral of Arafat Jaradat in the West Bank town of Saeer, near Hebron.

Feb. 25, 2013. Relatives of Javed Ahmed Wani, a Sarpanch or village council chief, mourn during his funeral in Kalantra village, north of Srinagar, India.

Feb. 25, 2013. Philippine soldiers on an armored personnel carrier (APC) participate in the re-enactment of events leading to the fall of the dictatorship of then president Ferdinand Marcos, during the 27th anniversary of the People Power revolution in Manila, Philippines.

Feb. 25, 2013. An Afghan man flies his pigeons over a rooftop in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Feb. 25, 2013. A Hindu priest washes his face with sea water during a religious ceremony called Melasti on Ngobaran Beach in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Feb. 25, 2013. The sun rises in Seaside Heights, N.J., behind the Jet Star Roller Coaster which has been sitting in the ocean after the Funtown Pier was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy.

Feb. 25, 2013. Nepalese Hindu devotees roll on the ground before taking a holy bath in the Hanumante river during the last day of the month long Madhav Narayan festival, in Bhaktapur, Nepal.

Feb. 26, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un looking at targets through binoculars during an inspection of an artillery firing exercise.

Feb. 26, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un takes a close look at a gun during an inspection of an artillery firing exercise at an unidentified artillery unit.

Feb. 26, 2013. North Korean forces fire artillery as part of an exercise inspected by the country's leader Kim Jong-Un.

Feb. 26, 2013. A man carries his belongings from his flooded home in the town of Sveti Nikole, some 60 kilometers northeast from Skopje, Macedonia.

Feb. 26, 2013. An Indian man travels in a crowded coach on a train in New Delhi, India.

Feb. 26, 2013. A supporter wears a hooded sweatshirt with the face of teenager Trayvon Martin, as she joins other attendees in a candlelight vigil at the exact moment Martin was shot, one year ago, by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida.

Feb. 26, 2013. Two swans swim on the Usiazha River near the Belarus village of Usiazha, some 55 km north of Minsk.

Feb. 26, 2013. The press is afforded a preview of Cavalia's Odysseo, a theatrical ode to horse and man that marries the equestrian arts, acrobatics and high-tech effects under the world's largest touring big top, in Burbank, Calif.

Feb. 26, 2013. A cut down tree is transported away by a helicopter in Hannoversch Muenden, central Germany.

Feb. 26, 2013. A night watchman stands guard near the wreckage of a hot air balloon that crashed in Luxor, Egypt. At least 19 people, most of them Asian and European tourists, died when a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed near the ancient Egyptian town after an explosion.

Feb. 26, 2013. Karadeniz Powership Fatmagul Sultan docks at the newly set wave breaker in front of Lebanon's main electricity plant of Zouk. A member of Karadeniz Holding's powership fleet, Fatmagul Sultan, arrived in Beirut to supply Lebanon with electricity.

Feb. 27, 2013. A Hindu holy man belonging to the Ramta Panch group of the Juna Akhara sect walks a horse to be loaded onto a truck before leaving from the outskirts of Allahabad, India.

Feb. 27, 2013. Bangladeshi firefighters try to control a blaze at a slum in Dhaka. At least 300 shanties were gutted but no casualties were reported.

Feb. 27, 2013. Dominican Republic army personnel take part in a parade to celebrate the 169th year of independence at Malecon Avenue in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Feb. 23, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI waves to gathered crowds as he arrives on St Peter's square for his last weekly audience, at the Vatican.

Feb. 27, 2013. Afghan bystanders look through the blown-out windows of a bakery at the scene of a suicide attack against a bus carrying Afghan army personnel in Kabul.

Feb. 27, 2013. A boy works at a car wash in Aleppo, Syria.

Feb. 27, 2013. Supporters of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh attend a rally marking the anniversary of his power handover in Sana'a, Yemen.

Feb. 27, 2013. Female Marine recruits Princesse Aldrete (L) and Genisis Ordonez (R) stand in formation following hand-to-hand combat training during boot camp at MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina.

Feb. 27, 2013. Men scramble to get hold of t-shirts of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) during a campaign in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

Feb. 27, 2013. A Palestinian policeman looks at hundreds of dead manta rays on Gaza beach.

Feb. 28, 2013. A Syrian woman is seen at an abandoned building where several families took refuge due to fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria.

Feb. 28, 2013. Sami, 32, steps into an underground Roman tomb used for shelter from Syrian government forces shelling and airstrikes, at Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib province, Syria.

Feb. 27, 2013. The faithful gather for Pope Benedict XVI's last general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Feb. 28, 2013. A worker waters plants around a statue of Mahatma Gandhi inside the premises of Parliament as Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram delivers the annual budget in New Delhi.

Feb. 28, 2013. A tree decorated with colorful plastic Easter eggs is seen in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Feb. 28, 2013. Local residents take apart a house that was used by radical Islamists to store explosives, in Gao, Mail.

Feb. 28, 2013. Egyptian Actvists and youth perform the Internet craze, the "Harlem Shake" in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo.

Feb. 28, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch an exhibition basketball game in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Feb. 28, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI gives an address during the last meeting with the Cardinals at the Vatican.

Feb. 28, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI speaks from the balcony window of the Pontifical summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, some 35 kilometers south of Rome, to a cheering crowd gathered to see him off the day he ends his pontificate,

Feb. 28, 2013. The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's square at the Vatican.

Feb. 23, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI prays in a private chapel during the closing day of the Spiritual Exercises at the Vatican.