From the most reputable gay club in Sochi and a sinkhole at the Corvette Museum in Kentucky to the Westminster Dog Show in New York and the killing of the healthy giraffe, Marius, at the Copenhagen Zoo, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Feb. 13, 2014. A girl sticks out her tongue during snowfalls on a street in Hefei, Anhui province.Jianan Yu—ReutersFeb. 11, 2014. President Barack Obama and French President François Hollande stand for the national anthem during a state arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. J. Scott Applewhite—APFeb. 7, 2014. Children play in a tree in the temporary camp of South Sudanese Internally Displaced People (IDP's) in Mingkaman.Fabio Bucciarelli—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 9, 2014. People look at the carcass of the giraffe Marius after it was killed at the Copenhagen Zoo. The Copenhagen Zoo went ahead with a plan to shoot and dismember a healthy giraffe on Sunday and feed the 18-month-old animal's carcass to lions - an action the zoo said was in line with anti-inbreeding rules meant to ensure a healthy giraffe population.Kasper Palsnov—Scanpix Denmark/ReutersFeb. 10, 2014. Dawn Kelly grooms and puts curler's on her Yorkshire terrier at the Westminster Kennel Club 138th Annual Dog Show in New York.Andrew White—The New York Times/ReduxFeb. 11, 2014. A female African asylum seeker breaks down in tear during a protest outside the Ministry of Interior in Tel Aviv, Israel.Oliver Weiken—EPAFeb. 11, 2014. Riot police stand behind crosses installed by anti-government protesters in memory of the people who have died and went missing during clashes in Ukraine, near the barricades in Kiev.ReutersFeb. 10, 2014. Three-year-old Arabian horse Nasar stands in front of the living room door, Holt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Carsten Rehder—ZUMA PRESSFeb. 12, 2014. Brides prepare for a mass wedding at an event held by the Unification Church in Gapyeong, South Korea.Ed Jones—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 7, 2014. Performers of the traditional Chinese dance 'Qiao Hua Dan' take their place prior to taking part in the Chingay Parade in Singapore.Tom White—EPAFeb. 8, 2014. Tereza Vaculikova of the Czech Republic performs a jump during the women's freestyle skiing moguls qualification round at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Mike Blake—ReutersFeb. 8, 2014. Yulia Lipnitskaya of Russia competes in the Figure Skating Team Ladies Short Program during day one of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Iceberg Skating Palace.Matthew Stockman—Getty ImagesFeb. 8, 2014. A dancer performs in the crowd at the Mayak cabaret, the most reputable gay club in Sochi, Russia, host to 2014 Winter Olympics.David Goldman—;APFeb. 8, 2014. An Israeli hanging on hooks preforms the Suspension (body modification) during the annual Israel Tattoo Convention in Tel Aviv, Israel.Abir Sultan—EPAFeb. 9, 2014. The hands of a Indian Muslim bride dressed in traditional marriage attire during a mass marriage ceremony in Mumbai, India.Divyakant Solanki—EPAFeb. 9, 2014. South Sudanese internally displaced people (IDP) wait to be registered on the list of the World Food Program (WFP) at Mingkaman's temporary camp.Fabio Bucciarelli—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 9, 2014. A South Sudanese woman reacts as South Sudanese internally displaced people (IDP) fight for food supplies, distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at the Mingkaman temporary camp.Fabio Bucciarelli—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 9, 2014. Afghan children, whose family fled their home country to Pakistan, play outside their makeshift shelter in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad.Nicolas Asfouri—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 9, 2014. A woman attends a mass rally of the opposition on Independence Square in Kiev.Martin Bureau—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 9, 2014. Deer in a bushfire in Gisborne, Victoria, Australia.Jay Town—Newspix/Rex/REX USAFeb. 9, 2014. Competitors listen to a DJ set and throw packets of colored powder after finishing the Color Run at Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia.Mark Kolbe—Getty ImagesFeb. 9, 2014. Snow masses pile up on the rooftops of the village of Bedretto, Switzerland.Karl Mathis—EPAFeb. 9, 2014. A sign advertises an Agricultural Museum along U.S. Highway 99 where an irrigated field and a dry field can be seen near California's Central Valley town of Tulare, Calif. Michael Nelson—EPAFeb. 10, 2014. A masked Kenyan supporter of the LGBT community joins others during a protest against Uganda's anti-gay bill in front of the Ugandan High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. Dai Kurokawa—EPAFeb. 10, 2014. A woman take photos of rimed trees in Ziyuan County of Guilin, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Pan Zhenhua—Xinhua/LandovFeb. 10, 2014. A Standard Poodle waits in the benching area for judging to start at Pier 92 and 94 in New York City for the first day of competition at the 138th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.Timothy Clary—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 10, 2014. A Treeing Walker Coonhound is judged during competition at the Hound group during day one of judging of the 2014 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.Eduardo Munoz—ReutersFeb. 10, 2014. Old figures and parts from former Israeli annual parades of the holiday of Purim are seen in a junkyard near Kfar Saba, Israel.Abir Sultan—EPAFeb. 10, 2014. Three Garifuna children rest afer playing ball at the beach in El Triunfo de la Cruz, over the Caribbean Sea, 300 km north of Tegucigalpa.Orlando Sierra—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 10, 2014. A falcon scavenges for scraps as a woman cleans fish at the banks of Sobat river in Upper Nile State, South Sudan.Goran Tomasevic—ReutersFeb. 10, 2014. Worker's continue to build flood defense around Moorland resident Sam Notaro's house in the flooded village of Moorland near Bridgwater on the Somerset Levels in Somerset, England. Matt Cardy—Getty ImagesFeb. 10, 2014. A woman becomes caught up in a lorries wash in England.Stephen Simpson—ZUMA PRESSFeb. 10, 2014. A girl plays the piano on the barricades on Grushevskogo Street, Kiev, Ukraine.Anatolii Stepanov—Demotix/CorbisFeb. 10, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama shows way to his French counterpart Francois Hollande after disembarking from Air Force One at Charlottesville Albemarle Airport in Charlottesville, Virginia.Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 11, 2014. A woman takes a self portrait with U.S. President Barack Obama (L) as Obama and French President Francois Hollande greet students at a State Arrival ceremony in Hollande's honor on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.Jonathan Ernst—ReutersFeb. 11, 2014. Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov performs a jump during the men's snowboard halfpipe semi-final event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.Dylan Martinez—ReutersFeb. 11, 2014. Felicia Zhang (C) and Nathan Bartholomay of the U.S. compete during the figure skating pairs short program at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.Lucy Nicholson—ReutersFeb. 11, 2014. An injured soldier is hospitalized at Yirol government hospital supported by by Italian NGP CUAMM, South Sudan.Fabio Bucciarelli—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 11, 2014. People cry after losing all of their belongings in a fire at a slum at Mirpur in Dhaka.Andrew Biraj—ReutersFeb. 11, 2014. Afghan boys play soccer in a desolate snow-covered village on the outskirts of Kabul. Massoud Hossaini—APFeb. 12, 2014. The face of an Native American statue at the Chattahoochee Ruby Mine is barely visible, covered with inches of fresh snow on Main Street in Helen, Ga.Curtis Compton—Atlanta Journal/EPAFeb. 12, 2014. Newlyweds bow to Han Hak-ja (not pictured), widow of Evangelist Reverend Sun-Myung Moon, as they attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Centre in Gapyeong, about 60 km (37 miles) northeast of Seoul.Kim Hong-Ji—ReutersFeb. 12, 2014. Visitors and Tibetan monks look on as a giant thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying the Buddha portrait, is unveiled amid snowfalls at Langmu Lamasery in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province.ReutersFeb. 12, 2014. A member of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) looks through an opening while marching through the streets of Brasilia.Ueslei Marcelino—ReutersFeb. 12, 2014. A 40-foot sinkhole that opened up under the National Corvette Museum and swallowed eight Corvettes, including the historic 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette, in Bowling Green, Kentucky is seen in this handout provided by the museum. ReutersFeb. 12, 2014. Student demonstrator Bassil Da Costa, who was shot in the head, is carried to a police vehicle after clashes broke out between opposition protesters with security forces and pro-government supporters during a protest against the government in Caracas, Venezuela.Alejandro Cegarra—APFeb. 12, 2014. An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man sits in a hole and prays during a demonstration in Beit Shemesh, Israel.Abir Sultan—EPAFeb. 13, 2014. A rebel fighter walks in front of a bushfire in a rebel controlled territory in Upper Nile State, South Sudan.Goran Tomasevic—ReutersFeb. 13, 2014. A Pakistani man, rides his car after buying red and white heart-shaped balloons from a vendor for Valentine's day, in Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APFeb. 13, 2014. Israeli youths stand covered with national flags prior to a march from the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, to the E-1 area on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.Sebastian Scheiner—APFeb. 13. 2014. Two 18-month old albino alligators are presented at the Tropical aquarium in Paris.Remy de la Mauviniere—APFeb. 13, 2014. Groom Roongroj Walailuk and bride Vina Wichan jump into the pond as they are chased by men dressed as pirates during a wedding ceremony ahead of Valentine's Day in Prachin Buri province, east of Bangkok.Damir Sagolj—ReutersFeb. 13, 2014. A giant mock baby used by anti-government protesters to represent what they claimed was the "childish" apathy of the Kenyan people and the need for the country to "grow up", lies abandoned on the street as demonstrators flee tear gas canisters fired by police exploding around them, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya.Ben Curtis—APFeb. 13, 2014. An activist from the "Right Sector" anti-government protest group presents a bouquet of flowers to his girlfriend in front of fellow activists near the site of previous clashes with riot police in Kiev, Ukraine.ReutersFeb. 13, 2014. Visitors stand under "Life Is A Body We Are Part Of," a giant biomorphic sculpture that forms part of a retrospective of the work of Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.Vincent West—ReutersFeb. 12, 2014. Prince of Penzance is cooled down after Race 9, the Sportingbet Mornington Cup during the 2014 Mornington Cup Day in Melbourne, Australia. Vince Caligiuri—Getty ImagesFeb. 14, 2014. Nepalese Hindu devotees perform a bathing ritual on the final day of the month-long Swasthani Festival near the Hanumante River at Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal.Prakash Mathema—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 14, 2014. Kashmiri villagers shout pro-freedom slogans during the funeral of alleged Hizbul Mujahideen militant Arshid Ahmed in Shopian, some 60 kms south of Srinagar, Kashmir.Tauseef Mustafa—AFP/Getty ImagesFeb. 14, 2014. A Christian man carries a charred mannequin wearing a Muslim veil in front of looted Muslim stores, past a convoy of over 100 vehicles of Muslims fleeing Bangui, Central African Republic,Jerome Delay—APFeb. 8, 2014. This photo, provided by NASA, shows the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics at night, in Sochi, Russia.AP—APFeb. 10, 2014. Finland's Arttu Kiramo performs a jump during the men's freestyle skiing moguls qualification round at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.Lucas Jackson—ReutersFeb. 12, 2014. A flock of migrating starlings flies over the southern Israeli village of Tidhar.Oded Balilty—AP
