《TIME》：Pictures of the Week: January 18 – January 25, 2013

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Jan. 21, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama places his hand on two bibles, held by first lady Michelle Obama, as he recites the oath of office during swearing-in ceremonies in Washington.






Adnan Abidi—Reuters
Jan. 19, 2013. Indian soldiers dance as they take a break during a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India.






Elias Edouard—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 18, 2013. A rebel fighter ducks for cover from government jet fighters in the city of Aleppo, Syria.






Kirsty Wigglesworth—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 22, 2013. The cat of British Chancellor of the Exchequer sits on a table in a room in Downing Street, London.






ssouf Sanogo—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 20, 2013. A French soldier wearing a skeleton mask stands next to a tank in a street in Niono, Mali.






Dmitry Lovetsky—AP
Jan. 19, 2013. Russian Orthodox believers swim in the icy water on Epiphany, at a pond in Tyarlevo village outside St. Petersburg, Russia.






Dmitry Lovetsky—AP
Jan. 19, 2013. Russian Orthodox believers swim in the icy water on Epiphany, at a pond in Tyarlevo village outside St. Petersburg, Russia.





Richard Sennott—Minneapolis Star Tribune/Zuma Press
Jan. 20, 2013. Ice crystals formed on this window of a home in Medina, Minnesota as temperatures dipped to 10 below zero.






Pablo Blazquez Dominguez—Getty Images
Jan. 20, 2013. People throw turnips at the Jarramplas as he makes his way through the streets beating his drum during the Jarramplas Festival in Piornal, Spain.






Loic Venance—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 22, 2013. Models present creations for Chanel during the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 collection shows at the Grand Palais in Paris.






Jerome Delay—AP
Jan. 18, 2013. Worshipers pray in the mosque in Banamba, Mali.

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Timothy A. Clary—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 18, 2013. Dance competitors warm up during the 2013 Manhattan Amateur Classic at the Chelsea Piers in New York.






Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 18, 2013. People carry the coffin of the Kurdish activist Sakine Cansiz, shot dead in the French capital, in Tunceli, Turkey.






Andrew Burton—Reuters
Jan. 18, 2013. A 10-year-old girl injured by an improvised explosive device (IED) waits for a helicopter to evacuate her for further medical attention from strong point DeMaiwand, Maywand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.






Jeff Pachoud—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 18 2013 Mushers compete in Megeve, during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race.






Jeff Pachoud—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 18 2013. Dogs pull a sledge in Megeve during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race.






Baz Ratner—Reuters
Jan. 18, 2013. A Greek Orthodox priest holds a dove before a ceremony at the baptismal site known as Qasr el-Yahud on the banks of the Jordan River near the West Bank city of Jericho.






Dmitry Lovetsky—AP
Jan. 19, 2013. Rescue workers control Russian Orthodox believers swimming in the icy water on Epiphany at a pond in town of Pushkin outside St. Petersburg.






Dario Lopez-Mills—AP
Jan. 19, 2013. Armed and masked men guard a roadblock at the entrance to the community of El Pericon near Ayutla, Mexico.






Aris Messinis—AFP
Jan. 19, 2013. Members of the Pakistani community in Athens gather around the coffin of a 27-year-old Pakistani migrant victim of what appears to be a racially motivated crime.






Goran Tomasevic—Reuters
Jan. 19, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter uses a mirror to look at Syrian Army positions in the Haresta neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.

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Andrew Burton—Reuters
Jan. 19, 2013. A local Afghan smokes a cigarette while watching a joint patrol between the Afghan National Army and U.S. Army soldiers that left from Strong Point DeMaiwand, Maywand District, Kandahar, Afghanistan.






Dominic Ebenbichler—Reuters
Jan. 19, 2013. Swedish free ride skier Jon Oerarbaeck speeds down in deep powder snow on Seegrube mountain in Innsbruck, Austria.






Andrew Biraj—Reuters
Jan. 19, 2013. A boy plays with balloons by Buriganga river as smoke billows from a dump yard in Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Issouf Sanogo—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 20, 2013. Malian youths stand next to French army tanks in a street in Niono, Mali.






Jerome Delay—AP
Jan. 20, 2013. French troops sit in a cafe in Niono, some 249 miles north of Mali's capital, Bamako.






Eric Fefergerg—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 20, 2013. French soldiers unload military equipment from a French aircraft at the Malian 101 airbase near Bamako, Mali.






Andrew Burton—Reuters
Jan. 20, 2013. A soldier from 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry leaves a room while checking the inventory of weapons at Strong Point DeMaiwand, Maywand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.






Alvaro Barrientos—AP
Jan. 20, 2013. ''Tamborilleros'' wearing their uniforms shelter from the rain march in the Basque city of San Sebastian, northern






Luke Macgregor—Reuters
Jan. 20, 2013. Activists erect shelters in a snow-covered tree to prevent land clearing for the construction of a by-pass road at Crowhurst near Hastings, England.






Amir Pourmand—ISNA / AP
Jan. 20, 2013. Alireza Mafiha, second left, leans his head on the shoulder of a security officer moments before his execution in Tehran, Iran.

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Marco Longari—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 20, 2013, A Woman looks on as Ultra Orthodox Jews belonging to the Satmar Hasidic group headed by Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, gather in the conservative Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem.






Abir Abdullah—EPA
Jan. 20, 2013. Muslims return home on an overcrowded train after attending the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) at Airport Railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Kristy Sparow—Getty Images
Jan. 20, 2013. Models are seen backstage before the Thom Browne Menswear Autumn and Winter show as part of Paris Fashion Week.






Jonathan Ernst_AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama pauses with his escorts before walking through the Lower West Terrace Door of the U.S. Capitol to begin swearing-in ceremonies in Washington.






Mark Wilson—Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013. Malia Obama (L) and Sasha Obama watch the presidential inaugural parade from a reviewing stand in Washington, DC. Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term as President of the United States.






Joe Klamar—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013. Sasha (L) and Malia Obama, daughters of US President Barack Obama, take a photo of themselves during the Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington, DC.






Rod Lamkey—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013. US President Barack Obama and wife Michelle Obama walk with daughters Sasha and Malia to the Reviewing Stand on Pennsylvania Avenue to watch the Parade during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, DC






Eric Thayer—Reuters
Jan. 21, 2013. A woman sells newspapers with a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama on the National Mall for the ceremonial swearing-in in Washington.






Spencer Platt—Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013. Kate Martin holds an anti-gun sign while participating in a rally and march across the Brooklyn Bridge with One Million Moms for Gun Control, in New York City.






Sergei Ilnitsky—EPA
Jan. 21, 2013. A supporter of the Russian Communist Party uncovers a poster showing a portrait of the former Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin during a rally near the Lenin monument in downtown Moscow on the anniversary of his death.

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Jerome Delay—AP
Jan. 21, 2013. Children and adults play soccer on a dusty field in Segou, central Mali.






Niranjan Shrestha—AP
Jan. 21, 2013. A boy watches Nepalese women at a literacy class for women in Basundhara, Katmandu, Nepal.






Akhtar Soomro—Reuters
Jan. 21, 2013. Fishermen from India stand behind bars in a police station in Karachi, Pakistan.






Jeff Pachoud—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 22, 2013. A musher takes care of his dogs after arriving at night in a mountainous region near Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis, at the end of one of the stages of the Grande Odyssee sledding race.






Atef Safadi—EPA
Jan. 22, 2013. An Israeli soldier collects the ballot papers at the end of early voting at an army base at Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights.






Goran Tomasevic—Reuters
Jan. 22, 2013. A fighter from the Sadik unit of Free Syrian Army's Tahrir al Sham brigade fires his sniper rifle from inside a house during heavy fighting in Mleha suburb of Damascus, Syria.






Joao Silva—The New York Times / Redux
Jan. 22, 2013. A protester holds an injured man in a truck of injured protesters in Zamdela, South Africa.






EPA
Jan. 22, 2013. A protestor sits on the road after being injured as police forces opened fire with rubber bullets in Sasolburg Municipality, South Africa.






Esam Al-Fetori—Reuters
Jan. 22, 2013. A man holds two burned birds after a fire went off in a compound for homeless Libyan families in Benghazi, Libya.






Matt Dunham—AP
Jan. 22, 2013. A snowman sits on a bench on Hampstead Heath in London.

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Cameron Spencer—Getty Images
Jan. 22, 2013. Maria Sharapova of Russia serves in her Quarterfinal match against Ekaterina Makarova of Russia during day nine of the 2013 Australian Open at Melbourne Park, Australia.






Jerome Delay—AP
Jan. 22, 2013. Malian women sift wheat in a field near Segou, central Mali.






Ye Aung Thuy—AFP
Jan. 22, 2013. Boys hold a tool used to collect material for sale and recycling as they leave a waste dump on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.






Carl Court—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 23, 2013. "The Joker" toy is displayed at the London Toy Fair in Olympia, central London.






Oded Balilty—AP
Jan. 23, 2013. The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish bride, granddaughter of Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, arrives for her wedding ceremony in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, Israel.






Eric Feferberg—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 23, 2013 Cyclists pass a sugar cane field burning before the sugar cane harvest near Niono, 370 kilometres north of Bamako.






Bernat Armangue—AP
Jan. 23, 2013. Relatives and friends of Palestinian Lubna Hanash mourn during her funeral in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.






EPA
Jan. 23, 2013. An Indian farmer spreads paddy seedlings in his field in the village of Mayong, India.






Scott Olson—Getty Images
Jan. 23, 2013. A truck is covered in ice as firefighters help to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse in Chicago, Illinois. More than 200 firefighters battled a five-alarm fire as temperatures were in the single digits.






Laszlo Balogh—Reuters
Jan. 23, 2013. A miner takes a shower after his shift in Hungary's last remaining deep-cast coal mine at Markushegy, 70 km west of Budapest.

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Sergei Grits—AP
Jan. 23, 2012. Steam from a heating plant rises as temperatures -6.8 degrees Fahrenheit are recorded in Minsk, Belarus.






Joe Penney—Reuters
Jan. 24, 2013. Dembele, a day laborer, lights a cigarette at a sugar cane plantation in Siribala, Mali.






Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Jan. 24, 2013. A Pakistani boy holds his donkey after losing control, while he and others walk in a field toward the main road on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.






Amir Cohen—Reuters
Jan. 24, 2013. A flock of starlings fly over an agricultural field near the southern Israeli city of Netivot.






Robert F. Bukaty—AP
Jan. 24, 2013. Arctic sea-smoke rises from Portland Harbor where Bahama-based oil tanker Teesta Spirit unloads fuel in South Portland, Maine.






Lefteris Pitarakis—AP
Jan. 24, 2013. The outfit worn by the two-year-old Princess Anne at Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on June 2, 1953, is seen during a photo opportunity at the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace in central London. Summer 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the Coronation and a special exhibition at Buckingham Palace will bring together an array of the dress, uniform and robes worn on the occasion. Works of art, paintings and objects used on the day will also be on display.






Daniel Mihailescu—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 24, 2012. Simona Costache (L) touches the coffin of her husband Tiberiu Ionut Costache, one of the two Romanian victims killed during the hostage crisis at a gas plant in the Algerian desert.






Mohamed Abd El Ghany —Reuters
Jan. 24, 2013. Protesters flee from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes after protesters removed a concrete barrier at Qasr al-Aini Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo.






Khalil Hamra—AP
Jan. 25, 2013. Skirmishes break out between protesters and security forces, unseen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.






Mahmoud Khaled—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 25, 2013. An Egyptian protester falls down during clashes with riot police near Cairo's Tahrir Square.

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Dar Yasin—AP
Jan. 25, 2013. Kashmiri Muslims offer prayers as the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine, on the Prophet's birth anniversary in Srinagar, India.






Adnan Abidi—Reuters
Jan 25, 2013. Soldiers stand at attention during Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck's ceremonial reception at the forecourt of India's presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.






Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama dance while attending the Commander and Chief Ball at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.