《TIME》: Pictures of the Week: February 1 – February 8, 2013

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Alexander Demianchuk—Reuters
February 1, 2013. Masha, an 11 year-old bear from a traveling circus troupe based in Moscow, practices a tightrope walking act during rehearsals at the Circus on Fontanka in St. Petersburg, Russia.






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Feb. 3, 2013. A power outage causes a 34 minute delay during Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans.






Bernat Armangue—AP
Feb. 5, 2013. A Palestinian child cries after his family was demolished by the municipality in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.






Brynjar Gauti—AP
Feb. 5 2013. Herring, worth billions in exports, are seen floating dead in Kolgrafafjordur, a small fjord on the northern part of Snaefellsnes peninsula, in western Iceland.






Goran Tomasevic—Reuters
Feb. 3, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter throws a hand grenade inside a Syrian Army base during heavy fighting in the Arabeen neighbourhood of Damascus.






John Gress—Reuters
Feb. 4, 2013. Ronnie Chambers Jr. looks at his mother Tahitah Myles as she collapses during the funeral for his father Ronnie Chambers, a victim of gun violence, in Chicago.






Andrew Cowie—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 5, 2013. "Rex", the world's first "bionic man", is displayed during a photo call at the Science Museum in London.






Ishara S. Kodikara— AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 4, 2013. Sri Lankan Navy personnel fire a 21-gun salute on the capital's seafront Galle Face promenade to mark the island nation's 65th Independence Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka.






Alex Wong—Getty Images
Feb. 2, 2013. Punxsutawney Phil climbs on the shoulder of groundhog co-handler John Griffiths after Phil didn't see his shadow and predicting an early spring during the 127th Groundhog Day Celebration at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.






Kevin Frayer—AP
Feb. 1, 2013. Kashmiri Muslims offer prayers as the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad a week after the Prophet's birthday, at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, India.

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Kevin Frayer—AP
Feb. 1, 2013. Kashmiri Muslims offer prayers as the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine, the week after the Prophet's birth anniversary in Srinagar, India.






Kevin Frayer—AP
Feb. 1, 2013. A Kashmiri Muslim offer prayers outside as a young boy peers from inside the mosque in Srinagar, India.






AP
Feb. 1, 2013. Chinese paramilitary policemen pull at wreckage at the site of a car accident after an expressway bridge partially collapsed in Mianchi County, Sanmenxia, central China's Henan Province.






Fred Dufour —AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 1, 2013. Malian children gather for the first day at school in Timbuktu, Mali.






Camille Lepage—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 1, 2013. Young refugees play on makeshift swings at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan.






Mohammad Sajjad—AP
Feb. 1, 2013. A Pakistani man who was injured in a suicide bombing is rushed by volunteers to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan.






Nicolas Asfouri—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 1, 2013. Cambodians pray and burn incense sticks as they pay respects to the late former King Norodom Sihanouk in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.






Benoit Tessier—Reuters
Feb. 1, 2013. Malians attend Friday prayers at the Djinguereber mosque in the center of Timbuktu, Mali.






David Mercado—Reuters
Feb. 1, 2013. A witch doctor sits on Santa Barbara hill during the inauguration of the statue of the Virgin of the Socavon, the patron saint of mines, on the outskirts of Oruro, 124 miles south of La Paz, Bolivia.






Jaafar Ashtiyeh—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 1, 2013. Palestinian protesters throw stones at israeli soldiers during clashes following a protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israeli forces in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near Nablus, in the West Bank.

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Mohamed Alhwaity—Reuters
Feb. 1, 2013. A man plays with snow after a snowstorm in the desert, near Tabuk, 932 miles from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.






NASA/Reuters
Feb. 1, 2013. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes as NASA Administrator Charles Bolden looks on during a wreath laying ceremony as part of agency's Day of Remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.






Mohamad Torokman—Reuters
Feb. 2, 2013. Israeli border police detain a Palestinian man after a group of activists set up tents and makeshift structures in protest against a nearby Jewish settlement in the West Bank village of Burin.






Dean Treml—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 2, 2013. Cyrille Oumedjkane of France dives from the platform on the Hawkesbury River during the Qualification Competition for the 2013 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Cattai, Sydney, in Australia.






Fred Dufour—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 2, 2013. France's President Francois Hollande flanked by Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore, wave as Hollande arrives at the airport of Timbuktu, Mali.






Silvia Izquierdo—AP
Feb. 2, 2013. Simpatia e Quase Amor or "Kindness is almost love," block party members and faithful carry a boat filled with flowers as an offering to the sea goddess,Yemanja, during a pre-Carnival celebration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.






Abdullah al-Yassin—AP
Feb. 3, 2013. Syrian people carry a body after a government airstrike hit the neighborhood of Ansari, in Aleppo, Syria.






Goran Tomasevic— Reuters
Feb. 3, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter fires a rifle through a hole in a wall of a Syrian Army base, just before he was shot in the head by a sniper in the Arabeen neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria.






Goran Tomasevic— Reuters
A Free Syrian Army fighter, wounded by a sniper, is carried by other fighters outside a Syrian Army base in the Arabeen neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria.






Khaled Abdullah—Reuters
Feb. 3, 2013. Boys gather near the wreckage of car destroyed last year by a U.S. drone air strike targeting suspected al Qaeda militants in Azan of the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa.

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Wong Maye-E—AP
Feb. 3, 2013. A man prays with incense sticks as he mourns Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.






Rungroj Yongrit— EPA
Feb. 3, 2013. Thousands of Cambodian mourners line up to pay their last respect to late former monarch, Norodom Sihanouk, outside the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.






Rex/Rex USA
Feb. 3, 2013. Beyonce performs at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans.






David Goldman— AP
Feb. 3, 2013. Beyonce performs during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens Sunday in New Orleans.






Manuel Silvestri—Reuters
Feb. 3, 2013. The traditional Columbine descends from Saint Mark's bell tower on an iron cable during the Venetian Carnival in Venice, Italy.






Erik De Castro—Reuters
Feb. 3, 2013. Zoo owner Emmanuel Tangco reads a book to his snakes in his bedroom in Malabon, Manila, Philippines.






Wong Maye-E—AP
Feb. 4, 2013. A young boy walks pass a puddle with a reflection of a portrait of the late former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.






David Guttenfelder — AP
Feb. 4, 2013. Mourners cry and pray outside a crematorium as the late King Norodom Sihanouk is cremated in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.






Spencer Platt — Getty Images
Feb. 4, 2013. People watch the casket of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch carried out by members of the New York Police Department following funeral services at Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El in New York City.






LUCAS JACKSON — REUTERS
Feb. 4, 2013. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg (L) stands with former New York mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani (C) and David Dinkins as they salute the casket of former New York Mayor Ed Koch following his funeral services in New York.

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Gianluigi Guercia— AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 4, 2013. Mourners carry the coffins of killed Egyptian activists Amro Saad and Mohammed al-Guindi during their funeral outside Omar Makram Mosque in Cairo's Tahrir Square.






Gianluigi Guercia— AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 4, 2013. An Egyptian man mourns during the funeral of killed Egyptian activists Amro Saad and Mohammed al-Guindi outside Omar Makram Mosque in Cairo's Tahrir Square.






Nyein Chan Naing—EPA
Feb. 4, 2013. Fire fighters attempt to extinguish a fire at the jetty during the explosion on a tanker carrying diesel fuel at the Hlaing River, Yangon, Myanmar.






Markus Schreiber — AP
Feb. 4, 2013. A man stands at symbolic gallows as he attends a protest against Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, prior to Salehi's address at the German Council Of Foreign Relations a think tank for foreign policy, in Berlin, Germany.






Shah Marai—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 4, 2013. Afghan day labourers skin cow heads in Kabul, Afghanistan.






Sia Kambou— AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 4, 2013. Students hold up their chalk boards in a classroom where a majority of tables and benches were taken by Islamists, on the first day of the re-opening of schools in northern Mali.






Muhammed Muheisen — AP
Feb. 4, 2013. An Afghan refugee girl holds on to her headscarf against the wind while making her way along a muddy alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.






University of Leicester/Reuters
Feb. 4, 2013. The skull of Richard III is seen in this photograph provided by the University of Leicester in London.






Jorge Dan Lopez— Reuters
Feb. 5, 2013. A mummified body is seen leaning on niches after it was exhumed at the municipal cemetery in Guatemala City, Guatemala.






Manan Vatsyayana — AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 5, 2013. A commuter looks out of a bus window while traveling during a heavy downpour in New Delhi, India.

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Issam Rimawi— APA /Landov
Feb. 5, 2013. Palestinian students walk through a sewage tunnel to get to school near the West Bank village of Jaba.






Dolores Ochoa — AP
Feb, 5, 2013. Arli Mujica of Venezuela supports herself on crutches as she wears a piece of her costume before the start of the Bionic Fashion show, backstage at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador.






Andrew Biraj— Reuters
Feb. 5, 2013. People are reflected in the broken window of a burnt bus after the activists of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami set it on fire during a day-long strike in protest that country's war crimes tribunal to deliver judgement against their top leader Abdul Quader Mollah in Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Matt Cardy—Getty Images
Feb. 5, 2013. Probationers from Salisbury Cathedral Choir flip pancakes in front of the west door at Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England.






Paul Rogers — Getty Images
Feb. 5, 2013. Queen Elizabeth II opens the new MRI unit at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, England.






Ilya Naymushin— Reuters
Feb. 5, 2013. Children pour cold water on themselves under the control of fitness coach with the air temperature at minus 9.4 degrees Fahrenheit, in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.






Dominic Ebenbichler — Reuters
Feb. 5, 2013. U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn is airlifted after crashing during the women's Super G race at the World Alpine Skiing Championships in Schladming, Austria.






Anna Gowthorpe — PA Photos /Landov
Feb. 5, 2013. A sheep looks out from its snow covered shed in Penistone, South Yorkshire.






Pascal Guyot — AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 5, 2013. A child leads his wood filled donkey cart past a destroyed Malian army armoured vehicle in Douentza, Mali.






Tsering Topgyal— AP
Feb. 6, 2013. Indian police detain a protester during a demonstration by left-leaning student organizations against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi outside the Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi, India.

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Mohammed Al-Shaikh —AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 6, 2013. Bahraini protesters flash the "V" sign for victory during an anti-government rally to demand reforms, in the village of Diraz, west of the Bahraini capital Manama.






Jerome Delay—AP
Feb. 7, 2013. A Malian woman waits at a checkpoint on the banks of the Niger river outside Gao, northern Mali.






Babu—Reuters
Feb. 7, 2013. A fan of actor and director Kamal Haasan pours milk on his cardboard cutout to celebrate the release of his new movie "Vishwaroopam" in the southern Indian city of Chennai.






Lee Jae-Won—Reuters
Feb. 7, 2013. A U.S. marine attends a winter military drill in Pyeongchang, about 180 km (112 miles) east of Seoul, South Korea.






Janek Skarzynski— AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2013. A young girl is pictured with her dog and a pony as it snows near Warsaw, Poland.






Lucas Jackson—Reuters
Feb. 7, 2013. A model is pictured as she practises her walk before presenting the Houghton Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week.






Mark Von Holden—Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2013. Models pose at the Tome fall 2013 presentation during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Industria Superstudio in New York.






Rafael Marchante— Reuters
Feb. 7, 2013. A dog looks out of a window at the Alfama neighborhood in Lisbon.






Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2013.Bahraini women wave a giant national flag during an anti-government rally to demand reforms in the village of Karannah, west of the Bahraini capital Manama.






AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2013. In a photo released by the official website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian air force commanders salute Khamenei during a meeting in Tehran, Iran.






Andy Wong—AP
Feb. 8, 2013. A Chinese actor dressed as Qing Dynasty emperor, center, sits on a sedan chair during a rehearsal of an ancient Qing Dynasty ceremony ahead of the upcoming Chinese New Year at Ditan Park in Beijing.






Gemunu Amarasinghe — AP
Feb. 8, 2013.Traditional fishermen push bicycles with bamboo-traps loaded on in a marshland during a misty morning in suburban Yangon, Myanmar,